Real Estate Investing
Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | April 13, 2012 
I had made up my mind. No more debt. No more credit cards. No more car payments. No more hard money loans. Sure, paying 18% was steep. But that wasn’t the real reason I decided to give up leveraging my fix and flip deals. Borrowing money had bankrupted me in 2007. The funny thing about [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Michael Zuber | April 9, 2012Assume you are following the series of successful tips to Real Estate Investing while working full time, you know that you need full and complete support from your significant other and you need to invest time doing “The Homework” in your market. Once you have a handle on your market and a good understanding of [...]
Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | April 9, 2012I put another wholesale deal under contract a few days ago. Once again I was presented with evidence that day, that I was the only one still in the game at the time they were finally ready to sell the house. I was the only person still mailing to them more than a year after [...]
Real Estate Investing by Jason Hanson | April 8, 2012 
Early last week I got the call that no landlord looks forward to. It wasn’t that my tenant had destroyed the property or that she couldn’t pay rent, but my tenant told me she was going to move soon because she was buying a house. The truth is, even though I hate to see her [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Peter Giardini | April 6, 2012 
Sorry for the delay in getting this lessons learned post about the BiggerPockets Real Estate Summit, but I took a trip through the North Dakota oil patch after leaving Denver and was overwhelmed with the possibilities! As I look back at what a great experience participating in the BiggerPockets Summit was, I keep coming back to [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | April 5, 2012 
His call yesterday caught me a little off guard. After all, Ron, along with his partner Keith, helped me get back into fix and flipping in 2009. I worked for them as a project manager and Realtor for 18 months. They taught me about acquisition, rehabbing, sales and raising capital and have flipped over 400 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Kevin Kaczmarek | April 5, 2012 
For many investors offering the option of seller financing is attractive if you want to get a property sold, but there could be one tiny hiccup! You may not have immediate returns on your cash to do your next investment deal especially if you’re an active investor looking to wholesale properties or do fix and [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Michael Zuber | April 2, 2012 
The second article in our series of six keys to successful investing while holding a full time job is the one I get the most push back on. I don’t understand it, as I believe that it is very simple, yet people are always trying to cut corners or they try to outsmart the system. [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Richard Warren | April 2, 2012Over the last decade I’ve had a front row seat to one of the most interesting real estate markets in history. I made my first foray into the Las Vegas real estate market twenty years ago as a long-distance investor and landlord. I saw the growth taking place and believed that appreciation was sure to [...]
Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | April 2, 2012Just about everyone I know, has a “JOB” when they decide to invest in real estate. After giving it a try, most folks will decide before too long if real estate is for them or not. I have found that people either like it or they don’t. Let’s face it, succeeding in real estate takes [...]
Real Estate Investing by Justin Pierce | April 1, 2012 
Let me make this brief and straight to the point. Real estate investors . . . your time is your most precious asset. You CAN invest in real estate without money but you cannot invest if you do not have time to find, evaluate and consummate deals. Now, we all know that quite the little [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | March 30, 2012 
Flake n. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through. - The Urban Dictionary Sean’s ad on Craigslist was very simple. He promised to clean all of my home’s windows, screens, tracks and ledges. Part of the service also included the mirrors and ceiling fans. Of course, his ad proudly [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Ken Corsini | March 29, 2012 
Anyone who has been actively investing in real estate over the last few years and has been working with a traditional lender knows the kind of difficulty surrounding the appraisal process. It really started in 2009 with the new HVCC laws that went into effect to prevent abuses in the industry between lenders and appraisers. [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Chris Clothier | March 29, 2012My email Inbox receives a lot of email. Sometimes I spend an hour or more simply opening, reading, responding or deleting hundreds of emails at a time. It is partly my fault because I register for every promotional pitch offered in real estate and many that are on the fringes of real estate investment. I [...]
Real Estate Investing by Sharon Vornholt | March 26, 2012Everyone has their favorite ways to find real estate deals. I like direct mail marketing. After using it for a long time, it has proven to be very effective for me. Even though bandit signs can be very effective, I find that they are just cumbersome to put up and the local code officials in [...]
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