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Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice

Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice

Doing Everything Yourself Often Leads To Expensive Lessons

by Jeff Brown June 6, 2013
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A couple very recent real life examples of how a solid expert can be crucially pivotal to either solving or avoiding sticky problems. Yeah, I realize some segments of the real estate investment world avoid certain professionals like the plague. I get that. However, in doing so they also get superb lessons teaching them how [...]

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Calculating Present Value with Ease Using Excel

by Loretta Steele May 29, 2013
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What would you do if someone was willing to contribute $200,000 to help you invest in a multifamily property?  Your first thought would be; what’s the catch?  They tell you, you must wait seven years to receive the money or you may have the money immediately.  You must decide on waiting seven years or receive $200,000 now?  The [...]

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Warning: How to Handle a Real Estate Investment Gone Bad!

by Ankit Duggal May 21, 2013
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Real Estate investing is a numbers game – and a loss is a matter of statistical probability. Over time as you invest in deals you will become involved in a deal that turns into a loser. A loosing deal is no fun as it strains your relationship with investors, lenders and impacts your personal cash [...]

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What’s Your End Game?

by Jeff Brown May 14, 2013
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When investing long term, what is your end game? What’s the bottom line reality you wish to generate when all is said and done? Ask 100 people that question and, in my experience you’ll hear retirement as the answer at least 97 times. Let’s define retirement here as concentrated on income. Captain Obvious for sure, [...]

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How To Know If You Can Trust The Real Estate Advice You Get?

by Chris Clothier May 7, 2013
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I was laughing this past week at some of the responses I received when I wrote a slightly different blog article for my website.  I wrote a “Best of the Best” list of my favorite restaurants for real estate investors to visit in Memphis when they are in town viewing the city.  I have been [...]

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What If? A Big Question Tailored for Excel

by Loretta Steele April 25, 2013
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One of the main reasons Excel is such a valuable tool in investing, deals with the question of “What If”.  What if I increase rents or decrease operating expenses, what would happen to my cash flow? What if the market cap rate increases or decrease?  What if vacancies increase or appreciation decreases?  If you are [...]

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Due Diligence on a Turnkey Property

by Ali Boone April 20, 2013
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Buying a turnkey investment property is a very straight-forward process, but that doesn’t mean you should let any due diligence slide. Or, if you’re like some and leery about turnkey providers, there are simple things you can do to hopefully make yourself feel better about going forward with a purchase. I have no idea how [...]

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How to Protect Yourself When Real Estate Investments Fail

by Ankit Duggal April 1, 2013
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Real Estate Investing can be dangerous to your personal financial wealth! As real estate investors we all start off with the best of intentions. We go out into our local real estate markets and look for deals. We contact  potential capital investors and spend hours generating interest in  having them fund local real estate deals. [...]

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How to NOT Buy a Lemon: Investment Risk Mitigation with Due Diligence Funnel

by Ankit Duggal March 18, 2013
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“If it so good – then why are you selling it?” This is a question that was raised by a very astute investor when visiting investment property in an urban market. I was so intrigued by the question that I considered how economists defined this idea. The idea has been named the Lemon Dilemma. What is [...]

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Conditional Formatting to Spotlight Important Values in Spreadsheets

by Loretta Steele March 13, 2013
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The size of an Excel spreadsheet can range from a few rows and columns, a single printed page or an enormous number of printed pages. Whatever the size, the importance of a spreadsheet are the results derived or the trends produced from the analysis. So if the results or trends are the ultimate goal, why [...]

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Do the Markups on Turnkey Properties Kill the Deal?

by Ali Boone February 16, 2013
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Absolutely not! Are you crazy? Ok, wait, that was a little rash. It’s kind of hard to yell about something without at least offering a justification for the statement. So I’m going to offer you an analysis on turnkey prices so you can understand what is really behind the prices of these properties. The two [...]

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One Spreadsheet To Rule Them All: Building A Lighting Fast Lead Analyzer

by Glenn Espinosa February 1, 2013
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An important part of real estate investing is learning methods to increase the efficiency of your everyday business processes. The more efficient your business becomes, the more deals you acquire, the more success you will have. As I graduated from doing one or two flips a year, I quickly found out the importance of having [...]

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Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 101

by Ankit Duggal January 28, 2013
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As Ali Boone’s article titled Rental Property Numbers so Easy that You Can Calculate Them on Napkin pointed out, “In this industry, you must love the numbers. Love them like they are part of you. For good or for bad, ‘til death do you part, never leave the numbers.” Knowing how to quickly analyze deals [...]

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Rental Property Numbers so Easy You Can Calculate Them on a Napkin

by Ali Boone January 19, 2013
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The numbers. In this industry, you must love the numbers. Love them like they are part of you. For good or for bad, ‘til death do you part, never leave the numbers. One of the biggest questions I’m asked is how I go about a property once I find it. What do I do, what [...]

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Do You Need to Be Smarter Than A 5th Grader to Flip Houses?

by Michael LaCava November 3, 2012
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When you’re first learning how to flip houses, most grizzled real estate veterans will tell you how important it is for you to know “the numbers”. One things for sure, if you don’t know your numbers…your house flipping career will be short…and excruciatingly painful. The cool thing is that in the flipping houses niche, you [...]

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