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New Survey Finds More Investors Plan to Reduce Purchases and Hold Rentals for 5 Years or More

by Steve Cook June 14, 2013

Real estate investors are responding to higher prices by buying fewer properties in the next 12 months and holding their rental properties at least five years or longer, according to a national survey of real estate investors conducted by ORC International for MemphisInvest.com and Premier Property Management Group that was released last week at the [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Excel Macros, No Programmer Needed

by Loretta Steele June 14, 2013

Macros are a time saver. Repetitive tasks can be automated using macros in Excel. Need to format a cell and apply that formatting to multiple cells; a macro can save you some time. Have a special report that is printed each month? Use a macro to automate the printing process. Do you or your company [...]

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Investor Psychology

Don’t Fear ‘the Fear’ in Real Estate Investing … Embrace It!

by Clay Huber June 14, 2013

Fear is a human emotion that gets a bad wrap. People hear the word ‘fear’ and their mind automatically associates it with negative things. In some circumstances, this is valid; however, when it comes to real estate investing, I contend it is invalid! Whether you are already doing real estate investing, or figuring out if [...]

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Real Estate Technology

What Real Estate Technology Do You Really Need When Starting Out?

by Tracy Royce June 13, 2013

I feel like every day I am compelled into reading another blog post about a piece of tech or software that is the “new new” of real estate. I can’t count how many CRM platforms I’ve been pitched, times I’ve been told my phone is too old, or received some email extolling the benefits of [...]

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Retirement

I’m Really Gonna Like Creating This Case Study

by Jeff Brown June 13, 2013

Every now and then I’m reminded in the most visceral of ways how much I love what I do. My favorite example happened many years ago. Long time clients had recently had their first baby, a girl. At the time of this office meeting their daughter was about a week past her second birthday. We’d [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Hooray for the Hedge Funds!? Our Experience Dealing with the Hedge Funds

by Karen Rittenhouse June 13, 2013

Much has been written here about the growing presence of real estate Hedge Funds. We are all interested, curious, confused, and cautious about who they are, what they plan to do in our markets, and what this will mean to our businesses now and in the future. Here’s Our Story Our area has finally hit [...]

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Podcast

BP Podcast 022 – Building a Marketing Machine, Spec Houses, Flipping & Wholesaling with Tucker Merrihew

by Brandon Turner June 13, 2013

While most investors think of real estate investing as buying an ugly property and making it look good, today we sit down with an investor who runs a highly successful investing business that focuses heavily on investing in new home building, along with wholesaling and flipping as well. Tucker Merrihew, the owner of TTM Development [...]

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Real Estate Wholesaling

The Story Of The Wrecked Wholesale Deal

by Danny Johnson June 12, 2013

One of the students that I am working with texted me about a potential deal this last week. “They want $24k.” That was all I needed to hear. Well, that and the address which showed that it was in a decent part of town and not a war zone. The next text mentioned how they [...]

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Real Estate

Top 10 Reasons to Buy and Hold Real Estate

by Ken Corsini June 12, 2013

Many articles on BiggerPockets are geared towards the “business” of real estate investing (ie. flipping, wholesaling, etc.). But most people consider real estate investing the buying and long-term leasing of real estate. While this can be a daily business as well, most investors that buy real estate to hold, do so for the long term [...]

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Real Estate

Balancing Real Estate Investing with a Full-Time Job

by Paula Pant June 12, 2013

I have a full-time job, outside of real estate. I suppose you could say that real estate is my “side hustle.” Some people have side businesses doing consulting or freelance work. My side business is owning rental properties. But here’s the rub. Unlike complete Type A-workhorses, I don’t want to consistently work 80-hour weeks. I [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How To Compete In Today’s “New” Real Estate Market

by Chris Clothier June 12, 2013

Have you ever heard that history has a tendency to repeat itself? Growing up, I always thought of that phrase as it related to world politics or some huge issues effecting all of humanity. The older I get, I realize that it relates to so many other minor occurrences in life. As a real estate investor I [...]

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Real Estate Investing

5 Reasons Why Probates are A Great Niche to Invest In

by Sharon Vornholt June 11, 2013

Probates can be a great niche to work in. Here are 5 reasons I love probate investing: 1. The heirs are almost always motivated sellers. People that have inherited a property can be some of the most motivated sellers of all. They rarely want to keep the property. Typically they just want one thing; the [...]

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General Real Estate

I Have $40,000 and I Don’t Know Where to Start…

by Ben Leybovich June 11, 2013

Such was the title of a recent thread on the BiggerPockets.com Forums. I can’t help myself – let’s consider options. But before I dig into the content, I’d like to preface this article by saying that any suggestion contained herein is more like me saying here’s what I would do with $40,000, which may or [...]

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Real Estate

Real Estate Numbers Can’t Lie, They Don’t Know How!

by Glenn Schworm June 11, 2013

Sometimes we make things so complicated, when if we would only pay attention to the facts, we would be so much better off. My math teacher and I are still in contact via Facebook, which is ironic as I spent more time in the hall working, than in her classroom! Yes, I was one of [...]

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Real Estate

The “Big 15″ – Diving Deeper on Financial Due Diligence for Mobile Home Parks:

by John Vashon June 10, 2013

In a recent article entitled Mobile Home Park Due Diligence Checklist, I detailed the importance of a well-defined and executed due diligence plan. Additionally, I covered the basics of due diligence and provided a checklist for the 3 areas of investigation: financial, physical and locale or environment. This article provides a “deeper dive” into financial due [...]

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