Flipping Houses
Real Estate Investing by Marty Boardman | December 15, 2011 
You can’t polish a turd. That’s what my Dad said to me. On prom night. Gee, thanks Dad. One thing I’ve learned from being in the fix and flip business is that you may not be able to polish a turd but you can put lipstick on a pig. And in certain cases some extremely [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Richard Warren | October 3, 2011 
One of the biggest obstacles to success as a real estate investor is emotion. It’s part of being human. Imagine you are shopping for a new car. You do your research on the internet, you read reviews in various publications, calculate exactly the highest price you are going to pay and head to the showroom. [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Interviews by Joshua Dorkin | September 14, 2011Will Barnard is a real estate rehabber out of Southern California. In our interview with Will (5:48 minutes), we learn what ARV or After Repair Value is, and how a house flipper would go about calculating this value. We also learn about finding comps and why ARV is so important. You can also learn more [...]
Real Estate Investing by Danny Johnson | July 9, 2011 
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison Mistakes made and lessons learned seem to be topics that investors are interested in. Why not learn from mistakes of others so that we can avoid them ourselves? I wish I could say that it was [...]
Read the full article → Flipping Houses by Jeff Brown | June 28, 2011Over the years I’ve benefitted by flipping various kinds of real estate. In fact, the only category I haven’t rehabbed for a profit is a house. 2-4 units, small apartment buildings, even a medical building once. In fact, that one was my favorite. I’m not the flipping type, but those who do it well have [...]
Flipping Houses by Ryan Moeller | October 13, 2010 
We completed a successful flip in a high end blue collar area and it went perfectly. It was a 70% LTV deal and we made a nice annualized return (tip #5). The property was in a suburb just outside of a great rental area, we categorize this area as a high end blue collar area [...]
Read the full article → Flipping Houses by Ryan Hartman | December 6, 2009 
When I was active as a Realtor working primarily with investors in Philadelphia, most of my business revolved around finding “Propertunities” for investors to rehab and hold or sell for a modest profit, usually in the that 100-200k range where there were always plenty of buyers. Of course, one of the most stressful stages of [...]
Read the full article → Rehabbing by Richard Warren | November 24, 2008I am curenlty sailing the Pacific on a 2 1/2 week cruise (yes, this is a great business). Rather than skipping my weekly posts, I thought I would share a previous article on getting started in rehab real estate investing. And you thought re-runs only happened on TV! Getting Started In Rehab Real Estate You [...]
Financing Real Estate by Troy Schuricht | April 24, 2008Why use a Construction Loan? Building your dream home or rehabbing your investment properties, though exciting, may present many challenges. Although you may be familiar with the traditional mortgage process, a construction loan includes additional elements of risk. In a typical construction project, the contractor will request funds when work is completed. Many times a [...]
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