Real Estate Investing

5 Things you must do before purchasing investment real estate

by Ryan Moeller | July 15, 2009

First and Foremost when investing in real estate, you must find great deals; not good deals, but great deals with plenty of equity, cash flow and multiple exit strategies. These types of deals can withstand mistakes, surprises and worst case scenarios such as the recent bust, where home values dropped approximately 40% in some areas [...]

Most People Don’t Take Advantage of Getting Rich Quick…Will You?

by Jason Hanson | June 30, 2009

Almost nobody gets rich quickly in the real estate business. You will probably get rich slowly like most of us. You will make $5,000 off a wholesale deal, $30,000 off the back-end of a lease option, $10,000 from another wholesale deal and $50,000 from a pre-foreclosure. Making this money takes time, but once you get [...]

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Premature Bank Repayments Mean Less Supervision & Prolonged Real Estate Stress

by Charles Feldman | June 11, 2009

What do we have to show for it? Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Obama administration is letting several top banks pay back their government/taxpayer bailout money early. True, we collect interest, but not nearly as much as we would have had the banks kept that money longer—which would have been a better payback [...]

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The Four Worst Reasons to Buy an Investment Property

by Jason Hanson | June 3, 2009

Image by kyz via Flickr Yes, real estate has created more millionaires than any other type of investment. However, that doesn’t always means it’s a good idea to invest. Today I’m going to cover the four reasons that you should never buy property. Will You Be Cursed? The first reason has probably caused more investors [...]

How I Made $3,500 in 22 Days With an Extra $100 Per Month!

by Jason Hanson | May 6, 2009

Image by elvisripley via Flickr Today you’re going to learn about my latest lease option deal that I just filled. This is similar to another deal I just did and I can’t remember if I wrote about that deal or not. I’m having deja vu but can’t remember. I don’t remember a lot which is [...]

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Considering a Self Directed IRA? Caveat Emptor

by Greg Boots | April 15, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I just scrapped the blog I was writing because of a phone call I received. The call was from a man that I met on the east coast while teaching an event a couple of months ago. When I met him he was winding down on an audit that he was going [...]

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Why the Country Needs Investors!

by Joshua Dorkin | April 9, 2009

The following is a guest blog by Matt Milmeister, author of Mastering the Art of Foreclosure Investing. Anytime there is a foreclosure and the bank takes these properties back, they sit vacant. When this happens, the yards and houses further deteriorate and they become eyesores for their neighborhoods. Then property values of perfectly good homes [...]

Real Estate Deals

What Will Make Me The Most Money?

by Jason Hanson | January 22, 2009

I live about 15 miles outside of Washington, DC which means I was trapped in my house all day Tuesday. There was no way I was leaving my house because of the inauguration traffic and all of the road closures. Anyway, most people know that I read one book per week and I just finished [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Simple Rules for Raising Capital, Part 2 (Now It Gets More Complicated)

by Matt Pitcher | December 5, 2008

In my last blog, “Simple Rules for Raising Capital”, I hit some very basic high points that I think you must follow to become a world class capital raiser. This blog gets into more detail on that subject. What follows is what I call “The Four As of Capital Raising” 1 – Accredited This one [...]

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Economy

Where to Invest Now?

by Anwell Tsai | October 16, 2008

With the recent crash of the Stock Market and continued weakness in the housing market, people are scrambling to find “safe” places to invest. Many people are taking their money out of the market in fear that the system will crash. There are many valid reasons for doing this. However, if the primary reason is [...]

Commentary

Real Estate’s Perfect Storm – Are you ready?

by Rob Powell | July 6, 2008

“BOOM! Here comes the BOOM….ready or not!” – from the song Boom by P.O.D. Greetings from the Metropolis of Cedar Crest, New Mexico! With a torn achillies tendon, I hobbled my way into the gym and turned up my Ipod. The song Boom by P.O.D. (one of the best workout songs there is) came on [...]

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Learn Real Estate

That’s Too Risky! Overcoming a Poverty-Mindset

by Connie Brzowski | December 22, 2007

Danger Will Robinson! The mister and I married in 1980. We were 19, freshly spit-out by the public school system and totally clueless about the real-life world of household finance. Our parents were lower middle class, Depression-era survivors with a ton of fear about anything deemed risky…and pretty much everything was considered risky. For the [...]

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