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Real Estate Investing

How This Note Could Make You Money: Using Your Failures for Success

by Jason Hanson | March 28, 2010

I’m far from perfect. Even though I’ve been investing for 7 years now I still make plenty of mistakes. And I’m going to show you how if you make mistakes like I do, you can turn them around and make money from them. So let me tell you what happened… Now that I’m a successful [...]

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Landlord Tenant

How to Find the Perfect Rent-to-Own Tenant in Today’s Market

by Jason Hanson | February 14, 2010

If you talk to any property manager or any landlord who owns dozens of properties, they will tell you that it’s tough to find quality tenants these days. I know several property mangers and they tell me that evictions are up and they now have to screen a lot more people to find the right [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How I’m Closing My Latest Lease Option Deal

by Jason Hanson | October 21, 2009

If you’re a new investor, you’re probably not going to believe what I’m about to tell you.

But, once you become experienced in this business, closing deals is easy… just like shootin’ fish in a barrel. It’s pretty much like every skill you learn in life. The first few times you tried to ride a bike it was obviously difficult, but now you can hop on a bike any time with no problem.

The most important thing you can do is to never give up. Just make it through the first few struggling months in this business and then you could be set for life.

I’m bringing this all up because of how easy my latest deal is going. I’m going to break it down for you step-by-step so you can see how to do this yourself.

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Real Estate Tips

The Benefits of Multiple Exit Strategies for Real Estate Investors

by Ryan Moeller | June 30, 2009

With so many ways to make money in real estate, how are you going to choose to make your money? A better question may be what happens if your exit strategy doesn’t work? Do you have multiple exit strategies as backup plans or are you about to absorb a huge and crushing loss?

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Real Estate

How To Solve A Major Lease Option Problem

by Jason Hanson | April 15, 2009

Image via Wikipedia If you’re an investor whose closing deals and making money now, you know that it’s a subject-to and lease option market. However, because of the crazy fall in home prices a “problem” has developed in selling houses on a rent-to-own basis (my favorite way to sell a house because the tenants take [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How did I reduce the risk on my latest lease option deal?

by Jason Hanson | March 5, 2009

I’m getting ready to head over to my latest deal and put a sign in the front yard and take better pictures. This is a lease option deal in Clifton, VA. And the best part as always? No money down. Also, because of the “terrible” economy I’m always able to negotiate more in my deals [...]

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Commentary

The Most In-Depth Case Study-Part Quatro

by Jason Hanson | December 31, 2008

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that tomorrow you have a Happy New Year’s (and that you can remember most of it). If you haven’t done so yet, make your 2009 goals. Then break them down into monthly, weekly and daily goals. And…..don’t ever go to bed at night if you haven’t made [...]

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Real Estate Investing

9 Documents Needed For Your Tenant/Buyer

by Jason Hanson | September 4, 2008

So I see one of my friends that I haven’t seen in a while when I was in Florida, and she tells me I look disgustingly skinny (basically, she calls me a hideous freak). Well, I tell her that I’m training for a marathon, so I’m sure that has something to do with it. And [...]

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Real Estate Investing

9 Crucial Items That Should Be On Your Lease Option Checklist

by Jason Hanson | August 27, 2008

One of the 6,127 reasons that I’m single is because I can’t stand high maintenance women (this one’s voluntary, so two out of 6,127 ain’t bad…I’ll get to the second voluntary reason in a minute). Anyways, right now I’m working on a pretty house wholesale deal (wholesaling a house subject-to) and the seller is crazy [...]

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Learn Real Estate

The 10 Documents You Must Use When Doing a Lease Option

by Jason Hanson | August 21, 2008

I’m still training for my marathon and I still want to shoot myself as I jog through the summer heat in my Bill Clinton shorts (maybe I’d be having more fun if I had an intern?). Anyway, I’m in this marathon mess because of a promise I made to a friend. So, I was thinking, [...]

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Financing Real Estate

4,150 Reasons That I Love Lease Options

by Jason Hanson | August 7, 2008

When I become President and it’s the United States of Jason, I will impose the death penalty on anyone that stops at a yield sign…for heavens’ sake, if you were supposed to stop, there would be a stop sign and not a yield sign. Do you think they put that extra strip of roadway there [...]

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