mobile home investing
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | August 12, 2010As real estate investors one of our goals is to be able to attract sellers before or at the exact moment they need to sell. If you talk to 100 different investors you may get 100 different techniques to find sellers and their properties. Below are 5 great techniques that are actually working in today’s [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | July 23, 2010 
A common question I am asked is what steps are needed to complete an accurate closing on a mobile home on rented land inside a mobile home park. The answer is surprisingly simple by real estate standards. Mobile homes within parks may offer the single easiest form of real estate acquisition for cash-flow seekers. Concerning [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | July 2, 2010Before you ever begin real estate investing, you will have to choose who your character will be while working in this business. You may make this choice consciously or unconsciously. You must choose how you will represent yourself to the general public and more importantly to your sellers, tenants and buyers (not including money or [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | June 25, 2010Real estate investors can naturally get tunnel vision when in the middle of their current real estate transaction. An investor’s “current” deal can easily become the center their attention. Focus then gets pulled away from: finding leads, management, other obligations, family, friends, etc. Below are a few tips that can help keep your buying funnel [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | June 18, 2010Have you ever looked at real estate as an investment vehicle that can take you from the current rat-race you are in, to the lazy boy chair lifestyle you want? I do. from the beginning I always had my eye on long-term wealth and long-term growth. I needed make sure I succeeded in real estate. [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | June 11, 2010Fast tuning or flipping real estate for a hefty profit has been over glorified in recent years by the main stream media. In recent discussions with over a hundred newbie real estate investors I have learned that “flipping” residential real estate is often times taught to death. Many investors think they know all there is [...]
Real Estate by John Fedro | May 14, 2010It is amazing what some people try to get away with in this World; it’s even more amazing what they actually do get away with. I recently had lunch with a good friend of mine we’ll call Frank. Frank lives in a posh gated neighborhood in ritzy Tampa bay. I had been over his house [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | May 7, 2010One of the biggest reasons I love real estate so much is because there are countless ways to make a considerable profit with real estate. The questions really are: How creative are you? How bad do you need a deal? And how motivated are your Sellers to sell or just stop losing money each month? [...]
Real Estate by John Fedro | April 30, 2010I had the great fortune to talk with some great real estate investors this week at a local REIA meeting. After the meeting concluded I hung around and began mingling with the locals, no one amazingly had ever invested in manufactured housing. I spent the next three hours regaling a group of doe eyed newbie [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | April 24, 2010 
The more investors I talk with the more I am convinced that the lost art of conversing and getting to understand a seller and their needs has been replaced with handing over complicated forms and giving low-ball offers. It seems in this fast-paced, digitalized, G4 world, we have forgotten how to make friends before making [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | April 16, 2010Whether you call it a mobile home, wobbly box, tin can, trailer, or simply manufactured home, factory built homes offer convenience, affordability and even luxury to many Americans. As I talk to more and more seasoned real estate investors at my local REIA meetings, I realize just how truly secretive mobile home investing has become. [...]
Financing Real Estate by John Fedro | April 9, 2010 
Securing traditional financing for mobile homes and manufactured homes can sometimes seem difficult, especially in our current economical market. Whether the mobile home is new to you or being refinanced, lenders typically have stricter underwriting guidelines than more traditional site build homes. Building codes changed in late 2005 after the severe hurricane season experienced in [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | April 3, 2010 
Common sense and proper real estate investment training teach us to preform due diligence before entering into a purchase agreement with a seller. Good real estate investors are taught to determine Loan to Value (LTV), After Repaired Value (ARV), Repair Cost (RC) and Maximum Allowable Offer (MAO). These abbreviations, numbers and percentages allow us to assign an estimated [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | March 27, 2010Whether you are just starting to dip your toes into the ocean that is real estate, or are free diving in the great blue yonder, you need to be aware of the rules that govern your ability to maximize your success. You have most likely heard that there are countless ways to become profitable within [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | February 21, 2010 
There are many ways to beautify a home for sale or rent when money is tight. Our goal as investors on a budget should be to maximize beauty and sales appeal and minimizing our spending limit. I say, “The more money we keep in our pocket the better.” Keep in mind the list below are [...]
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