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Real Estate

Owning and Growing Your Real Estate Business

by Ken Corsini | April 18, 2012
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Have you heard the one about the entrepreneur who took his employee to the top of a tall hill and looked out over the vast landscape below? He put his arm around the employee, pointed out towards the horizon and said, “If you work very hard and strive to be successful in my organization, all [...]

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Real Estate Investing

First Boots On the Ground With Clipboard, Then Fanny At Desk With Calculator

by Jeff Brown | April 17, 2012
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Boots before numbers crunchin’ was how it was taught to me. The investment world is and has been consumed with ‘the numbers’. Yet real estate investors, at least in my experience, do much analysis, and produce more spreadsheets based upon garbage numbers than even they’ll ever know. Possibly the worst source for income property numbers [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Successful Investing while Holding a Full Time Job – Key #4: Focusing on Your Business Core

by Michael Zuber | April 16, 2012
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We are half way through the 6 keys to successful investing while working full time.  As a quick recap we have secured commitment from your significant other, you have done the required homework in your market and you have established and written down your buying criteria. With this foundation we are ready to adopt a [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Successful Investing while Holding a Full Time Job – Key #3: Establishing a Buying Criteria

by Michael Zuber | April 9, 2012

Assume you are following the series of successful tips to Real Estate Investing while working full time, you know that you need full and complete support from your significant other and you need to invest time doing “The Homework” in your market. Once you have a handle on your market and a good understanding of [...]

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Real Estate Investing

10 Critical Themes That Were Ever Present At The Inaugural BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit

by Peter Giardini | April 6, 2012
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Sorry for the delay in getting this lessons learned post about the BiggerPockets Real Estate Summit, but I took a trip through the North Dakota oil patch after leaving Denver and was overwhelmed with the possibilities! As I look back at what a great experience participating in the BiggerPockets Summit was, I keep coming back to [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Escaping the 9 to 5

by Sharon Vornholt | April 2, 2012

Just about everyone I know, has a “JOB” when they decide to invest in real estate. After giving it a try, most folks will decide before too long if real estate is for them or not. I have found that people either like it or they don’t. Let’s face it, succeeding in real estate takes [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How to Follow Up With a Seller After the First Call and Better The Chance of a Deal

by Jason Hanson | April 1, 2012

When my phone rings from a seller, my assistant Lisa is the one who takes the call, and she thoroughly screens the seller to see whether they are motivated or not. If the seller is motivated enough she passes their information along to me. Once I get the information sheet, I evaluate the deal and [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Don’t be a Real Estate Investment Flake

by Marty Boardman | March 30, 2012
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Flake n. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through. -       The Urban Dictionary Sean’s ad on Craigslist was very simple.  He promised to clean all of my home’s windows, screens, tracks and ledges.  Part of the service also included the mirrors and ceiling fans.  Of course, his ad proudly [...]

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Commentary

Thoughts From the BiggerPockets Inaugural REI Summit 2012

by Jeff Brown | March 28, 2012

Lord knows how many seminars, summits, so-called bar camps, and conferences I’ve attended since the 1970s, when I attended my first. A couple hundred for sure. There are a couple ways to appraise the larger ones, summits and conferences. The #1 factor, of course, is the quality of speaker(s) and the subsequent information they convey. [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Even the Best Attempts to Screen Your Calls Don’t Always Work

by Sharon Vornholt | March 19, 2012

I don’t know if this has ever happened to you or not, but I had to tell someone yesterday that I couldn’t pay them even $500 or $1000 for their house. In fact I had to tell them that they needed to call Habitat for Humanity and see if they could donate the land and [...]

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Real Estate Investing

In Life, and Real Estate Investing, Application is the Difference

by Marty Boardman | March 15, 2012
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There seems to be an app for just about everything these days. With Cardio Trainer I can track how many miles I walk or run, calories burned, miles per hour and distance. ColorNote is a digital Post-It app I use to keep track of my things to do. doubleTwist converts my iTunes library to my [...]

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Real Estate Investing

What Is Your Freedom Plan?

by Sharon Vornholt | March 12, 2012
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When I first started investing in real estate I had a plan. I was going to rehab and sell one house, then take those profits and use them to buy two rentals. That was my plan.  Then I was going to repeat the process again and again. On the surface it seemed like a good [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investors Are Making a Difference Across the Country

by Sharon Vornholt | March 6, 2012

I got an interesting call last week from a reporter in New York. He is doing a story on real estate investors and the positive effects they are expected to have on home sales in the next couple of years while helping the housing market recover. I was happy to hear that someone was giving [...]

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Economy

A Real Estate Investing Strategy that Works in ANY Market

by Spencer Cullor | March 4, 2012

One thing that the last several years has taught us is that financial markets can go up and they can go down. The real estate market is no different. When markets go up, everyone is happy and even bad investments can turn out okay. When markets go down, investors who used the wrong real estate investing strategy at [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Pros and Cons of Working with A Turn-Key Company

by Ken Corsini | February 22, 2012

With such a diverse collection of real estate markets around the country, investors have many choices when it comes to where to invest in real estate. Some investors look for areas that were hit hard by the real estate crash in hopes of acquiring property that will experience a recovery in values over the next [...]

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