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Real Estate Investing

The Two Types of Rent to Own: Advantages & Disadvantages

by Andrew C. MacDonald | July 11, 2011
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Call it rent to own, lease to own, lease options, or whatever you like. The strategy has been gaining popularity thanks to the numerous benefits of rent to own for each party in the transaction. There are two fundamental approaches to putting these deals together; the tenant first approach or the property first approach. There [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Interview with Real Estate Investor: Joey Ragona (yep, he’s Canadian!)

by Joshua Dorkin | June 13, 2011

Joey Ragona is a real estate investor from Oakville, Ontario (WAY up north – somewhere in a place called Canada). In our interview with Joey (28:08 minutes), we get into topics such as building and running a business without distractions, targeting the most appropriate tenants, investing in single family homes, joint venture partnerships, investing in [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Are Vacant Showings Better?

by Julie Broad | June 30, 2010

Having one of your properties sit vacant is one of the biggest money sucking problems a real estate investor can face. As we struggled to rent one of our latest properties out, we started to really understand the big benefit of doing a tenant first rent to own strategy like I discussed a few weeks [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Mobile Home Investing: The 2 Sides of Bird-dogging

by John Fedro | June 4, 2010
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In a previous article, 5 Ways to Make Money Investing in Mobile Homes, I spoke of five unique ways for anyone with ambition to make money with mobile homes.  Over the next few weeks, we will cover each topic in depth. The first and perhaps easiest method to making money with manufactured homes, or any real [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Rent to Own: What Comes First, the Tenant or the Property?

by Julie Broad | May 26, 2010
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When my husband Dave and I decided to make real estate investing our full time job, we had been investing together for seven years and had built up a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio. We were in a strong financial position for the long term but our short term cash needs were not being met [...]

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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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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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