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Real Estate

Using Leverage to Sell More and Take Your Business to the Next Level

by Christian Russell | October 29, 2009

Why are you in business? It’s an important question. Perhaps the ultimate question! A mentor of mine taught me a long time ago that knowing “why” is one of the most important things when it comes to getting positive results long term in your business.

Are you in business to make money?
Are you in business [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

This Marketing Method Has Made Me a Small Fortune

by Jason Hanson | October 17, 2009

The marketing method I’m about to share with you always seems to elicit a lot of emotional responses. A lot of people hate it and bad mouth it, but guess what? I don’t care. Why? Because it makes money and it gets results. You should track all of your marketing methods and if they’re working keep doing them and if they don’t, then obviously stop.

I’m pretty much willing to bet that anybody who doesn’t like this method has never used it (the most likely reason) or has never gotten a deal from it because they don’t know what they’re doing (I’ll show you the perfect plan.) So what method am I talking about?

Here’s a blurb from an email I received last week, from one of my partners…

“Over the past week I have been putting out my new signs, I attached a pic of it, check it out. So far the signs have been pulling an excellent amount of calls. I’m getting an overwhelming response. For example, I put out 50 signs last night in high traffic areas and just today I got 11 calls.”

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Real Estate

Real Estate Marketing Campaigns: Aim Before You Shoot

by Molly Castelazo | September 19, 2009

Real Estate Marketing - Aim Before You ShootI received the Google Analytics newsletter the other day in the mail and it got me thinking about long tail keywords.  But Peter Kolat has already written some great posts about that subject, so I shifted my thinking more generally to targeting your prospects.  Because that’s what using long tail keywords is really about, after all – honing in on the prospects that are searching specifically for what you offer.

What’s in it for me?

Let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine you’re looking for someone to clean up and fix the houses you buy before you flip them.  You happen, just as you’re thinking about it, to get three postcards in the mail.

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Commercial Real Estate

Let the Buyer Beware! Reducing Risk as a Real Estate Investor

by Kyle Koller | August 10, 2009

real estate riskInvesting in real estate is just that—INVESTING. Risk comes with the territory. The key to successful real estate investing lies in the analysis and due diligence of a potential income property. When done prudently and methodically, the investor’s risk is not only greatly mitigated, but he or she should have clear line of sight as to the property’s return potential. Sounds relatively straightforward, right? Well, this task becomes much harder when the seller tries to make a monetary gain by feeding on the inexperienced investor’s lack of knowledge or inadequate due diligence. Luckily, we’re all savvy investors at BiggerPockets.com and we know how to spot these seller exaggerations and fallacies. Let’s examine some of the common ones.

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Real Estate

How To Solve A Major Lease Option Problem

by Jason Hanson | April 15, 2009

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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 awesome [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

How To Overcome Your Fear of The Telephone!

by Jason Hanson | November 19, 2008

I try and read a book a week. It doesn’t always happen, but I have a long list of books I want to get through. Most of the books I read fall into three categories: Real estate investing, self-help and marketing. The book that I’m reading this week is “Awaken the Giant Within” by Tony [...]

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Real Estate Deals

Real Estate Investors: Learn How A Puppy Dog Can Make You Rich!

by Jason Hanson | July 17, 2008

I hate running (unless someone is chasing me). I haven’t run in probably four years. Elevators and escalators are my best friends…but through a series of events which I don’t feel like explaining, I am now training for a marathon because of a promise that I made to someone. When you give someone [...]

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Real Estate Tips

Some Tips for Getting Attention to Your Real Estate Listings

by Joshua Dorkin | November 2, 2007

The following was a comment posted by Linda Parker as a response to our contributor, Jim Watkins’ post, Down Sales Market? Think Outside the Box. As the comment carries weight on its own, we’ve decided to publish it as its own posting:
OMG! Higher commissions do get agent’s attention.
When most companies are trying to [...]

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Real Estate Deals

Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk Breaks Sales Record

by Joshua Dorkin | November 12, 2006

Sales records were just smashed by the new Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk condo-hotel. Four hundred sixty-four hotel suites were purchased for over $700 million by investors last Thursday. “Developers said the sales set a record for the amount of residential property, both in dollar value and unit volume, sold in [...]

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Economy

Housing Slumps; U.S. Economy Catches Cold

by Charles Feldman | October 28, 2006

It is not uncommon for people to catch cold during the fall and winter months, but it would appear the U.S. ecomony is also feeling a bit of a chill, and some experts say the recent slump in housing sales is to blame.
The U.S. Commerce Department reported that overall growth slipped to 1.6 percent during [...]

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Housing

Pending Housing Sales Index Up In August

by Joshua Dorkin | October 2, 2006

Pending home sales data for August was just released by the National Association of Realtors. According to the Pending Home Sales Index, “contracts signed in August, rose 4.3 percent to a level of 110.1 from a reading of 105.6 in July, but is 14.1 percent lower than August 2005.”
David Lereah, chief economist of the [...]

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Economy

Stock & Housing Market Update

by Joshua Dorkin | September 29, 2006

Although the stock market’s Dow Industrials has flirted with an all-time-high for the past several days, and oil has maintained its decline, the housing market continues to look weak. Here are a few highlights from Today’s MarketWatch report:
- “Banc of America Securities said Friday it expects pending home sales to decline between 3% and [...]

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