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Real Estate Investing by Clint Coons | December 16, 2010 
Last week a client called about buying a HUD property. After a short discussion I realized he was buying a trust that owned the right to purchase the property. After reviewing the documents I found several errors. I thought my client’s experience could help those of you interested in wholesaling property. The Story: In 2009 [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Brooks Conkle | October 19, 2010The key to getting real estate deals is consistent marketing. You would be amazed at how many investors know this , but don’t put this into practice like they should. We know for a fact that if we can get 100 incoming leads (whether online, from phone calls, referrals, etc.) then there will be at [...]
Flipping Houses by Jeff Brown | July 13, 2010 
First off, you gotta know I’m all for the newbie out there willin’ to plow the dusty south 40 hopin’ to work their way up the ladder. Really, I am. Most of my experience has been that if they did just that, over time they’d be as successful as their talent would allow. In other [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Wholesaling by Stephani Davis | July 8, 2010 
As a real estate wholesaler, your success largely depends upon being able to find an end buyer for your deals once you have them under contract. As I mentioned in my article last week, if you have a wholesale deal that you’re having a hard time finding an end buyer for, the problem can usually [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Wholesaling by Stephani Davis | July 1, 2010 
Last week I got an email from a beginning wholesaler asking me for advice. He told me he was considering doing deals virtually in another market because there were “no buyers” in his. He had recently put three properties under contract with the intent of wholesaling them to end buyers, but ended up backing out [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Peter Giardini | June 10, 2010 
In Part 2 of this series I discussed many of the most popular approaches to finding deals. I spent some time in this series discussing the “art of finding deals” because all too often I see gurus teaching how to use their methods to find deals, but they don’t, in my opinion, spend enough time on [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Technology by Stephani Davis | June 10, 2010As a real estate wholesaler, one of the websites I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the last year or so is Google Maps- particularly the “Street View” function they provide. In fact, unless I am already intimately familiar with the neighborhood where a potential deal is located, Google Maps is the first place I go [...]
Real Estate Investing by Peter Giardini | May 27, 2010I have heard from many “gurus” that the world of real estate investing has the highest “churn” rate of all investment opportunities. By churn rate I mean the number of people entering and leaving real estate during a specified time-frame. From a gurus’ perspective this means an almost endless supply of new, eager customers. While [...]
Financing Real Estate by Stephani Davis | May 27, 2010 
In a perfect world, all real estate wholesale transactions would be completed by simply putting a property under contract, and then assigning that contract to an end buyer via an assignment agreement. While this is the quickest and easiest way to wholesale a piece of property, unfortunately, it is not always possible to accomplish. When [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | May 13, 2010 
I got an email a few days ago from an aspiring real estate wholesaler who was having a tough time getting started. Among other things, she asked me what I thought were the top three characteristics that make up a successful wholesaler. It was tough to narrow it down to three, but following is the [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | May 6, 2010After three years as a full time real estate wholesaler, I’ve pretty much made every mistake in the book, and have learned some valuable lessons in the process. Following are five wholesaling tips that I’ve picked up while out in the trenches: #1) Always collect an earnest money deposit from your end buyer When I [...]
Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | April 22, 2010As a real estate wholesaler, it’s important to be able to quickly locate an end buyer for your deals once you put them under contract. While there are many different ways to go about doing this (some of which I have mentioned in this article, as well as this one), my favorite method for finding [...]
Real Estate Investing by Stephani Davis | April 15, 2010 
One of the most difficult aspects of getting your real estate investing or wholesaling business off the ground is overcoming the fear and uncertainty that comes with attempting something new. Many beginners get stuck on the sidelines suffering from analysis paralysis, thinking that if they just buy “one more course”, they will finally feel confident enough [...]
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by Jason Hanson | March 21, 2010As I type this I’m sitting in the Trump International hotel with a beautiful view of the strip — But in about 10 minutes from now I’ll be sitting in the sports book with an even better view of dozens of TV’s with all of the basketball games. If you love the sport of basketball, [...]
Flipping Houses by J Scott | March 10, 2010 
The question I get most often from new investors looking to break into flipping or wholesaling is, “How do I determine the maximum purchase price I should pay when trying to buy a property I plan to rehab or wholesale?” Most investors have some quantitative analysis technique they use for determining their maximum purchase price [...]
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