The 7 Reasons You’re Not a Success in Real Estate
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You’ve set up your business. You’ve made great looking business cards. You’ve told friends and family members about your new company. You’ve been putting in a lot of effort over the past few weeks to make sure your new company look as good as it can. And yet, nobody is walking in the door. Your leads, if any, are trickling in. What is going on?There are a number common reasons why your business is probably currently not working out well. It’s amazing how many companies repeat the same mistakes over and over again – at the expense of... continue reading >>
How a Small Mistake Can Cost You a Fortune as a Real Estate Investor
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Admit it: One of the main reasons you pulled the trigger on a real estate investing career is because of the potential you saw to pull cash in hand over fist over the next year or two as the market works its way through the pile of foreclosed properties. There's nothing wrong with wanting to secure your future and give notice to your boss that he or she will have to learn to get by without you. If you're going to do that, though, you'll have to get an education in real estate investing – and avoid... continue reading >>
A Simple Process to Sell Your Houses Fast in Today's Troubled Market
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So you've gotten into the real estate market. You found a motivated seller who was really feeling a financial pinch brought on by the economic crisis. They reached the conclusion that their chances of saving their home was next to zero, so they chose to take the consolation prize: to walk away under their own terms with their pride intact and their credit report in better shape than they expected.
Because of your real estate investing education you were able to purchase their property with a subject to transaction. Knowing the smart money... continue reading >>
The Secret to Protecting Yourself When Doing “Subject To” Transactions
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I've been telling my students repeatedly that the key to runaway success in real estate investing is to have a solid understanding how to utilize a few creative investing techniques so that they can capitalize on the opportunities available in today's market. One tool you need to add to your toolkit if you haven't already is the subject to deal.
The subject to deal is simply the... continue reading >>
The Secret To Success That 97% Of All Real Estate Investors Overlook
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The real estate investing market can be a slippery and treacherous path if you don’t know what you are doing. No matter how excited you might get over the prospect of a successful real estate business, the reality of the industry might be much more different than you expect. Rather than lose your shirt on a poor financial investment, you can find ways to get motivated sellers calling you regularly.
Knowing how to find motivated sellers is far more important than anything else you will ever learn as a real estate investor. You need a constant flow... continue reading >>
The Secret to Reaching Motivated Sellers as a Real Estate Investor with Advanced Direct Mail Strategies
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If you want to truly succeed as a real estate investor, you need to disregard the majority of the marketing advice being promoted by the "I can teach you to walk on water overnight” guru real estate investor crowd. If you really want to reach the real estate investing Promised Land, you're going to have to quit worshipping at the altar of the guru investors. They're very good at marketing themselves and their overpriced, ineffective real estate investing courses, but if you want to really launch your career into the stratosphere you're going to have to find a better... continue reading >>
The M-A-G-I-C Secret For Real Estate Investors
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One of the keys to success in the real estate world is building a strong investor list, otherwise known as a buyers list. When you have a solid buyers list, you can build a stronger career with the contacts and connections that you need to consistently perform well in the real estate market.
Simply put, if you can find a list of investors who will always be interested in buying new houses, you can help these specific investors find the houses they want. When you start to learn more about your specific investors, you can find... continue reading >>
The Death of the Residential Real Estate Investor
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There are some common mistakes that can kill you real estate investing career before it ever even gets started. By avoiding these common mistakes, you can push your business to the next level of success and circumvent some of the pitfalls that kill most real estate investors careers before they ever really get started.
Get focused. Here are some of the most common mistakes in real estate I see when working with beginners:
Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
You need to plan ahead to get where you... continue reading >>
Real Estate Investors Can Hit a Home-Run IF They Can Locate the Owner of an Abandoned Property
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If you've identified abandoned properties as a lucrative real estate investing niche because of the relative lack of competition, the tendency of the owners to be motivated to sell, and the fact that you can generate almost instant equity by making a few well-placed repairs, you'll probably be ready to dance a jig in the street once you've located an abandoned property you’d like to purchase and -- with just a little research -- figured out who owns the property.
Not so fast.
While there is no question that you’ve... continue reading >>
Unbeatable Strategies to Get in the Real Estate Game with Little Cash or Credit
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Real estate investing is an exciting, yet lucrative, way to create sustainable wealth and residual income, while securing your family’s economic future. Unlike many other business opportunities, real estate entrepreneurs don't need a mountain of cash or flawless credit in order to get in the game. Here are four effective strategies for launching your own real estate investing empire
Bird Dogging -- This is probably one of the simplest ways of getting started as a real estate investor. Instead of marketing property, you're more of an information broker. A bird... continue reading >>