Make Money in a Stabilizing Economy: Real Estate Lease-Options
Many investors are scared away from investing in real estate because of the sensational news stories that depict crying homeowners in front of their foreclosed homes and heated discussions about...
View ArticleReal Estate Investing: How to Find a Private Placement Offering
A private placement offering, or private placement memorandum, is a way to secure funds. The reason for the fancy name is that the person securing the funds does not need to be a licensed broker. This...
View ArticleThe Benefits of a Land Trust
Land Trusts are one of the tools of the real estate trade that are grossly underutilized. This living, revocable trust allows an investor to hold title to a piece of real estate. Since each individual...
View ArticleReal Estate Investing: How to Find Buyers in a Slow Economy
For the real estate investor, finding buyers in a slow economy is often a bigger challenge than finding sellers. Buying a house is a financial investment that some people are afraid to make in a slow...
View ArticleHow to Evaluate the Climate of Your Local Real Estate Market
There is no catch-all evaluation of current real estate conditions. That is to say, although we hear a lot these days about the “buyers’ market”, it is impossible to utilize one trend as a means of...
View ArticleNegotiating and Closing: Don’t Give Up!
Most of us in the business of selling real estate are unsatisfied with our ratio of listing presentations to sales. Ideally, we’d all like to sell a house every time we present one, but obviously it...
View ArticleAdvantages of Investing in Real Estate using Private Money
Conventional wisdom dictates that if you want to make a purchase with money you don’t have, you go to the bank to get a loan. It’s a time-honored system used by thousands of Americans every day. But...
View ArticleInvestment Real Estate Formulas
Much of real estate investing comes down to analyzing data, so it’s important to know what numbers you should pay attention to…and what numbers you shouldn’t. Math does not lie, but if not used and...
View ArticleInvestment Real Estate Formulas
Much of real estate investing comes down to analyzing data, so it’s important to know what numbers you should pay attention to…and what numbers you shouldn’t. Math does not lie, but if not used and...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Counter-Offers in Real Estate Negotiations
The counter-offer is an integral part of any negotiating experience, and real estate investing is no different; in fact, this feature of negotiations is so standard that most of us don’t even realize...
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