Month: March 2008

Making Real Estate Offers Making real estate offers that sellers are eager to accept is the key to being very successful in real estate investing. While this sounds very obvious, most investors are obsessed with getting the deal at the expense of really making the deal work for the seller. Importantly, price is often not…
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Make Money Selling Real Estate Because of the changing market conditions in the real estate industry, it feels to sellers like all the buyers have disappeared. Wouldn’t it be easier to sell properties if you had buyers before you had to sell houses? The realm of having buyers come to you has long been the…
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Making a Profit in Real Estate with Minimum Effort Maximizing profits in real estate investing usually refers to rehabbing a property and selling it to a retail buyer. However, rehabbing takes maximum effort assuming you don’t have someone else doing all the work. For this discussion, we will look at three ways to get the…
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Learn about Wholesaling Real Estate Wholesaling real estate traditionally has been used to make fast money without having to purchase properties. The property is put under contract with the longest possible inspection period so the buyer (investor) can sell the property without having to put up a deposit or actually close on the house. When…
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Determining Property Values – What It Can Sell for in Any Market Determining property values in the past was much easier than it is today. In the good-old-days of two years ago, it was easy to look at comparable sales in the neighborhood and determine a Fair Market Value (“FMV”) for your property. It was…
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Evaluating Real Estate Repair Costs As an investor becomes more proficient at evaluating repair costs he learns what to expect for any sized property. Size does matter when dealing with repairs.  The bigger the home, the more expensive for the basic mechanical systems. Mechanical systems include the roof, structural aspects, air and heating, windows and…
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How to Save Real Estate Deals Under Contract From Other Investors Discovering how to keep professional real estate investors from stealing your signed deals almost sounds paranoid. Unfortunately it is an all too common occurrence that professional investors (“pros”) use to get the deal. The pros or their representatives (commission based and hungry) make a…
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How to Flip Houses with No Money and No Credit It is not a myth that you can buy properties with no cash or credit. As we will see, in a few cases minimal funds may be needed, but the buyer’s credit is never an issue. You can “buy” a property by putting it under…
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How to Get Started in Real Estate with Making Offers Getting a seller to sell you a property at less than they are offered by another buyer seems ridiculous, but it isn’t. I have often had the problem with wholesalers making a presentation to a seller that I have been “courting” and made an offer.…
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How to Make a Perfect Real Estate Offer Over the Competition When you meet with a homeowner, and you will have to do this to get the best deals, you will find that the most motivated ones have contacted every “Cash for Houses” advertiser on the internet and from local bandit signs. This means that…
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