Real Estate Investing Articles

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Pocket Listings -- How to Be an Insider and Profit: This article examines one of the biggest secrets in real estate investment, pocket listings. If you have ever been too late on a really good deal, or if you want to find out how to get an inside track on the really big deals, this article is a must read for all serious investors.

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How to Negotiate Counter-Offers: This article details when you do want to negotiate (and more importantly not negotiate) when buying real estate investment property. Learn how to work the seller and the agent to get your best price with minimal conflict, timing your counter-offers, dealing with owners who don't want to counter and more.

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How to be in the Top 10% of Investors Year in and Year Out: An article for those investors who have come to realize that looking in the Sunday paper for properties to purchase isn't giving you the volume or quality of deals that you need to build a solid financial future. From-the-ground-up information on using the public records to find the deals that other investors can't even touch.

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Writing Offers That Get Accepted: This article shows how writing offers by following a few simple rules can turbo-charge your investing success. Get more deals and pay less money for the properties that you buy. Information on the correct forms to use when submitting an offer.

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Investing 101 -- Building Face-to-Face Rapport With Your Seller: This real estate investment article contains practical information and sample scripts on building rapport with sellers when you go to their home to meet with them for the first time. Plus, how to ask the right questions, and find out more information.

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Tax savvy investing -- 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges: Learn the basics of section 1031 exchanges that will allow you to sell rental property, reinvest in additional properties, and avoid immediate tax liability on your gain from the sale. Make your money work for you!

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Why You Should Know About FHA Lending Limits: This article discusses FHA lending limits, and how they can help you determine which neighborhoods to invest in. Also, our experiences in selling properties to buyers who receive FHA financing.

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The "Average" Appraisal and the Flip: If you are planning on buying and flipping torn up properties as a real estate investment, better read this first for the real world considerations that the gurus don't mention!

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Rehab Scheduling Part I: Learn how to get your rehab scheduled to finish quickly and do more real estate investment deals each year. This is part one of a two-part article.

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Rehab Scheduling Part II: The second part of our how-to schedule your rehab article. Must read information for investors interested in getting their rehabs done quicker than the competition, and freeing up their money to do more deals.

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Can I Start With No Money? Is Flipping Legal? This article sets the record straight on this critical question and subject matter. Must read information for all real estate investors!

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Hidden Profits In Resort/Lake Real Estate. Learn how to exploit this suddenly hot real estate investment market the same way that we are!

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Effectively Using Real Estate Comps. Confusion over how to use comps stops many investors. This primer will help you understand what to do with comps, and how to use them for determining purchase and sales prices.

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Never Reduce Your Sales Price! Increase Your Content. If your real estate will not sell quickly, NEVER reduce your sales price. Learn how we actually raise our price and sell the house more quickly!

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Real Estate Owned (REO) Foreclosures and VA/HUD Properties. Get the real nitty-gritty on these well known real estate sources, not the pie in the sky treatment seen in most courses!

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Real Estate Negotiations -- When It All Falls Apart. Sometimes, deals cannot be reached. Don't give away 30% or more of your real estate income by not taking these simple actions.