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Lower Real Estate Investment Tax with a Real Estate Accountant
Tax time is upon us again and the rules, they are a’changin! Do you know how to lower your real estate investing tax liabilities and maximize your current retirement plan? What is the best way account for capital improvements to your investment property? Is there a...
Video: How Real Estate Investors Control Properties in This Market
Real Estate Investors need to use creative investing strategies in order to effectively invest in today's market. Make sure you know the facts about these investment tools. As always, I invite your comments and feedback.
Use a Real Estate Investing Mentor to Increase Profits
There is an old adage that rings true as much today as ever. The five “P”s…Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Planning is a foundational element of successful business management. In the PACT mentoring program (Personal Action Coaching Tracks) we focus on...
Buy Your Primary Residence With Creative Investing Techniques
I recently received a question via email asking whether some of the principles discussed in this Real Estate Investing Guide can be applied to sales and purchases of a primary residence. The simple answers are, "yes you can" and "yes you should." I've included the...
A Low Risk Way to Start Investing in Real Estate
Sometimes new real estate investors are afraid of losing money in a deal. Here is a method that has very low risk. I often advise new investors get their toe wet on low risk items before jumping in with both feet. One of the lowest risk areas that requires virtually...
The First Thing Every New Real Estate Investor Should Do
I often hear statements like these from new real estate investors: So, I've read a couple of real estate investing books, I've read this real estate investing guide, and I have $100 in my pocket. I don't have a real estate investing team. I've never spoken to a...
Reality Check for Real Estate Agents, Brokers and Investors
I read an article today by a real estate broker entitled Get a Grip on the Real Estate Market for 2009. The article is directed towards real estate salespeople and brokers, but there is something that real estate investors can learn from this market commentary. What...
3 More Things to Look for in a Home Inspector
In my last post about things to look for in a home inspector, I covered 3 common items to consider, but elements of uncertainty and risk still remain. It is sometimes helpful to call several real estate offices and ask who are the most thorough inspectors in the area,...
5 Questions Guaranteed to Improve Success with Sellers
Many times when we're speaking with a seller, we are so excited to tell them everything we can do for them that we forget to find out what they need. You end up wasting their time and your time, and 9 times out of 10, the conversation will end without getting a deal...
Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies – Part 1
In this post, we begin a multi-part series on Creative Real Estate Investment Strategies that leverage non-traditional methods of financing. The traditional way has been around for years; it doesn’t require much creativity but a disciplined program can create value...
Video: What Separates the Real Estate Investor Winners from the Losers?
Whenever I speak at a real estate seminar or another speaking engagement, I try to throw in some good, foundational business practices. Here are three qualities to get you started on your road to becoming a winner. Please let me know what you think of my video. I...
2 Things New Real Estate Investors Should Read Before Investing
Today I'm starting a new post category focused directly on NEW real estate investors. Over the next months, I will continue to add more content that is the result of questions I regularly receive from newbies. I will attempt to be more practical and tactical in my...
3 Things to Look for in a Home Inspector
Although there are guidelines for finding qualified home inspectors, there are no reliable standards that guaranty professional competence. To illustrate this, below are three criteria or questions frequently cited as essential elements in selecting a qualified...
Video: Real Estate Investor Questions for Sellers
There are questions that you may ask a seller when you are interesting in buying their house. These questions may help you uncover whether it's going to be a good deal. They also can help you to better understand the seller's situation. Once you know the seller's...
Tips for Buying Short Sales
I'm writing this post in response to an article I read called Short Sales - What They Aren't Telling You I found while surfing around the Internet the other day. The post's main objective is to separate myth from reality on the following topics: Price, Broker Price...
How to Find a Real Estate Lawyer
Finding a real estate lawyer can be a challenge for the new investor. If you are serious about this business then your team needs an attorney that understands real estate law. The old family retainer just won't cut it. I've spoken with many attorneys and have found...
Real Estate Investors – Protect Your Interests!
Steve Flewelling, Rob Arnold, my lovely wife Audrey and I went to Washington, DC last April, representing Central Florida's real estate investors. It was a whirlwind trip, sorry, no sight seeing and no cherry blossom sightings to report. We arrived around 5pm...
Create Predictable Profit on Every Deal
Real Estate Investors can easily get a seller to take a 10 to 20% discount by using the cost-to-sell guidelines, showing the seller what they might net by selling their house traditionally. This is done by subtracting all selling expenses (realtor commission, closing...
What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Do, Right Now!
Get involved! Legislative monitors are the eyes and ears of our Real Estate Investor Associations all over the country. They provide critical intelligence as we work to promote good relations between our industry and our elected officials. Monitoring programs are...
Building Your Real Estate Investing Team
One of the things that has become popular over the past few years is Fantasy Sports; Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball, and such. The idea is to select the best players you can to increase your probability of a successful and profitable season! Real Estate...
Good Questions Beget Good Responses
Working with two of my PACT coaching (future real estate investor) clients recently, we were discussing why they were having difficulty getting their offers accepted. As we began to explore the situation, we discovered that although these students had become very good...
When the Bank Won’t Be the Bank, the Real Estate Investor Can Be the Bank
I think the banks have something to learn from the independent real estate investor. Our flexibility is one of the keys to our success. Based on that statement, I'd like to say that I'm a full time real estate investor. I'm not a speculator, I don't chase...
What Everyone Needs to Know to Manage in This Market
Real estate entrepreneurs get paid for solving problems, don’t we? And, the more problems we solve for sellers and buyers alike, the more profits we create. In this highly illiquid market, Americans are experiencing serious obstacles to buying (no loans are available)...
Beat the Holiday Rush and Round Out 2008 with a Great Real Estate Deal
Hi folks, The election is over and soon the holidays will be upon us. Its the time of year when many people begin to slow down. Just like in the old poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas when it goes, “ mama in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down for a...
The Secret to Avoiding a Bad Investment in the Current Real Estate Market
Real estate investing is like growing grapes for wine. There is a microclimate effect on grapes. One vineyard produces merlot grapes that produce wine that sell for ten dollars a bottle and the one right next door produces wine that sell for $150 a bottle. What's...