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Furnishing Your Home Office on a Shoestring Budget
Last week, a few new investing partners and I took a drive around our neighborhood looking at potential short sale properties that were listed by local agents. Within a few hours of viewing the properties we had made an offer on two properties. I p...
Residential Land Development – Part 4: Construction and Marketing
To recap Residential Land Development Part 3 we discussed researching zoning, designing your home, and financing the property. In this article we will discuss construction and marketing, the final two stages in any development project. These are t...
Why You Need A Rocking Mission Statement
Having a mission is important. To run a successful business, you need to be on a mission. Yet many of us small business owners (particularly real estate investors and professionals) skip writing a mission statement. Companies put their mission statem...
Using Leverage to Sell More and Take Your Business to the Next Level
Why are you in business? It’s an important question. Perhaps the ultimate question! A mentor of mine taught me a long time ago that knowing “why” is one of the most important things when it comes to getting positive results long term in your bu...
Is The Housing Market Overheating . . . Again?
It seems that in these past two weeks, we have experienced a tremendous increase in relatively negative news regarding the real estate market. Usually I just chalk up all this negativity to the media working hard to score a few extra bucks.&nbs...
Do you use a script when screening Motivated Sellers?
Can scripts hurt or help you when screening motivated sellers? This is a debatable question and I’m going to address both sides. Using a script versus not using one can really change the entire tone of the conversation and can even be what clos...
Residential Land Development – Part 3: Zoning, Design and Financing
To recap Residential Land Development Part 2, we discussed the importance of performing an economic feasibility study with cost estimating to determine a max price land offer and whether or not there is enough profit in your potential deal to warrant...
A Quiz You Can’t Fail: How Will You Make Money in Real Estate
As everyone knows, the real estate market is in the tank – at least that is the overall perception. On the other hand, we all have heard that there are people who are still making money in real estate. At least they say they are. If it is true ...
Is Active or Passive Investing Right for You?
There are a lot of skills needed to become a savvy and successful real estate investor. Do you enjoy the challenge, have the time and/or have the comfort with the knowledge and skill needed to be a success? Are you comfortable with investments backed...
Residential Land Development – Part 2: Determining Economic Feasibility
This is Part 2 in the Residential Land Development series showing you how to find, price, and develop land for residential single family property. If you've followed Residential Land Development Part 1 you've put together your development team, done...
A Good Agent Can Spare Buyers Interested in REO Homes Extra Hassles and Gain a Loyal Client in the Process!
In an article in the Tuesday, October 6, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle entitled “Layer of credit checks surprises home buyers,” a woman named Kimberly Hayes explains that when she and her husband decided to bid on a bank-owned property, ...
Residential Land Development – Part 1
Last week I wrote an article describing how to price and develop offers on land purchases. While that information is an important part of the overall development process, it is only a small fraction of the work that needs to go into developing ...
Redirected Dollars: Not a Bad Way to Start Investing
I had a brainstorm the other day. Hopefully, it will catch on like wild fire and people all over this country will enjoy the prospective windfall benefit. It all started when one of our clients said how tough it was for her to come up with her auto ...
Can You Have Someone Else Do Your Social Networking for You?
One of the biggest concerns in marketing these days is social media marketing, and one of the biggest concerns with social media marketing is coming up with the time to do it. Make no mistake about it, using tools (other than BP, of course) such as T...
The Flood Gates Have To Open Soon…
For many real estate investors, these past several months have brought a welcome sigh of relief as homeowners have come into the market in truly satisfying numbers. In many parts of the country the steady downward slide in prices has tapered off and ...
Why Real Estate Pros Don’t Need Facebook or Any Other Social Media
You’ve been told that as a real estate professional you have no business ignoring social media. It’s the wave of the future. You’ve been told it’s a great way to earn business and make money. You’ve even been told it’s mandatory. But I’...
What’s the difference between you and Sam Zell?
It’s no secret that the real estate market is at its worst since the great depression. It doesn’t help that most of the media seems to set their sights on publishing only articles that highlight the latest crash or the biggest...
4 Steps to Real Estate Newsletters that Work
Is direct mail a part of your marketing strategy? It should be. More specifically, hard copy, good ‘ol fashioned snail mail newsletters should be part of your marketing strategy. Here’s why: Other real estate agents and investors hav...
