613 Real Estate Investing Articles

Articles by Category 1031 Exchange - (2) Tax Savvy Investing - 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges When Would I Use Direct Deeding? Advertising, Marketing - (30) 6 Common Marketing Mistakes Investors Make And How To Avoid Them A Marketing Plan - The Thing That Makes Deals Happen! Are You an Undercover Real Estate Investor? Database Goldmining Deal-Finding Strategies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Direct Mailing Principles For Real Estate Does A Down Market Mean You Need to Downsize Too? Finding Good Deals in Real Estate Finding Motivated Sellers: Luck or Hard Work? Five Ways to Profit from Every Meeting with a Seller Focus On Strategies That Work Free Corvette With Purchase! How to Dominate a Market with Low Cost Postcards How to Get Your Marketing Message Out All Year How to Mail Postcards for 12 Cents Each How To Use Internet, Wanted Ads, and Bird-Dogs for Rental Properties How To Write Killer Ad Copy That Attracts An Avalanche of Sellers Increasing Your Marketing ROI Marketing - The Weekend Bandit Marketing: Best Return on Investment The Check Is In The Mail! The Key to Real Estate Success: Marketing! The Law of Massive Action = Massive Results The Secret Power Of Testimonials The Ultimate Direct Mail for Buying Houses Top Ten Marketing Tips Using Ping Pong Balls to Market A Real Estate Investment What’s the Best Way to Find Deals? Which Attorneys to Market to Why Most Real Estate Entrepreneurs Don’t Make Consistent Profits and What To Do About It Appraisals - (5) How to Accurately Estimate a Property\'s Current Market Value Not Just Price The Art of the Residential CMA The Average Appraisal and the Flip Understanding Appreciation Asset Protection - (19) Answers to All Those Questions You Forgot to Ask About Land Trusts Are All Your Assets at Risk? Bulletproof Your Wealth with Family Limited Partnerships and LLC's Choice of Entity 101 Corporations and LLC’s: Charging Orders and the Differences in Protection Don’t Make These Mistakes With Your LLC or Corporation Get That Property Out of Your Name! How to Choose the Proper Entity for Your Business Liability Company (LLC): 5 Things to Consider! Life Estate Limited Liability Companies (LLCs): Avoiding Disasters, Mistakes and Confusion! Personal Property Trusts Protecting Your Assets The Limited Liability Company...The Time is Now The New Limited Liability Company The Role of Insurance in Asset Protection Planning Top Ten Ways to Get Sued - Guaranteed! Using Trusts for Personal & Business Privacy Where to Incorporate: The Answer May Surprise You! Bird Dog - (3) Bird-Dogging 101 Breeding Bird Dogs What\'s the Best Way to Get Started? Building a Team - (3) Building Your Real Estate Investment Team Choosing An Attorney Hiring A Real Estate Attorney Closing - (12) A True, and Humorous, Real Estate Investing Tale Closing Escrow When You Are Out of Town Finding Hidden Costs on Your Closing Statement Follow Up - the Key to Successful Closing How Do I Prepare for Closing? How to Ensure a Fast Easy Closing with Your Hard Money Lender How to Save Up to 90% on Title Insurance Simultaneous Closings Tax Prorations At Closing Time The Property Recording System When Is Escrow Considered Open? Who Controls The Closing Date For Escrow - The Buyer Or The Seller Commercial - (20) Condo Hotel Trends Condo Hotels Offer Luxury and Great Investment Potential Due Diligence: How to Find the Stuff You Need Getting Raw Land How To Become Wealthier, Faster Investing In Real Estate How To Create Massive Passive Income Without Hassling With A Single Tenant Investor Creates $11,472 A Month Passive Income with No Money Down! Is The Pot At The End Of Your Rainbow (Part 1) Is The Pot At The End Of Your Rainbow Filled With Fool\'s Gold? (Part 2) Know Your Zoning Real Estate Investing in a Rising-Rate Environment Redevelopment and Change of Use Deals - Making Silk From a Sow\'s Ear The 5 Money Making Advantages Of Multi-Unit Investing The Benefits of Fractional Ownership in Private Residence Clubs Thinking Like A Developer Top Seven Questions You Should Ask When Buying a Condo Hotel Unit Upside Deals: Building a Money Pump What is Pre-Construction Investing? What’s it Worth?- Deriving YOUR Capitalization Rate Why 4 Families Are So Over-Priced Fair Housing - (12) Advertising and Fair Housing - Forget About Freedom of Speech Communicating with People with Disabilities Do I Have to Lease to This Jerk? Fair Housing Q&A Good News for Apartment Owners from the Supreme Court Mental Illness and Fair Housing Laws - They Don't Mix Easily Occupancy Standards - Time to Review Your Policy Prepare to Defend Reasonable Accomodation for Caregivers Reasonable Modification and Accomodation Responding to the Fair Housing Complaint Wheeling and Dealing Within the Confines of the Fair Housing Act Financing, Hard Money - (28) 100% Financing: Feeding the Desire to Acquire 3 Good Reasons Not to Over-Finance Your Properties 6 Ways to Raise All the Cash You'll Ever Need for Doing Deals A Single\'s Game of Real Estate - Getting Started in Your Twenties Bad Credit, No Cash -- End Of The World? No Way! Be a Smart Investor... Do the Math Financing - The Key to Big Profits Financing Paper Hard Money Loans vs. Conventional Investor Loans Increase Your Income by Offering Private Mortgage Financing Managing Your Money Mortgage Broker vs. Mortgage Banker Mortgage Brokers and Short Term Money No Cash? No Problem! Fund All Your Deals With Private Lending Part 1 - What Exactly is a Hard Money Lender Anyway? Part 2 - Finding Hard Money Lenders Part 3 - Profiting from your Hard Money Lenders Phony Financing Fetches Fat Fines Pre-Qualification Letters: Why Do I Need Them, How Do I Get One, and What Should It Say? Private Mortgage Loans Provide a Short-Term Financing Alternative The Danger of Refinancing The Mortgage Elimination Understanding Loan Terms Understanding The Mortgage Loan Market Using A Home Equity Line Of Credit To Buy Properties Why Private Money Why You Must Learn to Buy with No Money Down Why You Should Know About FHA Lending Limits Flipping Properties, Wholesaling - (41) Are There Good Deals in a Hot Market? 5 Ways to Collect Cash When Buying No Money Down Bubble, Schmubble - Flipping Works in Any Market Building the Ultimate Wholesale Buyer's List Can I Start With No Money or Credit? Is Flipping Legal? Can I Wholesale in a Small Town? Do You Need a License to Flip Real Estate? Finding and Working With A Good Real Estate Agent Flipping Houses Ethics: What\'s Your Name Worth Flipping is Illegal Flipping Properties for Cash Profit Flipping Versus Holding - Which is Better? Getting Around The Non-assignability Clause! Getting Wholesale Buyers In The Home Hot Market House Flipping: Can You Still Find Deals? How Do I Overcome Paralysis of Analysis? How Should I Adjust For Changing Markets? How to Cash in on the Wholesale Real Estate Market If Flipping Property Is So Easy, Why Doesn’t Everyone Do It? Illegal Flipping and Lender Seasoning Instant Cash Wholesaling Houses! Investing in Hot Markets Is Flipping Homes Illegal? It Takes Money to Make Money and Other Big Lies Learn How to Generate Cash First! Make Quick Cash Profits Nine Steps to Quick Cash: The Anatomy of a Wholesale Flip Quick Cash Profits with Split Funding Seven Ways to Flip a Property Strong Buyer’s List For Quick Cash! Take The Guess Work Out Of Your Purchases The Absolute Fastest Way To Stuff your Pockets With Cash! The Not-So-Handy Man\'s Guide to Fixing and Flipping Properties The Only Contingency You Will Ever Need The Wonderful World of Wholesaling What Do You Mean I Can’t Wholesale an REO? What To Do When You Can’t Find a Buyer for Your Wholesale Deal Wholesale Deals Are Relative To Your Area! Wholesale Houses and QUIT Your Corporate Job Wholesaling Wholesaling Dilemma - Getting Your Buyer Into the House! Foreclosures, Short Sales - (30) 10 Frequently Asked Short Sale Questions 7 Big Reasons To Invest In Pre-Foreclosures A Review of the National Consumer Law Center Bank Said No to Short Sale, Now What? Building and Developing Your Buyers List Buy A House - Get Thrown in Jail? Buying at the Foreclosure Auction Explaining Foreclosure Options to the Homeowner Foreclosures Can Be A Good Thing Too Frequently Asked Short Sale Questions How to Influence the BPO How to Negotiate a Successful Short Sale Let\'s Get Started - Your First Phone Call From The Homeowner Loss Mitigation: Friend or Foe Making a Short Sale Counteroffer Making Big $$$In Pre-Foreclosure Using Direct Mail Real Estate Agents: How to Get Short Sale Listings (Part 1) Real Estate Owned (REO) Foreclosures and VA/HUD Properties Scripting Common Objections from Foreclosure Sellers Short Sale Exit Strategies: Exit Before You Enter Short Sale Secrets Should the Government Bail Out People in Foreclosure? So, You Wanna Buy Pre-Foreclosures? The Basics of “Short Sales” The Hidden Secrets of a Real Estate Technician The Rising Foreclosure Rate The Ultimate Short Sale Technique! What Is All The Fuss About Short Sales? What You Need To Know About Short Payoff Sales Why Banks Do Short Sales General Real Estate - (77) 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier 8 Steps to Getting Out of Debt A Quick Formula for Eliminating Non-Deals A Real Estate Stock Plan Alternate Sources of Income and Why You Need Them An Investors Opinion About Real Estate Attorneys Are You a Technical Investor? Are You Running Your Business With Blinders On? Are You Waiting on the Sidelines? Avoid "Negative Thinkers" Like The Plague! Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, & Credit - How it Affects You Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, & Credit - Part II Become a Failure and Succeed Past Your Wildest Dreams! Big Brother Is Watching You, New (Bad) Legislation Coming Your Way Bull vs. Bubble Cash Flow Today - The Key To Longevity Concepts of Value Creating Additional Income From Real Estate Creative Real Estate Money Making Opportunities Dead People Don\'t Buy Houses Diary of an Equity Holding Trust Transaction Effectively Using Real Estate Comps Essential Contract Clauses II Ethics in Real Estate Investing Evaluating Passive Real Estate Investments - Beware Hidden Fees Finding Motivated Sellers and Buyers At The Airport Finding the Right Properties - A Mystery Unraveled Five Big Mistakes Newbies Make Five Steps to Success in Whatever You Want From Life! Get Organized Today to Make Money Tomorrow Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Make Some REAL Money Have You had Your Financial Check-Up Lately Hidden Profits In Resort and Lake Real Estate How Fast is Your Money Moving? How to be in the Top 10% of the Real Estate Investing Market Year in and Year Out How to Create a Real Estate Cash Cow How to Get Comps If I want to Invest in Real Estate, Should I Become an Agent? Investing in a Changing Market Is Your Real Estate Investing Comfort Zone Being Threatened? It's Still Location, Location, Location Know Your Real Estate Laws Nine Characteristics of Successful Real Estate Investors No Money Down Real Estate Investing: Is It For Real? Overcoming Fear (Beginning With A Vision) Partnering On Real Estate Deals For The Right Reasons Planning For Success Quality Deals Real Estate Investing Crystal Ball Real Estate Investing is Just Like Weight Loss Recycle the Real Estate Oink Security vs. Freedom...It\'s Your Choice Should I Get Real Estate License? Should You Do Real Estate Full-Time? Should You Use an Attorney\'s Fee Clause? Some Ground Rules (and House Rules , Too) Start the New Year Right! Ten Myths Preventing People from Succeeding in Real Estate Investing That Condominium Will be the Perfect Rental Property The 3 Easiest Ways to Make Money In Real Estate The Bona Fide Purchaser The Choice Is Yours The Ethical Real Estate Investor The Only Three Reasons To Be In Real Estate The Power Of Appreciation The Salesman Who Doesn't Believe in His Product The Very Last Resort: Bankruptcy There’s More to Building Wealth than Clipping Coupons Three Essential Ingredients Tips For Developing Real Estate Technician Skills Triple Your Income in the Next 12 Months Two Things You Should be Reading Every Week and Why Understanding Corporations, LLC’s and Limited Partnerships What's Your Game Plan? Why Land Values Fall or Rise Why Some People Are Richer Than Others Your Best Real Estate Decision Getting Started - (50) 60 Days To Your First Bargain Purchase A Game Plan For Success Investing In Real Estate Advice For New Investors Are Real Estate Seminars Worth the Money? Are You a Newbie at a Real Estate Club? Are You Clear On What is a Good Deal Assembling Your Buyer\'s Briefcase Bad News Is Good News Basics of the Real Estate Contract Building a Pipeline to Wealth: The Cashflow Quadrant Choosing Success Creating A Mindset For Success In Real Estate Investing Entrepreneurial Confidence Essential Contract Clauses Five Keys to Building Wealth Get Up and Start Running Getting Started Getting Started as a Real Estate Entrepreneur Getting Started in Real Estate Investing Getting Started Right in Real Estate Investing Growing Your Home Business How Anyone Can Make $50,000 Per Deal In A High Priced Market How Successful Can I Be? How to Cherry Pick Great Deals from Your Desk How to Create a Simple Real Estate Business Plan How to Get Started Buying Homes With No Down Payment How to Get Your First Deal Done How to Make Creative Investing Work For You How To Use The Internet To Perform Due Diligence On Real Property Identify & Expand Your Comfort Zone Lessons Learned During My Rookie Year More Is Less One-Minute Guide To Achieving Anything Overcoming The “No Money” Pre-Offer Jitters Real Estate Investment 101 - Building Face-to-Face Rapport With Your Seller Real Estate Spark Plugs Should I Go or Should I Stay? Should I Quit My Day Job? Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Investing in Real Estate Starting your Real Estate Investing Career the Right Way The Power Within The Three Levels of Real Estate Investors The Wrong Way to Invest in Real Estate To Be Rich, Simply Stop Doing What Poor Folks Do What Are You Really Afraid Of? What I Wished I Knew When I Got Started Investing What\'s Your Reason For Being In Real Estate? Why Most Real Estate Investors Fail Why You Should Use A Buyer\'s Agent Your Plan of Action Home Improvements - (1) Your Own Home Improvement Outline Home Inspections - (2) How To Conduct A Thorough Pre-Buy Property Inspection Property Disclosures: The Right To Know Income Taxes - (10) Daddy's Little Tax Deduction Dealing with the Dealer Issue Federal Income Tax 101 For Tax Purposes, What Is The Best Time To Buy My House? Is the Only Way to Save on Your Taxes to Sleep With an IRS Agent? Let Uncle Sam Pay for Your Family and Fasinations Making Your Money Work For You at Tax Time Mr. CPA, Can I Deduct a Pizza? Reduce Taxes By Investing In Real Estate You Dealing? IRA Investing - (10) Buying Real Estate in Your IRA Creative Lending and Profit Splits Using an IRA How to Use Your Retirement Funds for Real Estate How You Can Retire With An IRA Worth $1,000,000 New Opportunities with Real Estate IRAs Self Dealing in Tax Free and Tax Deferred IRA\'s The New Tax Law: Self-Directed Real Estate and Note IRA's and Keogh's The Roth IRA The Roth IRA and Why Most People Should Have One What Makes a Tax Free Deal a Real Deal? Landlording - (26) Collecting Money Owed by a Tenant Common Sense Mortgage Tips Creating Long Term Income Fair Housing Threat Fixer Houses High Profits, Low Risk Forms, Laws, and Hats Made Simple How to Automate Your Collections How to Deal with Prosective Tenants How to Find Your Local Section 8 Public Housing Authority (PHA) How to Get Your Renters to Think Like Home Buyers How to Get Your Tenants to Stay For at Least Three Years How To Reduce Your Risks And Limit Your Personal Liability As A Landlord Inexpensive Repairs with Landlording Skills Worth Big Bucks Learn the Landlord-Tenant Rules! Looking Inside Your Tenant\'s Mind Market Conditions Removing the Bad Apple Faster and Legally Safety First! Set Specific Cash Flow Objectives Tenants Are Not Your Customers The Latest in Lead Paint The Three to Five Year Holding Plan What Every Landlord Should Know About Discrimination What to Do if a Tenant Abandons the Property Why You Should Consider Buying Small Mismanaged Rental Properties Lease Options - (15) Goldmine In Offering Financing To Buyer-Occupants How to Be An Investor Without Becoming A Landlord How to Beat the Tenant Game How to Eliminate Your Biggest Landlording Challenges How to Make an Extra $25,000 On Every Equity Split You Do! How to Use Lease Options and Fixer Uppers Lease Option a Junker! Lease Option Tips & Strategies Lease Option vs. Subject Tos Lease/Option 101 Lease/Option vs. Contract for Deed Lease/Options & the Equitable Interest Lock in Your Position When Buying Lease Options Wealth Without Risk Why Selling on Lease Options is Glorified Landlording Low Income Housing - (4) Build a Junker Empire Build a Junker Empire (Part 2) Myths and Realities of Low Income Housing Why Low End Houses Make the Ideal Cash Flow Vehicle Mobile Homes - (7) Prescription for Burned-Out Landlords A Little Creativity Can Produce Huge Tax-Free Profits A Perpetual Money Machine Four Ways to Profit From a Mobile Home Park How Good Can it Get? Huge Profits From a Part-Time Business Outlook for Mobile Home Parks:2007 and Beyond Motivated Sellers - (27) 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Analyzing a Deal 3 Divorce Strategies for Maximum Profits 7 Great Ways to Get Sellers to Call You Beware Of Potential Scams Forbearing For Motivated Sellers Get All Fired Up For Motivated Sellers! How to Build Long Term Security How to Find and Close Your Next Deal in 72 Hours or Less How to Find MLS Deals How to Find Motivated Sellers How to Find Motivated Sellers Now How to Find the Motivated Sellers (Part 1) How to Find the Motivated Sellers (Part 2) How to Get Motivated Sellers to Call You If I Could, Would You? Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: 15 Questions to ID a Motivated Seller Fast Making Money With Out Of State Owners Mold Your Way To Motivated Sellers Motivated Sellers Before The Tax Sale Multiple Streams of Motivated Sellers One Tried and True Method To Get Motivated Sellers Calling You Today! Prescreen the Seller! Process Servers: Your Hottest Ticket for Finding Motivated Sellers The Motivated Seller and the NARS Pactrust Triple Your Real Estate Profits! What Is A Motivated Seller? When to Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth Negotiating - (41) Ask for More Than You Expect To Get Ask Questions and Make Money Basic Principles Make You a Smarter Negotiator Be a Smarter Negotiator: Five Basic Principles Bracketing Your Objective