If you have been in real estate for some time take a minute and think back to when you started. There is a good chance some of the decisions you made are downright laughable even just a few years later. Every day you are in the business should be a learning experience. Everybody makes mistakes,...Read More

Every member of your real estate investing team is important. All it takes is just one person to drop the ball to send you in scramble mode. This can result in increased expenses, delayed turnover and rocky relationships with everyone on site. If your investing focus is rehabs and flips perhaps the most important team...Read More

The key to successful wholesaling is finding deals where nobody else is looking. Many new wholesale investors are tempted by the low hanging fruit that is foreclosures.  While the right foreclosure deal can be a home run they are also filled with competition.  By wasting all of your time searching for the same deals that...Read More

There is a lot that goes into a successful direct mail campaign. It is not enough to fire off thousands of letters to a random group of people and wait for your phone to ring.  For as beneficial as direct mail can be it can also cripple your business if you are not careful.  You...Read More

Becoming a successful real estate investor does not happen overnight. In most cases it takes several years and countless hours of hard work to achieve this goal. Even when you think you have made it you are still facing an uphill battle.  If you are like most investors you are more focused on finding deals...Read More

One of the most popular forms of entry into the real estate business is wholesaling. What makes it such an attractive option is that the end investor carries most of the risk. With wholesaling you find a property at a discount and pass that property off to a fellow investor. For your troubles you are...Read More

One of the most common methods of entry into the real estate investing business is through wholesaling. It requires limited capital and offers a fairly straightforward process. In a typical wholesale transaction the wholesaler connects a seller with an end buyer.  When the contract is assigned the wholesaler steps out of the way and either...Read More

Building and developing a strong buyer list is one of the keys for any new wholesaler. You can have a great deal but unless it sells it doesn’t make a difference.  Like any other aspect of the real estate business strength is in numbers.  The wider your net is the better chance you have of...Read More

The best real estate investors understand the importance of a keeping a full pipeline. Closing a deal today is great only if you can find ways to build on that momentum.  In almost any market there are motivated sellers.  The key is to constantly strive for ways to find them.  One of the misconceptions in...Read More

Why do even the most capable and experienced real estate investors still use agents? Some real estate investors start out in the industry trained to avoid working with Realtors in any way. Others simply see them as the competition and an unnecessary expense. So why is it that when you look at agent listings, public...Read More