by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Would you rather work a job every day in order to get paid or have someone else work a job and pay you? The answer should be a “no-brainer,” but I’m surprised at the number of people I meet that can’t understand the logic behind that question...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
After forty years in this business, I still enjoy solving problems. What I enjoy most is helping others succeed when faced with the challenge of acquiring a problem property and making it profitable. One of the best examples we have seen was a mobile home park in...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
I was sitting in the back of a Chicago cab discussing business with Ray Rach. Upon overhearing our conversation, John, the cab driver, interrupted and began telling us his experiences with real estate investing. It seems he had bought a house a few years ago and...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Let’s clear this up once and for all. There is only ONE way to determine the market value for single-family houses: Comparable Sales. Let me repeat: The most accurate way to determine the market value of a house is to use actual comparable sales. Comparable...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Seems like there’s always somebody telling us we should get a physical checkup every year or so, but how about a financial checkup? Ever had anybody call wanting to schedule you for a financial checkup? If you haven’t had your financial checkup lately,...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
There are some interesting and lucrative advantages of using lease options as both an optionor and optionee of real estate. Generally speaking, option money is not taxable to the optionor until the option is exercised, expires, or is abandoned. I.R.C. Section 1234...
