by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 7, 2008 | Authors
Richard Desich is the Chairman and CEO of Equity Trust Company, the leading provider of self-directed real estate IRAs, and has been personally investing in real estate for over thirty-five years. Nationally recognized as a pre-eminent authority on real estate...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 7, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The most common stumbling block to investing in real estate is not having enough cold, hard cash to act quickly to snatch up the hot deals. What if you could create a hassle-free, never-ending supply of money to do all the deals you want? What if there were no red...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 7, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Alexander Burnett is very good at what he does. He buys and sells houses. Realizing the potential profits that could be made by investing in mobile home parks, he began a lengthy search for a small park he could buy. Eventually, he found an eighty-space mobile home...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 7, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Just how much money can you make on one old mobile home? I don’t know, but I’ve got one that won’t go away. It’s like a perpetual money machine. Every time I think the loan will be paid off, something happens and I get the home back and sell it...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 7, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
As Lonnie Scruggs says, “The opportunities are everywhere. There is no reason to be poor unless you choose to be.” So, why do some educated, hard-working people always have to struggle to keep up with their bills? And why is it that everything some people...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 6, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The most frequently asked questions relate to doing transactions which are prohibited or self-dealing. What is self-dealing? Remarkably, the tax code makes some sense in this area. The concept of self-dealing within the context of an IRA is easy: Your retirement plan...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 6, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
You can’t buy a parachute after you jump out of an airplane. Likewise, jumping into real estate investing without the proper education can be a more costly real-life “seminar” than the one you chose not to attend. Some may say, “The seminar is...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 6, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Well, we’re now into 2000, the world didn’t fall apart, the lights are still on, my mail carrier is still delivering checks, and my bank is still cashing them. And regardless what all the doom and gloom and negative minded people say, I’m convinced...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 29, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
By now you’ve had time to: Locate three or more rehab investors to flip contracts to; have your contracts ready and thoroughly understand them; and know which title company or attorney you will use to close that first deal. If not, take time to complete these...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 29, 2008 | Authors
Jackie Lange is a private investor who specializes in flipping contracts. After studying what many of the national real estate educators teach about flipping and weeding out what works and what does not work for her, she has developed a system which has enabled her to...