by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 29, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
If you’re just getting started in real estate and need to build your confidence and knowledge before moving on (but still need to make some extra cash), I suggest you start with flipping contracts (house flipping). By flipping houses, you’ll be able to...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Authors
Lisa Moren Bromma has been a real estate investor since 1978. She has been a marketing specialist since 1984 and an investor in the private mortgage industry since 1988. She has taught over 1,000 workshops on real estate, private mortgages, marketing, and other...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Last week I was buying a dishwasher with the tenants for one of my rentals. We went to Sears. Could we have gone to Best Buy, Home Depot, or Circuit City? How about Pete’s Previously Enjoyed Appliances? Sure, but we went to Sears where the tenants can feel like...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
This article will suggest the most creative way to buy real estate with discounted notes. It is a wonderfully intriguing method. Even if you cannot do this exactly, you will still have the very real possibility of trading notes you bought at a discount for full face...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 26, 2008 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
When I started investing in real estate in 1982, I thought you had to have money. I was working a job and was broke. Since then, I have learned that you don’t need money, credit, or a steady job to do this type of investing. Of course, having a little cash...
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,...