by Brandon Reynolds | Nov 11, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
I started my business by using banks, savings, credit cards, lines of credit, creative techniques with sellers (like land contracts or lease options), and partners. But, once I was self-employed, I was concerned that it was going to be harder to get loans to purchase...
by Brandon Reynolds | Nov 11, 2010 | Authors
E. Alan Cowgill is a full-time real estate investor in single family and small multi-family properties in Springfield, Ohio. Since 1995, he has bought and sold hundreds of investment properties.Alan uses private lenders–not banks–to fund his real estate...
by Brandon Reynolds | Nov 11, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Let’s face it, the reason most investors don’t have any private lenders is fear. It’s as basic as that. It’s a fear of the unknown. How do I know that? I’ve been there too. I was comfortable doing things the way I had always done them. I...
by Brandon Reynolds | Nov 11, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
In real estate, there is a saying that you don’t make your money when you sell, you make your money when you buy. The name of the game is finding amazing deals and then either keeping them for the long term or turning around and flipping for a handsome profit....
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 25, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
When you start out wholesaling houses, one of the first things you want to do is build a list of potential buyers. Don’t make the mistake many beginners make by waiting until you have a house under contract. If you do, you put yourself under pressure. Scrambling...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 25, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
They’re often called recession-proof: steady investments that are inexpensive and easy to maintain with consistent profit margins. Not to mention, they’re an area of real estate that seems largely unaffected–if not helped–by current rough...
by Brandon Reynolds | Oct 25, 2010 | Authors
Scott Meyers is THE leading Self Storage educator. He travels the country revealing why Self Storage has become the hottest sector in commercial real estate over the past 30 years–that virtually nobody has heard about.He is a Certified Self Storage Manager...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
My favorite and most profitable mobile home deals are the ones I can buy for $2,000 to $3,000 and sell for $4,000 to $6,000. These are the homes that make me the most money, with the smallest investment, the least amount of risk, and the best profits/yield/returns....
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
January 2010 As I wrote in June 2007, (see Long-Term Outlook for Investing in Mobile Home Parks) the worst that could happen for mobile home parks occurred long before the collapse of the housing markets or the onset of recession. With the right investment plan there...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
January 2010 For the past two years economic stories resound with metaphors more often heard in weather reports than the financial press. Maybe terms like “batten down the hatches,” “keep your powder dry,” “tsunami of debt,”...