by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 4, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
How do you know what a commercial income property is worth? How do you know that you can get your desired return on your investment? Is there a way to calculate the maximum you can pay for an investment and still achieve your investment goals? This article will answer...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 4, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Its the principle of the thing. No, it ain’t…it’s the “principal” of the thing! At some point you’re going to bang up against a situation where you decide to stand firm “on principle.” Dumb. I remember times when it...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 4, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
If you had the chance to start over again, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently the second time around? This question cuts to the core of the essential lessons of a lifetime of real estate investing. Here is my six-part answer to this question....
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 4, 2009 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
There’s an old real estate scam going around again. New investors who don’t know better are being taken in by more experienced investors offering to help them get started investing in real estate. It goes something like this . . . “Hey kid,...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
This story has been a while in coming, so forgive me if I tend to be a tad bit wordy. Yes, the title wasn’t just a headline to get you to read this story. Indeed, I am totally physically blind. No, the blind are not magic people. We don’t hear better than...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I sent out 250 postcards to out-of-state property owners in one zip code. Several people called back, and this one was an old 1955 Spartan mobile home in a “55 and older” mobile home park, completely set up. The guy lived in Texas and said he had power of...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
In my state, foreclosures are advertised in the “Legal Notices” section of the local newspaper, and they include the amount owed on the property. I was caught off guard last week at the courthouse steps when the auctioneer named a property, and I did not...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I did three lease option deals in Alabama (although I live in California) in just a few months’ time with over $70,000 in equity! Deals #1 and #2 were bank REOs that I bought through an agent. The third came from a painter I called to give me estimates for work....
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
I have been investing for about 30 years, so I have lots of stories about making money on rehabs. This was an interesting one. It was a four-plex in a good location, but had been owned by a law firm. They had bought it for a tax shelter, but no one wanted to deal with...
by Brandon Reynolds | Feb 2, 2009 | Real Estate Investor Success Stories
When I started four years ago, I got a lot of inspiration from the Success Stories on your site. People need to know that it can be done–even in this type of market. I just closed another wholesale deal which was not as spectacular as my previous Success Story,...
