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Lessons from Vegas Baby and the 3-Step Investing Formula
As I type this I’m sitting in the Trump International hotel with a beautiful view of the strip — But in about 10 minutes from now I’ll be sitting in the sports book with an even better view of dozens of TV’s with all of the basketball games.
If you love the sport of basketball, I [...]
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Lessons from Vegas Baby and the 3-Step Investing Formula
Why I’m foregoing making $22,000 on this deal…
I just picked up a great deal. I could sell it right now and make about $22,000 but I’m not going to do it.
I’m very tempted though. Obviously, $22,000 is a lot of money. So why am I not selling this property and taking the money and running?
Because it’s a perfect buy and hold property.
It’s [...]
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Why I’m foregoing making $22,000 on this deal…
Read Article ›Is it Time to Re-Adjust your Real Estate Investment Strategy?
Real estate investing, like any other business venture, needs to be quick to adjust to changing markets, circumstances, and long-term goals. With a volatile real estate market, perhaps it’s time for flippers and rehabbers to adjust their business models.
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Is it Time to Re-Adjust your Real Estate Investment Strategy?
Read Article ›The Impact of Rent Control on Landlords: A Commentary
“We’re From The Government, and We’re Here To Help”
These words, famously cited by Ronald Regan, can move many a real estate investor to tears. And not without justification. Many government schemes to “help” the – purportedly – underprivileged, backfire. No better example exists than rent control ordinances, which generally end up destroying [...]
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The Impact of Rent Control on Landlords: A Commentary
Read Article ›Getting Started in Real Estate Investing and the Million Dollar Question!
I have heard from many “gurus” that the world of real estate investing has the highest “churn” rate of all investment opportunities. By churn rate I mean the number of people entering and leaving real estate during a specified time-frame. From a gurus’ perspective this means an almost endless supply of new, eager customers.
While I [...]
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Getting Started in Real Estate Investing and the Million Dollar Question!
Read Article ›Apartment Investing and The (Other) Golden Ratio
While most of my active real estate efforts go towards rehabbing/flipping houses, I’m a huge fan of investing in apartments. I’ve done some passive investing in the past (invested in other people’s projects) and am always on the looking for great apartment deals to add to my portfolio.
Why do I love apartment investing so [...]
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Apartment Investing and The (Other) Golden Ratio
Read Article ›Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 5 – Income Producing Properties
Income Producing Properties… what many consider the holy grail of real estate investing. Buy a property, find a tenant, and enjoy the passive income. Well, that is what most guru’s will tell you.
The fact of the matter is it can be just as easy as the guru’s make sound… but only when you buy right, choose quality [...]
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Getting Started in Real Estate: Part 5 – Income Producing Properties
Read Article ›The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs
Our now famous list of the top 35 real estate blogs from August 2006 has been seriously withered down over the years; some of the blogs simply died out, while others lost focus, or quality. I thought it was high time that we updated this list by creating several sub-lists of top real estate [...]
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The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs
Read Article ›Are Vacant Showings Better?
Having one of your properties sit vacant is one of the biggest money sucking problems a real estate investor can face. As we struggled to rent one of our latest properties out, we started to really understand the big benefit of doing a tenant first rent to own strategy like I discussed a few weeks [...]
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Read Article ›Getting Started in Real Estate: Series Conclusion
You may recall that I started this series by posing the “Million” dollar question… and that question was…
As a new real estate investor what strategy should I focus on to get started?
Over these past several weeks I have attempted to answer that question and have provided what I hope is useful insight to new and [...]
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Getting Started in Real Estate: Series Conclusion
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