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Real Estate Investing: Specialize or Die
Whether you are just starting to dip your toes into the ocean that is real estate, or are free diving in the great blue yonder, you need to be aware of the rules that govern your ability to maximize your success. You have most likely heard that there are countless ways to become profitable within [...]
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Real Estate Investing: Specialize or Die
Read Article ›Real Estate Investing with Functional Obsolescence in Mind
Common sense and proper real estate investment training teach us to preform due diligence before entering into a purchase agreement with a seller. Good real estate investors are taught to determine Loan to Value (LTV), After Repaired Value (ARV), Repair Cost (RC) and Maximum Allowable Offer (MAO). These abbreviations, numbers and percentages allow us to assign an estimated [...]
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Real Estate Investing with Functional Obsolescence in Mind
Read Article ›Mobile Home Financing: A Primer
Securing traditional financing for mobile homes and manufactured homes can sometimes seem difficult, especially in our current economical market. Whether the mobile home is new to you or being refinanced, lenders typically have stricter underwriting guidelines than more traditional site build homes.
Building codes changed in late 2005 after the severe hurricane season experienced in the [...]
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Mobile Home Financing: A Primer
Read Article ›Mobile Home Investing: Clearing up the Misconceptions
Whether you call it a mobile home, wobbly box, tin can, trailer, or simply manufactured home, factory built homes offer convenience, affordability and even luxury to many Americans. As I talk to more and more seasoned real estate investors at my local REIA meetings, I realize just how truly secretive mobile home investing has become. [...]
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Mobile Home Investing: Clearing up the Misconceptions
Read Article ›I’m Not Just A Number! The Art of Knowing & Understanding a Seller
The more investors I talk with the more I am convinced that the lost art of conversing and getting to understand a seller and their needs has been replaced with handing over complicated forms and giving low-ball offers. It seems in this fast-paced, digitalized, G4 world, we have forgotten how to make friends before making [...]
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I’m Not Just A Number! The Art of Knowing & Understanding a Seller
Read Article ›5 Ways to Make Money Investing in Mobile Homes
I had the great fortune to talk with some great real estate investors this week at a local REIA meeting. After the meeting concluded I hung around and began mingling with the locals, no one amazingly had ever invested in manufactured housing. I spent the next three hours regaling a group of doe eyed newbie [...]
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5 Ways to Make Money Investing in Mobile Homes
Read Article ›Partnering With Sellers To Make Even More Money
One of the biggest reasons I love real estate so much is because there are countless ways to make a considerable profit with real estate. The questions really are: How creative are you? How bad do you need a deal? And how motivated are your Sellers to sell or just stop losing money each month? [...]
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Partnering With Sellers To Make Even More Money
Read Article ›Rental Scam Alert!
It is amazing what some people try to get away with in this World; it’s even more amazing what they actually do get away with. I recently had lunch with a good friend of mine we’ll call Frank. Frank lives in a posh gated neighborhood in ritzy Tampa bay. I had been over his house [...]
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Read Article ›Mobile Home Investing: Fast-Turned Profits
Fast tuning or flipping real estate for a hefty profit has been over glorified in recent years by the main stream media. In recent discussions with over a hundred newbie real estate investors I have learned that “flipping” residential real estate is often times taught to death. Many investors think they know all there is [...]
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Mobile Home Investing: Fast-Turned Profits
Read Article ›Mobile Home Investing: AKA The Moolah Maker
Have you ever looked at real estate as an investment vehicle that can take you from the current rat-race you are in, to the lazy boy chair lifestyle you want? I do. from the beginning I always had my eye on long-term wealth and long-term growth. I needed make sure I succeeded in real estate. [...]
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Mobile Home Investing: AKA The Moolah Maker
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