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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
Building Momentum in Your Real Estate Investing Business
One of the most difficult aspects of getting your real estate investing or wholesaling business off the ground is overcoming the fear and uncertainty that comes with attempting something new. Many beginners get stuck on the sidelines suffering from analysis paralysis, thinking that if they just buy “one more course”, they will finally feel confident enough [...]
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Building Momentum in Your Real Estate Investing Business
Read Article ›The Cheapest and Easiest Way to Find Buyers for Your Wholesale Deals
As a real estate wholesaler, it’s important to be able to quickly locate an end buyer for your deals once you put them under contract. While there are many different ways to go about doing this (some of which I have mentioned in this article, as well as this one), my favorite method for finding [...]
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The Cheapest and Easiest Way to Find Buyers for Your Wholesale Deals
Read Article ›Five Real Estate Wholesaling Tips
After three years as a full time real estate wholesaler, I’ve pretty much made every mistake in the book, and have learned some valuable lessons in the process. Following are five wholesaling tips that I’ve picked up while out in the trenches:
#1) Always collect an earnest money deposit from your end buyer
When I [...]
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Five Real Estate Wholesaling Tips
Read Article ›Three Traits of Successful Real Estate Wholesalers
I got an email a few days ago from an aspiring real estate wholesaler who was having a tough time getting started. Among other things, she asked me what I thought were the top three characteristics that make up a successful wholesaler. It was tough to narrow it down to three, but following is the [...]
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Three Traits of Successful Real Estate Wholesalers
Read Article ›Using Transactional Funding in Your Real Estate Wholesaling Business
In a perfect world, all real estate wholesale transactions would be completed by simply putting a property under contract, and then assigning that contract to an end buyer via an assignment agreement. While this is the quickest and easiest way to wholesale a piece of property, unfortunately, it is not always possible to accomplish.
When [...]
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Using Transactional Funding in Your Real Estate Wholesaling Business
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 ›Using Google Maps to Save Time
As a real estate wholesaler, one of the websites I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the last year or so is Google Maps- particularly the “Street View” function they provide. In fact, unless I am already intimately familiar with the neighborhood where a potential deal is located, Google Maps is the first place I go [...]
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Using Google Maps to Save Time
Read Article ›Getting Started In Real Estate: Part 3 – Wholesaling as an Exit Strategy!
In Part 2 of this series I discussed many of the most popular approaches to finding deals. I spent some time in this series discussing the “art of finding deals” because all too often I see gurus teaching how to use their methods to find deals, but they don’t, in my opinion, spend enough time on [...]
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Getting Started In Real Estate: Part 3 – Wholesaling as an Exit Strategy!
Read Article ›Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling?
Last week I got an email from a beginning wholesaler asking me for advice. He told me he was considering doing deals virtually in another market because there were “no buyers” in his. He had recently put three properties under contract with the intent of wholesaling them to end buyers, but ended up backing out [...]
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Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling?
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