The #1 mistake new investors make is that they wait too long to get started investing in real estate. When should they have gotten started? When should you (if you haven’t) get started investing in real estate? Now. People say they have 'reasons' why they don't invest. I want you to realize something, here and now: all of these ‘reasons’ are in fact excuses. Here's why…
#1 Mistake New Investors Make: Don’t Wait too Long to Get Started Now- Part II
Fear of failure and fear of success in real estate investing are extremely important topics. Since we as human beings almost always act in a manner that is consistent with the image we see of ourselves (our self-concept), instead of taking the actions to achieve success to get started in real estate investing, many times we can self-sabotage ourselves. If you want to make a success of real estate investing, you have to stop that!
#1 Mistake New Investors Make: Don’t Wait too Long to Get Started Now- Part III
Investors almost invariably share one universal belief— they wish they had started earlier. If they had started earlier, whether six months earlier, a year, 5 years or more, they all realize that they would be much wealthier and more successful today. Something held you back in the past? Here’s how you get started investing in real estate right now.
9 Ways to Hold the Room: Better Public Speaking Skills
At one point or another, those of us in business are called upon to do some public speaking. The way we present ourselves is important because it is representative of who we are, our competencies, and how people will view our businesses— thus the quest to attain and refine better public speaking skills is an important one. That said, here are some simple rules to help you better your public speaking skills and give you better presentations, and thus, better results in your business.
Approach pre-foreclosure real estate investing from a service mentality
If you’re already doing pre-foreclosures, I’m going to remind you of something you intuitively know but may not have not consistently APPLIED- and that's the point, is it not? And if you haven’t done any pre-foreclosure real estate investing before, I think you’ll find this tip very useful and I’m glad you found it before doing your first deal.
A Review of Adriana Dodge Book A Millionaire's Real Estate Secret
No fluff, no filler, just a simple single real estate investing technique spelled out from soup to nuts. If you're looking for an encyclopedia of real estate knowledge or a bunch of motivational mumbo-jumbo, you won't find it in A Millionaire's Real Estate Secret. What you will find is the correct mindset, organizational system, steps, forms, paperwork, and guidelines to easily complete a "subject to" house-buying transaction with no cash and no credit— and build a business doing more deals if you so choose.
Buy a Cheap Real Estate Investing Course: How to Waste Your Time and Money
Did you ever buy a cheap real estate investing course? It almost seems like anyone who has bought one of those $39 infomercial courses on television can suddenly become an expert with just a thousand bucks in their pocket by hiring a ghostwriter to put together an Ebook or some worthless rehashed junk supposedly on how to invest in real estate. This makes me REALLY mad, real estate investors. I got myself all frustrated and angry today over nothing. Here's why…
Is investing in condos still lucrative? Consider a 112 unit apartment complex I recently examined. The answer to this question lies only in the condo project or conversion you’re looking at, as well as in analyzing and understanding the market trend. Before I give you the key areas to analyze how to invest in condo conversions deals like a pro, let’s lay the foundation.
Find Direction in Life and Real Estate Investing- Create Your Success Roadmap
How do you find direction in your life and in your real estate investing? The direction is found when you begin creating your own success roadmap. Use these steps to get going in the right direction.
Flipping Houses: Flipping Homes for Quick Cash
Learn how to flip houses for quick cash. A basic overview of the business of flipping houses. Is it legal? Can the average person really make a living flipping homes starting with no cash, no credit and no fix up work? Are the big companies going to take over the business? All this and more.
Before you do ANYTHING ELSE, it’s important that you create a special folder in your email program to store the landslide of free information on real estate investing and real estate investing tips you’re about to receive. Open a new folder in your email program and title it: ‘!Real Estate Investing Newsletters’. This way, once all the free information on real estate investing begins to flow into your email inbox you can sort it and access it later and more importantly find it when you need to apply it!
Getting Started Now in Real Estate Investing- 2 Exercises to Find the Money and the Time
The most important factor when you’re looking at getting started in real estate investing, is to get started right and to get started right now— in that order. No one can make you get started right now in real estate investing, but at least I can help you put together the plan to get started right by helping you find the money and find the time you already have right now.
God and Real Estate— When You’re His, It’s Yours
God entrusts us with His estate so we must be good financial stewards. Real estate is a great way to prove our worthiness to handle more financial responsibilities as God's stewards on earth. Can He trust YOU?
Gold Mine Ads Explained: Marketing for Real Estate Investors
Let’s say you want to lease option or rent-to-own that house, ok? It wouldn't hurt to have three dozen names, emails, phone numbers and "I'm looking for"s you harvested running Lease Option ads the LAST recent time you had a live LO deal...would it? That is a simple strategy for lease option buyer marketing. Here’s how you can do it to find anyone you need to find, faster, and easier whether it’s lease option buyers, private lenders, tenants, or partners by using real estate gold mine ads.
Government Foreclosure Bailout: A Good Idea?
Is a government foreclosure bailout a good idea? If this were almost anything else in a capitalist system but the “American Dream” (i.e. homeownership) we’re talking about with a government bailout by protecting or legislating, for me the answer would be a simple and short: NO. But for me it’s not so cut and dry when thinking of a government foreclosure bailout. Here’s why…
Group Real Estate Investing Tips: Before you Invest with a Real Estate Group Do These 8 Key Things
History has proven again and again that the people who thrive are the ones who work together. Have you ever considered the power of working together to invest with a group? Group real estate investing can maximize financial leverage. Often, the kinds of deals that provide the BEST dollar-for-dollar return in real estate are multi-million dollar deals…so how does the average investor get some of that money? Without shouldering the huge debt service themselves? Well, it’s often possible when you invest with a group in real estate. Just watch out for these 8 key factors before you invest with a real estate group.
He Who Hesitates Waits and Waits and Waits- Get Started Now Investing
Procrastination steals our dreams. Here’s how you get started right now. If you think "I can’t" then you MUST do it, whatever it is. He who hesitates waits and waits and waits. Bottom line: real estate investing and procrastination don't mix. Here's how you overcome procrastination and get started now investing in real estate
How the Foreclosure Process Works
Understanding how the foreclosure process works is pivotal to profiting in the foreclosure market. When and how you look to acquire foreclosure properties will be determined by your resources, how much if any legwork you're willing to do, your location (unless you're open-minded to buying outside your backyard), and your investment goals. Keep that in mind as you read this article taking you through the typical foreclosure process.
How to Find Good Real Estate Deals- The Gold Mine of Information that is your Garbage Man
Take a few moments and plan out your strategy for finding great real estate investments by gaining the attention, cooperation and loyalty of integral pieces to the real estate investing puzzle: the people you never talk to that you see every single day. These people hold the keys to your fortune (even if they drive a garbage truck).
The question I want to consider in this article is: “How can you come across to pre-foreclosure sellers as honest when you sometimes have to use the same invasive pre-foreclosure tactics (i.e. public records searches; blind mail-outs; intrusive door-to-door knocking; offensive “bandit” road signs) to FIND these motivated sellers so you can help them solve their problems when there are so many investor sharks out there who do NOT have integrity? Assuming, of course, that you ARE honest...
Money Seeds: Plant Them or Lose Them
“Money”…What is the definition of money? What is money to YOU? Chances are your thoughts toward money have a lot to do with how you feel (your emotion) and less to do with what you believe or know. So many people have an irrational emotional attachment to money. Has anyone ever taught you how to understand it?
There are Three Common Ways To Buy Foreclosures<
Dealing directly with a homeowner in default, which is known as a pre-foreclosure investing, probably rates number one on the list. These are the good deals that will show the most profit. But it's not the only way to acquire foreclosure properties!
Tulips and Tract Homes: Learning from the biggest mania of all
Speculative bubbles, such as those in real estate and dot-com stocks, have happened through history. The tulip mania that bloomed in 1630s Holland showed the way.
Wholsaling Houses: $10,000 in 30 Days and Six Figures in Six Months
Quick cash - it is possible to turn a property around anywhere from 7 to 45 days and get cash in your pocket. If you need to get your hands on some cash quickly, this would be a reason to wholesale.
Links to Get Involved Further with HIS Network
Buy Foreclosure Homes at a Discount
Wholsaling Houses Tips and Group Buyer
How to Buy Preconstruction Real Estate Now
Invest Passively in Commercial Real Estate