Real Estate Investment Articles

1031 Exchange - (1) The Tax-Deferred 1031 Exchange

Advertising, Marketing - (7) Finding Deals Finding Motivated Sellers: Luck or Hard Work? How to Dominate a Market with Low Cost Postcards How to Get Your Marketing Message Out All Year How to Mail Postcards for 12 Cents Each Marketing: Best Return on Investment Why Should You Develop a Marketing Strategy?

Appraisals - (2) Not Just Price The Art of the Residential CMA

Asset Protection - (13) Are All Your Assets at Risk? Bulletproof Your Wealth with Family Limited Partnerships and LLC's Choice of Entity 101 Get That Property Out of Your Name! How to Choose the Proper Entity for Your Business Personal Property Trusts The Equity Holding Trust Transfer™ (PacTrust™ and NEHTrust™) The Limited Liability Company...The Time is Now The New Limited Liability Company The Role of Insurance in Asset Protection Planning Top Ten Ways to Get Sued - Guaranteed! Using Trusts for Personal & Business Privacy Using Trusts to Own Real Estate

Bird Dog - (2) Bird-Dogging 101 What's the Best Way to Get Started?

Closing - (7) A True, and Humorous, Real Estate Investing Tale Cash at Closing Closing the Deals Finding Hidden Costs on Your Closing Statement How Do I Prepare for Closing? How to Save Up to 90% on Title Insurance When Is Escrow Considered Open?

Commercial - (14) Analyzing Commercial Real Estate: Due Diligence Commercial Real Estate Opportunities Condo Hotel Trends Condo Hotels Offer Luxury and Great Investment Potential Due Diligence: How to Find the Stuff You Need Getting Raw Land How To Become Wealthier, Faster Investing In Real Estate How To Create Massive Passive Income Without Hassling With A Single Tenant Investor Creates $11,472 A Month Passive Income On First Deal with No Money Down! Know Your Zoning The 5 Money Making Advantages Of Multi-Unit Investing The Benefits of Fractional Ownership in Private Residence Clubs Thinking Like A Developer What's it Worth? Deriving YOUR Capitalization Rate

Fair Housing - (12) Advertising and Fair Housing - Forget About Freedom of Speech Communicating with People with Disabilities Do I Have to Lease to This Jerk? Fair Housing Q&A Good News for Apartment Owners from the Supreme Court Mental Illness and Fair Housing Laws - They Don't Mix Easily Occupancy Standards - Time to Review Your Policy Prepare to Defend Reasonable Accomodation for Caregivers Reasonable Modification and Accomodation Responding to the Fair Housing Complaint Wheeling and Dealing Within the Confines of the Fair Housing Act

Financing, Hard Money - (14) 10% Savings on Acquisition Cost 6 Ways to Raise All the Cash You'll Ever Need for Doing Deals Hard Money Loans vs. Conventional Investor Loans Increase Your Income by Offering Private Mortgage Financing Mortgage Broker vs. Mortgage Banker Mortgage Brokers and Short Term Money Part 1 - What Exactly is a Hard Money Lender Anyway? Part 2 - Finding Hard Money Lenders Part 3 - Profiting from your Hard Money Lenders Private Mortgage Loans Provide a Short-Term Financing Alternative Ray Alcorn 100% Financing: Feeding the Desire to Acquire Understanding Loan Terms Understanding The Mortgage Loan Market Why Most Real Estate Investors Fail

Flipping Properties, Wholesaling - (21) An Offer a Day Keeps the Bill Collectors Away Building and Cultivating a Buyer List Building the Ultimate Wholesale Buyer's List Ethics in Wholesaling Finding and Working With A Good Real Estate Agent Flipping is Illegal Flipping Properties for Cash Profit Getting Around The Non-assignability Clause! How to Cash in on the Wholesale Real Estate Market Investing in Hot Markets It Takes Money to Make Money and Other Big Lies Make Quick Cash Profits Nine Steps to Quick Cash: The Anatomy of a Wholesale Flip Quick Cash Profits with Split Funding Strong Buyer’s List For Quick Cash! The Absolute Fastest Way To Stuff your Pockets With Cash! The Only Contingency You Will Ever Need The Wonderful World of Wholesaling Wholesale Houses and QUIT Your Corporate Job Wholesaling Wholesaling Dilemma - Getting Your Buyer Into the House!

Foreclosures, Short Sales - (5) Bank Said No to Short Sale, Now What? Does the Homeowner Still Owe the Bank Money After a Short Sale? Short Sale Secrets The Ultimate Short Sale Technique! What You Need To Know About Short Payoff Sales

General Real Estate - (41) A Quick Formula for Eliminating Non-Deals A Real Estate Stock Plan Alternate Sources of Income and Why You Need Them Are You a Technical Investor? Are You Running Your Business With Blinders On? Avoid "Negative Thinkers" Like The Plague! Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, & Credit - How it Affects You Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, & Credit - Part II Become a Failure and Succeed Past Your Wildest Dreams! Cash Flow Today - The Key To Longevity Creating Additional Income From Real Estate Creative Real Estate Money Making Opportunities Dealing with Real Estate Agents Diary of an Equity Holding Trust Transaction Essential Contract Clauses II Finding Motivated Sellers and Buyers At The Airport Finding the Right Properties - A Mystery Unraveled Five Steps to Success in Whatever You Want From Life! Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Make Some REAL Money Have You had Your Financial Check-Up Lately How Fast is Your Money Moving? How to Calculate Cash Flow How to Create a Real Estate Cash Cow How to Get Comps It's Still Location, Location, Location Multiple Profit System for Real Estate Investments Partnering On Real Estate Deals For The Right Reasons Planning For Success Real Estate Investing Crystal Ball Real Estate Investing in a Rising Rate Environment Real Estate Investing is Just Like Weight Loss Recycle the Real Estate Oink Security vs. Freedom...It\'s Your Choice Should You Do Real Estate Full-Time? That Condominium Will be the Perfect Rental Property The 3 Easiest Ways to Make Money In Real Estate The Salesman Who Doesn't Believe in His Product Two Things You Should be Reading Every Week and Why What's Your Game Plan? Why Some People Are Richer Than Others Your Best Real Estate Decision

Getting Started - (20) 60 Days To Your First Bargain Purchase Advice For New Investors Bad News Is Good News Basics of the Real Estate Contract Building a Pipeline to Wealth: The Cashflow Quadrant Choosing An Attorney Choosing Success Constructing Your Real Estate Success Team Essential Contract Clauses Getting Started Getting Started as a Real Estate Entrepreneur Getting Started Right in Real Estate Investing How to Cherry Pick Great Deals from Your Desk How To Use The Internet To Perform Due Diligence On Real Property Lessons Learned During My Rookie Year Overcoming The “No Money” Pre-Offer Jitters Real Estate Creates Wealth Should I Go or Should I Stay? The Power Within Your Plan of Action

Income Taxes - (8) Daddy's Little Tax Deduction Dealing with the Dealer Issue Defer Taxes Using Contracts for Sale Federal Income Tax 101 For Tax Purposes, What Is The Best Time To Buy My House? Overview of the Tax Changes in the Recently Passed Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 The Capital Gains Recapture Tax Trap You Dealing?

IRA Investing - (6) Buying Real Estate in Your IRA Creative Lending and Profit Splits Using an IRA Self Dealing in Tax Free and Tax Deferred IRA\'s The New Tax Law: Self-Directed Real Estate and Note IRA's and Keogh's The Roth IRA The Roth IRA and Why Most People Should Have One

Landlording - (9) A Recipe for Attracting and Keeping Good Tenants Creating Long Term Income How to Automate Your Collections How to Find Your Local Section 8 Public Housing Authority (PHA) How to Get Your Renters to Think Like Home Buyers How to Get Your Tenants to Stay For at Least Three Years Keeping a Lid on Landlord Troubles Landlording Skills Worth Big Bucks Set Specific Cash Flow Objectives

Lease Options - (8) How to Beat the Tenant Game How to Eliminate Your Biggest Landlording Challenges How to Make an Extra $25,000 On Every Equity Split You Do! Lease Option a Junker! Lease Option Tips & Strategies Lease Option vs. Subject Tos Why Selling on Lease Options is Glorified Landlording Working with Realtors For Lease Options

Low Income Housing - (3) Build a Junker Empire Build a Junker Empire (Part 2) Myths and Realities of Low Income Housing

Mobile Homes - (5) A Little Creativity Can Produce Huge Tax-Free Profits A Perpetual Money Machine How Good Can it Get? Huge Profits From a Part-Time Business Mobile Home Park Star Ratings: Fact or Illusion?

Motivated Sellers - (7) 34 Ways To Find Motivated Sellers 7 Great Ways to Get Sellers to Call You Best Kept Secrets to Get More Motivated Sellers Contacting You Forbearing For Motivated Sellers Motivated Sellers Before The Tax Sale One Tried and True Method To Get Motivated Sellers Calling You Today! Process Servers: Your Hottest Ticket for Finding Motivated Sellers

Negotiating - (24) Ask for More Than You Expect To Get Basic Principles Make You a Smarter Negotiator Good Guy vs. Bad Guy How Time Pressure Affects the Outcome of a Negotiation How to Get Sellers to Deed You Their House How to Get Sellers to Say How To Negotiate Counter Offers How to Negotiate When the Other Person Tells You That They Don't Have the Authority to Decide How to Stop People from Grinding on You in Negotiations It's Time to Get the Deal in Writing Magic Words That Make Millions Maximize Your Efficiency! Screen Those Seller Calls! Negotiating and Sales Skills Are Critical Never Make a Concession Unless You Ask for Something in Return Setting the Climate for a Non-Confrontational Negotiation The Key to Success The Value of a Service Goes Down Quickly To be a Better Bargainer, Bracket Your Objective To Be a More Powerful Negotiator Never Say Yes to the First Offer Want to Get More at the Bargaining Table? What to Do When It's Time to Get It in Writing When You're Negotiating, Money Isn't As Important as You Think Why it's a Mistake to Offer to Split the Difference Writing Offers That Get Accepted

Notes, Paper - (32) 10 Ways to Make 10 Percent Safely 110,000 Profit from a $75,000 Bad Note 26% Yield with No Competition 34 Ways to Improve a Note 4 Ways To Structure A Partial A Free $350,000 House A Loanlord's Lament About Assumptions Be a Paper Pro Creating Marketable Notes Dealing with Defaults Defaulted Paper - Open the Back Door to Opportunity Essential Estoppels Estoppel - Is Balance Verification Important? Favored Fractions Finding the Funding Full Funding Options How to Avoid Risk How to Finance Paper Increasing Your Yield Investing in Real Estate Securities for High Yield Non-Income Verification Loans Now I Know My A, B, C's Paper... Your Most Valuable Tool Passive Real Estate Income Through High-Interest Trust Deeds Passive Real Estate Investments Real Estate Loans - Discounted Paper vs. Hard Money Seller Seconds Simultaneous Closings Realty Vs. Reality Tall Tails The Best Things in Life Are Free Using Paper as a Builder - 8 Powerful Tools

Options - (4) Make Thousands With One Sentence Real Estate Options: What They Are And Why You Should Use Them The Best Types Of Properties To Buy Real Estate Options On The \'Option\' For Motivated Sellers!

Owner Finance - (5) Dealing With the Due on Sale Clause - Part II Goldmine In Offering Financing To Buyer-Occupants How To Check Your Buyers Credit Seller Financing Do's and Dont's There is No Due on Sale Jail

Private Lenders, Money Partners - (2) Create Monthly Cash Flow Without Any of Your Own Money or Credit Partnerships for Real Estate Investing

Probate - (2) Back Door Profits Through Probate Probate: Motivated Sellers and Profits!

Rehabbing - (9) A Good Contractor Complete Home Rehab in 10 Days How To Prevent Yourself From Getting "Cheated" by Contractors How to Rehab Homes for Resale Proper Handling of Contractors Rehabbing a House From Start to Finish The Professional Investors Plan What Is A Bargain Worth What is a Fixer Upper?

Selling Property - (6) 10 Inexpensive Ways to Spruce Up Your Rental or Rehab Property Directionals Move Properties How to Sell or Occupy Your Empty Houses Fast (Part 1) How to Sell or Occupy Your Empty Houses Fast (Part 2) Selling Houses Fast Selling Houses Fast (Part 2)

Subject To (Sub2) - (9) Advanced Subject To Investing Anatomy of a Sub2 Purchase Find All the Subject-To Deals You Can Handle! Frequently Asked Questions About Sub2 How to Overcome the Seller's Objections When Buying Subject-To North Carolina Real Estate Commission Answers Subject To Investing for the Beginner They Told Me I Wouldn’t Need Cash When Buying Subject-To! Yes, the Seller Can Get a New Loan

Tax Liens, Tax Sales - (6) How To Do Due Diligence for Tax Liens How To Prepare For Your First Tax Lien Sale Tax Foreclosure Sales in Texas - Updates To Texas Law! Tax Liens and Tax Deeds - Some Basics for Your Success Tax Sales, Tax Certificates, Tax Deeds: Due Diligence Matters! Why the Stock Market Is Not Necessarily the Answer