Finding Real Estate Investment Deals

There are an endless number of ways to find deals, some work better than others, and the more creative you can be, the better you will be at finding deals.  Your biggest stepping stone will be recognizing when a deal IS a deal, and that will come through time and continued education.  Looking back, I [...]

Evaluating Your Investment

This is something that will take a bit of time to perfect as you continue to learn how to do your real estate investing business. The MORE you evaluate deals, the BETTER you will get. First, you want to have a general idea of the market in that area, and looking at FSBO’s (For Sale [...]

Smart Ways To Save On Your Mortgage

As with most homeowners, your mortgage payment is probably your largest monthly expense. Wouldn’t it be nice to trim this huge cost and perhaps shorten the life of your loan? We have listed seven tips below to help save you money on your mortgage. The ideas below are based on this hypothetical mortgage example (savings [...]

Finding Real Estate Investment Opportunities

With home prices and mortgage rates at the lowest in decades,Real Estate Investment Opportunities are waiting to be found. It’s no surprise that folks with money to spend are jumping into the investment market. real estate investors are buying three houses for every one house bought by someone for their personal use. And it’s a [...]

Paying Off Your Mortgage Faster

Paying off your mortgage might sound like an ambitious New Year’s resolution, especially if you have recently refinanced into a 30-year term. But it’s still smart for homeowners to give some thought as to how they’ll pay off their home loan — if not in 2012, then sometime soon. An early mortgage payoff can net [...]

Getting Out of Debt in 2012

To help yourself out of the mire of debt, be it credit cards or the bigger and often more frightening type: student debt. And while nothing is ever a sure-fire thing (especially when it comes to money), just remember that what’s listed below isn’t a miracle cure, but rather little steps in a smarter, more [...]

Finding And Being The Best Real Estate Partner

1. Communication If you have a partner make sure he or she can speak clearly enough so that you can understand them, and the same goes for you. Not knowing what your partner is saying or what you are saying half the time is not a good way to do business with each other or [...]

Money Management in Real Estate Investment

Did it have a profound significance to your current life situation? Let me share with you my recent experience in reading an old gem, The Art of Getting Money by P.T. Barnum. I had read the book at least a dozen years ago, but didn’t remember any of the content. As I opened the book [...]

Invest For Cash Flow Or Capital Gain?

Like most Australian investors, you probably use the old tried and true buy and hold model, and purchase properties that are usually negatively geared. This means that you might be losing money each month. This might not be an issue for you; like most buy and hold investors, you probably invested for capital gain. Your [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to Flipping Houses

If you’re dreaming of making money in real estate, it’s time to stop dreaming and get to work, because making money in real estate isn’t just a vague pipe dream. It can be done, even by a young and inexperienced person, when you learn how to “flip” houses. A friend of mine, we’ll call her Tai, [...]

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