More Free Bandit Sign Stands than You Can Handle How would you like to get all of the free bandit sign stands you can handle for an entire year? I mean seriously, enough to line a major highway for miles. Legally, even. Well, every year right after the local elections, simply call the campaign headquarters for the local candidates and ask if you can take the signs up for free in order to keep the Read More
There are many places where you can put out bandit signs for real estate. Not only can you put them out on stands near the road, on the highway or in front of your property, but I have businesses that allow me to put them in their window and I either pay them rent, a property commission, or per lead. Partnerships Aren’t Only with Other Investors Always keep some signs in your car and stop Read More
Let’s talk about some more successful marketing strategies. Marketing is, as I mentioned in another article, basically anything that makes the phones ring. Here is a quick tip. If you have voicemail where callers responding to your marketing can leave a message, be sure to ask them to also leave their email address and to speak clearly. This way you can go ahead and put them in your database even if you can never get Read More
Here is how you can start any type of marketing campaign with absolutely no cash or credit. Yes, you can get all of your marketing for free. Although it will take a little effort on your part, once you set this up you will be able to simply run your campaigns 100% cost free. Here is how it works. Simply contact any business who would like to market in certain neighborhoods or to homeowners specifically Read More
I’d rather have ten ways to get one lead than one way to get ten leads. That’s very important. If you’re only relying on one source, you’re not going to get many calls. We get 10-15 calls per day from different marketing efforts. In this snippet from the Ultimate Buying & Selling Machine, you’ll find different methods to locate deals and generate leads. When putting this course together I went through every course I own Read More
When you are analyzing a property, I want you to keep in mind that you do not invest your money in Real Estate. Sure, you may write a check initially or you may put a down payment down for a loan; but you are eventually either going to sell that property, re-finance it or get your cash back. So remember, you are not going to invest your own cash long term in real estate. You Read More
Let’s talk about luxury homes for a minute as I get a lot of inquiries about investing in them. A luxury home, by definition, will vary depending on the area. In Orange County, California where the median priced home is almost $800,000.00, a home would have to be at least several million dollars to be classified as a luxury home, in my opinion. Where as in my area the median priced home is in the Read More
When buying a property, in my market, I need to be in it at no more than 70% including purchase, rehab and closing costs. Fix it up, re-finance it at 75% to 85% loan to value, and pull out the cash, which by the way is Tax Free cash, as you don’t pay tax on borrowed money. Then you can rent the property out at a positive cash flow and have Tax Free cash in Read More
Retiring? Invest in real estate When a person reaches a particular age where he or she ceases working, it is the stage of retirement. Such stage usually materializes when a particular person arrives at a pre-determined age, where physical aging prevents a person to render his work and services to the community or anywhere else. There are also people who quit employment based on their own decisions. This could be for a number of reasons Read More
Identify the ways to flip a property Flipping real estate is a buzz term that has come screaming into mainstream media in the last few years. Its growing popularity is evident by the magazine articles, TV shows and Average Joe teams trying to break into the business. Is it easy? What is it? How does it work? Flipping real estate simply means purchasing or acquiring a property then reselling it quickly while attempting to earn Read More