What’s In Your Real Estate Purchase Contract? How wordy do you need to be when purchasing a property? Some purchase offer contracts can run into the dozens of pages. I find the opposite works better for me. I currently use simple and concise contract language that fits on about one page when I wish to make an offer on a property. This contract language has evolved over the years and I use it for several reasons.It keeps things simple.Keeping it simple sometimes makes the deal.I can … [Read more...]
Real Estate Investing Without Cash: Leasing Your Credit
September 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Real Estate Investing Without Cash: Leasing Your Credit Rather than re-hash the same “getting started in real estate without cash” article, I thought I would take my post in a different direction.Let me explain. . .A few weeks ago, Todd, a former co-worker, and I went out to dinner. During our meal, the topic of real estate investing came up. Todd shared that he had wanted to invest in real estate, but just never had enough capital to get started. I asked him why he let money stand … [Read more...]
Real Estate Investors: What If Property Values Don’t Increase?
August 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Real Estate Investors: What If Property Values Don’t Increase? Property values always go up.Or at least that’s what people believed.For years, values have consistently climbed higher and higher at an average rate of around 5% per year. Real estate investors rely heavily on price appreciation to maximize their investment for the future. I know that I personally hope my properties will continue to climb in value for many years and I’ll be able to retire before I hit thirty-five.But what … [Read more...]
Building Trust With Private Money Partners
August 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Building Trust With Private Money PartnersUnless you have loads of cash on hand, you’re probably interested in finding and securing private money partners. So in the spirit of this month’s topic on trust, let’s spend some time on building trust with private money partners. 1. Have a Portfolio Because you’re asking for a large sum of money, having a portfolio or resume can go a long way towards building confidence in you and your REI business. Your REI portfolio could include things … [Read more...]
Raising Private Money – Debt or Equity Partners
May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Raising Private Money – Debt or Equity PartnersWhen you are ready to start raising private money for your real estate deals, there are two different types of private money partners you can look for: debt partners and equity partners. Both can help you raise all the money you need to fund your real estate deals, but they work very differently. In this article we’re going to take a look at both debt and equity partners. We’ll explore how they are different and why you would use each to … [Read more...]
Successful Investing while Holding a Full Time Job – Key #5: Focusing on Leverage
April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Successful Investing while Holding a Full Time Job – Key #5: Focusing on LeverageBy completing the previous Key to Successful Real Estate Investing while Working Full Time you should have a good understanding of what is “Core” to your business and what is “Context”. Remember “Context” should be outsourced to other team members and “Core” are items you complete.With this you now have some things to focus on and at the top of this list is Leverage.Leverage Time, Dollars and … [Read more...]
IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust Beneficiary
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust BeneficiaryShould you put your personal residence in a Land Trust?IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust Beneficiary is a post from: Real Estate Investing Blog For Real Estate Investors.Read the full post here... … [Read more...]
IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust Beneficiary
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust BeneficiaryShould you put your personal residence in a Land Trust?IRS Section 121 And The Land Trust Beneficiary is a post from: Real Estate Investing Blog For Real Estate Investors.Read the full post here... … [Read more...]
Equity Investors and the Economy?
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Equity Investors and the Economy? On September 7, Kerry Curry wrote an interesting article on Housing Wire entitled “New Normal Means a Lot More Pain to Come.” I read the article, which addresses our existing housing market. In it, an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis discusses how our “new normal” in housing is marked by 2% to 3% growth rates, more frequent recessions, and decreased consumer spending. The article also states that equity investors who can purchase … [Read more...]
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