Global Cash Flow – Real Estate Financing’s Newest Buzz Words

Global Cash Flow – Real Estate Financing’s Newest Buzz Words There is nothing worse than finding just the right investment property that you know will make you great income, only to have the opportunity fall through because you got turned down for financing.  It’s even worse when you see someone else pick up the property and make a fortune.  It’s a devastating feeling, but one that real estate investors face every day with all of the changing lending guidelines.You located the … [Read more...]

Writing Your Real Estate Offers with Your Exit Strategy in Mind

Writing Your Real Estate Offers with Your Exit Strategy in MindWhat do exit strategies have to do with your real estate offers?Everything! You always need to begin with the end in mind.It’s a well-known fact that you make your money on a property the day you buy it. If you pay too much initially, there is a very good chance you will lose money in the end. So it’s vital that you know your exit strategy right from the beginning.Your exit strategy will have an effect on a lot of things. It will … [Read more...]

Financing Your First Real Estate Deal: How to Pitch Your New Business to Banks

Financing Your First Real Estate Deal:  How to Pitch Your New Business to BanksWould you lend to two recent college graduates who formed a partnership to invest in real estate, with little starting capital, and no business or real estate background? Just a few short years ago I was one of those college grads, eager to get my real estate investing company off the ground, and as you can imagine, securing financing to purchase our first investment property was a major hurdle. The housing collapse … [Read more...]

Finding Private Money Lenders – How to Find Private Money Lenders

Finding Private Money Lenders Is Not As Hard You Think… Here Are Some Simple Ways To Find Private Money Lenders… Finding Private Money Lenders – How to Find Private Money Lenders is a post from: Real Estate Investing Blog For Real Estate Investors Finding Private Money Lenders – How to Find Private Money Lenders is a post from: Real Estate Investing Blog For Real Estate Investors.Read the full post here... … [Read more...]

Using High Interest Private Financing is Still Better Than Cash

Using High Interest Private Financing is Still Better Than CashWith investors battling a tight credit market, the opportunity to obtain financing for investment properties can often times prove more difficult than expected for some investors. Five years ago many of these same investors had no problem walking into their local lender’s office and getting approved for a loan. Nowadays, it seems like underwriters need a blood sample to approve a loan for an investor (even when that investor could … [Read more...]

10 Critical Steps to Take Before Investing in Real Estate

10 Critical Steps to Take Before Investing in Real EstateAnyone who has ever invested in real estate started somewhere, from the 9-5er who owns a second home and rent it out to pay for their gym membership, to the world-famous toupee-wearer Donald Trump himself. Perhaps the most common question asked among potential real estate investors is “how do I get started” and as with most basic questions there is no simple answer.First you have the old-school, hardcore, Nike motto quoting gunslingers … [Read more...]

Seller Financing – My Best Source For Financing Deals. Period

On to today’s topic … My best source for financing deals. Period. This one will blow you away. And even if you have a general idea of how this works you’ve never seen it work quite like this. It’s called seller financing. It’s true. One of the best sources of financing you can tap into is [...]Seller Financing – My Best Source For Financing Deals. Period is a post from: Real Estate Investing Blog For Real Estate Investors.Read the full post here... … [Read more...]

Buying Real Estate With Cash?

Buying Real Estate With Cash? With today’s unbelievable real estate prices, many investors are simply forgoing traditional financing as well as hard money financing in favor of cash purchases. In fact, many investors are simply converting their retirement accounts to self-directed accounts and paying cash for investment properties through their IRAs, 401Ks, etc. One of the reasons cash purchases have become the norm for many investors is because the price-point of many investment properties … [Read more...]

Long Term Investing And Financing

Long Term Investing And FinancingMany of the real estate investors I talk to these days are buying for the long term hold. In fact, most don’t have a set time-frame in mind, they just know they want to hold properties as long term investments.  But “a long term investment” for one investor might be very different than for another. I think many investors these days consider anything over 7 years as a long term hold (especially when you compare this to the type of appreciation and … [Read more...]

Seller Financing: How Investors Can Get Involved

Seller Financing: How Investors Can Get InvolvedThe housing market is flooded with inventory, which reduces demand for any given house. And mortgage approval rates are down, making it tough for buyers to get financing.Sounds like a rotten situation for sellers and buyers. But not necessarily. Despite these difficulties, it’s possible to get creative with financing – seller financing, that is.Seller financing is simply the seller offering to finance the buyer’s loan. It’s kind of like a … [Read more...]

Applying For A Mortgage Soon? Don’t Open New Credit Cards For Valentine’s Day

Applying For A Mortgage Soon? Don’t Open New Credit Cards For Valentine’s DayValentine’s Day is just two short weeks away.Sales are expected to top $$17.6 billion this year and, already, businesses are vying for shoppers and their dollars. Newspaper circulars are getting larger, and in-store discounting is more prevalent.But one discount that shoppers should think twice about is the popular “Open A Charge Card, [...]Read the full post here... … [Read more...]

Make Agents Your Seller Financing Allies

Make Agents Your Seller Financing AlliesIt’s  a hurdle most real estate investors run into early in their careers….  How to find real estate agents that understand the “unique” offers investors make to seller’s agents. Whether it’s the idea of buying with seller financing or taking an option on a property, most real estate agents have never heard of these transactions because it is not required curriculum for them to acquire a license. This leaves many investors and agents … [Read more...]

Make Your Seller Finance Offers FAR More Appealing

Make Your Seller Finance Offers FAR More AppealingA Friend of mine recently came across the perfect buy and hold Real Estate property. It’s a quality 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house in a good location, and the sellers only owe $20,000 on the property. So why is this the perfect buy and hold property? It is because it’s in a solid neighborhood, the house is in good condition and it’s a bread and butter type house that he’ll be able to fill with families for the next 30 years. When he told me … [Read more...]

The World of A Seller Financed Deal

To get your feet wet in the world of a seller financed deal and you are about to sign a lease/option contract with a prospective tenant buyer, you should go through the normal screening process used in a seller financed deal. In the world of a seller financed deal, this means credit reports, background checks, pay stubs, reference checks and any other due diligence that gives you an accurate profile of your prospective buyer. (You can also google, http://www.google.com, seller financed deal, … [Read more...]