Topic: Real Estate Investing - General
Selling in a Down Market: What can I do? It’s in the news day after day about how bad the real estate market is across the country. Available supplies are rising, builders are cutting back, the sub-prime mess, prices are dropping, etc, etc. We both know that while many areas in our country are experiencing challenged real estate markets not every market does. Real estate is local...
Soft markets: Investing in real estate has changed in many markets in our country. If you are like me, you live in a real estate market that has gone soft. There are still some areas in the country where homes are appreciating nicely, but nothing like it was just a year or two ago...
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Topic: Real Estate Investing - Lease Options
Lease Options and Subject To's, aka “Getting the Deed” are two very popular ways to purchase real estate with little or no money down. Acquiring investment real estate can be handled with many different approaches, but these two techniques can be implemented with little or no money down in most incidences.
Lease Purchase Investing: Lease Purchase investing can be a very lucrative method to invest in real estate, however, it should be used with caution.
Lease Options: Part 1 Little or No Money Down Techniques: Lease Options are becoming quite the buzz word lately. Years ago it was harder for me to get Realtors to even consider a Lease Option for their clients. Today, markets all across the country have changed. Lease Options are currently a viable industry trend and needed for many sellers to sell their homes.
Lease Options: Part 2 Little or No Money Down Techniques: The conclusion!
Topic: Real Estate Investing - Subject To's (Get the Deed)
The Top 10 Objections Sellers have to “Subject To” Most people get nervous about dealing with objections from the sellers. They worry that if they don’t have the right answer they will lose the deal. Here’s the thing with seller objections, if a seller is raising objections and asking questions it means they are seriously thinking about giving you their home Subject To.
Topic: Legal Advice
The need for a Pre-Paid Legal Plan: Pre-Paid Legal is something that all of us should have. We have health, auto, home owners insurance, etc, yet we don’t have legal insurance. Probably your largest expenses as a real estate investor will be your attorney bill. As investors we need attorneys for handling evictions, reviewing contracts, setting up our estate, drafting contracts, etc.
Legal Benefits for Real Estate Investors: Pre-Paid Legal is one of the most overlooked, yet beneficial tool for the Real Estate investor. There is no question that investors need quality attorneys that are available to answer unlimited questions on any subject matter, i.e., real estate questions, taxation, interpretations of laws and usury rates, just to name a few.
Why Do You Need Pre-Paid Legal as an Investor? In your investing career how many times have you thought to yourself, “I’d like to have an attorney look at this but I don’t want to spend the money?,” or “I think this is the law, but it would be nice if I could ask an attorney to find out for sure?
