28 | Successful Apartment Ownership Starts With a Solid Team – Part Three

In a previous article, I introduced the idea of having a team around you to help build your apartment empire. Let me quickly remind you that having a good professional team is recommended for any kind of real estate investing. Just to recap, some of the essential team members that you’ll want to have in place include: more…

27 | Flip Your Way into Long-Term Holdings in Real Estate – Part Two

Two of the three primary reasons to be a real estate investor are quick cash and long-term wealth. The reality will set in at some point that you can make a lot of quick cash in real estate but it also will not make you wealthy. Wealth comes from investing in appreciating assets and letting your investments work for you. Real estate offers this opportunity but only if you hold some of the properties in which you invest. This usually requires capital so where is it going to come from? more…

21 | Flip Your Way into Long-Term Holdings in Real Estate – Part One

Two of the three primary reasons to be a real estate investor are quick cash and long-term wealth. The third, monthly income is a byproduct of good investments and is a topic unto itself so I’ll be discussing it more in a separate series of articles. In this article, I’ve linked quick cash and long-term wealth pursuits in real estate because they are more closely linked than you might think.
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13 | Flipping Houses- A Proven Way to Profit From the Current Foreclosure Market

When real estate investors evaluate their options for securing deals and making profits, there are several things that may come to mind. Whether its owning rental properties, flipping houses in disrepair, or buying foreclosures, investing is still based on similar principles, such as seller motivation.
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27 | Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Make Some REAL Money

Everyone has a comfort level in which they live and work. That level is determined by several factors and can be changed with practice and time. We have a choice of what we do each day, how we spend our time and how much money we make. This may come as a surprise to some people who are convinced their income is someone else’s choice, not theirs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your income is the result of one thing and one thing only…. more…

08 | Fixing Up Your Little Rental House

Should you just put lipstick on the pig?

As more investors dive into the “distressed” market of buying little houses, they are faced with the question of how much money to sink back into the property before renting it or re-marketing it. There are a number of schools of thought on this, but there are some basic tenets that you can apply to your decision process. more…