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Wholesaling Real Estate - An awesome question from a reader…
2007-11-20 20:00:00
Hello all! Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I’m getting excited.  I love the holidays… there’s just something about how the holidays make you feel that I can’t get enough of. Anyhow, this morning we got a great question from a reader about wholesaling real estate.  Just like I was when I was first looking for real estate investing information… this reader is frustrated and confused with the whole process. I could tell this reader needed a little push… so I sat down this morning and typed up a response (way longer than I initially intended).  If you are at all looking at wholesaling real estate or just getting going in real estate investing, you’re going to want to read this post.  Enjoy! —————&mdash ;—————&mdas h; The Reader’s Wholesaling Real Estate Question : “hi my name is latasha i’m a new real estate investor and every time i think i’m on ...
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#2 Most Important Element to Real Estate Investing Success?
2007-11-13 20:27:00
Just like with anything, there is more than one element that goes into making it a success.  For instance, with sports… the elements that make a successful athlete include: Practice Natural ability Mental mindset With lets say… cooking… a successful cook is often made by elements that include: Palette sensitive to taste Practice Systems set up that enable the food to be reproduced Well, ...
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6 steps to success - achieving your goals one step at a time
2007-11-05 23:10:00
Do you want to know one of the easiest and most effective “tricks” to getting more done and staying on track to your goals? I’m sure you do… Now, this “trick” works extremely well for many people and not so well for others.  The ones it works well for are the ones that actually use it :-)  I’m not sure ...
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Self Improvement Tip of The Week - Discover your passion for life?
2007-10-29 18:39:00
If I were to sit down with you and ask you to tell me what you passion for life was… would you truly be able to articulate what your true passion is?  Do you life your passion right now?  Odds are that you don’t.  Most people don’t.  I’m still young and by no means proclaim to come ...
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The real way to build wealth in real estate investing?
2007-10-20 20:02:00
For the past 4 or 5 years everyone has been jumping on the “flipping” and rehabbing bandwagon because of the late night infomercials. “I made $45,000 on this flip that took me 3 weeks with no money of my own!” “In just 90 days I found and wholesaled this 23 unit building for a $93,000 profit!” blah… blah… ...
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Capital Gains Tax Rates - State by State
2007-10-18 14:35:00
One of the “unknowns” in the real estate investing world is the topic of caital gains… in particular… the capital gains tax rates that you and are are subject to. Truthfully… I’m not sure why I didn’t write a post about this earlier… afterall, I come from the world of tax planning and am the VP ...
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Don?t quit 5 minutes before the miracle? WOW!
2007-10-17 08:37:00
This morning I was reading my fellow real estate investing bloggers latest post (thanks jp at flipping homes) and came across an amazingly inspirational video. I know from time to time (actually today I felt this feeling a bit…) I get a bit discouraged and feel like it’s just easier to go half ass at whatever ...
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Real Estate Flipping ? Is Flipping Real Estate the best way to start in rea
2007-10-09 22:59:00
?Flip This House?, ?Flip That House?, ?Property Ladder?,? and on and on? Over the past 2 years you and I have been hit hard on the television with real estate flipping shows that show you these people making outrageous profits flipping homes and making it look easier than heck. Is this real?  Well? sure it is.  ...
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The Countdown Begins?
2007-10-05 09:19:00
You’ve probably noticed lately that we haven’t been posting as many articles are we usually do… … there’s a good reason… we promise! For the past 30 days, we’ve been working in our secret REI lab to turn The REI Brain into the worlds top real estate investing success resource.  Key in on one word in the previous ...
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Building a Team: A must for rental property owners - Part 1
2007-10-03 01:43:00
One thing I learned the hard way (a few times) that I am just now getting the hang of is the importance of building a solid team when owning investment rental properties.  Let me ask you a question or two first… Do you own a rental property? Do you do all of the work, maintenance, book keeping, property ...
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Quick 30 second lesson for all of you landlords out there?
2007-09-20 22:02:00
If you are a landlord, income property owner… whatever you want to call yourself… here’s a little tip that I hope you are following right now. I just filled one of my vacancies last week .  I’ve only had a total of about 7 days of vacancy in all of my properties over the past 2 ...
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Self Improvement Tip of the Week - Do you believe in luck?
2007-09-11 08:29:00
As a real estate investor in todays real estate markets, many people say that you have to be lucky to be successful.  Is this true? Well, I think that there is a small degree of “luck” involved in parts of any businesses success.  I mean, often times people are in the right time at the right place ...
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Self Improvement Tip of the Week: Are you going to be disappointed?
2007-08-27 16:31:00
Are you going to be disappointed 20,30,40 years from now?   ”Why what do you mean Trevor? When you look back on your life 20 years from now… … will you be disappointed with what you’re looking at? Of course, right now you’ll hope that you won’t be disappointed.  >>> LET’S FACE THE COLD HARD FACTS <<< Listen to this, and listen ...
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Part 2: August 2007 Real Estate Market Statistics Report
2007-08-24 22:32:00
  Here we are for Part 2 of the August 2007 Real Estate Market Statistics Report …  If this is your first time having a chance to take a look at our monthly real estate market reports, you may be a bit confused at what you are seeing.  Everyone has to start somewhere (I know I didn’t have a ...
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August 2007 Local Real Estate Market Research
2007-08-24 21:53:00
  Hello fellow real estate investor… August has come and almost gone… way too fast.  I apologize about not getting this out to you sooner, but here it is… The August 2007 Real Estate Market Statistics Report - Part 1 As always, ...
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Self Improvement Tip of the Week: There is no happiness without action?
2007-08-13 14:00:00
Remember this little quote… “Action does not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action” That little statement is a lot more profound than you may think.  Everyone knows that “action does not always bring happiness”.  Afterall, if every action brought happiness we would all have 100% success rates at everything that we take action in. That ...
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Don?t give up? don?t ever give up? - Tony Robbins on Stallone
2007-08-13 01:32:00
There are several websites and blogs that I check out from time to time.  Today, I was checking out the latest from the Flippinghomes blog by JP… … first off… this blog is only about a week old, but it is shaping up to become one of the top shelf real estate investing blogs out there.  ...
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The 1031 exchange as a real estate investing tool?
2007-08-07 16:01:00
As a real estate investor you most definetely have (or shoud have!) heard of the 1031 exchange. If you haven’t heard of a 1031 exchange, I would suggest studying up on this capital gains deferral strategy even if you don’t plan to use it in the near future. I may be biased, because I love leverage, but ...
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Tax Consequences of a ?Short Sale? of Real Estate vs. Foreclosure
2007-08-05 01:59:00
This is one topic that many real estate investors are very confused with and truly don’t understand. With the recent rash of foreclosures and a flood of “real estate investors” running out to do short sales on these properties… real estate investors truly need to know what the implications of a short sale vs. a foreclosure ...
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Melting mortgage industry - American Home Mortgage shuts down?
2007-08-03 06:46:00
As many of you have already hear, one of the well established “Alt-A” lenders in the U.S. recently announced that they are shutting their doors.  Wow!   This market is getting weirder and weirder every second!  It’ll be interesting to see what the heck the mortgage and real estate markets will look like in 12 months time.  Back ...
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Self Improvement tip of the week: Do ONE brave thing today?
2007-08-02 15:39:00
Many of you don’t know, but we call this website “The REI (real estate investors) Brain” for a reason…. actually two reasons. It will become the single largest source for unbiased real estate investing information, advice, etc. anywhere in the world.  It is the brain when it comes to the real estate investing world. Most real estate ...
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Subject to question and answers - How to invest subject to:
2007-08-01 08:11:00
Since we have been on the investing in real estate Subject To topic lately, there have been a couple questions that we have been answering for new investors. I always think that for every person who asks a question, there are 1000 who are afraid to ask the same question… so hope these answers to real ...
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Update on the The REI Brain blog?
2007-07-27 09:09:00
I’m heading off to bed after completing some quick changes to the The Real Estate Investors Brain blog.  Here’s just a quick note on what was changed and added.  Take a look.  We made these changes to make it a lot easier for you to find the articles you are looking for and it will increase ...
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Local real estate markets 2007 - Which markets are still hot?: H-M
2007-07-26 19:58:00
Okay… okay… now you can stop pounding down my door about getting this second batch of local real estate market statistics out. As you can see, there are many nice looking markets around the U.S. to invest in.  In particular, the Biloxi Mississippi area is still hot and the “Go Zone” incentives still apply.  As always, these ...
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Local real estate markets 2007 - Which markets are still hot?
2007-07-25 22:31:00
As you know, there is a ton of doom and gloom out there regarding the national real estate market.  Some say the market has hit the bottom and is looking for the right time to jump back up…  others say the market is far from the bottom… and yet others say there is absolutely nothing wrong ...
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New design! - Let us know what you think?
2007-07-25 05:40:00
Just went live with our new design.  This one is a little more clean, fun, airy, and… just down right better. What do you think? Is there something that you would change? Want the font to be bigger? Don’t like the colors? Like something else? Let us know! I’d truly appreciate any type of comments you may have.
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New design! - Let us know what you think…
2007-07-25 05:40:00
Just went live with our new design.  This one is a little more clean, fun, airy, and… just down right better. What do you think? Is there something that you would change? Want the font to be bigger? Don’t like the colors? Like something else? Let us know! I’d truly appreciate any type of comments you may have.
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Advice from a real estate investor on the streets - Purchasing Subject To
2007-07-24 15:13:00
Once being a ”newbie” real estate investor myself, I know how valuable hearing advice directly from a real person actually using the strategy is to the education process.  Josh Houghton, from the Real Life Real Estate Blog (which we reviewed a little while back) was nice enough to share a bit of his real life experience and expertise in purchasing real estate “Subject To” with us. We hope to make guest posts from actual real estate investors on the ground doing this everyday a regular thing on this blog.  Afterall, the best way to learn something is to learn it from someone who is actually doing it… and doing it successfully. Look for the bold phrases for the priceless nuggets that you REALLY NEED to retain. Here we go!  ======================= Josh Houghton on Investing in Real Estate  Subject To: First off, I just want to say that Trevor’s post on purchasing real estate Subject To method was an excellent resource for investors and ...
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Advice from a real estate investor on the streets - Purchasing Subject To
2007-07-24 15:13:00
Once being a ”newbie” real estate investor myself, I know how valuable hearing advice directly from a real person actually using the strategy is to the education process.  Josh Houghton, from the Real Life Real Estate Blog (which we reviewed a little while back) was nice enough to share a bit of his real life experience and expertise in purchasing real estate “Subject To” ...
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Best real estate investing blogs - Review: Insider Secrets From a Successf
2007-07-20 13:12:00
Here we go! Part two of our Real Estate Blog review series. This next blog is one of the real estate investing blogs with a high Google PageRank… so it is a pretty popular site. Worth checking into. The blog is called: Insider Secrets From a Successful Real Estate Investor I found this site by going to Google and typing in “Real Estate Investing blogs”. This blog piqued my interest so I clicked on through. At first glance, just by looking at the titles of the posts I saw that this blog has some good content in it. Titles like: - Finding Your Investment Property - How to use FHA Loans to Invest In Your Home - Stocks vs. Real Estate Investing They are very specific post topics and he puts his voice into the writing very well. One excellent part about this blog is that it is very easy to find the information you are looking for. There is one question that I have about this blog though… there aren’t a whole lot of posts… yet it is in the first hal...
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