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  Wholesaling is a great way to enter the world of real estate investing because you don’t need much capital to begin with. Real estate offers incredible wealth-building opportunities, but for many, it is difficult to get started in because ...

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There are thousands of brilliant ideas for making money out there, but can you execute all of them? Often the simple, understandable plan, well executed, works the best. For our own real estate investment plan, my business partner and I ...

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Indignant is not a very strong adjective.  True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- rage, infuriation, and even exasperation. We all have somewhat unique ...

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Many of us have vague notions (mostly secondhand, or worse, so dislocated from the source that we cannot begin to gauge their authenticity) of the best time of year to buy or sell a home (two sides of the same ...

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I’ve been involved in a lot of negotiations, and read a lot of books on the subject.  There is a basic principal of negotiation that is fundamental- that is- below the level of tactics and techniques.  In fact, it doesn’t ...

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Here are two more words instrumental to a sound grasp of the principles that will speed you along your journey to success in Real Estate Investing: Equity– most of us are aware of the general definition of equity: value minus ...

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Much as with any highly specialized field of endeavor, R/E investing has a language of its own.  A firm grounding in some of the more important terms can help you to grasp subtle nuances, and to more intelligently evaluate and ...

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  “When it comes to investment, absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder.  Somehow, we are prone to think the grass is greener in the other fellow’s yard … The net result of this is that, while the grass may ...

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Earnest Money- sophisticated sellers want to see it, legitimate buyers often use it, and the uninformed and untrained are often tripped up over it.             Earnest money is money that purchasers pay to sellers or their agents before closing to demonstrate ...

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You’ll find endless debate in real estate circles about whether you should buy houses, mobile home parks, apartment buildings, raw land, or commercial buildings.  It’s impossible to say that every person should concentrate on one or the other, but I ...

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