How Not to fail in real estate investing

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Fundamentally, good real estate investing depends largely on communication.  While there are styles of investing suited to people who are too shy to communicate,  I urge you to develop a willingness to be in communication with your sellers and buyers. Because you, as a woman, have better language and communication skills than men (at least according to most of the experts in gender differences).  Even if you are not outgoing and talkative, there are other people like yourself who would be relieved to negotiate with someone sympathetic. In order to understand how to be the most effective, you might examine the parts of communication. It starts with the intention to communicate.  This resides within your own spirit.  If you have no intention to communicate, you simply won’t.  I’ve seen people who’ve spent time and energy to learn the tools of … Read More

How to Build long-term Wealth and Stability

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I’ve heard from many of my investors that one reason they are interested in investing is to wholesale their way to nice chunks of cash.  And while we are also in this business to help solve people’s problems – yes, there are also sweet profits that come with these deals. But, what I don’t hear a lot about, especially from new investors, is talk how to build long-term wealth and stability. But I get it, I mean, when I first started in real estate, I really did not care about cash flow.  Yeap, yours truly, Lorena, was young and uneducated.  I only cared about creating a spread between what I could get a property under contract for and what I could quickly flip to another buyer for.  I was thinking only about the profit from each wholesale deal- quick payouts … Read More

No Money, No Problem

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No Money, No Problem You have to have money to make money, Everybody knows that, right?  WRONG!! Real estate investing is such a beautiful thing.   It has endless creative possibilities.  It does not fall short of options in the way you fund your deals, or even whether you need funding at all. No money Let’s begin with no money.  Everyone can do that right?  So you have no money.  You may even have lousy credit.  Or maybe you have money and good credit but you don’t want to use it or risk losing it.  So I recommend this again:  begin with wholesaling. When you wholesale a real estate transaction, you essentially act as a matchmaker.  You find other investors who buy properties for cash.  You talk to these fellows and see what they buy, where they buy, and how much … Read More

The Real Estate Investor’s Journey

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Life is a journey, not a destination –  we determine our destiny by the direction we take –  Anonymous My Real Estate Investor life has been a journey that started with the firm decision not to have a job or work for somebody else.  I did not wanted to have someone else determine the income I could earn or what type of lifestyle I could chose to live.  So I decided to go into real estate.  I devoured as many real estate books as I could and attended every seminar possible and found other more experienced investors whom I could model after. The first problem was that I believed that all I needed was an education on the mechanics of the real estate deal.  I thought if I can only learned how to find good deals and learn hot to analyze … Read More

Finding Deals on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

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The MLS is a suite of services and software that enables real estate brokers and agents representing sellers under a listing contract to widely share information about properties for sale.  Almost every successful investor buys deals right out of the MLS and has made it part of his or her marketing and acquisition process. As great as the MLS is, however, there’s a catch. The majority of the properties listed on the multiple listing service are owned by sellers who are not motivated to sell their property at a discount to an investor. Don’t let that discourage you.  There are plenty of deals on the MLS.  The key to finding them is to have a SYSTEM for sifting and sorting through MLS postings in place.  If you learn and implement what I am about to teach you,  you will set … Read More

Establishing your marketing presence

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The most successful real estate investors and wholesalers have one key thing in common: they are also expert marketers.  To thrive as a wholesaler, you have to find the best deals.  And to find the best deals, you need to know how to market effectively.  Without effective marketing, you won’t generate any leads. Ad without any leads, you have no business. Effective marketers know how to do three things: Understand that every business needs to have a marketing presence. Know how to target people who are motivated to sell. Know how to get those people to respond to their marketing campaigns. Learn to establish a marketing presence and credibility for your business so you can jumpstart your wholesaling business. There are nine essential marketing tools every real estate wholesaler must have when opening up shop to establish identity and credibility … Read More

5 Secrets to jump star your Cash flow – Secret 5

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Whether you have been investing for years or are just starting your journey out of the Rat Race, every investor needs direction and motivation.  There are 5 key secrets that will help every investor get better leverage and invest wisely.  These key secrets have been understood and followed for years by the rich, from the active day trader to budding entrepreneur to the seasoned real estate investor. Seek to understand how each secret applies in your investing career and do not be quick to dismiss one as under or over your head.  The most important aspect of each secret is that you are accountable to actually putting them into practice. These secrets are tried and true.  Learn to apply them and you will accomplish more than you would have otherwise. Secret # 1 – Know your Game plan and Outcome … Read More

5 Secrets to jump star your Cashflow – Secret 4

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Whether you have been investing for years or are just starting your journey out of the Rat Race, every investor needs direction and motivation.  There are 5 key secrets that will help every investor get better leverage and invest wisely.  These key secrets have been understood and followed for years by the rich, from the active day trader to budding entrepreneur to the seasoned real estate investor. Seek to understand how each secret applies in your investing career and do not be quick to dismiss one as under or over your head.  The most important aspect of each secret is that you are accountable to actually putting them into practice. These secrets are tried and true.  Learn to apply them and you will accomplish more than you would have otherwise. Secret # 1 – Know your Game plan and Outcome … Read More

5 Secrets to Jump Start your Cash Flow – Secret 3

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Whether you have been investing for years or are just starting your journey out of the Rat Race, every investor needs direction and motivation.  There are 5 key secrets that will help every investor get better leverage and invest wisely.  These key secrets have been understood and followed for years by the rich, from the active day trader to budding entrepreneur to the seasoned real estate investor. Seek to understand how each secret applies in your investing career and do not be quick to dismiss one as under or over your head.  The most important aspect of each secret is that you are accountable to actually putting them into practice. These secrets are tried and true.  Learn to apply them and you will accomplish more than you would have otherwise. Secret # 1 – Know your Game plan and Outcome … Read More

5 Secrets to Jump Start your Cash Flow – Secret 2

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5 Secrets to Jump Start your Cash Flow Whether you have been investing for years or are just starting your journey out of the Rat Race, every investor needs direction and motivation.  There are 5 key secrets that will help every investor get better leverage and invest wisely.  These key secrets have been understood and followed for years by the rich, from the active day trader to budding entrepreneur to the seasoned real estate investor. Seek to understand how each secret applies in your investing career and do not be quick to dismiss one as under or over your head.  The most important aspect of each secret is th at you are accountable to actually putting them into practice. These secrets are tried and true.  Learn to apply them and you will accomplish more than you would have otherwise. Secret … Read More