It’s no secret that today’s real estate market is a good bit different than even a couple of years ago, right?  Sure, the fundamentals are all the same.  And the opportunity for making really great profits is still very much alive – arguably even more so. But still, there are some key, noteworthy shifts we [...]

This one goes out to…the noobs I love…  (Queue weepy REM music here) And by “noobs” I mean newbies.  I.E. anyone who’s been at this real estate investing thing for a couple years or less. If that’s you, then this post’s for you. Truth be told, there’s is there’s a heap of things I wish [...]

So I’ve mentioned before how lucky I am to be part of this really phenomenal mastermind group called the Flip VIPs. Besides our in-person meetings thrice yearly, another big, fat benefit I enjoy from this posse is the ongoing collaboration and free flow of information we share privately via email. So just this week my [...]

So my Flip VIP buddy Mike Ferris just sent me this awesome list of 25 time-tested, proven ways to find/get great real estate deals (see below).  He prepared for discussion at this month’s meeting for the REIA group he runs in Delaware. Now Mike and his wife Christina have done hundreds of deals since they [...]

If you use Bandit Signs in your real estate investing at all, then today’s tip will be a tasty treat… At one point or another we’ve all had those lovely, goldenrod, coroplast investments of ours removed or cut in half by the “sign police”, right?  (FYI “sign police = code enforcement)  And occasionally you might [...]

So I recently ran across some footage from our last KISS Flipping Intensive event in Vegas.  I get requests for this kind of stuff all the time, so I thought I’d post some of it for you. Now just to be clear, this is from a handful of clips I grabbed on my Kodak Zi8 [...]

Hey, it’s time for some more Reader Mail! This one comes from the little survey thingy in the sidebar of this here blog… “My biggest real estate investing question *right now* is why would an investor use a purchase contract when an option contract doesn’t have the same requirements of us as investors? Is this [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to connect with St. Louis real estate investor Joe McCall, who’s been an acquaintance of mine for a few years now, and a long-time understudy of my buddies Steve Cook and Shaun McCloskey.  But to be honest, I’ve never really known what Joe’s particular REI niche was until now. So [...]

Before we jump into today’s tip, I want to let the cat out of the bag that in the near future I’ll be co-hosting a unique REI training workshop with fellow wholesaler & REI blogger Alex Joungblood. I recently crossed paths with Alex and we hit it off nicely. We have similar backgrounds, both in [...]

(Contributor: Dyches Boddiford) Yes, hard money lending is less risky than owning real estate! Think about it.  Done properly, your loan will be secured by real estate worth much more than your loan. Personally, loans I make are no greater than 60% of the fixed up price of the property. And if there is much [...]