by Mark Klee & Caryn McKinney

Answer #1: Niche Marketing = Less Competition and Greater Profits.
As a real estate investor, perhaps you’ve figured out how easy it is to be unfocused in the real estate investment business. That being the case, my partner, Mark Klee, and I want to help you understand the incredible profits available to you by doing business in a NICHE market … particularly one that MOST investors are afraid to go after … bankruptcies. It’s not brain surgery to realize that any market with less competition will also offer you greater opportunities for amazing profits!

You should also realize that if you’re NOT in a niche market, you’re fighting all the other investors for the same FSBOs, MLS listings, and wholesale deals from whatever resources you have. So why not at least check out this bankruptcy niche that most investors are, indeed, afraid to tackle?

Answer #2: Market conditions are ideal
Check out the following basic facts on our current market conditions and you’ll start to see how ideally the stage is set to work with quality bankruptcy leads.

• In many areas of the country, investors are finding greater competition for fewer deals.

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When we were putting together the latest issue of the Real Estate Rant (www.RealEstateRant.net), Brandon recommended an article on “Going Green”!

I didn’t pay much attention to it because I didn’t realize just how much momentum the topic had gained! (So, with my tail between my legs, I must concede that he was on to something…) And because of that, I decided to write a little something on the topic with the Live Earth concert on 7-7-07.

Last night, I was watching the Live Earth concert and I was blown away by the magnitude of the event.

Plus, I learned lots of little tips that allow me to contribute my own small part towards helping the environment. These tidbits piqued my interest so I started to doing some research just to get a grasp on how big the “green” movement is.

Just go to Google.com and type in “green real estate”. There are 81,700,000 results at the time I’m typing this email… WOW!

So, why the sudden interest? Perhaps it was fueled by Al Gore’s inconvenient truth. Or maybe the rising costs of energy. Or possibly… that residents of planet earth realize that our resources are limited.

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I grew up in a small town in New England. I had no choice other than to be patriotic and proud! We took field trips down the path of Paul Revere and visited the cemeteries of our forefathers. We walked on battleships that served in wars and stood in the same buildings that history was made.

Yet now… more than 230 years later, it’s as if we’ve forgotten. We’re so busy fighting wars in foreign lands, closing down our borders and trying to save the world from famine, we’ve lost what it means to be American.

To be an American means so much more than just to be born here, it means freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of choice. America means capitalism, competition, a free market and democracy. To be an American means to have a dream, a goal, a desire, the American Dream.

So, if you are going to pursue the American Dream, then do it passionately and be proud that you are an American. Know that because of where you live, you have opportunities that others don’t. Define your dream and go after it with the same passion that our Founding Fathers had when laying the foundation for our country. Know that in achieving your dreams, you will have sacrifice and you will have loss along the way. Stick with it when it seems like you’re losing ground. Remember… wars are won battle by battle! And wars are lost one battle at a time!

My advice to you is to get in and stay in. The rewards will be worth it in the end and the financial freedom will be yours to enjoy and pass on to your children and your children’s children.

And … no matter what your opinion is on the war(s), take a moment to honor those that have fought for this country and those that have made the ultimate sacrifice so that you can be an American and enjoy our freedom. Happy 4th of July! Take a moment to post your comments about what you’re doing to create your own American Dream!

And now for you history buffs… A friend of mine forwarded this to me and I thought I’d share it with you!

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