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How to Sell Your House In 15 Days

One of the biggest concerns investors and homeowners alike have in this market is how to sell your home fast… And it doesn’t matter if it’s your personal residence or an investment deal.

You can use this strategy to find a retail buyer for a house you’ve already rehabbed, a tenant-buyer for a lease option, or a straight renter to fill a vacancy. When I refer to the term “buyer” below, I’m referring to anyone that’s going to move into or take the property off of your hands.

Here are 5 Steps to Selling Your House Fast. Continue reading

How to Find Real Estate Buyers

The key to selling a house in any market is finding the right buyer.

Just a few short years ago, buyers for real estate deals were crawling out of the woodwork, and finding motivated sellers was the challenge. Now, motivated sellers are a dime a dozen, and the challenge lies in how to find buyers for real estate.

In order to sell your property, the most important thing is to determine who the ideal buyer actually is. Now in this article, I’m not referring to the psychographics of buyers, but a specific “type” of buyer.

To find buyers for every real estate deal, you simply need to figure out which of the 5 types of real estate buyers your house most appeals: Continue reading

Real Estate Trends Investors Need to Know

If you’re serious about investing in real estate in the current market, you need to know what’s going on and stay on top of the real estate trends.

The bottom line is this: The business of real estate is changing at a lightening – and unprecedented – pace!

Never before in our industry history have we seen such rapid changes in, not only the market, but also in legislation, rules and regulations, technology and tools, and anything else you can think of for that matter.

Now don’t get me wrong, we have definitely seem some ups and downs in real estate over the years, but nothing like what we are seeing now industry-wide. It’s not just property values anymore that we’ve got to pay attention to. Continue reading

Choosing Your Domain Name & Setting Up Hosting

This was actually REALLY cool!

As I was creating the first training video, I went through the EXACT same process I teach you live (and without prior research). And I just happened to use Austin as my local area search criteria. I wound up finding the domain “houseaustin.com”. Now, I know you’re probably thinking, “that sounds kind of stupid”, BUT, there are over 100,000 searches on that keyword term a month, and 40,500 on the specific phrase. Now, from an SEO standpoint and traffic standpoint, there’s some stuff we can surely do with it ;-).

I always have people that get bogged down or overwhelmed with some of the basic elements required to get websites up and running. So… I’ve gone ahead and put together 3 specific videos on: Continue reading

Video For Real Estate: Communication Is Key

So, the past week has been a little shaky at best!

We had to move all of our company’s web servers to a new hosting account. I’ll save you all the technical details and leave it at this: if you’re ever changing websites and/or hosting accounts, HIRE IT OUT!

At any rate, there was an interesting experience that arose from going through the process of upgrading our servers. I felt frustrated and overwhelmed the whole time and was operating in a reactive state. More than once, I simply tried to cancel the upgrade and was determined to go to another company.

I didn’t know what had happened already. I didn’t know what to expect next. Continue reading

Local Real Estate Investor Websites: Why You Need One…

Real Estate Investing gurus have been peddling websites since the very beginning ranging anywhere from $30-40/month upwards of several $100 per month with sign up fees ranging from “waived with a one year contract” to “$3000+”.

And here’s the kicker, most of these sites are TERRIBLE.

Most of these real estate websites don’t do anything for the investor whatsoever. (Click Here to watch our recent training video on local real estate website traffic)

I can’t tell you how many people I know have bought these websites, spent thousands on them, and have never received so much as a single lead.

The problem is this… MOST of the people selling these real estate investor websites don’t actually know anything about driving real buyer and seller leads, letalone on a local level, which is (a) more effective, and (b) less expensive.

We’re going to focus on setting up a LOCAL real estate investor website Continue reading

Finding Buyers for Real Estate Deals

REO investing is moving faster than a speeding bullet!

Over the last few years, many areas throughout the country were flooded with foreclosures that sat on the market for 1, 2, even 3 years; finally forcing the banks to complete the foreclosure process and take the properties back…hence making them REOs.

If you haven’t yet added REOs to your investing business, you are really missing out on a huge goldmine that is just starting to gain momentum.

In order to be successful, however, it’s critical to begin finding buyers for a successful REO business.

Here are 5 fast ways you can find buyers to build your REO Buyer’s list. Continue reading

Real Estate Outsourcing: Is This Why You're Not Successful?

Last week, I was on a coaching call with one of our students… and the light bulb went off in my head. It was that “ah ha” moment. I finally really understood one of the 3 main reasons people are not successful in real estate: Not Taking Action. Truth is, it’s a huge cause for failure in lots of ‘biz opp’ strategies.

It’s what I’ve since defined as the “outsourcing virus”.

This student wanted to know what he could do to get money coming in NOW.

Here’s what got me thinking… and why so many people are struggling in their businesses.

The student I was talking to had invested tens of thousands of dollars in real estate courses, seminars, and systems. Yet, he was still struggling. (Do you know anyone like that?) Continue reading

Multiple Streams of Income

With the recent economic crash felt ‘round the world, it’s never been more important to diversify. You need to introduce multiple streams of income… In other words, diversify your income streams… your investments… your businesses… It’s just how business is going to operate in the new decade.

You’ve got to have a number of ways to bring in money or you’re going to be left holding the bag one of these days.

Several years ago, the phrase “Multiple Streams of Income” gained significant popularity through seminars, events, and tele-trainings. The company essentially taught that there were 4 ways to make money:

  1. Real Estate Investing;
  2. Infopreneuring;
  3. Internet Marketing; and Continue reading

2010 Real Estate Investing Predictions

It’s been a year of mixed reviews for many people! Certainly, there were highlights, but many folks are happy to see 2009 ushered out and welcome 2010!
With the New Year – and new decade – there are going to be lots of changes to come in real estate investing, online marketing, information marketing, and business in general.

I know that lots of people are posting their thoughts, predictions, and opinions for the coming year! Here are just a few of my predictions for real estate industry – specifically for investors.

  1. Property Values Will Stabilize.
    We’re not going to see a huge change in property values this year. Many of the markets have bottomed out, or are close thereto. However, there is a lot of inventory that has yet to hit the market before we can start to see an increase in value. This will make it easier to evaluate properties and determine the after repair values as there’s less decline to calculate. However, there are still Continue reading