http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com You can’t turn your t.v. on today without seeing some type of bad news about the real estate market so making the bold statement that now is the best time to invest in real estate in the last 15 years might seem a little crazy. The fact is today IS the ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_849758_33.html 08th April 2009 When you first start out in the real estate investment business you’ll find that having a network of other investors and buyers is a valuable source indeed. In fact, it can help you in all areas of your business from finding good properties to buy to f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_514968_33.html 10th April 2008 You’ve found a great real estate investment to purchase, signed on with the homeowners and gotten all of your information in order. All that’s needed is to approach the bank with a short sale offer and close the deal right? Maybe not. There is an... http://www.articlealley.com/article_514966_33.html 10th April 2008 Many real estate investors will think about becoming a landlord, with your own rental property, from time to time. It seems like an easy way to bring in a regular monthly income on a long-term basis. Plus, you don’t have to spend a lot of time each we... http://www.articlealley.com/article_514965_33.html 10th April 2008 Want the easiest way to bring in lease tenants when leasing a property? Put an ad in the paper! Getting a lease tenant is just the same as getting a rental property tenant. You can place an ad in the papers saying property for lease and giving your phon... http://www.articlealley.com/article_513226_33.html 09th April 2008 You’ve had your open house for that available lease rental property and you’ve gotten 3 or 4 good applications from people interested in leasing that property. Now, how do you choose the right tenant for your property? Know What Kind of Tenants Yo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_513225_33.html 09th April 2008 We love the ugly and awful. ~Andy Heller There are all kinds in real estate investment. All kinds of real estate investors, all kinds of deals and all kinds of property to make a deal on. You’ll definitely find that having all kinds in this busine... http://www.articlealley.com/article_513224_33.html 09th April 2008 A lot of people are interested in real estate investment, but they also live out west in very expensive areas. These are places where the average family style ranch may cost up to half a million dollars and the cost of living is very high. The tendency ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_513223_33.html 09th April 2008 As a successful real estate investor, you need to first set yourself up with good deals, and then secure financing for your deals, and finally you also have to have a solid exit strategy for those properties you ultimately purchase and plan to re-sell. O... http://www.articlealley.com/article_506964_33.html 03rd April 2008 When you speak with seasoned real estate investors you often find that a large percentage of them do not ever invest in raw land. Typically newer real estate investors purchase single family homes to flip, rent out, or sell wholesale to a rehabber. Thos... http://www.articlealley.com/article_506962_33.html 03rd April 2008 Property investment is a numbers business. As a real estate investor you’ll need to pay close attention to your numbers when purchasing a property in order to make money. Every investor develops their own basic plan for purchasing property to make a p... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505248_33.html 02nd April 2008 As a successful real estate investor, you need to first set yourself up with good deals, and then secure financing for your deals, and finally you also have to have a solid exit strategy for those properties you ultimately purchase and plan to re-sell. O... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505247_33.html 02nd April 2008 As a real estate investor, you may be looking to purchase homes with the thought of renting them out as a means of generating consistent monthly passive income. However, with all of the issues that are involved with becoming a landlord, you may be thinki... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505246_33.html 02nd April 2008 When you speak with seasoned real estate investors you often find that a large percentage of them do not ever invest in raw land. Typically newer real estate investors purchase single family homes to flip, rent out, or sell wholesale to a rehabber. Thos... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505245_33.html 02nd April 2008 One of the best kept secrets in real estate investing is clearly the practice of note buying. While purchasing notes, otherwise known as home mortgages, may seem like a complained process, it really isn’t once you take the time to understand how it wor... http://www.articlealley.com/article_505244_33.html 02nd April 2008 As a real estate investor one of the best investments you can make is the purchase of an apartment building or multi-family home. By purchasing one of these money makers you can rent them out and realize passive income each and every month. If the idea ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_501123_33.html 31st March 2008 Many people sit around and think about how great it would be to start investing in the real estate market. However, few take the time to really learn what is involved and take the necessary steps to make it a reality in their lives. One of the biggest h... http://www.articlealley.com/article_500193_33.html 28th March 2008 As a real estate investment professional it is important for you to constantly be marketing yourself and as well as your business. You should continually be on the lookout for new deals and you should also be consistently looking for investors interested... http://www.articlealley.com/article_500191_33.html 28th March 2008 One of the most profitable real estate investments you can make is the purchase of multi-family homes or apartment buildings. Whether you choose to live in one unit and rent the rest out, our you choose to rent out all of the units both multi-family home... http://www.articlealley.com/article_500190_33.html 28th March 2008 As a real estate investor one of the best investments you can make is the purchase of an apartment building or multi-family home. By purchasing one of these money makers you can rent them out and realize passive income each and every month. If the idea ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_500189_33.html 28th March 2008 Have you watched the popular television shows on flipping houses for profit? If you have, you have probably noticed that the one thing many of the people who don’t flip their houses very successfully seem to have in common is their inability to get and... http://www.articlealley.com/article_500187_33.html 28th March 2008 Many real estate investors choose to purchase properties which are in need of some repair. Some take on the repairs themselves, while others sell the home with a discount to someone else who will happily deal with the repairs themselves. Whichever optio... http://www.articlealley.com/article_498461_33.html 27th March 2008 Whether you are a real estate investment professional, or simply an individual looking for a great deal on property, a motivated seller is someone who you want to work with. People are motivated to sell homes for a variety of reasons, and if you can find... http://www.articlealley.com/article_498457_33.html 27th March 2008 Many real estate investors choose to purchase properties which are in need of some repair. Some take on the repairs themselves, while others sell the home with a discount to someone else who will happily deal with the repairs themselves. Whichever optio... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497543_33.html 27th March 2008 Buying a property, holding onto it, and then selling it at a later date for profit generally puts you, the real estate investor, in the undesirable seat of being a landlord. However, if you want to buy and hold properties, without ever having to deal wit... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497542_33.html 27th March 2008 Whether you are a real estate investment professional, or simply an individual looking for a great deal on property, a motivated seller is someone who you want to work with. People are motivated to sell homes for a variety of reasons, and if you can find... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497541_33.html 27th March 2008 The first reaction to most people when you tell them that you are a real estate investor is to look at you with a bit of suspicion and wonder. They wonder if “real estate investor” really means “freelancer” or “doesn’t really have a job.” ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497540_33.html 27th March 2008 If you are new to real estate investment, you might be finding all of the information that you need to know a bit confusing. However, by following these five simple steps, over and over again, you can put yourself in the best position to complete as many... http://www.articlealley.com/article_497539_33.html 27th March 2008 In the mortgage industry, the term “short sale” refers to the process of a bank holding a mortgage to accept less than the seller owes on that mortgage in exchange for the deed on the property. For example, John Smith owes $100,000 on his mortgage an... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488477_33.html 10th March 2008 Do you know that you can actually purchase mortgages as an investment? If you do know this, then do you also know that you can do it with other people’s money? You can do both, and it isn’t as complicated as you might think it would be. Seller Ca... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488476_33.html 10th March 2008 Anyone who invests in real estate needs money to do so. Most private individuals go to a bank or lender and take out a mortgage when they want to buy property. However, when you are in the business of real estate investment, finding sources of capital t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488475_33.html 10th March 2008 While we, as real estate investors, generally think of purchasing developed land for investment, there is an entire other sector of the business which is worth exploration – raw land. Are you aware of the fact that approximately 85% of the land in the ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488474_33.html 10th March 2008 To start your real estate investment business you will need to have office space. For some people their office is set up in their homes. For other people, they choose to rent office space and work out of that remote location instead. No matter which of... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488473_33.html 10th March 2008 People in the real estate business often refer to the 4 T’s of property management. These 4 T’s are, in no particular order: tenants, terminates, toilets, and trash. When you think about purchasing property to buy and hold for investment, your mind ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_482816_33.html 27th February 2008 One of the first things people looking to start investing in real estate generally ask about is how to find investors, or how to generate the capital to do their deals. While a traditional bank or mortgage lender can be of some help, most real estate inv... http://www.articlealley.com/article_482815_33.html 27th February 2008 Have you been thinking about starting a real estate investing business? The good news is that it is a very lucrative business to be in and isn’t really that hard to start in the business as long as you take the time to learn as much as you can, write a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_482812_33.html 27th February 2008 One of the main stumbling blocks for many new real estate investors is under-estimating the costs of repairs and updating that a property might need prior to reselling it or even renting it out. When you are walking through and inspecting a property with... http://www.articlealley.com/article_482811_33.html 27th February 2008 Many new real estate investors often consider buying homes and land for investment; however, few consider the much more lucrative area of apartment building ownership. One of the main reasons for this is because newbies to the real estate investing busin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_482809_33.html 27th February 2008 You’ve probably heard a lot of people saying that the real estate market is a great way to make money and a great way to increase your returns. Well, they are right. There are lots of opportunities in real estate for making profits, everything fro... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469846_33.html 06th February 2008 You’ve probably heard a lot of people saying that the real estate market is a great way to make money and a great way to increase your returns. Well, they are right. There are lots of opportunities in real estate for making profits, everything f... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469768_33.html 06th February 2008 Buying mortgage notes isn’t all that hard as you’ve probably heard from some other property investors. There are two basic ways to get into your first mortgage note. One is to approach a bank and the other is to approach a homeowner about their own ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469767_33.html 06th February 2008 When you work with a homeowner in foreclosure it’s common to feel a need to help the homeowner out of their tough situation. You may even feel a little as if you are taking advantage of the homeowner by profiting off of this foreclosure deal, but you a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469766_33.html 06th February 2008 You’ve been buying mortgage notes for a little while and are comfortable with the practice. However, you’ve noticed that there are a lot of pre-foreclosure homes out there with mortgages on them too. This is a large section of the mortgage note indu... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469765_33.html 06th February 2008 You may think that negotiating with banks in order to get them to give you a discount on their property is practically impossible! It is possible and real estate investment deals go through with the bank every day. Here’s why. Why You can Get Disco... http://www.articlealley.com/article_469764_33.html 06th February 2008 The homeowner can end up in trouble even when you work with them to purchase that foreclosure property. There are many steps to the arrangement of a real estate investment deal, so it’s easy to forget a few little details, such as the deficiency judgme... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463856_33.html 30th January 2008 When you are negotiating a short sale or note purchase through the bank on a defaulted property it’s easy to overlook the possibility of a mortgage judgment being filed against the homeowner after the sale. It can be common practice for a bank to file ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463855_33.html 30th January 2008 Many new real estate investors can run into problems when they attempt a ‘simultaneous close’ on a property they are interested in. The simultaneous close basically involves you purchasing a property with an investor’s money and immediately selling... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463854_33.html 30th January 2008 It’s part of the dream, the possibility of being able to make thousands of dollars with out using any of your own cash as an initial investment. Well, it has been done and can still be done with a variety of real estate sale practices. One of these p... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463853_33.html 30th January 2008 There are many ways to close a deal in real estate investing. As a foreclosure investor you’ve probably heard of the famed, simultaneous closing, when purchasing a property from the homeowner. It’s a great way to make a profit on your time and effor... http://www.articlealley.com/article_463852_33.html 30th January 2008 In the old days it used to take a lot of time to find and contact all of the default mortgages out there. Now, it is way easier these days to find the names of homeowners in pre-foreclosure than it used to be and as a result contacting them is easier too... http://www.articlealley.com/article_456423_33.html 21st January 2008