http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Everyone who has ever dealt in the shark infested waters of foreclosure and pre-foreclosure investing knows this is not no money down real estate. The "Big Profit" "Big Trouble" world of foreclosure real estate is dominated by the "Big Sharks," actuality,... http://www.articlealley.com/article_64755_33.html 20th June 2006 I was having lunch last week with a friend he'd just told me about taking his seven-year-old son golfing the day before and with a proud grin he talked of the boy getting his first "birdie." Then we went back to discussing one of my books. It was after a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_64592_19.html 18th June 2006 When I was in high school 1962/1966 we finished school at age 17 to 18. It would be another 3 to 4 years until most reached the "age of majority" and were legally adults able to enter contracts by our selves. My best friend Bing and I spent the next tw... http://www.articlealley.com/article_64590_22.html 18th June 2006 One of the nicer things about getting older is a lot of my friends are retiring or are semi-retired. They now have time to participate in some of the things that my career in real estate allows. Case in point, I have a friend who regularly goes yard salei... http://www.articlealley.com/article_62640_33.html 12th June 2006 In the last month My wife and I went to a so called "Seminar" really a sales presentation for Donald Thump. I went alone to Robert Allens'. My friend Bob Martel went with me to a Carlton Sheets presention a few days ago. I go to hear what the competition ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_36226_19.html 15th March 2006 I was 21 and out of the service just ten days when I went to work for a small loan company, a week later I was making loan decisions affecting peoples lives. Just two weeks more and I was in the field making collection decisions that could literally destr... http://www.articlealley.com/article_36224_19.html 15th March 2006 I write about and teach real estate investing in distressed properties, opportunity properties, yet I keep hearing about people who knew someone in trouble that didn't act to help. All to often they did nothing because they didn't believe the property ha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_36223_33.html 15th March 2006 When I write about real estate, I have my son Eric, a mortgage broker, he grew up in real estate and my wife Brenda, world's most tolerant spouse, she's lived thru 35 years of my 36 years in lending and real estate, to proofread my work for content. I hav... http://www.articlealley.com/article_36221_33.html 15th March 2006 In part 1 of "A Consumers Guide To Lease Options" I did my best to discourage your use of this tool. Lease options are in deed very useful if done right. Some of you may want to use a lease option properly, so here are some guide lines. 1. Start wit... http://www.articlealley.com/article_36220_33.html 15th March 2006 My son's friend Ty (they met in high school) returned form the Navy partially disabled from time on a aircraft carrier. Even more surprising was he came home with a wife! Together these two set about surviving. Doing what young couples do, eventually al... http://www.articlealley.com/article_15692_27.html 15th November 2005 This is the first of two articles on purchasing and selling single family homes with lease-options. We're going to examine buying on a lease-option, selling on a lease-option, and in article # 2 how to successfully buy and sell on a lease option. Lease... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13963_33.html 01st November 2005 Kick backs, hidden cost, back points, HUD (Housing and Urban Development) calls it "Yield Spread Premium" (YSP), money paid by the a lender to mortgage brokers outside of closing. Money paid by the lender to the broker because you got a higher mortgage ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13641_19.html 29th October 2005 For more than thirty years I've been writing sales agreements, offer and acceptances, purchase agreements, mini-offers, and options unlike anything I ever seen except some used by my students. My two unique offers are "My Formula Offer" which is now obsol... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13640_33.html 29th October 2005 Saturday morning I woke up alone. Slowly before opening my eyes I began to stretch. Taking inventory as I moved one limb at a time, yes, all the usual aches and pains were still there. I don't know whether I felt or heard it, but there was a major thump o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13639_33.html 29th October 2005 Five quick attention getting rules for new and experienced real estate investors! All to any of us have forgotten the wisdom of our grandfathers, or discounted it as from simpler times. This short article will not teach you real estate investing, but it w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13637_33.html 29th October 2005 In "One House At A Time / Finding And Buying Single Family Rentals" I write about why your real estate salesman can't make you rich, despite all their earnings very few have even made themselves rich. The real shame is active real estate and mortgage peo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13636_33.html 29th October 2005 Five years ago I would have started talking about the late night TV Real Estate Gurus, but today anyone with cable TV, a satellite dish, or in a large city can learn the virtues of having money 24 hours a day. The infomercials or rather the programs they... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13635_33.html 29th October 2005 Everyone is a salesman, some are just better than others. I write about real estate investment, but salesmanship is a lesson in life! The only reason most people make, for not investing in real estate, is they don't think they can make the sales necessary... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13634_15.html 29th October 2005 If a friend or acquaintance said to you "I've got a problem" you almost smile before catching yourself, and carefully expressing concern. Admit it we all have problems, most of us don't talk about it, so when someone admits a problem we're a little please... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13633_33.html 29th October 2005 Nothing in the last thirty years has excited the would-be real estate consumer as much as "no money down," " no down payment," real estate investing for which we all have to thank Carleton Sheets. Then along comes Ron Le Grand offering "cash back" at ever... http://www.articlealley.com/article_13632_33.html 29th October 2005