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Apr 15, 2013Jun 06, 2024 Ankit Duggal

How to Execute a Sale-Leaseback Investment Strategy

Investing in real estate is tough. Unlike stocks, bonds or mutual funds you cannot login to your brokerage account and review some reports before making a trade. Real estate investing…

Mar 30, 2013Jun 06, 2024 Leon Yang

Controlling Real Estate with Little Money Using Lease Options

While there are many benefits to real estate, two of the more valuable goals are passive income and appreciation. When it comes to real estate appreciation, if timed right, it…

Mar 29, 2013Feb 23, 2024 Brandon Turner

How to Invest in Real Estate with No Money

In typical fashion, I couldn’t get to sleep. I had consumed enough caffeine to wake a sleeping bear and was stuck staring at the ceiling, waiting for my dreams to…

Mar 26, 2013Jun 06, 2024 karen rittenhouse

Is There a Problem with Buying Properties Subject-to Existing Financing?

Back in 1978 (I don’t want to know how many of you weren’t even born yet) my husband and I bought our very first house and we bought it the…

Mar 16, 2013Jun 06, 2024 Ali Boone

How to Buy Real Estate with Your Credit Card

That’s right. I said it. Use your credit card. I’m sure most of you have heard the explanation of bad debt versus good debt. Bad debt is when you finance…

Mar 15, 2013Jun 06, 2024 Katherine Grote

Four Questions To Ask A Short Sale Listing Agent

In the past year of working with primarily short sales, I’ve gained enough experience to fill at least one book. I’ve dealt with just about every possible scenario from multiple…

Jan 12, 2013Feb 13, 2024 Ali Boone

Pop Quiz: A Challenge in Creative Financing

I need money! You have money? Where’s money? I need money. We all need money! Although we are long since out of school, today I want to give you a…

Apr 20, 2011Feb 20, 2024 Ken Corsini

Five Reasons Why I like Lease Purchases

In the past six years, I have managed over one hundred lease purchase transactions. With this experience, I have grown to really appreciate the power and effectiveness of this investment…

Mar 30, 2011Feb 19, 2024 Melissa Zavala

So You’ve Gotten a Short Sale Approval Letter… Now What?

When talking about short sales, everyone focuses on getting an approval letter from the lender. From the day you determine a short sale meets your investment criteria, and you gather…

Jan 11, 2011Jun 06, 2024 Melissa Zavala

Short Sale HUD-1 Approval Is Not Just a Formality

At the very end of the short sale transaction, when everyone has totally lost their patience and is thrilled that the deal is finally going to close, the banks generally…

Dec 05, 2010Jun 06, 2024 Bill & Jackie Patterson

Short Sale Investor: Not All Real Estate Short Sales Are Created Equal

There are different kinds of short sales: some are direct from the seller to a buyer who is going to use the property as a principle residence or investment property,…

Jun 23, 2010Feb 17, 2024 Ryan Moeller

Why Lease Options Rule!!

Lease options, or the concept of rent to own, simply refers to a rental agreement with an option to purchase at a future date. With bank financing tight, not all…