Real Estate Elevated: Do You Need a Website for Your REI Business?
Thursday, August 18
A lot of new real estate investors and Real Estate Elevated students think that they won’t need a website to have a successful house flipping business. They think that house flipping is just as simple as finding leads, talking to motivated sellers, buying flip houses, rehabbing them, and selling ...
Real Estate Elevated: 4 Tips for Becoming a Better Negotiator
Wednesday, August 17
Where do you make your money when you flip houses? If you’ve been in the real estate investing business for a little while now, you already know that you make your money in house flipping when you buy your properties much more than when you sell them. When you buy a property, you already know abo...
Real Estate Elevated: 3 Best Ways to Accurately Estimate Comps
Tuesday, August 16
Over the years, I’ve talked to a lot of Real Estate Elevated students and real estate investors, people trying to make extra money at home with the occasional flip house, and people just trying to sell their homes for a profitable market value. All of these people have one thing in common—they do...
Real Estate Elevated: Can You Flip Houses With a 1031 Exchange?
Monday, August 15
No one likes paying taxes, but when you work at a normal 9:00-to-5:00 office job, unless you really examine your pay stubs every time you’re paid, it’s easy to forget about how much tax is taken out. Then, if enough was taken out throughout the year, you get a good chunk of change back when you f...
3 Tips for Making Offers on Properties Sight Unseen
Monday, August 15
We tell so many of our Real Estate Elevated students that if you stick with the real estate investing business, you’re eventually going to be faced with the opportunity to buy a flip house sight unseen. For a lot of our flips, we go directly to motivated sellers and arrange for short sales or cas...
Real Estate Elevated: 3 Ways to Do More With Less Stress
Friday, August 12
When I first started designing the renovations for our fix-and-flip houses, I would get really overwhelmed with how much there was to do. I’d walk into a disgusting house that was falling down around my shoulders, and I’d think, “Oh my god, there’s so much to do… Where do I even start?” When I ac...