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All Forum Posts by: Don Levy

Don Levy has started 13 posts and replied 122 times.

Post: Hello from SC

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Hello Clifton welcome to the forum. Read the posts and ask questions is the way to learn here.
Good luck,
donrock

Post: Hello all, I'm Ken DiPietro, looking at Youngstown Ohio and beyond.

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Ken welcome to the forum. I have a simple question. How are you planning on making money selling house that are listed. In California you have to have a license to get a commission. What exactly is your plan of attack?

Good luck,
donrock

Post: Brad in St. Louis, newbie lovin' the learnin'

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Brad welcome to the forum. You're a perfect candidate for lease option investing. Find properties that need some rehab and do it in lieu of a option fee. Fix them up and do a sandwich lease. There are many benefits to lease options. I love lease options.
Good luck,
donrock

Post: Hi everyone - newbie from Philippines

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Welcome to the forum ledz. What is your interest in real estate. If you looking for help and ideas you've come to the right place.
Good luck,
donrock

Post: Fadie From Detroit, Michigan

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Welcome to the forum Fadie. Think about doing some deals with straight options or lease option. They don't take much money and if you have that kind of a cash flow lease options would probably be 50% more.
Good luck,
donrock

Post: Get absentee owners list from title co.

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

M S,

Make an appointment and sit down with a company rep. Let them know you are shopping for a company that can handle all your title and escrow work. Ask them what kind of services they perform such as helping you market, do they have a website (I found this very important, Chicago Title has good one as does First American) and can they escrow the type of deals you do.

By the way we're almost neighbors. I'm in Santa Maria. I graduated from Ventura UHS (a long time ago) and of course we were bitter rivals of Oxnard.

Good luck and let me know if you need help with this,
donrock

Post: Real Estate Marketing: Farming a Neighborhood

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Great post, Omar. Anyone who doesn't farm an area runs the risk of not being organized and spending all their time running from one place to another and accomplishing little. It takes time to build up a following and the best way is to get to know everything and everyone in a neighborhood.
Good luck,
donrock

Post: Hello from New Zealand

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Marc,

It sounds like NZ might be a good place to do lease options. Does the market take to something like that over there?

Good luck,
donrock

Post: Hello from Denver

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

Welcome to the forum Paul. What does your company do with RE Professionals?
Good luck,
donrock

Post: los Angeles Tax Auction

Don LevyPosted
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Santa Maria, CA
  • Posts 124
  • Votes 4

You'll find most of the properties at these tax auctions are out in the desert or on the side of a mountain. They are mostly ones nobody wants. If the banks is owed money on one and it has any value they won't let it go to auction. They will list and sell it.
donrock