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9 August 2015 | 2 replies
I'm in the process of buying two properties - walking into them, I was instantly covered in fleas in both, and one of them had literally thousands of roaches, and what I am guessing was bed bugs crawling around.
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4 May 2016 | 8 replies
I think Parma is a great neighborhood to invest, you still get your monthly cashflow as well as your instant equity.
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14 August 2015 | 8 replies
The secret is that the land you are buying was never on the market in the first place, so buying it cheap and putting it on the open market instantly increases the value.
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8 January 2017 | 45 replies
The project manger instantly called the capital partner to tell the "good news."
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16 August 2015 | 3 replies
I began thinking that if we were to go ahead, forsake beating the PMI, and purchase this duplex for 68K with 10K down we would have 40K instant equity, which we could then use as two down payments for two more duplexes.
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16 August 2015 | 9 replies
I've got recorded calls I post for my members demonstrating how I've done it in as little as 25 minutes with one phone call to then create instant cash via down payments of no less than $10k, cash flow, and back end profit when the buyer refinances and the total cost of the deal is $10 for good and valuable consideration so I have a legal and binding contract, 25 minutes to several hours on the phone negotiating the deal with the seller and the monthly cost of Docusign or Rightsignature so I can get the docs signed electronically because I do these deals all over the U.S. and never see any home or meet anyone.
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17 August 2015 | 56 replies
In the motel example, the investor is a liquid multimillionaire cash investor but he didn't know that Dodd-Frank now governed the private mortgages he's been writing and didn't know we could cost segregate the motel/restaurant for instant increases in cash flow.
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21 December 2015 | 9 replies
This one is coming with 20% instant equity and needs "nothing" to rent out in the heart of grandview it's already a bit overdone for the area - granite, stainless, hardwoods, outbuilding) - I think this one will rent as soon as I take possession and market it.On the financing side, I took my relationship with portfolio lender a step further and moved some security assets I've been holding a long time (income oriented things like bond ETFs) for free to their asset management division, which allowed them to give me a line of credit with those as collateral at 3.5% "interest only".
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29 May 2015 | 13 replies
If we decide to move there someday, we will instantly save 10% in state income tax.The local economy is stable and growing.
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23 June 2015 | 56 replies
All of the greats started at a young age, but became instant success later.