Helping People with Real Estate Investing … featuring Jim Pellerin, Author of "7 Steps to Real Estate Riches"
Saturday September 4th 2010
Simple Real Estate Investing advice by an everyday Real Estate Investor. I will post my ideas and advice on many topics related to Real Estate Investing. This information is based on my many years as a successful Real Estate Investor and will cover such topics as Lease Options, Buy, Rent and Hold, Property Management, Financing, Business Planning, Sales and Marketing and much much more. These posts will also be organized by my "7 Steps To Real Estate Riches" which are Educate, Control, Plan, Analyze, Invest, Manage and Sell. I look forward to your comments and feedback.

Jim Pellerin, Investor, Advisor, Speaker, Coach, Writer

‘financing’ Archives

21 Ways to Finance Your Real Estate Investments

21 Ways to Finance Your Real Estate Investments

First I want to clarify something. There have been a lot of books which talk about "No Money Down" or "Nothing Down". This does NOT mean you are not putting any money down at the time of purchase. It only means that you are not using any of your own "cash" as part of the purchase. All of my investments have either been done without using any of my [...]

Smaller Down Payments Mean Higher Returns

Smaller Down Payments Mean Higher Returns

Get As Much Financing As You Can When financing your Real Estate Investments, you will want to get as much financing as you can. I buy all my properties with 100% financing by using a combination of regular mortgages and secondary financing. Of course you always want to make sure that your investment has a positive cash flow which is more [...]

Nothing Down Real Estate Investing

Acquiring Property Without Any of You Own Cash"Nothing Down" Real Estate Investing does not mean that you are not putting a down payment when you acquire a property. It means that you are not using any of you own cash for the transaction. This usually means you are highly leveraged so make sure you still have a positive cash flow.There are many [...]

I have $150K just sitting there doing nothing. Take it.

I’m Losing Too Much in the Stock MarketI was speaking with one of my investors the other day and he told me “I have $150K that I pulled out of the stock market and it’s just sitting there doing nothing. Take it and invest it in Real Estate. Just do whatever you want with it. I trust you.”This is a great place to be and this will happen to [...]

You Don’t Really Need a Good Credit Score

But with better credit there are more opportunitiesI tell people that you don’t need good credit to invest in Real Estate. I explain that you can do all kinds of things without any money and without a good credit rating. For example, you can do referrals, assignments, sandwich lease options, and maybe a couple of more strategies. Where you start [...]

Lease Option Fever

Another Lease Options Mini-SeminarThanks to everyone who came out to our Lease Options session tonight. Here is a quick recap on how to make money with Lease Options.There are basically two kinds of Lease Options. Purchase Lease Options, where you Purchase the property from the Seller and Lease Option the same property to a potential Buyer. The [...]

Extend You Buying Power with Joint Ventures

Increase your investment portfolio using Joint Ventures.A joint Venture is an agreement between two or more parties to perform some kind of mutually beneficial business transaction together. The agreement lays out what each party will invest, what each party will do and what each party will receive. For example, you may want to enter into a JV [...]

You Can’t Make Money in Real Estate Investing Where I Live

There are good deals everywhere. You just have to look. I hear this all the time. “I can’t make money in Real Estate Investing where I live. All the good deals are gone. Real Estate Investing doesn’t work. There are too many people already doing it.” Depending on where you live will determine your investment strategy. For example, [...]

Can I be a Real Estate Investor with bad credit and no money?

Absolutely. I do it all the time.It still amazes me how many times this question gets asked. I have purchased all my properties with nothing down and I continue to do so. I used to have bad credit and I still don’t have great credit. The problem with my credit now is that I have so many mortgages. If you have no money, you can acquire properties [...]

Equity Rich, Cash Flow Poor

There will be times in your Real Estate Investing business where you will wonder what you have gotten yourself into. You have to manage your cash flow properly and look at the return on investment for each particular situation. Also, you may have a long term strategy that will only see your ultimate return  much later (lease options) [...]

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