‘Invest Posts’ Archives
How To Find Money For Your Investments
When you are first starting out in Real Estate Investing you may not have a lot of capital. You will probably want to start with nothing down deals. But what you will find is that, the more active you are, the more money you will attract. Just by meeting people, talking to people, networking, etc. you will start getting a reputation [...]
What Is Cap Rate And How To Use It?
Cap Rate or Capitalization Rate is a financial indicator that helps guide you in your decision to invest in a certain property. These financial indicators can be confusing and misleading. To calculate the Cap Rate you first have to find out what the Net Operation Income (NOI) is for the building. This is simply your income minus [...]
Leverage People and Money
Looking back on December I had a record month. A record month so far. When I looked closely at the deals it became obvious that I had earned a lot of money but I also had paid out a lot of money. I paid a lot of money to sales people and investors. There were basically 3 types of deals that we worked on in December, 2009. We did 4 sandwich [...]
How Much Should I Pay For A Property?
The market will determine price When looking to purchase an investment property, you will want to make sure you don't pay too much. My strategy is that I am always looking for motivated sellers. These are sellers that need to sell their property for one reason or another and they just haven't been able to and they are running out of time. The [...]
Always Have An Exit Strategy
Know What You Will Do Before You Invest Whenever you are looking at acquiring an Investment property, should should always know what you plan on doing with it. You need to know your exit strategy. Your exit strategy may also include a number of things to prepare for this strategy. Your exit strategy will also influence how you acquire [...]
Don’t Set Your Option Price Too High
Price It Right For You And The Buyer. When setting up a Lease Option investment you will need to decide what your Option Price is. Your Option Price is the price that the Tenant Buyer will buy your property from you when they decide to exercise their option sometime in the future. This could be anywhere from 1 to 5 years. Most of my Lease [...]
How To Help Your Tenant Buyers
Sell them a duplex. One of the problems new home buyers or new Tenant Buyers have is that they can't always afford the higher monthly payments needed to be in one of our Lease Option properties. The rent we charge has to cover all of our expenses such as mortgage, taxes and insurance. Then we have to add on an additional amount to build up a [...]
Get Paid 5 Times For One Deal
Here is an interesting spin on a couple of Real Estate Investment Strategies that you can use. You can combine a Buy, Fix and Flip with a Lease Option for some great results. Normally, I am not a big fan of Buy, Fix and Flips but this approach eliminates a couple of costs normally associated with this strategy and we aren't flipping it. Let's [...]
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 [...]
Partner with Other Investors
There's Lots of Deals to Go Around One thing beginners seem to have a hard time with is that "there are so many other people out there doing the same thing, how do I compete?" You don't. You partner. There are enough deals to go around for everyone. Also, your Real Estate Investment Strategy should be unique enough so you are attracting a [...]
