Helping People with Real Estate Investing … featuring Jim Pellerin, Author of "7 Steps to Real Estate Riches"
Tuesday September 7th 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

‘nothing down’ Archives

Get Paid 5 Times For One Deal

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lease Option Preferred Buyers Program

Get paid to shop for Real Estate.One of the initial problems we had with Lease Options is buyers walking away after we found them a property. We spent all this time understanding what kind of property our buyers were looking for then we spent all this time looking for properties for them to buy. Then, when it comes time to sign the deal, they [...]

Your Network is Your Net Worth: Your Real Social Network

The more people you know, the more money you will make.I have said this many times, and I have heard other people say this many times. But until you experience it, you don’t really realize how powerful your Network can be. We started our Real Estate Investing business like a lot of people. We were running ads looking for properties, looking for [...]

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 [...]

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