Commercial Real Estate Investment Articles

What are the three best real estate investing techniques for 2012? After carefully analyzing market reports, studying recent trends, and looking at where we are making the most money in the business right now, three investment strategies emerged as the most accessible and the most profitable for the new year.

What are the three best real estate investing techniques for 2012? After carefully analyzing market reports, studying recent trends, and looking at where we are making the most money in the business right now, three investment strategies emerged as the most accessible and the most profitable for the new year.

How do you buy your first commercial property even if you don’t have 35% down payment money, perfect credit, and millions in net worth? You have to get creative. One way to do it is with a master lease.

Peter Harris began investing in real estate in 2000. He was personally mentored by Robert Kiyosaki. He has purchased over 1,000 residential units focusing on large apartment complexes totaling over $20 million.

In my previous two blog articles, we covered the basis of wholesaling real estate and how to line up your buyers. The next step: Getting a good purchase contract and knowing where to close the deals!

In Part I of this series,  we covered the basics of the wholesaling business. Your objective in this article is to compile a list of at least 10 investors to whom you can “flip” houses. The MORE the BETTER! It is very important that you get at least 10 investors on your list before my next blog article. While you are speaking with all these investors, you will need to find an “investor friendly” title company. Following are sources for finding all the investors you’ll need to whom to sell your houses:

The last blog article I wrote was about why real estate investors should “Fire The Bank” and learn to use other people’s money (OPM) to buy houses in 2012.  I outlined three specific reasons why investors should no longer rely on bank financing.

This is a 6-part series that will teach you how to start wholesaling real estate for quick cash and good profits.

Great news. Real estate is on sale throughout the country. Inventory of distressed housing is way up, and we are experiencing the great real estate wealth transfer of our generation. What is holding you back?

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Real estate investing mistakes can be costly on so many levels. They can wipe out your potential profit and, if you make one big mistake, it can wipe you out financially and emotionally.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, “What is the best day to sell a property?”

For the last couple years, I have been inspired by success stories on CRE Online They have contributed to my motivation to get started in this business. I am thrilled to report my first success story.

I purchased two mobile homes for $3,200. One seller gave me the mobile home, but I had to pay $1,200 in back rent to the park. I purchased the other for $2,000. I did some minor cosmetic work and advertised the two mobile homes as “owner financing with $1,500 down.” Within two weeks, I got the full down payment ($1,500) for one and $900 from the other.

When it comes to real estate investing, a lot of investors put on the blinders. They scour the landscape for opportunities to purchase residential or commercial property at a steep discount, with the idea that they can revamp the property and make a large return on their investment.

The first step in buying real estate notes, in any market, is to determine the value of the underlying collateral, which is the real estate that secures the note.

[Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in Marko’s six-part series on investing in real estate foreclosures]

The key to getting great real estate deals is in having a bountiful supply of “motivated sellers.”

I’m not big on watching the so-called “House Flipping” television shows. Why? Because they’re goofy. And downright dangerous. It’s like learning to perform surgery by watching Grey’s Anatomy. Not good. While channel surfing a couple of weeks ago, I ran across a show called Flipping Vegas. It’s about house flipping and, since I moved to Las Vegas recently, I decided to watch it.

New foreclosure investors often make crucial mistakes by failing to analyze each deal all the way through the process–including the selling or “exit strategy.” It’s easy to get excited about the deal and forget that as soon as you own the property, expenses begin. So you have to invest with the end in mind.

If you’re like most real estate investors, you probably like to keep your finger on the pulse of the overall real estate investment market. If you’re looking for clues and insights and an “edge” on the competition, check out these six resources. You can add them to the mix of our more “creative” real estate investing information.

In today’s shaky economy and crazy real estate market, you can set yourself free financially by investing in real estate with low-risk creative real estate strategies. “Creative” real estate investing techniques have been around for a long, long time. When it’s easy to get cheap bank financing, they may not be as popular or necessary. But when times get tough, knowing how to invest in real estate without needing a bank is the key to your investing success. Today, bank financing for real estate has dried up. It’s tough to get even if you have great credit. So now we really need to get creative about putting real estate deals together.

As you prepare to become a successful real estate investor, I encourage you to take the following tips into consideration. They have helped me greatly as I have navigated my way through the world of real estate–and life in general. I hope these tips will make just as big of an impact on your life as they have had on mine.

Buying properties from out-of-state owners is what I consider to be the most overlooked method for getting great deals. Why? Because many top investors are NOT pursuing this method. Here’s the situation: Those who aren’t pursuing out-of-state owners often tell me, “Yeah, I need to be doing that.” And the ones who are already doing it–absolutely LOVE it!