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Should an Investor Become a Realtor?

As an investor you can flip, wholesale, and buy creatively. As a realtor you can do the very same things. But at some point in the negotiations, you must simply disclose that you are realtor. No big deal.
Investors are governed by the state, federal, and local laws. Realtors are governed by the board of Realtors. [...]

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Realty Vs Real Estate Vs Real Property

Realty and personal property terms have often been confused as to what they exactly mean. Here we will clear that right up for you. We will look at the terms personal property, realty, land, real estate, and lastly, real property.
Let’s begin with personal property. Personal property, also known as chattel, is everything that is not [...]

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The Formula For Buying Foreclosures

With all the foreclosures occurring, now is a most advantageous time to buy and invest in houses. But how do you know what is a good deal and what is not. Well if you want to rehab, wholesale, landlord or bird dog these guidelines and specifics will help you.
Lets start with what is actually a [...]

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This Out of State Wholesale Deal Nets This Investor $7,500! You Can Do it Too!

Some months ago, I purchased a house with no money down as a wholesale house deal from the wife who lived in Nevada but whose husband lived over seas in Venezuela. In investor slang, we call it missing or absentee seller. I have been in real estate investing for years but this was a new [...]

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Success Story - $14,000 Net in 23 Days, Flipping a Wholesale House

Some months ago, a seller called me in response to a postcard mailing saying that he was looking to sell a single family house. And yet he was waiting for his son to move out of the house and said it would need a lot of work.
Over the years I have purchased many wholesale house [...]

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The Dynamic Importance of a Website As an Investor, Or Realtor

A website is of great value to you and your customers. You can easily put your testimonials, houses for sale, contact information, products for sale and many other things right there. On all of your advertising products you can put your website address. It can pay you huge cash dividends, it certainly has for me. [...]

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The Investors Office - Software, Faxes, and Phones; Plus a $29,000 Tip

In this article and its sister article we will discuss setting up your office regarding printers, faxes, and telephones. What to buy, when, where, and why!
My virtual assistant (va) always saves me a lot of time and frustration with software programs I do not know how to run, so I can do what I do well, which is [...]

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Make an Extra $1,000 - $5,000 Per Month Part-time

Does this sound familiar, “I am working full time and still needed more money to pay for the extras.”
So you begin to look at different opportunities. I know because I too looked at many things and settled on bird dogging for seasoned investors. Real estate investors.
I read and bought many different courses and settled on [...]

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Never Use Zillow.com to Comp Properties and Here’s Why

I will cut straight to the chase on why you should never use Zillow.com, PropertyValues.com or any other online property comping tool. You only want to use the multiple listing service (MLS) which is what Realtors have access too and use to comp properties.
First, understand that to “comp” means to run a property comparable, to take the [...]

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Help with Choosing a Contractor

Rehabbing houses, when your new that can be tricky at best. Contractors are typically the biggest problem when it comes to renovating the house. I have see them all, dealt with them all, and hired and fired more than I care to say.
So I figured out what to do, how to see if they are good and [...]

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