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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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Your Office - Faxes, Software, and Phones Plus a $30,000 Tip

In this article let’s discuss setting up your office with printers, faxes, telephones and cell phones. What to get when and where.
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 wholesaling, birdogging [...]

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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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A Former Bird-Dog’s Perspective

The first thing you want to put aside is the notion that you need to form a corporation, get a business license, buy all new computers and things like this. This is a plague I had too when I was new, guess it was part of my learning curve. But what it kept me from [...]

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What is Driving For Dollars?

Driving for dollars, simply put, means driving through subdivisions looking for abandoned houses. You will spot them easily once you have drove for dollars a few times. They will be the houses that have boarded up windows, overgrown grass and neglected landscaping, and as seasoned investors like to call it, deferred (house) maintenance.
Real estate investors [...]

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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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