Commercial Real Estate Investment Articles

This is my fourth installment in a blog series about investing in real estate using OPM (Other People’s Money).  My last article, Private Lenders = Cash Flow + Infinite Returns, focused on buying and holding real estate using joint ventures.  This blog article will focus on financing strategies to make short-term real estate ventures easy to finance. 1. Hard Money Loans

In the previous blog article, Quick Start Guide to a Wholesale Business – Part III,  I discussed finding a title company or a closing attorney and touched on the basis of a real estate contract. Let’s expand more on the same…

Did you catch the first two articles in this series about investing without needing bank financing?  The first one was titled, Fire The Bank and was all about the reasons you should invest in real estate today without relying on bank financing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I feel like my real estate efforts have come full circle, and I can clearly see my future path ahead of me. On Thursday, I closed on my first apartment building and walked away from closing with an $11,000 check! If you have read my other success stories ($24,000 cash, $138,000 Equity and More and My Second Success Story), then you will notice that my deals usually come in pairs. This one is no exception.

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

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.