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Investors need to have faith like potatoes: Since Ashley and I got married, I’ve been trying to grow potatoes - notice I said “try”- It’s been crazy: every year something happens. The first year I didn’t know you were supposed to mound. Mounding is when you put dirt around the stalk of the plant. If you mound as the plant grows, it stimulates the plant to produce more potatoes....
What are your options? When you hear the word option in real estate, you probably think of a lease-option strategy. This is where you lease a house to a tenant buyer with bumpy credit. You call them a tenant buyer because they’re renting your house with the hope of buying it from you in the near future. That’s where the option comes in. You sell them the option to purchase the...
Word of Mouth Advertising is a big deal in any business. Your customers need to know what you do and how to get in touch with you. In real estate investing, advertising presents a unique challenge in that you nearly never have repeat customers. That’s because most people don’t have multiple houses to sell. In order to drive your investing business forward, you need to be advertising...
Attorneys are people too: There’s a movie I really like called “The 13th Warrior.” It’s based on the epic of Beowulf with a few twists. There’s an extra character, played by Antonio Banderas, who ends up being the epics author. Another twist happens with Grendle. In the epic, Grendle is a humanoid-ogre type beast who appears at night to fight and feast on the warriors sleeping in...
Private money loans: How many of you have heard the phrase, “it takes money to make money?” This is a true statement if you want to make it in real estate investing. People often make the assumption, however, that you must own the money it takes to make said money. You don’t need to own it- you just need someone to let you use their money so you can do the deal. These people are...