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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...
Can you make creative offers with a realtor? You certainly can. Agents will present any and all written offers to their clients. Just make sure you realize this doesn’t make the seller’s agent your agent, however. At the end of the day, the seller has a relationship with their agent. They trust their agent and have hired them to council them as to what is in their best interest....