When I was just getting started as a wholesaler, one of my greatest fears was that I was not going to be able to estimate repair costs accurately for my end buyers. I had no prior rehab experience, and the thought of learning the costs involved in...
Topics: real estate rehabbing, Real Estate Wholesaling, rehab property, wholesale

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Having a mission is important. To run a successful business, you need to be on a mission. Yet many of us small business owners (particularly real estate investors and professionals) skip writing a mission statement. Companies put their mission statement..
Topics: business, Entrepreneurship

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If there really is an economic recovery underway–no matter how weak–one sure thing that would kill it is a devastating collapse of the commercial real estate market.And, I’m afraid, that is exactly what appears to be shaping up in the...
Topics: Commentary, Commercial Real Estate, lending

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I’m a marketing director at a real estate firm.  If I had to sum up what I do every day in three words it would be, “I generate leads.”  It’s both much easier and much harder than you would think.  Confused?  Let me take you...
Topics: Commentary, Real Estate Marketing

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One study of mortgages during the Great Depression found that almost half of urban, owner-occupied homes (on which there was a mortgage) were in default by 1934. The government’s answer was to sponsor the creation of Fannie Mae in 1938 (or as it...
Topics: condos, financing, Financing Real Estate, foreclosure, investors, lending, real estate

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