Many new real estate investors wonder how to get started flipping houses. One of the first questions I usually get asked from a new student is the type of seller lead they should target. Many assume that they should get started with preforeclosures, but is that really the best way to begin? The answer isn’t ...…
One of the frequent questions new real estate investors have is how to get started flipping houses. They watch a few TV episodes of “Flip This House” or a similar show and want to get right into building the business and raking in the paychecks. But the question they often fail to ask themselves is…. ...…
If there’s one principle to real estate investing success, it’s to surrounding yourself with greatness. Rare are the people who achieve monumental success in real estate — or life, for that matter — on their own. We need mentors, we need coaches, and we need inspiration. Last night I was fortunate enough to spend time ...…
Are you a new real estate investor? Whether you’re already enjoying the incredible education and support of the FortuneBuilders Mastery real estate coaching program or not, there’s one absolute truth in this industry: networking is critical to your real estate investment success. And that means knowing how to survive your first REIA meeting. Before we ...…
If you’re an active real estate investor, you know how important it is to raise private money. Of course, if you’re a wholesaler then you need little or no funds at all. But if flipping houses is your primary exit strategy for making your real estate profits, then you’ll always want to be raising private ...…
As real estate investors, we often have to meet with homeowners directly to close a deal. Usually this means arranging a meeting at the house to do a walk-through, estimate repairs and continue building rapport that we first initiated on the phone or over email. And ultimately, we hope to close the deal and go ...…
Do you live in Hawaii and want to learn how to flip houses? You’re in luck because my mentors and friends from FortuneBuilders, the nation’s #1 real estate investor training company, are about to descend up on Hawaii the second weekend in January 2013. They’ll be both in Oahu AND in Maui! It’s no secret ...…
Marketing is the lifeblood of just about any business out there. I don’t care if you’re in real estate investing, medical supplies or Chinese food. Marketing is where it’s at — everything else is secondary. Accounting, sales, legal, finance — all important, but they can all line up behind Marketing in the pecking order of ...…
I had the pleasure of spending last weekend at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with some pretty successful real estate investors from around America. It was a meeting of the founders and coaches of FortuneBuilders Mastery, the top-rated real estate investment education program. I’m talking about people like Than Merrill and Paul Esajian, who you likely know from A&E’s “Flip ...…
I’m a big fan of the Spike TV show “Bar Rescue”, where consultant Jon Taffer converts in a dying bar into a prospering enterprise in the span of a few days. It’s clear from just one episode that Taffer believes in the power of presentation. But I don’t mean presentation just in the visuals of ...…