Real Estate Investing

The Awesome Life of a Real Estate Investor

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Can you answer this question: Why are you a real estate investor? Why did you choose this path in life? Some days it’s easy to get caught up in the details and forget what got you motivated to run your own business in the first place. If you take a step back every once in a while, you’ll quickly remember the reasons that make your choice the most awesome!
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Weekly Kick-Off

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 | Bank owned, Foreclosures, Real Estate Investing | 6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

  • Fannie Mae Looking for More Money
  • Delayed Evictions Let Many Live for Free
  • Homeowner Tax Credit Not Helping Home Sales
  • Five Factors That Will Impact the Future of Housing
  • Top Ten Cities with the Biggest Rent Drops
  • Vacant Second Homes Means More to Sell
  • Rentals Mean Long-Term Profits

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How Awesome Are YOU?

Friday, March 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 22 Comments

I’m sitting here having breakfast with the team and staff at Strategic Real Estate Coach. But I wanted to step away for a second and send you this quick message.

Over the last two days we’ve been having our quarterly company meeting off-site and I wanted to fill you in on our main topic of discussion…

YOU!!!

The meeting is open forum style, where our team has the floor.

Two things so far really stood out.

First, was the Awesome Report…

We went around the room and shared what happened in the last week or so that was truly awesome. And I’m not talking about in our business, but in our lives.

It’s unbelievable how great it feels to share in everyone’s really good news – a perfect start to the meeting, and a great way to bring us all together as a family.

The second big thing just amazed me.

And that’s how incredible each and every conversation about growing our company keeps going back to the subject of how we can provide YOU with a better, higher-quality experience and how each of us can support YOU more to reach your goals and dreams as a real estate investor.

So with that said, I wanted to ask you two direct questions…

What’s AWESOME in your life right now?

And what can my company and I do to help support you more, and help you reach your goals?

If you could do me a HUGE favor and  leave me a comment (below) with the answers to those questions.

It would really make a huge impact to help us to support YOU better.

***Now before I let you go I also wanted to let you know that tomorrow afternoon we’re holding an encore presentation of last night’s training call. We had such great feedback we’ve decided to do it again.

Get on the call and find out how you can be one of my local Apprentice Partners and how we can do deals together in your area.

Click the link below to register for tomorrow’s call at 1:00 pm Eastern/10:00 am Pacific:

Click Here To Register

To Your Success,

Josh Cantwell

Strategic Real Estate Coach

P.S. Be sure to tune in to tomorrow’s encore Webinar Training at 1:00 pm Eastern / 10:00 am Pacific. Register here:

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Making Informed Estimates Means Not Having to Rehab Your Profits

Friday, March 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Succeeding in life is often about making solid, informed decisions. The same is true with real estate investing. If you can understand the difference that a smart decision can make, you’ll be able to watch your business – and your profits – grow. Estimating the cost of repairs is one area of real estate investing that can separate the profits from the losses. Underestimating the cost of repairs is a very common mistake that novice real estate investors make. Don’t fall into this trap! Ok, that sounds simple enough, right? But how do you actually prevent repair costs from eating into your profits? Do your homework.
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Proposed HUD Rules Could Negatively Impact Investors – Speak Up TODAY!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

All real estate investors need to pay careful attention to the information below and take action today. HUD guidelines propose to eliminate all seller financing unless the seller lives in the home or becomes a licensed mortgage originator. The deadline to comment on the proposed SAFE Mortgage Licensing ACT Rules is Friday, March 5, 2010. HUD will determine the minimum standards for SAFE compliance once the comments are reviewed and decisions made.
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5 Tricky Ways to Sell Your Home

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Bank owned, Real Estate Investing, Wholesale properties | No Comments

Trying odd things might even the odds when it comes to selling a home these days.

Some homeowners and real estate agents are thinking beyond price, condition and location to get buyers in the door and make a sale.

Michael Travis, an agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Portsmouth, N.H., equates it to being noticed among potential daters on a dating Web site.

“You have to stand out,” he says.

Here are five offbeat ways to sell a home, and they might inspire you to think outside the box.

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Dry Your Eyes and Lower the Price

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Foreclosures, Real Estate Investing, Real estate short sales | No Comments

By ELSA BRENNER

NEVER in all his 17 years selling real estate has Mark Seiden gone through as many boxes of tissues as he has in the past 12 months.

It’s not he who is crying, but some of his customers — as they come to grips with the reality that their houses are worth far less in today’s market than what they had hoped, said Mr. Seiden, who owns Mark J. Seiden Real Estate in Briarcliff Manor.

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What Recovery? New Home Sale Plunge!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Bank owned, Foreclosures, Real Estate Investing, Real estate short sales | No Comments

New Home Sales Plunge

By SARA MURRAY


Sales of new single-family homes plunged last month, underscoring the fragility in the housing market.

Sales dropped 11.2% in January from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The decline brought sales to their lowest level since the government began tracking the numbers in 1963. Sales were 6.1% lower than in January 2009.

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Weekly Kick-Off

Monday, March 1st, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

This Week’s Topics:

  • Volcker: Hybrid Public and Private Mortgage Control a Bad Idea
  • Underwater Homeowners Have Another Reason to Dread Tax Season
  • Mortgage Rates Top 5% Mark
  • Shadow Inventory Leads to Foreclosure Flood
  • Can a Code of Conduct Counter Appraisal Corruption?
  • 10 Things to Know About the HVCC
  • No Short Sale on an REO, But Profit Potential Still There

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1/4 of All Mortgages are Upside Down

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Bank owned, Foreclosures, Pre-foreclosure, Real Estate Investing, Real estate short sales, Short Sales, Wholesale properties | Comments Off

Feb. 23, 2010, 6:21 p.m. EST

11.3 million homeowners underwater on mortgage

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — More than 11.3 million homeowners — nearly one-fourth of all Americans with a mortgage — owe more on their loan than their home is now worth, according to a report released Tuesday by FirstAmerican CoreLogic.

More than 10% of people with mortgages owe 25% more than their home is worth.

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