Real Estate Investment

In the real estate world, there are two basic ways to get more deals. The first is obvious: to go out and find properties through marketing, networking, and hitting the pavement. The second is unconventional, but lucrative with the right approach: make better deals out of the properties you’re already looking at. There’s no such… Continue Reading

Beware the ides of March. These famous words mark the day that Julius Caesar was tragically assassinated to death by his senate. Caesar’s stabbing followed a period of unrest in ancient Rome, and eventually led to Rome’s transformation from a republic to an empire. However, the ominous origins of this phrase are rooted in literature…. Continue Reading

I see it happen to successful residential real estate investors all the time. They get to a point where they’re doing a little bit of everything – working on rehabs, picking up some residential rentals to hold, assigning some of their contracts when the numbers  make sense and looking at bigger deals. They’re in a… Continue Reading

A tenant has left and your rental unit has gone dark. Or, worse, you were forced to evict several tenants. Losing tenants is a landlord’s worst nightmare, but at a certain point, you must accept responsibility. For the time being, this means that you are losing a major source of income. You must also consider… Continue Reading

If you’re thinking of using your retirement funds to help fund your real estate investing, it won’t be long before you come across the concept of a self-directed IRA LLC. What is an IRA LLC? Completing a real estate transaction with a self-directed IRA can be a slow and cumbersome process.  Since an IRA is… Continue Reading