How to Maximize the Return on Your Real Estate Marketing Dollars

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When I went to my first real estate investing boot camp, which was 5 days long, I was very new to the business. Prior to this, I had read a few books, listened to a Charlton Sheets course, and attended a free one day seminar in Atlanta (basically a pitch-a-thon for various real estate gurus and their courses). Even though the one day seminar wasn’t packed with too much content, I’m very grateful for it because that is where I met my first real estate investing mentor, Louis Brown.

My education was limited to book knowledge at that point. I had yet to take much practical action towards my becoming a real estate investor. I vividly remember  walking out of the first lunch break and feeling like I had just been stuffed with a mountain of information, and we still had 4 and a half days left!! It was both a good and bad feeling. Good because I was learning a ton of great information. Bad because I realized how little that I knew. It was a great experience all together though. The following week, it sent me out into the field fired up and ready take over the world.

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Tags: creative real estate investing, Marketing, real estate investor marketing, real estate marketing
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How to Build Your Real Estate Investing Wholesale Buyers List

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I’ve been on a bunch of coaching calls recently with students. One of the main strategies of interest to investors seems to be wholesaling. And I think it’s great!

Wholesaling is an awesome way for beginning investors to get their feet wet without sticking their neck out too far. You can virtually limit your risk to next to zero if you use the right techniques. Wholesaling is also a great way to create cash flow for beginners and pros alike. Lot’s of times, you can wholesale deals for anywhere between $3K and $10K. Not bad for never having to even close on the property, right?

With that being said, there have been many questions in reference to building a list of wholesale buyers. Soooo, here we go . . .

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Tags: creative real estate investing, Real Estate Investment Selling Strategies, real estate wholesaling, wholesaling
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3 Types of People Most Likely to Invest with You

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Due to the results of the most recent poll on the blog, I wanted to write a quick post on financing strategies.

In today’s market, it seems like every investor is searching for creative financing solutions. Most traditional means and methods that investors have used to close deals have all but disappeared. Which leads us to a question that I am hearing more and more . . .

“What’s the best financing strategy to take advantage of the HUGE opportunity in today’s real estate market?”

If you were following along on the blog about a month ago, you know that we are big proponents to the power of using private investors. We did an entire video series on how to get private money. Below is a breakdown on who you should approach to become one of your private lenders.

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Tags: creative financing, creative real estate investing, Private Lender, private lending, Private Money, real estate financing strategies, real estate investment financing
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The Secret to Getting Started in Real Estate Investing

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Most beginning investors allow the lack of financing to be their easy excuse as to why they haven’t done their first deal so they continually seek to learn more about ways to finance deals. This brings up some interesting questions . . .

What is the most important thing to focus on as a beginning real estate investor?

What’s the secret to getting started?

Should you seek financing options and put everything else on hold or should you start marketing aggressively to get your first deal under contract? If you choose the second option, what if a seller accepts one of your offers? What are you going to do then?

The most important thing that you should be working on is marketing . . . outgoing efforts to find motivated sellers and/or creating incoming lead generators. True, one advantage of having some form of financing secured would be the confidence boost of knowing you can close a deal if you get one under contract. But, the advantages to moving full steam ahead with your marketing far out weigh the advantages of having financing options at hand.

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