Scaling Up and Watching your Cash Flow

Scaling Up and Watching your Cash Flow
According to the SBA, over 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years.  I would venture to say that real estate investing is a lot tougher and even more fail.  There are so many moving pieces but managing the cash flow is the silent killer. Here is how the process works...

Get Used to Hearing “No”

Get Used to Hearing “No”
I try to buy a lot of houses and every so often I think I am pretty close and am disappointed to hear the dreaded No from a seller.  Sometimes they are less polite and use words like: “cheap”, “crazy”, “wasting my time”, etc. Here are some of the...

Getting Started? This should be easier than Wholesaling

Getting Started?  This should be easier than Wholesaling
I have posted a lot about wholesaling and how I think it should be done on this blog.  Many beginners seem attracted to it because it requires the least amount of capital and has very few moving parts.  In reality I think this is one of the hardest things a real estate investor...

2011 Rental Property Summary

2011 Rental Property Summary
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while you know I like stats.  I thought I would compile some stats for what 2011 looked like as landlords for us. New Purchases 26 new rental properties 22 are single family houses 2 are duplexes 1 two houses on a lot 1 commercial building The...

New Year… and Finally a New Post

New Year… and Finally a New Post
Well, 2011 is now officially finished.  It was a great year for us and we hit almost all of our goals. The holiday season being so prevalent I have been thinking a lot about what went right in 2011 and what went wrong.  How to make 2012 even a better year and what to focus on. ...