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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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Escrow Companies and Licensing

Escrow Companies and Licensing
A real estate transaction has a lot of moving parts and escrow companies exist to be a neutral third party that handles closings, funds, pro-ration of taxes, ties in the loans and basically makes sure the transaction happens the way it is supposed too.  As we have started buying...
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First Time Investors. 59%?

First Time Investors. 59%?
My posts have been a bit scare lately.  May was a very busy month and it seems like June is going to be even more busy. The market continues to be a bit on the crazy side.  Retail resale values seem to be trending down with less than average activity, on the opposite side investors...
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Focusing on a particular property?

Focusing on a particular property?
Every so often an investor will explain to me the specifics of a property they are trying to buy.  After giving me the details and explaining the twenty different ways they have tried to make the deal work, they are hoping I have the secret idea #21 that will finally get the deal...
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Book Review: Crash Boom by Greg Rand

Book Review: Crash Boom by Greg Rand
The publishers of Crash Boom were nice enough to send me a review copy of the book.  The premise is that the Real Estate market is majorly cyclical and if you pay attention when the bottom is forming in the Real Estate market and you want to be a buyer.  He basically reviews the...
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Real Estate Gurus Blast from the Past

Real Estate Gurus Blast from the Past
I ran across these videos from late night guru Tommy Vu. These are pretty funny if you got some a bit of time on your hands. Some of the quotes he was famous for: “Are you man enough to get off your lazy American ass and go to Vu’s seminars?” “A lot of your...
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Cash Buyers a Big Percentage in California

Cash Buyers a Big Percentage in California
The Wall Street Journal released an interesting article about the number of cash-buyers in certain markets. They show Stockton, CA which is quite a depressed market at 29%, that is where I guess the Inland Empire would be.  Los Angeles County is at a more reasonable 18.7%.  They...
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