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I Have No Cash to Invest in Real Estate

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Sub Prime Lending, Seller Finance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Over Leveraged, Over Financed, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Investment, Getting Started, Flipping, Financing, Equity, Economy on Aug 28, 2008


Many people do not understand the liquidity of real estate transactions and are often lead to believe that the transaction hinges on the accessibility of cash money. In this day and age of a troubled economy, few have such means. The reality is there are other benefits to explore when embarking upon a real estate transaction that has less to do with cash funds and more to

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Think You Want To Invest in Real Estate ?

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Single Families, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Investment, Flipping, Economy on Jul 11, 2008

The Real Estate carnival has come to town......some want to get off the rides while countless more not so experienced in the roller coaster market want to try their hand at it.

With losses on Wall Street nearing in the trillions one would assume that investors would have learned to test the temperature of the water before diving in. On the contrary, many are jumping in to the fray with little

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How is Your Housing Market Relative to Mine?

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Recession, Real Estate Investment, Pre Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Flipping, Economy, Appreciation on Jul 08, 2008

Determining the period of time when house pricing will stabilize in the U.S. can be equated to playing a game of chance in Vegas, and placing $20,000 on Black at a roulette table. While the talking heads with their doctoral degrees may disagree as to when exactly housing markets will stabilize one thing is for sure, sometimes when you are told that the sun will shine, all your given is clouds

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Finding A Bargain for Bargain-Hunters

Posted by: Nick Johnson in Rehab Formula, Rehab, Pre Foreclosure, Motivated Sellers, Flipping, Bank Owned on Jun 05, 2008

Wholesaling or "flipping" a property involves finding a fixer-upper, snapping it up, and immediately reselling it to another investor who will rehab the property and make a profit from the improvements. There below are tips for those who want to get started with wholesaling.

Bargain Property The first step in wholesaling is finding a bargain or "distressed" property. These are often FSBOs (For Sale By

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Building a Rapport and Negotiating With Your Contractor

Posted by: Nick Johnson in Rehab, Real Estate Investment, Foreclosure, Flipping on May 09, 2008

In flipping homes, there are certain aspects that a real estate investor has to endure. These are to buy low-priced homes, renovate and sell them again at a higher price. Although these things may seem easy to some people, there is still another important aspect of home flipping that needs to be handled well. This is about negotiating with contractors to do the renovation works, which can be a

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Keeping Good Communication With Your Contractor

Posted by: Nick Johnson in Rehab, Real Estate Investment, Flipping on May 08, 2008

You're riding high. Armed with pre-foreclosure lists, you've gone door-to-door and established a relationship with a motivated seller. With the closing day looming, it's time to find the right contractor to "make the magic happen." You've done your homework and proposed at time schedule, price analysis and-obviously-expected income.

But... something changes. Now maimed with an exceedingly

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Flipping Vs. Fraud

Posted by: Nick Johnson in Real Estate Investment, Mortgage Fraud, Fraud, Flipping on Apr 30, 2008

When the words "flipping" and "fraud" are mentioned, my mind drifts off to visions of scandalous actions. However in reference to real estate some view the terms as being synonymous with one and other, I would like to point out what they actually are. "Flipping" is basically the idea behind buying something cheap, fixing it up so that it is nicer then it was when you originally bought it, and