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The beginner’s guide to real estate investing / Gary W. Eldred. ... Page i
The
BEGINNER’S
Guide to
REAL ESTATE
INVESTING
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9 Get Started Now
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It’s too late to get started now. I should have invest...
... extra
money each month to help fund another investment
(
and another,
and another, and another
)
. The good news is that you can create
this money by investing, working harder and/ or smarter, or ... the tool
we need to obtain the things we really want. We didn’t make up
these rules, but they are the rules nonetheless.
At this point you’re probably saying to yourself...
... home. The percentages are the cash-on-cash return from the
amount invested in the property. The amount invested is the down
payment, which is the number on the left-hand side of the chart.
The ... This is the over-50 crowd, and
when it comes to retirement, they’re scared to death. Statis-
tics show that once they retire they’ll probably have to go
back to work...
... sub-
jects, not just real estate. They can be tougher to locate but are
worth the effort. You can literally turn your daily commute into an
education effort by using the time to listen to these audio ... it’s nice to be on the positive side of the line at the
end of each month, but when it comes to true wealth building, it’s
the other components that really do the...
... willing to do. For these people
are not just selling a property, they are buying relief.
accept less.
High pressure
forces sellers to
Under these circumstances, as long as the sellers believe they ... profitable use for the
property.
This short list does not even come close to exhausting the reasons
people miss the opportunities that lie before them. As the best-selling...
... But elec
-
tronic shopping for real estate (and mortgages) has made the MLS book
as obsolete as a slide rule. (For a listing of websites useful to real estate
investors, see the Internet Appendix. ... attempt to locate good deals, talk
with real estate lawyers, courthouse officials, foreclosure speculators, and
others who are in the know about these types of sales. Be...
...
Back then, large real estate tax shelter benefits added fuel to the fire. In
a situation similar to the dot-coms and tech stocks in the late 199 0s,
rapid price increases fed on themselves—until the ...
Other Issues of Safety and Security
Get an expert to
assess the risks of
an
environmentally
suspect property.
Other safety issues include smoke alarms, carbon
mono...
... objective sense.
Rather, they enter negotiations to extract (almost) as much from the
other party as possible. These investors differ primarily in the way they
try to win these deal points.
◆ ... approach offers you enough profit potential to offset risks such as
cost overruns, slow sales, and bureaucratic delays.
Convert Apartments or Houses to Office Space
Sometimes it s p...
... a house), they may
want to assign their lease to someone else. To address this issue, you can
adopt one of these positions:
1. No right to sublet or assign.
2. Right to sublet or assign with ... sellers shall not be arbitrarily
withheld.
The sellers may want the right to approve your assignees just to sat-
isfy themselves that the assignees possess the money and cre...
... tenants a welcome basket
of flowers, fruits, beverages, and snacks. If the ten
-
ants are new to the neighborhood, provide them a
map and a list of nearby shops, stores, schools, ser
-
vices, and ... tenant segment may change their
preferences. You might even discover new, more
profitable tenant segments to serve. The most suc
-
cessful investors persistently adapt and refine their...
... investors in stocks by a long shot. Nevertheless, as one more real
estate investing alternative, you can buy the stocks issued by real estate
investment trusts (REITs) and large homebuilders such ... these selected character
-
istics, the scorer s mathematical formula assigns you a number. Suppos-
edly, this assessment accurately gauges the risks you present to the lende...
...
can repossess a car.
Today, though, many states have made it tougher for sellers to re-
possess properties. Now, courts sometimes force contract-for-deed sell-
ers to file a foreclosure lawsuit. ... creditors give
them. Unless the repository has botched the data it s been given (which
does happen), the repository must contact the misreporting creditor. If
the creditor does n...
... operations through no-name sub
-
sidiaries). Each player sets its own costs, terms, and loan -to- value ratios.
The structure of the deals also varies over time. Sometimes too much
money is chasing too ... of their
right to buy their leased home. Sometimes they change their mind.
Sometimes their finances fail to improve as much as they hoped. Some
-
times their personal circumstance...