Real Estate Geek

I wanted to write to you today, just to give you a little encouragement despite the recent flop in the mortgage market. Acquiring loans is getting much tougher, and we are going to have to change some of our approaches in order to capitalize on the ever increasing real estate investing opportunities.
Don’t Be Discouraged, There’s [...]

If you’ve heard the term “lease option to purchase” thrown around when talking to other real estate investors, agents, etc. and not sure what the term actually means, then you’ve hit the right page. You’ve done the right thing by searching the web or following this blog in order to gain the insight required to [...]

If you have been in the real esate game very long, you certainly understand the value of knowing the property tax appraisal value on any deal you are considering. And for those of you who know how to retrieve that information online, more power to you. But if you don’t know how to find that [...]

Now that you understand how HUD’s bidselect website works, I want to give you my strategy and approach to bidding HUD foreclosures. It’s relatively straight forward, and should be a cinch for you to duplicate. So here it is:
Bid Early, and Bid Often!
This may seem somewhat elementary, but it is exactly my mentality and approach [...]

As I have mentioned previously, finding an investment property at a discount can be tough, however bidding on a HUD foreclosure is extremely easy. But the question is, do you understand just how easy it is to find and bid on one of these properties? Do you know how the HUD system works, so that [...]

This article is intended to be an overview of finding investment property below market value. There are several other articles that follow this article, but I wanted to touch on the major areas that can help you to find profitable real estate investments. Some of these techniques are easy, and some of them take time [...]

That’s right, if you can master this one simple principle in your real estate investing career, and have the fortitude to follow through on deals (even if they become sour deals) you will become a success in real estate. You see, many folks that I have talked to and tried to help to get started [...]