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Legal Advice: A Real Estate Investors Team of Advisors

One of my mantra’s is “going slow” when testing your niche with real estate investing. It is easy to acquire rentals, build up an inventory of wholesale , and/or rehab to retail properties.  Often one doesn’t find flaws until the ball starts rolling. It can become a death sentence to your real estate business and/or… Read more »

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Rehabbing Houses: It’s All About Doing Your Homework

Rehabbing houses to sell retail is a business plain and simple. If you wholesale homes or have a rental portfolio,  do not kid yourself into thinking you know what it takes.   Yes -in the hysteria of housing boom you could overcome just about any fundamental mistake let alone move the poorest planned dogs. The game… Read more »

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Missing the Keys to Success: It Really is This Simple

Many out there are looking for the magic cure to creating financial independence and often jumping from one direction to another.  Whether your investing in real estate, a MLM, or some other business idea –Stop jumping from get-quick rich idea to another! Folks -it is true that we all need to find our own niche;… Read more »

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Rehabbing Real Estate Investments: Beware the Contractor

Rehabbing is a vital part of a real estate business whether one is landlording, wholesaling, and/or rehabbing to sell retail. To successfully operate your businesses, one has to understand (at least) basic construction, costs, and regulations.  Other than improperly valuing a real estate investment, rehabbing is the other component that can make the difference between survival,… Read more »

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You Can’t Handle the Truth (elevators slowed down) Part II

Whew….. I think we’ve reached a point were the elevator has at least slowed it’s descent -if not come to a halt for the time being. I am seeing pockets of stability, multiple bid situations, and anxious home buyers in our local Charlotte North Carolina real estate markets.  Both real estate investors and home buyers… Read more »

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A New Year & More Challenges….

As some of you may know, I’ve been a Hard Money Lender in Charlotte North Carolina. Needless to say, we were running along fairly well in our local real estate markets till Wachovia Bank imploded at the end of September, 2008. Sure we were slowing down in 2007 & 2008. However, our markets were still… Read more »

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2010: My Outlook on The Year Ahead…

Suffice it to say, I’m not going to miss 2009 with regards to my business and investments…. From a family standpoint it was absolutely fantastic. Emmy hit 4 this summer swimming like a fish and Max at 7 is growing out of my concept of ‘my little boy’…. Oh, they just grow to fast. 2009… Read more »