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Thoughts from a CPA and Looking at Puerto Rico I hope everyone is having a great year so far. The real estate market is still very competitive with numerous investors fighting for deals. My personal residence has received a few direct mail pieces and I am not an out of state owner or delinquent on […]

You hear this a lot that Real Estate Investing is a relationship business and it is so true. It pays off big time to keep good relationships with people you work with. Take care of people you work with and they will take care of you. This week is a perfect example of how keeping […]

How to Partner on Direct Mail Campaigns When we first got started fix & flipping, we were scrapping to get by. We’d found a couple deals but knew we needed more access to deal flow. In the meantime, we had a couple of friends who were getting interested in real estate investing as well. While […]

Learning to Teach through the Creation of Training Videos In my last post mentioned I have become overwhelmed in my marketing and it has actually stagnated my growth. My returned mail was overwhelming I had some help in my office but it wasn’t consistent and lacked the details needed for effective tracing of a good […]

We purchased a flip earlier this year and we are going to be starting rehab on the project next week so I wanted to share before video and anticipated numbers for the project. This is a 3 bed/1.75 bath house in Highland, IN and we purchased it for $82,000 directly from a lender. The bank […]

We had purchased a house earlier this month at the foreclosure auction and it was occupied. It didn’t look like the worst house we have ever bought from the outside and it was occupied so we couldn’t see the inside of the house. There was a family of 4 living in the house with a […]

We just got another property under contract today. This property we are purchasing through another wholesaler. The house is in Miller Beach neighborhood of Gary, IN. The house is in good shape overall. It needs some TLC but it is only 4 blocks from the beach and will make a great long-term rental. We are […]

There is a little home in Ridgecrest, CA, that until the first week of January, was the local eye sore and bane of the neighborhood. The seller was a man (let’s call him Dave) who at one time, was well known and well respected in the community. Unfortunately, he had fallen on hard times after […]

Qualitative Data is Important, Not Just Quantitative! By nature, my business partner (and brother) are not pessimistic people.  So, it was certainly a rare phone conversation we had as we looked over the numbers of our most recent campaign.  It wasn’t so much that the campaign was failing, it just wasn’t yielding as much as […]