Real Estate Investing Guide: Real Estate Wholesaling and Real Estate Secrets

Free List of Grandville Foreclosures and Homes For Sale

2009-03-12T04:42:00.001-07:00

Free List of Grandville Foreclosures and Homes For Sale
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Real Estate Investing FAQ: Buyer Locating Strategies

2009-02-26T07:28:00.001-08:00

Real Estate Secrets: A Conversation With God

2009-02-16T13:05:00.000-08:00

Real Estate Secrets: A conversation with GOD

Hey guys, Eric here

No I don't have anything to sell you today. But, I do have a
question.

What's your story?

Yes, I am talking about that story. You know the story you tell
yourself to rationalize why it's OK to not live life the way
that God or whoever you worship meant you to live.

Do you have kids or at least know a kid? Then you know exactly
how those stories go: "Hey mom or dad I just can't get a B in
science, i'm no good at it"

When kids tell these stories they have a huge advantage over you
and I because kids have someone to answer to. Kids have someone
someone to be accountable to. Someone who can see through their
B.S and set them on the right track.

When kids tell these completely untrue stories we see right
through them and straighten them out. We remind them of how
great they are, and how much potential they have.

Stop for a minute on your way back home today and picture
yourself as a child, heading home from school with a bad report
card. Except your going home to the BIG Dog Parent (God). What
would you tell him about why it is your living a sub par life?

What lines would you feed him about how things have been unfair
for you?

What do you think he would say back to you?

Would he say "Oh Ken, your right you don't really need to live
up to your potential?"

Or would he it be more like "Uhhhhh, whats going on Ken, you
know that this isn't your practice life, the world doesn't
care what excuses you have. In fact starting right now if you
show up at home with that defeatist attitude, your going to the
naughty step"

Just something to think about....

To your success,
Eric Medemar
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Real Estate Secrets: The HUGE Elephant in the Room

2009-02-12T19:10:00.000-08:00

Real Estate Secrets: There is An Elephant in The Room

If it brought down the titanic, could it be taking you down as well?

Folks, I'm talking about the iceberg theory.

Just like icebergs, 20% of investing success is visible above the surface while the other 80% is hidden away. The problem is that every “guru” from here to Kansas is only teaching the 20% that's visible.

I hate to say it, but without the other 80% in place there is not a real estate investing course in the world that is going to do you a bit of good.

Let me tell you a quick story to illustrate my point.

Imagine that your dream was to go to Australia to see the Opera House in Sydney. You have been dreaming about going to Australia your entire life. You've read all the books, you've get 70% of the streets memorized, you even have a small tattoo of Australia right above your belly button. Basically you know more about Australia than 99% of Australians do.

The time has finally arrived for you to travel to this far off place you have been dreaming of your entire life then it hits you.....

You find out that you have to fly there. You have never considered that you could not drive there. Through all of your research, your time spent gazing at the Opera House, and reading about the Aboriginal tribes, you failed to see that you would actually have to get on a plain and fly there. The problem is that your petrified of planes, in fact there is no amount of money in the world could get you to set foot on a plane.

Right now real estate “Guru's” all across America are teaching you about Australia when what you really need is to overcome your fear of planes.

In the next couple of weeks I will be giving my “Fear of flying guide” to everyone who has purchased my Ultimate Investor System. I have been carefully studying the success of “Students who do vs. Students who don't” and I can tell you right now there is NO DIFFERENCE in the amount of real estate knowledge....

Feel free to check out The Ultimate Investor System at www.UltimateInvestorSystem.com and I will send you my "Fear of flying guide" once I have put the finishing touches on it. If you get your real estate knowledge between now and then, I think you will be ready to set the world on fire.

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Eric Medemar is a expert on Grand Rapids Real Estate and Grand Rapids Foreclosures you can get in touch with him via his website TheForeclosuresMan.com

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Real Estate Secrets: Contingency Success

2009-02-11T07:44:00.000-08:00

Real estate Secrets: Contingency Success

I am sure you have heard of a contingency clause in a real estate contract. Contingency clauses are basically clauses that say "If that happens then this can happen" some common contingency clauses include.

Offer contingent on buyer obtaining financing
Offer contingent on the sale of the home at 1111 Maple Valley
Offer contingent on buyer approval of inspections

Those are examples of the ways that contingencies are used in real estate contracts. But, did you know that contingencies could be holding you back from experiencing true success both in life and as a real estate investor?

Our economic conditions have resulted in many of us using contingencies to unknowingly limit ourselves in many areas of our lives. The main differences between the two are that real estate contingencies have "Real world" constraints while the contingencies that we place on ourselves have no basis in the real world.

Let's look at some examples of our life contingencies:

My happiness is contingent upon how much money I make
My happiness is contingent upon whether I have a job or not
My real estate success is contingent on whether or not I can obtain a loan.
My real estate success is contingent on how many courses I can afford to buy

Do you see the difference? In real estate contingencies one outcome is absolutely necessary in order to achieve the other. In our life contingencies we set up 2 completely unrelated things and make them contingent on each other. Your happiness and your salary are not mutually exclusive ideals. You can be happy without a dime to your name. You can experience real estate success without getting a loan.

The best way to counteract this completely absurd way of thinking is to ask yourself "Could I ever have X without Y happening?"

Let's plug in some examples:

Could I ever have happiness without making $100,000? Of course
Could I really afford a house if I didn't sell my own? Of course not this is a real world constraint.
Could I ever succeed as an investor without good credit? Of course there are a million ways to succeed without getting a loan.

To your success,
Eric Medemar
Grand Rapids Real Estate Specialist
Real Estate Secrets Author
Grand Rapids Homes

Real Estate Secrets: Free Investing Seminars #8

2009-02-07T11:50:00.001-08:00

Real Estate Secrets: Free Investing Seminars #8
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Real Estate Investing: Crashing Market Strategies Explained

2009-02-04T17:58:00.003-08:00

Real Estate Investing: Crashing Market Strategies Explained
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Real Estate Investing: Crashing Market Strategies Explained

2009-02-04T17:58:00.001-08:00

Real Estate Investing: Crashing Market Strategies Explained
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Real Estate Investing Courses: Is Now A Goodtime To Wholesale?

2009-02-03T20:00:00.000-08:00

Is Now A Good Time To Get Into Real Estate Wholesaling?

It seems like everyday I get at least 5 people asking me this perplexing but very simple to answer question. My answer is always the same. Of course right now is a good time to start wholesaling!

No I don't say any of this to sell another investing course. If I thought wholesaling was stupid I would just make a new course on a better strategy. Anyway, back to my point

Yes our economy is in the gutter.
Yes our housing market sucks
Yes investor all over America are losing their a$$es
Yes people are running scared.

All of those conditions make it the perfect time to wholesale real estate. Why?

Think about it like this:

Example #1

In a good real estate market home A is worth 100k.
Wholesalers would try to buy at 70k or below.
That is based on buying homes at 70% of current market value.

In a bad market home A is worth 80K
Wholesalers would then need to buy at 70% or less of 80K $56,000
That is based on buying homes at 70% of current market value

70% of a homes current value is still going to be a great deal even if the market completely has bottomed out. Because as a wholesaler you are looking to buy at 70% of the CURRENT market value.

Investors and retail buyers still love to sweep up deals and 70% of current prices, because 70% is still a great deal. Do you follow?

Many rookies mistakenly believe that since homes are selling for 30% less this year that somehow there are just too many good deals already and wholesalers aren't needed. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Wholesalers still need to put homes under contract using the exact same formulas as before except we need to be careful to adjust our offers to CURRENT market value and not the value that COMPs Are showing.

Anyway I hope that helps.

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Real estate investing FAQ | Beginners Guide to Investing

2009-01-30T06:52:00.000-08:00

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Real Estate Investing FAQ | Beginners Guide To Investing

2009-01-26T21:06:00.000-08:00

Thank you for stopping by my real estate investing FAQ

For some strange reason people are always wondering what kind of money they can make wholesaling real estate. Here are the basic factors that will determine how much you can make wholesaling.

The price of the home- Typically higher priced homes will have more room for profit then lower priced homes. Example: if you can find a home for 50% FMV (Fair market value) and sell the home for 70% FMV then you would have a 20% spread. 20% of $100k is far more than 20% of 20k.

The motivation of the seller-With all things being held equal, the lower the price that you can put the home under contract for, the greater your profit potential will be. Example: If you can buy the home for 50% FMV and you have buyers that are willing to buy homes at 70% FMV, your profit will be far greater than if you put the home under contract at 60% FMV.

The motivation of the buyer- Owner occupant buyers will typically pay far more for a home than another real estate investor. Owner occupant buyers are willing to pay more simply because they are looking for a home to have as their principal residence rather than as an investment property.

I have personally dealt with different variations of all of the above. When conditions have been have been perfect, meaning I had a very motivated seller and a very motivated buyer I have made up to $28,000 on a single transaction without the need for cash or credit. That is one of the reasons why I decided to become a full time real estate wholesaler.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Never Stop Learning

2009-01-23T14:59:00.000-08:00

If you pay close attention to the way we treat learning in our society, you will quickly realize that after our formal education is complete, many of us consider our learning to be “done”. Having said that I have a recommendation to all high school seniors and college graduates across the U.S, KEEP AWAY FROM THE CAP AND GOWN. All formal education seems to end with the cap and gown, and all learning seems to end with the formal education, therefore stay away from the cap and gown and you will stay away from the end of formal education.

Once your formal education is complete, the fun learning should begin. Now is the time to start learning about the things in life that truly interest you. Move over Pythagorean theorem, Pi, and amoeba dissection. Bring on the self discovery, new hobbies, and self improvement.

If you think learning is boring try spending an afternoon with a 2-5 year old. Listen to the questions, watch their mind working, or watch as they discover something new around every corner. Far too soon these human sponges will be well on their way to disliking learning just like you. Once our school system gets their grimy little mits on the little learning sponges that we call children, thing go down hill quick.

Once our children enter school learning becomes a forced activity and all creativity involved in the learning process is left for art class once a week. Now when our little learning sponges aren't interested in learning about a particular subject, at a particular time, they are labeled ADD, a disruption in class, or slow. It is not long before their little learning sponge minds start creating the child logic short cuts like.

I used to learn without getting in trouble..
Now I get into trouble if I don't learn at a particular pace.
When I get into trouble I don't feel loved.
When I don't feel loved it makes me sad.
So maybe if I stop learning, I can't get into trouble for not learning fast enough, because after all this learning stuff seems to lead to pain every time. (Sure we get the occasional good job when we do something right, but when we do something wrong the whole world seems to end).

Having said that, is it any wonder why so many of us stop learning once our formal education ends?

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2009-01-16T13:00:00.000-08:00

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Discover the Secret of How a 300 Lb Hulk Can Help You Achieve Investing Success

2009-01-06T08:22:00.000-08:00

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Over the weekend my wife and I went to see one of those crazy hypnotism comedy shows. You know the shows where they get like 20 people to come up on the stage and make fools of themselves while they are hypnotized.

One of my favorite tricks of the evening was when the hypnotist convinced this 300 lb Hulk looking dude that he could not lift his left foot off ground. Here was this man, who on an average day could probably squat 600 or 700 lbs, but when hypnotized he could not life his foot no matter how hard he tried. His face was beat red, he was sweating buckets, you could clearly see that he was trying with all his mite but that foot would not move.

Why couldn't this massive muscular dude move his foot? Experts will tell you that when you are under hypnosis the hypnotist is speaking directly with your subconscious. Without your conscious mind making all of the decisions about what you can and cannot do, your subconscious mind is much more open to suggestion. This 300 lb guy could not move his foot simply because he didn't think that he could.

How does this relate to you? If simple thoughts could render the Hulks foot useless, how could your thoughts about investing success be affecting you? Have you convinced yourself that you can't achieve success as an investor for one reason or another? Is the market too bad? Do you need more money first? What limiting beliefs do you have about what you can achieve? Have you hypnotized yourself into limited success without knowing it?

If your a struggling newbie your answers to the questions will move you closer to the root cause of your problem. Even if your a seasoned investor, you are likely to have some limiting beliefs about how big you can grow your business. Once you uncover your limiting beliefs, you simply need to notice when that little voice inside starts trying to convince you of your limits. Instead of getting in a pushing match with the little voice, simply ask “How do I know this is true?”. If there is no way of knowing whether or not something is true, you simply need to dismiss what the voice has to say and move on.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Is the Market Too Slow?

2009-01-05T09:00:00.000-08:00

This article is an excerpt from my Real Estate Investing Newsletter

Over the holidays I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my coaching students about a closing that he just finished. This was no ordinary closing, this was his first closing since he had started living his dream of becoming a real estate investor. Ever since Jay was about 15 years old, he said that he had been fascinated by real estate investing. Coming from an extremely humble beginnings Jay knew that college most likely would not be an option for him. Jay saw real estate as his only escape from the traditional 9-5 blue collar jobs that his parent had worked so desperately hard at for most of his life.

Jay did not do particularly well in school, he was more of a daydreamer. Of course our school systems don't offer many rewards for daydreamers. Instead the daydreamers of our world are poked and prodded until they become like everyone else. Luckily for Jay he had a strong will like his mother. When the bad grades arrived Jay did not see them as reflecting on him. Instead he looked at his “Bad grades”as an indicator that he was doing something right, because from the looks of things being just like everybody else didn't look so rewarding.

I asked Jay what advice he had for other rookie investors who are currently struggling to keep their faith about investing during these “Troubled times”. His answer was no less than perfection, “Troubled times, I guess I didn't know we were having troubled times Eric. Maybe while I was daydreaming about what could be, I forget to pay attention to how bad the market supposedly is”.

Then this once labeled “Slow” 22 year old man said one of the greatest lines I have ever heard. He said “Eric just a minute, let me run into the dining room and grab my check, maybe my check can tell you about our troubled times”.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciated spending time on the phone with Jay. How many of you would be much better off being just a little “Slow” and decided not to listen to your friends, family and the media about how “Bad” our market is.

The problem with the “Bad market” mindset is that if you think the markets bad, then it is. Once your reality says the market is bad, then you severely limit your chances of accomplishing anything. Instead of seeing our real estate market as either good or bad, just see it as “The market”, then adjust your real estate investing strategies accordingly.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Wholesaling Profits

2008-12-23T09:15:00.000-08:00

How much money Should I make per wholesaling/Flipping deal it sounds like $10k is the going rate?

I know my market wont bear too many $10,000+ wholesale deals right now. Maybe a few here or there, I have had a couple of people make $40k plus. The factor that many investors fail to look at when they want to make $10k+ per deal is how many $5k-8k deals are they passing on while they are waiting for a $10k deal. I would much rather do 4x$5k deals in a month then a $10k deal every 2 months.

One huge factor that most people forget drives price besides location, and condition of the home is the amount of investor competition in the area. Too many investors make prices artificially climb. One large investor willing to except $5k a deal could literally knock every other investor out of decent profits.

When I meet with new investors I tell them my program:

1. I will tell you how much I can sell the home for when its done and how fast I can sell it at that price.

2. You tell me how much you will have into repairs.

3. Then decide how greedy you are.

I have had investors looking for a GREAT deal for months while my other investors settle for GOOD deals and are doing a couple per month.

$8,000 profit will always be $8,000 that you didn't have before, if you see a lot of great deals then go for those, but if your 1 or 2 months in and haven't found your $10k deal then maybe you need to lower your standards a bit.

Many rookie real estate investors use the "Waiting" game for huge profits as a crutch so they don't have to ever step up to the plate. These rookies run around talking about being an investor, looking at homes, doing their courses, and keep getting ready to get ready. Then when people ask them how many deals they have done they can say "I'm still looking, just have not found the right house yet".

You do need to do your homework don't get me wrong, the last thing you need to do is buy a $200k home and make only $10k. In my market many real estate investors are waiting for some GREAT deals to come up in the nicer areas ($85k to $300k), the problem is these deals are not coming around often enough. Then when these "Super deals" do come up they are no longer "Super deals" because everyone wants them.

Meanwhile you could be buying in the "bad part of the city" where wholesaling produces less money, but higher volume availability. The investors looking in the pretty areas do not want to buy in this area because "its not a nice neighborhood". Great for you,

So to reiterate:

Most real estate wholesalers are waiting to maybe make $10k per transaction. But, these deals come around about once or twice a month with fierce competition.

I would rather pick up 5-6 deals a month making $5-8k per deal on homes than not doing any deals at all.

I want to leave you with something to think about. "thinking about getting into real estate" for more than a month, then your no longer "thinking about getting into real estate" your just "Thinking of reasons why you can't do it".

To Your Success,
Eric Medemar

P.S If you want to learn how to make between $5,000-$20,000 per deal feel free to visit http://www.GreatGuruGiveaway.com (Oh, and we are giving away a FREE House)

Investing In Real Estate: 5x5 Decision Making System

2008-12-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

Being in the real estate wholesaling business I have learned alot of things and this is one of them.

In order to change your life, you must first change the decisions that you make a daily basis. Poor decision making can account for up to 99% of your current position in life. In order to make better decisions we must first identify all of the decisions that we have made that have gotten us up to where we are today. Without knowing the good and bad decisions that we have made it will be nearly impossible to change our lives.

So why do you make so many bad decisions? One of the main reasons for our complete lack of decision-making ability is that our minds are preprogrammed for short term pleasure. Short term pleasure does not necessarily mean that we enjoy what we are doing. Short term pleasure can be derived simply by thinking that what we are currently doing is easier than our other alternatives. The funny part is "easier" does not always mean easier either. Short-term easy often means less effort or less immediate pain. To make things even more complicated "pain" does not always mean pain either. Pain is far too often thrown into a group with performing the unknown. It's funny how many people would much rather have a painful "known" thing happen rather than commit to a wonderful "unknown".

One of the tools that I have developed to get around our poor decision making skills is called the 5x5 method. Whenever you need to make a decision ask yourself 5 simple questions.

1. How will this decision impact my life 5 minutes from now.

2. How will this decision impact my life 5 hours from now.

3. If I keep making this decision, how will it affect my life 5 weeks from now.

4. If I keep making this decision, how will it affect my life 5 months from now.

5. If I keep making this decision, how will it affect my life 5 years from now.

If you can derive a positive answer to all of those questions then you can rest easy knowing that you have made a good decision.

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Home Raffle: Are You Ready To Try a Home Raffle?

2008-11-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

Are you ready to try a home raffle? If you are in a negative equity position and would like to avoid foreclosure, raffling your home may be your only option. Once you decide to raffle your home there are a couple of things that you should keep in mind.

In this article I am going to help you avoid one of the biggest mistakes that I see homeowners make when they try to raffle off their homes. A vast majority of you who are attempting to raffle off your homes have not been trained in home sales. I happen to know just a little bit about selling homes so I am going to share a very valuable tip for making your raffle both timely and successful.

When you are putting together your raffle one of the keys to success is to remember you are not just selling tickets, you are selling the dream of home ownership. People who focus on selling tickets rather than dreams often end up falling short on sales. Basically, keep all of your marketing efforts focused on your customers wants and needs, rather than you own needs to sell tickets.

Best of luck with your Home Raffle

Real Estate Investing: I Want To Give You A FREE House

2008-11-20T10:19:00.000-08:00

Real estate investing has been very good to me this year.

I was contemplating ways to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my Ultimate Wholesaling System and I decided to give away a house.

Since my investing courses already set the standard for investor education, I figured I might as well set the standard for free giveaways as well.

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2008-11-19T09:09:00.000-08:00

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Real Estate Wholesaling: Have I completely lost my mind?

2008-11-18T21:09:00.000-08:00

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Real Estate Wholesaling While Sleeping

2008-11-14T13:52:00.000-08:00

I am going to start posting weekly videos where i answer some of the online forum questions. I feel like I need to do my part to help people out, but I hate typing.

I look like I might fall asleep in this, TOO many donuts I guess.

Real Estate Negotiation: 2 Profit Maximizing Tips

2008-10-24T08:23:00.000-07:00

Real Estate Negotiation Tactics Revealed

Does the thought of giving up your hard earned equity to a money hungry buyer leave your stomach in knots? You are not alone in your frustrations with our current housing market. Nothing is more frustrating than negotiating a contract with greedy buyers who know they have the upper hand because of our current housing slump.

What can you do to preserve your hard earned equity during our recent economic downturn? I am going to unveil two little known strategies for maximum equity preservation during the negotiation process.

Strategy #1 Plant negotiation seeds early- You need to face reality, the current housing crisis has left homebuyers at a major advantage when it comes to the negotiating on the price of your home. It will be important for your to counteract a greedy buyers sense of power, I recommend using subtle hints of other pontential buyers from the very beginning. Leave these buyer hints before you know that a potential buyer likes your home. Once a buyers reveals their intentions of buying your home, it will be too late.

Strategy #2 Keep your mouth shut- Buyers who are well versed in the home buying process will do their best to get your talking. Why do they want to hear you talk? Buyers know that if they can uncover your motivations for selling, then they stand a chance to steal your home right out from under your nose. I advise limiting the conversation only to questions about the home. Stay away from questions about your reasons for selling and your financial information.

Following these 2 simple but effective Real Estate Negotiation strategies for preserving your hard earned equity will keep you one step ahead of greedy money grubbing home buyers

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Real Estate Negotiation: 2 Profit Destroying Myths Debunked

2008-10-22T07:46:00.000-07:00

One of the most overlooked aspects of skyrocketing your profits when you buy or sell a piece of real estate is hard-hitting negotiation. Your TV is overrun with the latest “Fix your house” television shows. Don't get me wrong, fixing your home does have its place, but high-powered negotiation strategies will ad thousands of profits, without you ever lifting a finger.

In this article I am going am going to debunk two of the most costly myths about real estate negotiating. Just knowing a few of my easy tips about negotiating can easily add 1-5% of your homes sales price to your profit. That means on a $100,000 home, using a few simple tips can make you between $1,000-$5,000.

Myth #1 Create a win-win negotiation whenever possible- Can we get real a minute? If someone else wins, then you lose, it is as simple as that. In completing over 130 real estate transactions my goal has never been to create a win-win situation. Instead, my goal is always to create a situation where I win and the other person “Thinks” they have won.

Myth #2 Negotiation starts after offer is written- If you want to lose at least $1,000 on your next real estate transaction, then wait until after an offer is written to lay out your negotiation plan. Masterful negotiation starts the moment you make contact with a buyer or seller. Seeds of negotiation strategy planted early in the process, grow into trees of profit down the road.

Using just a couple of these fool proof negotiation strategies will make your next real estate negotiation seem like showing up to a knife fight using an M-60.

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Real Estate Investing: Working The Room at Real Estate Investing Club Meetings.

2008-09-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

Real Estate Investing Guide Presents: Working REI Meetings

Having buyers is one of the most important part of the real estate wholesaling success equation. One of the quickest ways to meet investors who can later turn into buyers is by attending real estate investment club functions. The fees to join your local real estate investment club will vary, but I can promise you that investment clubs are well worth the money.

To get the most out of attending real estate investment club functions it will be very important to step out of your shell and meet the other investors in the group. Here are a few thing to keep in mind when attending your local REI club meetings:

Remember that you have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason.-Try to listen twice as often as you talk. If you have not noticed yet, people love to talk about themselves, so let them.

Don't try to be right- Even if you here the “Old investing pro” say something wrong, do not jump into correct him. People do not like to be corrected, and will often lash out at you if you try to make them look bad.

Have your success stories ready- Now do not confuse this with bragging, or tooting your own horn. Instead subtly drop your past success stories into the conversation to spark interest. If you have made another investor a lot of money tell that story. Maybe, you have found some great deals for another investor, talk about those great deals.

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Real Estate Investing: Avoid These Costly Real Estate Wholesaling Mistakes

2008-09-22T12:32:00.002-07:00

There are numerous reasons why many newbies to real estate investing never realize any success in real estate wholesaling.

In this article I am going to focus on one step of the wholesaling process that so many investors get wrong. The sad part is that many of the guru wholesaling courses that I have purchased actually teach newbie investors the wrong way.

From my experience the most critical factor in the entire wholesaling real estate equation is having a solid buyers list in place. Many newbie investors make the mistake of focusing their energies on locating great deals on houses prior to having any investors to buy those houses. The best deal in the world is no good unless you have a buyer lined up ahead of time. Sure, you can find buyers after you have found a good deal, but going that route has some large risks:

Risk #1 One of the main risks of finding buyers after you find motivated sellers is that your chances of being able to follow through on the contract decrease substantially because you are starting from scratch.

Risk #2 If you cannot follow through on your real estate contracts, then you will quickly start building a reputation as someone who cannot follow through on promises. Having a good reputation is critical to success in the long run. If you over promise and under deliver to the wrong Realtors or investors in a particular market, then your options for finding great deals, and selling those deals will quickly decrease substantially.

Risk #3 Your profits can decrease substantially. Because you are starting from scratch with your buyers list, you may end up having to sell your contract for far less than what it is worth simply because your buyer options are so limited.

Follow these 3 simple rules to get well on your way to real estate investing success.

Real Estate Investing Courses: Are Real Estate Courses Worth the Money?

2008-09-08T19:57:00.000-07:00

Real estate investing courses: It seems like everywhere that you turn there is a new "Expert" offering you advice about the latest and greatest real estate investing techniques...But is it worth it to buy these systems?

I have personally invested thousands of dollars into different real estate investing courses. Yes, it's true there are some that I might not buy again if given the chance. Having said that, every single course that I have ever purchased ended up teaching me something. Those little somethings at bare minimum have added at least $1,000 to my bottom line.

I figure if I can pick up at least one little real estate investing gem from each course then I am always ahead of the game.

To be honest the return rate on my own investing courses is somewhere around 6%. Almost 90% of the people who have returned my course has never done a single deal. But, they tell me that they already "Know" everything in my courses.

I always laugh about these people because I know that they haven't dug deep enough into my real estate investing course material.

I know this because just one of the little "Gems" that I offer with my course material can literally have your buyers list built and ready to go in under 2 weeks.....And, this "Gem" has never been mentioned in a single real estate investing course that I have purchased. Yet, the people who have returned my course already know it all......Hmmmm I am probably missing something.

Many people will invest and lose thousands, if not millions in the stock market, yet they wont invest a few hundred dollars in themselves to further there investor education.

One of the courses that I would highly recommend to any newbie investor is available at www.TheForeclosureSchool.com

This is not a real estate investing course that I have authored, but I will say it offers more great real estate investing advice, across more real estate niches than any real estate other real estate investing course that I have purchased=======> all for only $47.00.

Anyway, my take is that you really can't go wrong buying any real estate investing course if you just learn one very small lesson....But, I can promise if you don't buy any that you will surely lose in the long run.

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Real Estate Investing Websites: Avoid The Deadly Real Estate Keyword Mistakes!

2008-08-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

If you have done any work with the Internet or real estate investing websites then I am sure you have heard of the term keyword. Keywords are the words on your web page that are relevant to the type of traffic that you would like to visit your site from the search engines. When search engines send their spiders to gather information about your page they will be searching for your keywords. Your keywords will help the search engines direct your placement within the search engine itself.

I am going to come at this from the perspective that you are new to building your real estate investing website. I am going to review just a few of the errors that I have seen so many other rookie web designers make when creating real estate investing websites.

Mistake #1 Using keywords that are too generic- If your web designer uses keywords that cover to broad of a spectrum then you will never get placement near the front page of the search engines. Getting your site listed on the front page of the major search engines should be a priority in order to quickly start collecting prospects from your site. For example some specific keywords for getting leads for Austin, TX motivated sellers would be: sell our Austin home, Austin home buyers, Austin Realtors, selling homes in Austin, avoiding foreclosure in Austin. Now some examples of bad keywords would be: Sell our home, avoid foreclosure, sell real estate. The reason that the second example is so useless is because there are so many sites across the nation competing for the same keywords. Because of the heavy competition your site has almost no chance of capturing front page placement.

Mistake #2 Not putting your keywords in the correct places- For optimal search engine placement, keywords should be placed in the headings, near the beginning of your web copy, and also near the end of your web copy.

Mistake #3 Not checking out your competitors- If you want to win the war for the front page of search engines, then visit the sites that currently show up on the search engines. Once your at the site you can go to the top of the page and go to the view section of the tool bar. Under the view section hit the view source or view page source button. That is going to give you the code behind the website that you are viewing. Look for the keywords that your competitors are using near the top of the page.

If you can avoid these mistakes when building your real estate investing websites then you will be well on your way to success.

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Real Estate Investing Courses: Special on My Real Estate Investing Courses

2008-07-25T12:13:00.001-07:00

For very limited time I am offering a 2 for the price of 1 Special on my Ultimate Real Estate Wholesaling System and My Ultimate Real Estate Bird Dog System. If purchased separately these two systems would sell for over $225.00.

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Not to mention I am also throwing in 5 years of real estate investing course updates for FREE. This means you will not need to buy another wholesale or bird dog course in the next 5 years because you will be receiving my updates for FREE.

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Since this is a blog and the offer may be expired by the time you read this you can purchase the real estate investing courses separately by clicking on the links below (You will have to pay full retail price if our offer is expired)

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Have a great weekend!

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Real Estate Investing Course: I Just Bought This Real Estate Investing Course Myself

2008-07-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

There are not a whole lot of real estate investing courses that would feel comfortable recommending. Normally real estate investing courses that I have purchased either lack content or they are way over priced. I feel completely comfortable recommending this product after purchasing it myself.

Though the product does not include any audio, it does include some fantastic educational resources that provide a very solid framework for virtually every niche of real estate investing including:

Shortsales
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Flipping/Wholesaling
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Subject To
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All of this plus much more for only $47.00. I bought it myself and I am happy I did. To view the course visit www.TheForeclosureSchool.com

If you are unhappy with the course they also offer a money back guarantee, but I have NO DOUBTS that you will love this real estate investing course

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Wholesaling Properties: Real Estate Investing Explained

2008-07-07T02:44:00.000-07:00

Wholesaling real estate is very simple, Don't complicate it:

This is a very basic outline of the steps to wholesaling a home.

1st Build a buyer’s list-A strong buyers list will one of the most important aspects of your success as a real estate wholesaler. Be sure to build your buyers list before tying up any home under contract.

2nd Find Homes that meet your buyers needs- Once you have your buyers list in place it is time to start looking for great deals on homes that fit your buyers criteria.

3rd Put the home under contract with an easy out clause- Once you have located a home that meets the criteria for your buyers, you will need to put the home under contract. Include an easy out clause in the contract in case your buyers decide that they do not like the home.

4th Get your buyers through the home- Bring all of your buyers through the home to see if it meets their needs.

5th Assign the contract to you buyers or sell them the home-If the home meets their needs then you will need to establish a price that you are willing to sell them the contract for, or a price that you are willing to sell them the home for. If you are unable to assign the home then you could use a back-back closing instead. If do put the home under contract with your buyer’s then be sure to get a deposit from your buyers that is at least equal to the amount that you could lose if your buyers decide to back out of the deal.

6th Use your easy out clause- If your buyers do not like the home for one reason or another use your easy out escape clause to terminate the contract. The process ends here if your buyers do not like the home.

7th Set up a closing and get paid-If you are assigning the contract you may have already sold your position to your buyer, in this case you may have gotten paid already. If you did not get paid for selling your position already then you will be waiting for your buyer to set up a closing, and at the closing you will be collecting your fee.

Keep in mind that every person who currently wholesales homes started out not knowing a thing about the business.

the forums are a great place to learn, but be sure your learning from people who "do" wholesaling, rather than people who "read about" wholesaling.

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Real Estate Investing Courses: Why Some Succeed While Others Fail (Part 3)

2008-07-04T17:04:00.000-07:00

Real Estate Investing Courses - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail? (Part 3)

If you did not happen to catch the other parts of this article I will bring you up to speed. I am author of several highly successful real estate investing courses. I have always been curious as to what factors lead to some of my students using the information that I provide successfully, while others have no success at all. After interviewing many of my students I have compiled a list of the top factors that will determine your success or failure as a real estate investor.

The first crucial success determining factor was the intentions of the real estate investing course purchaser. The second critical success factor was the ability of the purchaser to "Get up off their information and do something". Now I will discuss the third critical factor for investing success.

The third factor that went into how successful my students would become is their mindset. By mindset I mean the way that they viewed success or failure in the investing business. Successful students had a very flexible mindset when it came to how they viewed their success. Successful students did not look at the set backs that they came across as failures. Instead they viewed the setbacks as feedback that moved them one step closer to their end goal. They realized that no set back is either good or bad, but it was their thinking that made it so. To quote myself "Failure is your receipt that says you tried".

My students who did not achieve any level of success viewed success as an all or nothing situation. This "All or nothing" attitude, left them paralyzed by their fears. In other words they had created a situation where they had a million ways to fail, but only one way to succeed. With odds like that it is no wonder my real estate investing course material never resulted in any level of success. These students did not allow themselves any chance to become successful, because they never made it beyond the information gathering stage. Essentially they were stuck in "Analysis paralysis" or as I like to call it "Getting ready, to get ready".

In part 4 of this 5 part article we will be discussing the fourth critical success factor which is planning.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: No Money Down Investing Strategies

2008-07-03T15:19:00.001-07:00

Real Estate Investing Guide: No Money Down Investing Strategies

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Real Estate Investing: 3 Actions For Guaranteed Success!

2008-07-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here.

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Real Estate Investing Courses: Why Do Some Succeed While Others Fail?

2008-07-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

As an author of several highly successful real estate investing courses I have often been perplexed by the success of those using my course material. I have always had a very curious mind as to what leads some of my students to real estate investing success, while others do absolutely nothing with what they have learned. I decided to survey some of my successful students and some of my unsuccessful students the results may surprise you.

One of the most powerful findings that I came across had to do with the initial intentions of the purchaser. Why were they buying the course? The “Why” became one of the most important factors in determining whether or not my student would become a real estate success story, or just another sad statistic. The successful students did not buy the course because they thought it would be a magic pill that would lead to real estate investing success. Instead they bought the course as a tool to add to their investing success tool kit. The unsuccessful students, on the other hand bought the course because they thought it would be the holy grail of investing success. They thought it would be the magic pill that would instantly transform their real estate investing lives with no effort on their part.

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REI Summit 2008: 12 Experts 12 Days FREE

2008-06-19T04:07:00.000-07:00

Don't miss your chance to Listen in with 12 Real Estate Investing Experts including myself for FREE All at REI Summit 2008.

Starting today www.REISummit2008.com Kicks off with a bang! Be sure to register, only 1000 slots will be open for the teleconference tonight.

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Eric Medemar is the creator of The Ultimate Wholesaling System and The Ultimate Bird Dog System. Eric has been consulting with investors from New York To Los Angeles, to help them take their investing business to the next level. Eric prides himself on his innovative investing ideas ranging from his one of a kind Profit Stacking Method to his closely guarded secrets for finding and assigning HUD homes.

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Real Estate Investing: Putting The Why Into Your Real Estate Investing

2008-06-09T11:07:00.000-07:00

One of the main reasons that newbies to real estate investing never get their investing business off the ground is because they never take the time to figure out why they want to be investors. As a newbie investor you must build up enough reasons why you must succeed. Your reasons for wanting to succeed will serve as your light at the end of the tunnel when the inevitable obstacle shows up on your path to real estate success.

When you are laying out your reasons for why you want to become a real estate investor be sure that the reasons are your own. You cannot find success in life if you are trying to do it for somebody else or to impress somebody else. I know this idea may seem foreign, but many newbie investors simply stop their investing business after telling their friends and family that they are becoming a real estate investor. These newbies did not actually want to become investors, instead they wanted the respect and pride that they thought real estate investing would bring.

A strong enough why can get you through almost any challenge that the real estate investing world throws at you. Take about 10 minutes every morning as your real estate investing business is getting off the ground to review the reasons why you wanted to become an investor in the first place. This review session will keep you focused on the outcome stemming from all of your efforts.

Real Estate Investing Guide: No Money Down Investing

2008-06-02T12:10:00.000-07:00

Is it truly possible to do a $0 down real estate deal anymore? You bet it is. I am not talking about the prehistoric illegal methods of over inflating purchase prices either. The $0 down investing strategy that I am talking about is real estate wholesaling.

Real estate wholesaling is by far the most fantastic method that I have come across for investing in real estate. Why? Well here are a couple of reasons:

You never have to deal with nightmare tenants
You can make $5,000 to $30,000 per house without the need for cash, credit, or risk.
You are only buying homes that you already have sold.

Wholesaling real estate virtually eliminates all of the barriers that stand between you and real estate success. I cannot think of any investing strategies that will allow you to make the same kind of money that you can with real estate wholesaling. The best part is that risk does not even need to be figured into the equation, because if you learn how to wholesale correctly risk is all but eliminated. One of the things that keeps most rookie investors from ever experiencing any level of success is the fear risk. Because real estate wholesaling has no risk, many newbie investors could start making between $5,000-$30.000 per transaction with no experience at all. Wholesaling eliminates risk because as a property wholesaler you only deal in homes that you already have buyers for. Traditional buy and flip investing strategies involve buying homes an then hoping you find a buyer when your finished, wholesaling avoids that all together.

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor and internet marketer from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics wholesaling real estate blog here. Also check out Eric's free guide to real estate short sales at Short Sale University.

Real Estate Investing Guide: 10 R's of Life Roles (Part 1)

2008-05-13T12:50:00.001-07:00

The second of the 10 R's of life is roles. Not all people are familiar with their roles that they play in life. In fact many people don't even know that they fall into certain roles with certain people or certain situations.

Roles are the essentially the way your character plays out in a particular area of of your life or with a particular group of people. For instance you may be a very powerful person at work because that is your role but when you get together with your family you become a bumbling idiot. Most people are completely unconscious of the roles they play.

Roles are the way you "play the part" of what others expect of you. If other people respect you and think your a leader, then without thinking your role becomes that of a leader. On the other hand if people expect you to be an idiot, and you prove them right, even just a couple of times, then your role becomes that of an idiot.

Not all roles are bad, but it is very helpful to know the roles you fall into. What are your roles:

At Work (Are you the office clown, the high powered executive, or the gossip?)
At Home (Are you the enforcer of rules, the push over, or the one who is hard to get along with?)
With your parents or in-laws (Do you keep acting like a child, are you still mommies little boy or girl? Are you still a screw up to your in laws?)
With your friends- Are you the party animal, the gossip, or the tough one?

The trouble with roles, is that when you start falling into roles, it is very easy to become unconscious to reality. You just start "Playing your part" without any real thought as to why. Take some time to inventory the roles that you have for yourself when relating to others and then eliminate any of your roles that seem unhelpful.

A word of caution. People will want to keep you in your roles, after all, you falling into your role helps keep their world together.

To start breaking your unhealthy roles, begin by picturing in your mind what your new role will look like. How will others react to your new role? How will you feel in your new role? How will you carry yourself in your new role? What will you do differently in your new role? Then when the time comes to actually perform your new role in the physical world, you simply need to do what you have already done in your mental world.

In the next section about roles we are going to talk about the roles that we have for other people.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: The 10 R's Of Life

2008-05-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

Thank you for being here. I have always enjoyed learning and helping other people, I hope you pick up a idea or two from here.

The first R we are going to talk about is resistance.

My definition for resistance is mentally not accepting "what is". Keep in mind that the difference between resisting and actually changing something, is that changing something must include the possibility of taking action on your part. Many of the thing that we resist cannot be changed, they simply "are what they are".

Things you may say to yourself or others while you are in the process of resisting are:

It shouldn't be like this
This isn't fair
I can't believe this is happening to me

Another area of life to look for resistance is complaining. Things like:

Isn't this weather nasty
I wish it weren't raining
That meeting was too long
I wish I were somewhere else

Can you see what I mean by mentally not accepting something for what it is? We act as if when we change things in our minds, that our reality will somehow change. Resistance is the root of much unneeded mental suffering in our culture.

Why do we resist? Well in most cases resistance gives us a temporary feeling of being right, while whatever is truly happening is wrong. "I am right, the weather should really be more like this", "The church service is going to long, it would be better if it we X minutes". In both cases the things that are happening are going to happen either way, so why put yourself through the suffering?

A great way to gauge if you are resisting is to ask yourself "Is this something that I can change", If the answer is yes, then ask yourself "Am I willing to do what it takes to change it". If the answer is NO to either of those questions then you are in the process of resisting.

Once you can spot yourself resisting, you don't need to start an argument in your head, simply observing the act of resistance without being caught up in it will be enough to stop the suffering.

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Wholesaling Real Estate: Using LLC's For Real Estate Wholesaling

2008-05-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

One of the problems in dealing trying to wholesale many of the current foreclosures is that banks will not allow their contracts to be assigned. Without the ability to assign the contracts many wholesalers have been missing out on some dynamite foreclosure deals. So how can investors get around the nonassignable contracts that many banks are using?

One of the easiest ways to get around the nonassignable contracts is to use Limited Liability Corporations (LLC's). To use an LLC on a nonassignable contract all you need to do is fill in the purchase agreement in the usual fashion. But, instead of using the typical "and/or assignees" clause, you simply fill in the name of your corporation. Then instead of assigning the contract to another investor for profit, you will sell the other investor your LLC. Because the contract is filled out in the name of the LLC you will essentially be assigning the contract when you sell the LLC.

Having said all of that, make sure that you have the LLC set up prior to writing up any contracts. If you are serious about real estate wholesaling I would recommend always having a couple of pocket LLC's ready in case a great deal comes your way. By having your LLC's ready ahead of time, you can prevent the possibility of having a paperwork slowdown at the government level. The last thing that you need to have happen is to lose out on a $15,000 profit because you did not prepare enough ahead of time.

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor and internet marketer from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics wholesaling real estate blog here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

Real Estate Investing Guide: Real Estate Short Sale

2008-04-23T14:48:00.000-07:00

What is a real estate short sale?

A short sale occurs when you negotiate a sales price less than what the seller actually owes on a property. In other words a short sale is when a bank accepts less than what is owed on a property to keep the property from going through the foreclosure process. Instead of negotiating with the seller you negotiate a sales price directly with the bank. An example would be:

A seller has fallen behind on their payments to the bank. The seller has a mortgage note with the bank for $200,000. You write an offer of $150,000. If the bank decides to accept your offer you would have “Shorted the bank” $50,000.

The banks would be willing to accept a loss of $50,000 for a couple of reasons:

Banks are not in the business of owning homes they are in the business of loaning money.
If the property ends up going up for auction the banks will incur many more fees plus they may lose the opportunity to loan out the money that would otherwise be tied up in the property.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Are You Here or Are You There?

2008-04-17T05:32:00.000-07:00

When you are not living your life in the present moment you are living in either fear or regret. Fear of what might come in the future, regret about what happened in the past or a bit of both. Something that you might find very interesting, yet frustrating as well, is the way we use our present moments. In many cases you use your present moments fearing something in the future, but when you arrive in that future you were fearing, you live in regret of not being present in the past moment that you spent fearing the moment that you are currently in. Is your head spinning yet? To clear things up a bit I will give you a real life example.

Present Moment: A new mother is sitting at home worrying about going back to work in 6 weeks and leaving her precious child with daycare.

Body: Sitting with her new born child in the living room breast feeding.

Mind: Projecting into the future 6 weeks when she has to go back to work and needs to leave her child at daycare.

This cycle of picturing that sad day occurs daily up until the moment that the new mother needs to go back to work. Then it goes like this.

Present Moment: Sitting in her office getting ready to work on a new project.

Body: At the office, behind her desk.

Mind: Looking back over the past 6 weeks regretting that it went too quick and she doesn't remember much of the time spent with her newborn.

Can you see the problem with not being present? By not being present the new mother spent her time with her newborn worrying going back to work. When the new mother finally had to go back to work she spent her time regretting not being mentally present with her child because she was mentally already working. Now that she is actually working she is spending her mental time back with her child. Her body and her mind were never merging into the same space.

Are you guilty of the same thing? Is your body at home with the family, while your mind is at work? Once at work is your mind back at home with the family?

One of the easiest ways to merge the body and mind is through gratitude. In order to be grateful for the things that surround you, you must be present to enjoy them. To practice gratitude simply stop for a moment and look around you, I am sure you can find something you are grateful for.

If your at home with your family look at your wife and kids, what could you love about them?

If your at the office what could you be thankful for?

If your out fishing what could you enjoy about the moment?

Notice that I don't use the word should. The word should can lead to feelings of regret because you are saying that you don't enjoy something, yet you know that you should. I don't use the word are because it is way to easy to answer with nothing if you happen to be in a foul mood. The word could is a possibility word. You can't get regret from could, you can only get the feelings of hope or choice. So the next time you find yourself not merging the mind and body together in the present simply ask, “What could I enjoy about this moment and the people or places in it?”.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Bad Locations Good Returns

2008-04-09T05:25:00.000-07:00

Even in the slowest of markets you can still make money in real estate wholesaling. Even in "Bad locations" you can still make money wholesaling real estate. Here are a few of the deals that I have done in Bad locations:

A few of My "Bad Location Homes" have been like this:

paid 26k, repairs 5k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 38k, repairs 5k, rented $1000 (2 unit) sold for $62k
paid 33k, repairs 5k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 30k, repairs 12k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 30k, repairs 10k, rented $675k, sold it for $62k
Total paid $157, Repairs $37k, Sold $319k Gross Profit $125k

These are all homes that anyone could have bought, but they were in the "bad areas".

Im beginning to think that "good areas" might be "bad areas" for the wallet.

Look at the cash on cash returns.

Good area= 15000/100000 =15% cash on cash return

Bad area= 20000/40000= 50% cash on cash return

Good area rents $800 on $100,000 home .08% return on Rent

Bad area $675 on a $40,000 home 1.6% return on rent

But wait, your thinking bad area bad tenants, good area good tenants, right?

Wrong. Bad tenants are bad tenants ANYWHERE, good tenants are good tenants ANYWHERE.

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Real Estate Investing Courses: Where are your rollerblades?

2008-04-07T08:20:00.000-07:00

I am often left perplexed at peoples ability to pass the blame of real estate investing courses not working for their failure as an investor. In reality, most of these people never used any of the ideas to see if they worked or not. To them I dedicate this story.

Mother came home from work to find her son frantically searching the house looking for his roller blades. You see it was the first nice day of spring, and he was just dying to get out on his roller blades. The mother and son began tearing apart the house searching high and low for the elusive roller blades. They started in the garage and worked their way through all of the closets in the house eventually stopping in the attic. The roller blades seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Finally the mother looked over to her son and said “Do you remember the last place you saw your skates?”

To which the son replied “In the basement next to the furnace”.

Mom then went on to ask “Well did you try looking there?”

No said her son “The light bulbs burnt out in the basement, it was way to scary to look down there”

Mom grabbed a flashlight and headed downstairs, the roller blades were exactly where he had left them.

How many times are you looking everywhere else but the "scary place" for the answers to life's problems? You know the scary place in your head.

Real Estate Investing Guide: Mistaking Investing in Information For Investing In Real Estate

2008-03-31T14:54:00.001-07:00

One of the biggest traps that I see newbie real estate investors fall into is mistaking investing in real estate materials for actually investing in real estate. I know that all newbies know the difference, but many times their mind does not.

How many wannabe real estate investors do you know who move from real estate courses to real estate books then onto real estate forums searching for the one answer that will make all of their real estate dreams come true?

While they are on their eternal quest for the real estate golden ticket, they get tell people that they are "Working on being a real estate investor". This idea that being a person who is "Working on being a real estate investor" will in many cases fully satisfy the newbies ego, essentially giving them the feeling of being a real estate investor, without ever doing any investing. In many cases this can be a huge favor to the person who is solely looking for the feeling of being a real estate investor, those people really have no business investing anyway.

Your intentions for becoming a real estate investor will have alot to do with whether or not you will achieve any level of success. If you want to be an investor just for the sake of being an investor then your chances of success are minimal. If however you want to become an investor to achieve financial freedom for both you and your family your chances for success increase significantly.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investnig Guide: Class We Have A Guest Today.....

2008-03-29T06:39:00.000-07:00

Do you feel sad, guilty, hurt, fearful, happy or any other number of emotions? Now let me ask you, does the “you” that notices those emotions feel that way? I am guessing that you may be scratching your head now. “What do you mean the me that notices, aren't I me?”, you might be asking. Of course you are you, but has it ever occurred to you that the real “you” is the one who notices what is going on with your emotions.

Stop for a moment and look at the things that you might say to other people, things like “I feel a bit depressed today”, or “I feel great”. When you say things about yourself feeling a certain way, who is the one that notices how you are feeling? If you are depressed, is the person within you who notices the depression, depressed as well? If you stop to notice, that person within who notices these things is more like a neutral 3^rd party. Somewhat like the man who came into your 3^rd grade classroom just to observe the class. The man who sat quietly at the back of the room just taking notes.

This observer is the true you, the you that is not effected by the externalities of the world. The you that is not subject to the faulty beliefs and programming that started the moment you arrived in the doctors arms.

The you that can shine light on every event or happening in your life. The light being true joy, unbreakable joy, the joy that has no opposite. The true you is unaffected by pleasure. You see pleasure comes with a price, the yin and the yang if you will. While joy has no other side to it's coin. When you toss the joy coin you get joy on both sides, much the opposite of the pleasure coin, that when tossed is either going to give you great pleasure or great pain.

To experience the true “you” more often, simply slow down and begin paying attention the observer sitting quietly at the back of the classroom in your mind.

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Real Estate Wholesaling: Can It Really Be That Easy?

2008-03-28T05:04:00.000-07:00

I have had countless people ask me why on earth I would waste my time making real estate investing courses if I was doing so well as a real estate investor. Believe me it has nothing to do with the money. I could make 10 times more money by just sticking to what I am good at, which is real estate investing. The truth is that I have always truly enjoyed teaching other people about things that I know how to do. There are truly only a couple of things in the world that I am good at and they happen to be selling real estate, investing in real estate and helping other people to get started as investors.

I would bet a vast majority of you would want to do the same thing if you saw just how awesome real estate wholesaling truly is. Real estate wholesaling has huge so many huge advantages over the traditional forms of real estate investing. I had never heard of real estate wholesaling up until a few years ago, after hearing about how easy it was I must admit I was a bit skeptical. You know the old saying “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”, that is exactly what I thought of real estate wholesaling at first.

How on earth could someone make that much money without the need for cash or credit? The main reasons that people are interested in real estate investing is the large profit potential. This high profit is achieved because of the large numbers that investors deal with. Think for a minute, a 10% profit on a $200,000 home is $20,000. As a real estate wholesaler you simply need to find a motivated seller who will sell at 70% of the fair market value. Then find an investor or retail buyer who will pay 80% of fair market value (which is still a great deal).

With traditional forms of investing you would have to buy the home for 70% of value, then sell the home for 80% of value. The problem with the traditional method is you need to have money to buy the the home in the first place. To get money to buy the home you need credit and usually a down payment. This leaves many people stuck dead in their tracks. Not real estate wholesalers though.

A real estate wholesaler knows that you don't need to buy the home, you just need to put the home under contract. Once you have the home under contract (purchase agreement), you simply sell the contract to the end buyer. Instead of selling homes, wholesalers sell contracts. The great part is you do not need financing or credit to get a home under contract. Can you see how easy real estate wholesaling is? You sell contracts instead of homes, it is as simple as that.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Taking Action For Investing Success

2008-03-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

You have read everything thing available about real estate investing. You have spend countless hours visiting the real estate investing forums. You have invested thousands in real estate investing courses. Now what? Are you doomed to the same destiny of most information junkies? Are you going to become the divorced marriage counselor? The counselor who knows all about how to save marriages but could not save their own.

So what will determine your success? Honestly it is pretty simple, so simple that it can be summed up in one word action. Taking action is what separates the men from the boys on the playground we call life. So what constitutes action? By my definition, action involves any movement in the direction of you goal or purpose on a visible plane. Now your thinking “Visible plane?”. By visible plane I mean doing something that can be seen, rather than simply thought. Thinking is great but without action, thinking will take you no where. A simple way to remember the power of action is to use the word ACT.

Action
Compensates
Tremendously

Action compensates tremendously, do you see the power in that? Taking action in any direction is truly the only way that you can ever get closer to reaching your goals in life. Even action that is completely wrong teaches you a lesson that could not have been learned by simply thinking. When Albert Einstein was asked about his thousands of scientific failures, he simply said that he successfully found thousands of ways not to do something. Each perceived failure moved him one step closer to success. Without action none of the failures would have happened, but neither would his success.

The only sure way to never succeed in as a real estate investor is to do nothing at all. Show me a man who went bankrupt while trying to become a real estate investor and I see potential. Show me a man who has knows it all, but has done nothing and I see a overweight dietician.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Courses: What Seems To Be Missing?

2008-03-24T13:25:00.000-07:00

Every year Americans spend millions of dollars on real estate investing courses. Sadly, most people who purchase these courses never end up using any of the valuable knowledge that these courses contain. Instead of using real estate investing courses as a means to an end, with the end being becoming a successful real estate investor. Many people unknowingly use real estate investing courses as the end itself.

People who buy real estate investing courses truly believe that they want to become real estate investors. The problem is that once they purchase the investing course, they create a shortcut in their mind that essentially says “One more goal has been achieved”. By investing in the course, they fulfill the short term need to be considered a real estate investor and then quickly move onto something else.

Another problem that arises shortly after purchasing a real estate investing course, is the need to know more information. Perhaps the course left a few unanswered questions or maybe spurred on some new thoughts about the direction of their new found investing career. So then they buy another course which creates more questions and ideas that can only be answered by more courses. In a short period of time, the wannabe real estate investor becomes much like an overweight dietitian. They know all about eating right, but they just don't do it.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Using Real Estate Investing Forums

2008-03-23T15:20:00.000-07:00

Real estate investing forums can be a great way to gain knowledge for getting a start as a real estate investor. In fact I would recommend visiting and gathering information from as many real estate investing forums as you can on your quest toward becoming a real estate investor.

I would like to offer a few tips on using real estate investing forums most effectively. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Watch out for anyone who uses absolutes. By absolutes I mean to say, watch out for people who say things like "It's always this way", "That never works" or "This works everytime". Most people in the forums mean the best but they fail to mention that "This has been my experience and your experience may be different"

2. Watch out for advice that is given from people who have only read about real estate investing rather than doing any actual investing. These people can typically be spotted because they will miss many of the fine details that go into the transaction. Instead they repeat only the things that everyone else has said rather than adding their own new insights.

3. Take in as much information as you can, then draw your own conclusion. Once you have taken in enough info to come to your own conclusions then it's time to get to work. Don't mistake the process of gathering information as the goal, instead keep in mind that gathering information is a means to an end, rather than the end itself.

I hope these ideas about real estate investing forums will help you move along on your path to real estate investing success.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Directing Your Inner Publicist (Part 2)

2008-03-21T06:50:00.001-07:00

From this point forward why not work on teaching your inner publicist to spin things in a good way. It won't be easy at first, but in time you will begin spinning the happenings of your everyday life just as a Hollywood publicist would try to spin Paris Hilton going to jail. To begin changing the way your inner publicist spins your life I have laid out these easy steps:

Take Notice- Whenever you are asking yourself why something happened, why things are the way they are or why someone treated you in a certain way, stop and take notice of how your inner publicist is representing each case to you conscious mind. Just notice, don't argue with it or try to prove it wrong. Just sit back and observe, observe the way you would if you were watching it on TV and someone else was going through it. Just the act of observing rather than identifying with all of the B.S that your inner publicist is feeding you, will allow you to begin freeing yourself from your thoughts
Consciously look for other ways to spin the story- Once you have observed your inner publicist at work and have started to notice the negative spin that it puts on the happenings of your life, you need to counteract that spin on a conscious level. By conscious level I mean that you need to take a moment and think of some other ways that your inner publicist could have spun the same story. Using the example of the promotion above you could spin the story with your conscious mind to something more positive like: you were overqualified or life must have something better in store for you. Do you see the difference? Once you have started to notice your inner publicist at work, then you need to start taking charge of the stories that they feed you. Over time you will no longer need to change the story that you inner publicist will feed you because the stories will become positive on their own. This change comes about because your subconscious mind will begin aligning with your conscious mind about the way that you life is and will be.

By following these two simple steps you can quickly start moving your self image and your life in a much more positive direction. The simple act of not always believing what your mind tells you can move you light years ahead on your road to success.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Directing Your Inner Publicist (Part 1)

2008-03-20T04:25:00.000-07:00

Do you have a publicists? For most of you I am sure that your immediate answer is no. If you have ever seen a celebrity in a bind, it should come as no surprise the way they send their publicists out to put a spin on bad deeds that they have done. The job of the publicists is to spin bad stories to the public in order to preserve a celebrities reputation.

We all have our own inner publicists, except our publicists don't put a spin on the just bad things we have done. Our inner publicists put a spin on everything that we do including the good things. Without proper direction our inner publicists will far to often put a negative spin on things that are not negative at all. The problem with our inner publicists is that they rely only on our past experiences to give our current stories a new spin.

For instance maybe you just found out that you missed out on a promotion at work. Immediately after learning of this, you subconsciously turn things over to your inner publicist. Instead of spinning the story in a good way back to your conscious mind, your inner publicist informs your conscious mind that you have always been a slow learner and you really didn't deserve a promotion anyway. Can you see the problem here? Without proper awareness of thought your inner publicist will always base your current happenings on past experience, even though the two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor and internet marketer from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Adding Your Own 2 Cents can Make You Go Broke

2008-03-18T12:56:00.000-07:00

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Adding Your Own 2 Cents Can Make You Go Broke!

Far too often in life, many of us make the mistake of adding our own 2 cents to the facts of life. The problem is that our own 2 cents are not based on fact. Instead our own 2 cents are based on the fiction that many of us mistakingly take as truth.

Our 2 cents combined with the 2 cents of society can quickly take the facts of life, and turn them into an extremely jaded work of fiction. Here are some examples that I am sure many of you might identify with.

It's a fact that you just got a divorce.

It's fiction based on adding your own 2 cents, that life is over, and you will live a lonely existance until the day of your death.

It's a fact that you had no sales this month.

It's fiction based on adding your won 2 cents that, you are a terrible salesperson and you should change careers.

It's a fact that you have $50.00 left in your bank account.

It's fiction based on adding your own 2 cents that, you are completely ruined financially and you have always been a failure.

Do you see the difference between fact and fiction? Stop adding your own 2 cents to the facts of life and you will quickly turn your fictional novel into a bestselling biography.

Thoreau on Realizing Your Dreams

2008-03-16T15:44:00.000-07:00

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them" Henry Thoreau

I can't help but think of how perfectly this quote puts the idea of realizing your dreams. Dreams are the castles in the air, while your actions taken toward the achievement of those dreams build your castles foundation. Too many of us spend our time building castles in the sky, but never get around to adding the foundation underneath.

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Real Estate Investing: Are Real Estate Courses A Big Rip Off?

2008-03-13T14:57:00.000-07:00

As the author of several real estate investing courses, it never ceases to amaze me that so many people find my real estate systems extremely helpful in their quest for real estate investing success, while about 1 out of about 80 are throughly convinced that I was trying to rip them off. As if I was just sitting at home waiting for some sucker to come along so that I could get $85.00.

At $85.00 my courses are about a 10th of the price of most real estate courses. I have bought the expensive courses as well, and frankly all of us are about the same, except the other courses are upwards of $500.00 and they add in a whole lot of fluff to help build perceived value. I mean think about it does it really require 12 hours of audio to learn to wholesale?

Think about it logically for just a minute, any real estate investing transaction comes down to the following formula.

Finding Buyers+ Finding Sellers + Finding Financing + Negotiation+ Exit Strategy = Real Estate Profit

Finding Buyers-There are only so many ways to find buyers so that is pretty easy to cover.
Finding Sellers-There are only so many ways to find sellers so that is really easy to cover.
Finding Financing-There are a few different ways to get financing or to get around needing financing, but your financing will be variable depending on your exit strategy.
Exit Strategies-The most common exit strategies are buy and hold, buy and flip, sell the contract, or pass on the lead, lease and play the cash spread until sold, buy subject to and play the spread.
Negotiation is pretty minimal but I try to lay out all of the strategies that have worked for me in my guide.

That is more or less the entire real estate investing equation.

I would never dream of saying my system is the absolute end all, be all system. I can at least say that it works. I know this because, I simply put down onto paper all of the investing strategies that have lead to my success, it's just that simple.

No fluff, no extra additions just to build a stronger perceived value, simply put, I did a guide based on what has made me successful, including setting goals, getting past fear, and time management. If it didn't work, then I wouldn't work, it is as simple as that.

If you think about it for a minute it doesn't cost some real estate guru anymore money to produce a great course vs a crappy one, it's the same paper, the same cd's, same marketing, there really is no reason to put together a sub par product with the information age being as it is.

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Obama or Clinton? Who Is Running The Oval Office In Your Head?

2008-03-11T13:34:00.001-07:00

Obama or Clinton? Who knows or better yet who should care? Why on earth are so many people worried about politics, when their own lives are so far out of order? To me, many of the people asking questions about politics are like a homeless people asking me what type of shingles they should choose on their house. Why not worry about getting your own life together before trying to change the condition that our nation is in? I realize that politics are very important to the way our country is run, but living your life to the fullest can also help to create a dramatic change for the future of our country. Raising well educated children, getting along with your family, and using your God given talents in life can also create create a huge impact on the shape of America.

It concerns me that many of these people asking me about my political views have absolutely no one sitting in the oval office of their lives. Does it not make sense to elect a decent official to serve as the president of your own mind before you worry about who I am going to vote for? If my son or daughter were in Iraq you can bet I would be trying to elect an official who would bring them back as soon as possible, but in the mean time I would not be running around taking polls on who should be elected.

I challenge those of you who are worried about the next head of state, to become just as worried about the state of your head.

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Real Estate Investing: Factors Effecting Your Wholesaling Success

2008-03-07T16:59:00.001-08:00

I am often asked by other real estate investors how much profit can be made in a wholesaling real estate transaction. There are many aspects to determining how much profit can be made on each deal. In one way or another your profit will be determined by one of the 3 items listed below.

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Real estate wholesaling:: New Summer Real Estate Investing Job

2008-03-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

I wished I had discovered real estate wholesaling much earlier. Looking back at the high school and college summer jobs that I worked, I am amazed at the amount of time and energy that it took me to make $4,000-$5,000 in a summer. I would slave away at the construction site the entire summer for $6-$10/hr. I was working so hard, and so long, that often times even in my free moments I would fall asleep instead of being out enjoying my youth. I guess at the time it was all that I knew, therefore it was all that I did. "I wish I had met me", I now think to myself looking back at the 5 summers of intense labor.

I would have told me:

1. You do not necessarily have to work hard, but instead learn to work smart.

2. In order to make more money, learn what the people with more money do.

3. Become knowledgeable about making money, instead of becoming knowledgeable about framing homes.

These 3 rules of wealth would have bought me at least 3500 hours of freedom over the 5 summers of manual labor. If I had it too do over again I would have learned about real estate investing, first by becoming a real estate bird dog, then get into wholesaling real estate, then a landlord.

As a real estate bird dog I would have spent my mornings, placing signs around my area to seek out potential sellers. Then I would have spent 1 or 2 hours a day locating potential buyers for the properties that people called in for sale. Once my signs were in place and my buyers list was developed, I would have taken my phone to the beach. From the beach, I would have become a real estate matchmaker. Taking calls from sellers, and connecting them with my buyers for profit. $1,000-$5,000 a deal would have made me $10,000-$20,000 over the course of the summer. At the end of the summer instead of being tired and worn, I would be tan and happy. Instead of knowing a little bit more about framing a home, I would know a little bit more about how to make money through real estate investing.

Today 10 years later and much more knowledgeable, I have learned to make money, and that is what I do. The builder who I slaved away my summers too, is now working for me. Yesterday he was trimming my ceiling on my summer home, today he is buildling cabinets for my current home which he built 3 summers ago. He enjoys building, I enjoy making money. He learned how to build, I learned how to make money and have him build.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Wholesaling Real Estate Buyer Qualification

2008-02-28T12:49:00.000-08:00

Real estate investing Guide: I am often asked how you can be sure that your buyers for your real estate wholesaling deals have the ability to buy.

Anytime that you take on a new buyer you should obtain a pre-approval letter or a verification of cash funds. A pre-approval is a letter from a lender that tells you that the buyer has had a credit check, and has proven his/her income through provision of W2’s, or previous tax records. If possible, get the buyer to meet with a lender who you know and trust so that you can be sure that the buyer is truly capable of purchasing properties. A verification of cash funds is a bank statement or a letter from the buyer’s bank stating that there is either money in an account or the money is available on a credit line.

Watch out for buyers who offer you a pre-qualification letter. The letter is often not worth the paper that it’s printed on. A pre-qualification letter is based on information that has not actually been verified -- usually just on the buyer’s word. A pre-qualification letter is typically provided by a lender prior to actually sitting down with a buyer, so there’s no way of actually knowing whether the buyer is capable of purchasing properties.

Buyers are only as good as their ability to buy. A buyer can have the best intentions, but without substantiated funds, they are of no use to you.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Pulling Your Investing Trigger

2008-02-23T05:54:00.000-08:00

With Hunting Season Right around the corner I thought this would be appropriate. Somewhat of a metaphoric story for those of you interested in Wholesaling Real Estate, Bird Dogging Real Estate, or Any other type of real estate investing

Joe was positive that he would be shooting a deer this year. After all, Joe had been learning about hunting his whole life. His dad had taught him how to track deer, his uncle taught him how to build the best deer blinds known to man. This year Joe was finally going to do it, he would get his big buck, if it was the last thing he ever did.

He had just purchased the super guru rifle 2000 and from what he had heard this gun was the best. People had told him that this gun would practically shoot itself, man this was one heck of a gun. Oh and the four wheeler that Joe would be riding out to his blind was the so quiet and so fast he didnt have a chance of spooking any deer.

It was opening morning of deer season and Joe was ready, boy oh boy Joe was ready. Joe barely slept a wink the night before just thinking about the big buck that he was gonna get. Joe packed up his stuff, grabbed the super guru rifle 2000 and headed off to his blind (riding the best 4 wheeler known to man).

Joe arrived at his blind, and got everything in place. This was Joes day, the big buck would be his. Joe sat for about an hour when he noticed this giant rack coming up over the hill. This was the Buck to end all Bucks. Joe was quivering at the chance just to see a deer like this.

The buck approached, Joe peered through his scope, "Boy this is the one, this is the day" he quietly said to himself". Joe slowly pulled the trigger.......To be continued

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Joes buddy Nate had never hunted a day in his life, when it came to hunting "Nate didnt know his butt from a whole in the ground". Nate had spent alot of time shooting guns with his dad, but had never hunted. Nate decided since his buddy Joe was going hunting that he would too. So Nate asked his dad, who had killed 100's of deer in his day, if he could take him hunting. Nates dad was more than happy to show him.

It was opening morning, Nates dad had set him a great spot where he had shot dozens of bucks. Out of the corner of his eye Nate saw a huge buck coming up over the ridge. Nate looked at the buck through his scope. "This is the one" he thought to himself as he slowly sqeezed the trigger. The rifle let out a huge boom, and not 10 minutes later Nate was proudly posing for a picture next to his prized buck.

back to Joe.............Joe slowly pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. The buck was gone...............Joe had it all, the super guru 2000 gun, the best 4 wheeler known to man, and the hunting skills of a puma. "How could I have failed" Joe thought to himself, it was then he realized that in all of his time getting ready for the hunt, nobody ever taught him how to pull the trigger.

Thats the funny part about guns, you can have the best gun in the world, but if you don't know how to pull the trigger, you'll never get the deer.

Later Nate and Joe were talking about Nates huge buck and Joe said to him "Nate I thought you have never hunted before, how on earth did you shoot that big boy"

Nate replied "I never have hunted, but my dad has, I asked him where to go, then all I had to do was pull the trigger."

Are you a Joe?

Are you a Nate?

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Eric Medemar specializes in Wholesaling real estate, flipping real estate, and investment properties including Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids Rental Property, and Grand Rapids HUD homes.

Real Estate Investing Guide: Wholesaling Real Estate for $24,000 an Hours

2008-02-21T04:45:00.000-08:00

I cannot even express to you what a powerful wealth builder real estate is and will continue to be. Here is just one reason why I love Wholesaling Real Estate

So i'm out cruising around in the convertible on a gorgeous day, and I get a call from a realtor that I know about a property that hadnt yet hit the market. I tour the home for 5 minutes, then call me assistant to put together the contract. The next day I make a couple of phone calls to my buyers list. Then 2 days later I put it under contract with a buyer in "as is condtion" for a $8,000 profit. I will ad him to the deed since the contract is non assignable, then at closing I will deed myself off. All in all I have 20 mins into the deal, and $8,000 to show for it.

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Eric Medemar specializes in Wholesaling real estate, flipping real estate, and investment properties including Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids Rental Property, and Grand Rapids HUD homes.

Eric Medemar is a real estate consultant from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to check out his FREE real estate investing guide as well as his Highly acclaimed real estate investing course where he will show you his easy to understand methods for investing in real estate without cash or credit.

Real Estate Investing Guide: Is Wholesaling Real Estate Illegal?

2008-02-21T01:35:00.000-08:00

Is real estate wholesaling illegal? I have heard this question asked dozens of time by new real estate investors from across the United States and my answer is always absolutely not! Many people mistakenly put wholesaling in the same category with the property flipping scams that are now heavily publicized by the media. Illegal property flipping and real estate wholesaling have nothing in common.

Illegal property flipping is a result of buyers paying over inflated amounts for a piece of real estate. Then they either getting a large amount of cash back at closing or they are working hand in hand with the sellers who then pays them off in exchange for buying the piece of property at an over inflated price. The buyer is essentially sacrificing his or her credit in exchange for cash. This over inflation is a result of the market value of a home being far less than what a crooked appraiser can pull sold listings for.

Real estate wholesaling on the other hand is a completely legal activity. Most wholesaling transaction involve either selling a contract to another investor, or buying the home and immediately selling it to another investor at a discount.

Unlike illegal property flipping with real estate wholesaling nobody is getting hurt. Wholesaling presents the perfect win-win scenario for all parties that are involved with the transaction. The buyer is happy because they are getting a great deal on a piece of real estate and the wholesaler is happy because they are making a $5,000-$10,000 fee for their services.

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Are You Making Elephant Sized Wholesaling Mistakes

2008-02-07T15:25:00.000-08:00

The other night I was flipping channels when I stumbled upon a special about elephants. A researcher had been following a group of elephants for the past 15 years and was documenting his findings. Though I am not by any means an avid elephant fan, I found the show very enjoyable.

One of the elephants that he had been researching had just passed away at the tender age of 62. He said that when an elephant dies all of the history and knowledge that the elephant had acquired over their lifetime dies with them. The thought when left alone seems rather elementary. However when I thought about it on a deeper level, it brought to mind how lucky we are to have written communication.

When the old elephant passed away all of his secret feeding spots, watering holes and travel paths went away with him. Sure, the younger elephants were able to learn from the older elephants as they grew up, but I am sure many elephant secrets have been lost over the years. As humans we are extremely lucky to have written communication. Written communication allows us to avoid making the same mistakes that our ancestors made. Written communication also give us the ability to avoid having to reinvent the wheel when we want to accomplish something new with our lives.

Having said that, it puzzles me to no end why people insist on “doing it there way” or worse yet not doing things at all because they “don't know how”. With the endless amount of information available in the world there is no excuse not to be living the lives of our dreams. No matter who you are, where your from or what your current life circumstances are, there is someone who has overcame far more than you, and achieved much more than you, and they have written down exactly how they did it. They have left their secret paths for you to follow.

It does not matter how broke you are even if your living on the streets you can go to the library and read about how other people have overcome situations similar to yours. Unlike the elephants successful humans leave there secrets behind for you to follow, you just need to follow them.

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www.BirdDogBiz.com- A great real estate bird dog system that allow you to earn while you learn investing.
www.Investorslunch.com - an introduction to wholesaling real estate
www.birddogslunch.com - an introduction to becoming a real estate bird dog.
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Investing in real estate: Cures For the 9 Most Common Real Estate Problems

2008-02-04T10:44:00.000-08:00

Why are you staying away from the biggest wealth builder that has ever existed? Real estate is and always will be the largest wealth builder in the world. The problem for most people is being able to afford entry into the real estate game.Then the gurus come along offering you the magic answer to all of your real estate problems. Anybody who has stayed up after 11:00 has seen the endless Carleton Sheets, or Russ Whitney real estate programs. These programs do have there place and have helped many people learn about real estate but they have also helped many more people lose thousands of dollars.

Lets not even get into the thousands of books out there all claiming the magic answer to your real estate problems. Don't get me wrong books are great but often times they leave you hanging with many unanswered questions about your real estate dreams.

Then there is real estate coaching. Coaching has its place as well but usually costs between $1,000 to $30,000. The interesting thing is that the low cost real estate coaching services are often using non investors as coaches. Essentially they are only booksmart coaches, preaching at you what they have read in some guide to coaching and your paying them $200+ hr to hear their crap.

I don't know how many of you reading this would like to get involved in the real estate game but if you do, I have put together a package for you that will blow the doors off of ANY real estate program out there.

I have put together a small checklist of reasons why you have not lived up to your real estate potential:

1. No Real Estate Investing Confidence-Books and courses have left you hanging, they have left you knowing what to do, but not doing what you know.

2. No Real Estate Support-If you did get going in the real estate game and had a question, then who do you ask? Your book or course, I think not. Not knowing what to do when a question comes up about a transaction has left you frozen doing nothing.

3. No Real Estate Investing Business Plan- If you are looking to make it in any business and you don't have a plan in place then you are bound to fail. I'm sure the problem for most of you is not only do you not know how to make a business plan but you also don't even know what you would put in your plan if you had one!

4. No Real Estate Investing Goals-About 1% of the populaton has written goals for their life. Trying to succeed without goals is like trying to put together a puzzle without a picture to look at. Sure it can be done, but will take far longer than necessary.

5. Nobody Else Has Confidence In You- You tell your spouse and your family that you want to be a real estate investor and they look at you like your crazy. Of course they will, you don't have anything besides a crazy idea says that you will make it.

Do any of these problems describe why you have not made it in real estate? Perhaps your a seasoned investor already, and have made it past the first problems. Well I have a checklist for you to.

6. No Real Estate Web Site-You would have to be crazy not to have a website for your real estate business. The problem is that websites are expensive, I have seen the top real estate website templates online for $4,000+ dollars plus over $60/mo for hosting. Those are just templates, a custom site can run you upwards of $10,000 and hosting as much as $150/mo. Even if you paid $10,000 for a website, it would still pay off in the long run, but you don't have to.

7. No Toll Free Number-A toll free number can be extremely valuable to getting more leads brought into your business. Toll free numbers also capture callers phone numbers even if they are blocked. Call tracking is one valuable tool for any real estate business. Take a look at the BIG real estate businesses, they all have toll free numbers, that should say something about the power of toll free numbers. If you want to make big dog dollars, then do what the big dogs do. Toll free numbers can cost anywhere from $30-$150/mo, but are well worth it.

8. No BRANDED Toll Free Number-If you have already bit the bullet and purchased a toll free number, the next step is to get a branded toll free number. Branded phone numbers often called vanity numbers use memorable and marketable words to enhance consumer recall of your phone number. Branded numbers, are numbers that spell something that a consumer can remember eisier than just numbers. Many of you use bandit signs, the problem is people cant write down your number when they are driving by. A good branded number can be seen once, then remembered later because of using words not numbers. Studies indicate that Branded phone numbers are 14 times eisier to remember than numbers. The problem is good branded numbers are expensive, and hard to find. If you go to ebay and check out price for vanity numbers they cost from $300-$20,000.

9. No Peer Groups To Bounce Questions Off-If you are a successful investor, it is hard to find other successful investors in your own market place that will share tips and advice with you. Other successful investors don't want you to know what they are doing because they are afraid that you will do it. To get around this problem it is important to network with people outside of your market who don't mind sharing because you are not their competition (there in New York your in Florida).

Those are just a few of the problems facing investors today. If you would like a inexpensive solution to each of those problems the Real Estate Business In A Box is for you.(by inexpensive I mean dirt cheap) There is only one program allowed per zip code or area. Once your area is gone, then your on your own. I guarantee you will be blown away.

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www.UltimateWholesalingsystem.com- the only real estate wholesaling system you will ever need.
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www.Investorslunch.com - an introduction to wholesaling real estate
www.birddogslunch.com - an introduction to becoming a real estate bird dog.
Plus I am a contributing member of the real estate investing forums at www.Themillionaireuniversity.com

Wholesaling Real Estate: Is Wholesaling Real Estate For You

2008-02-02T07:22:00.000-08:00

Real estate wholesaling is without a doubt the lowest risk, and highest paying way to invest in real estate.

Real Estate Wholesaling Is For You If:

You dont' like the risk associated with traditional real estate wholesaling- Traditional investing methods involve owning a piece of property and hoping that it increases in value. Meanwhile your losing sleep because of a plummeting real estate market, or you have to deal with pain in the a$$ tenants.
You don't have piles of cash to invest or no cash at all-Many of you want to become investors because you want money, not because you already have money. Traditional investing is next to impossible without money....Not real estate wholesaling though!
You live in an area where housing prices are flat or falling quickly-Since real estate wholesaling does not require you to buy anything.....You can easily make stress free income, in any real estate market.
You don't have credit, or you have bruised credit!-Just because life has handed you some tough luck, doesn't mean that you should be banned from real estate investing forever....Real estate wholesaling requires no credit.
You have no experience as a real estate investor-Real estate wholesaling is the perfect way to break into the real estate investing business. Since wholesaling is a risk free, and requires no cash and no credit, there are no barriers between you and the success that you deserve.
You could use an extra $5,000-$30,000 a month-Wholesaling real estate is without a doubt the highest paying and lowest risk way to get started as a real estate investor....Real estate wholesaling truly allows you to write your own paycheck.
You would like more time to spend doing the things you love-Real estate wholesaling provides you with full time pay, for doing part time work. Does it get any better than that!....No risk, full time pay for part time work, no credit needed, and no cash needed....need I say more?
You like the thought of real estate investing, but hate the thought of tenants-Right now I have over 35 rentals, let me tell you unless you have a "turn excuses into dollar bills converter" I would suggest wholesaling any day over being a landlord!
You hate the traditional 9-5, lever pulling, a$$ kissing, sucking up thing....that some people call a job!-Okay this one is my hot button.....I don't know about you....But, God did not put me on this earth to trade my time, my esteem, and healthy years slaving away doing something I don't enjoy.
You aren't the smartest guy in the world-I have to admit this is one of the reasons that I enjoy real estate wholesaling so much. I am not that smart, but I can make alot of money as a real estate wholesaler.

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www.UltimateWholesalingsystem.com- the only real estate wholesaling system you will ever need.
www.BirdDogBiz.com- A great real estate bird dog system that allow you to earn while you learn investing.
www.Investorslunch.com - an introduction to wholesaling real estate
www.birddogslunch.com - an introduction to becoming a real estate bird dog.
Plus I am a contributing member of the real estate investing forums at www.Themillionaireuniversity.com

wholesaling Real Estate: Time Lines For Getting Paid

2008-01-25T10:45:00.000-08:00

Many new real estate wholesalers are curious about how long it will take to get their first paycheck. From my experience you can be getting paid in as little as two weeks depending on how quickly that you build your buyers list. Once you have a good buyers list in place then you are ready to start making some serious money. Here are some of the variables that will effect the speed that you can expect to get your first pay check from real estate wholesaling.

1. Type of financing your buyers are using- The type of financing that your buyers are using will often dictate the speed of closing the deal.

Cash buyers- I have seen cash buyers close in as little as one week, but typically expect them to close in two to three weeks.
Bank financing- I usually plan on deals that will be financed through the bank to take around 30-45 days to get to the closing table.
Seller financing- I have seen seller financed deals close in as little as one week, but often times closings will occur in two to three weeks.

2. Time to get a clear title- If a home has a paper trail that is free of liens, encumbrances, and other title issues, then title policies can be issued to your buyer in as little as three days. On the other hand, I have seen homes that took over 30 days to get the title cleared. In a case like that, patience is a must.

3. The seller's time line- Some sellers will want to close as soon as possible and others may want to take their time. Typical closing times are three to five weeks from the day that the contract is signed. The main reason for sellers taking extra long to close is that they do not have another home lined up to move into.

4. The buyer's time line- Many investors will try to close as late as the seller will allow. This is especially true of other wholesalers because they want as much time as possible to line up another buyer for the property.

Those are the four most critical factors in determining how fast you will be able to make money wholesaling real estate.

Eric Medemar is a Real Estate Investor/Consultant from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics wholesaling real estate blog here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at The Millionaire University

Real Estate Investing Guide: Finding Buyers For Your Wholesale Deals

2008-01-19T06:16:00.000-08:00

I get email virtually every day from people who want to know where to find buyers for their real estate wholesaling deals. So I figured I would put together most of the ideas that I have used or have seen used for finding buyers. I have used all of these in my own real estate wholesaling business

Keep in mind these are ways that I or my clients have actually used, so I know that they work because I have done it.

1. We Buy Houses Signs I call every single one of these signs that I see, I actually keep a note book full of numbers and info that I find out about these companies when I call.

I usually ask them whether they are still buying, what they are looking for, what percentage up FMV they are typically paying, and what areas of town they want to buy in.

While I have them on the phone I also ask them if they wholesale out any of their homes, if they do then I ask them to call me when they have something good. I tell them that if the deal is right I can close in less than 2 weeks with cash.(I can do this because I have other buyers already in place to buy their deals, sometimes these buyers could be other cash for your house buyers)

Here is a sample of a deal that I put together using this.

1. I called a we buy houses sign
2. Found out where they were looking
3. Put a home under contract for $52k in that area
4. Called them and let them know.
5. I signed a 6 month lease option with them for $64k
6. I closed the home.
7. The lease option started
8. He sold the home
9. We close this week, I make about $12,000 (I also made commission when I bought the house, because im a realtor)
10. He makes around $12k.
11. Were all happy.

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2. Call realtors I call realtors and find out if they have any cash buyers that are looking to buy some wholesale deals. It varies on what I offer to pay them but typically I offer 10%-20% of my profit, or a flat 2-3% fee, each time the buyer they have given me buys a home. It creates a win- win, I get a buyer and they get paid whenever their buyer buys a home.

I offer the continuous pay because a realtors worst fear is that they give you a buyer and he buys from you, then when they have a good property to show their buyers they cant buy because they have already purchased from you.

If the realtors dont have cash buyers, I tell them that if they bump into any great deals, they should call me and if the deals good enough we can buy with cash and close in less than 2 weeks.( Often times you can use other realtors buyers to buy another realtors house and you can make money setting the two up)

An example of one of my clients deals that he ran this way.

1. I called my client about a great HUD deal
2. He liked the deal and put the home under contract for $115k (I made a $4800 commission on the home when it closed so I was happy)
3. We had 60 days to close the HUD home so he started calling realtors
4. He found a realtor with a cash buyer that was willing to pay $122,000
5. We assigned the contract (this is a secret)
6. We went to closing and his buyer brought $122,000 cashiers check.
7. My buyer left with a check for $7,000 ( he used none of his own money, and I found him the house so he was happy)
8. I left with my $4800 commission
9. The realtor who brought the buyer took no commission but got a commitment from his buyer that he would list the home with him when he sold it.

3. Newspaper ads I dont personally use this one, I have clients who have had great success with it though. They simply place a small classified ad that reads "Looking for buyers to purchase homes at 50-70% of true value"

I have picked up endless buyers with this ad though "Free List of 45 foreclosed/distressed homes" call or visit www.$$$.com. The reason that I have had so much success with this ad is because anyone thinking of buying real estate would much rather get a free list of 45 then have to call each individual ad. You can have a local realtor put together a list of properties for you and email them to you if you cant find your own. Then take the list that they send you and email it out to people that respond to your ad. Keep in mind you dont really care about the list that you send, you care about getting the name, phone number, and buying qualifications of responding buyers.

A real life example.
1. I placed my free list ad
2. I got about 30 responses for the month
3. Found one buyer who has paid me over $75,000 in commisions over the next 3 years on deals I brought him.

These were realtor commissions, but if you can find a buyer who is taking the kind of action he was you could seriously line your pockets wholesaling to him.

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4. HUD homes this is my own technique that I started using to get buyers just for my realtor purposes. Watch for a great deal on a HUD home or any great deal for that matter, then park outside for a few hours and talk to the people going to check out the home. Most of the areas investors will find there way to the property and you can give them your card and be sure to get there info. Tell them that you run into alot of deals and ask them if they would like you to give them a call when you run into something decent.

A personal example.

1. I went to look at a good HUD home that I was going to buy myself.
2. The neighbor came over and wanted to see the home while I was there.
3. I showed him the home and he ended up buying it from me.
4. I ended up making $2500 in commission on it.

If I were not a realtor, I would have simply talked to him and found out what he was willing to pay, then wrote up a wholesale contract, then put the home under contract with HUD, then played the spread.

This was my most recent deal, but I have picked up endless buyers for other homes while parked outside of HUD homes. I call it hunting for buyers. Its kind of like deer hunting with a bait pile. The home is the bait pile and the buyers are all coming to eat.

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4. Talk to your current buyers buyer typically know other buyers, ask your buyers if they know of anyone else who is buying (let them know you will only call the referal if they are passing on the property). You also might offer to pay your buyer for a referall fee if one of there people end up buying a house from you. This technique also works great if you have a buyer that only wants to buy in a certain area, then you can call their referall if you have a home outside that area.

Personal example.

1. One of my buyers had too many homes and could not buy.
2. I asked him if he knew anyone else who might be interested.
3. He gave me the number to a cousin who was an even bigger investor
4. I ended up selling 3 homes to his cousin this year, and paid him a referal for each one.

5.Local REI meetings If you have a local investor club join it, if you dont then start one. It kind of speaks for itself that this is where many great buyers will be. Just be sure you know a fair bit about what you are doing before talking to very many people about potential deals. The last thing you want to do is burn alot of bridges by showing your new found buyers a bunch of crap.

6. Birddogs for buyers Outside of having bird dogs look for homes for you, you can also have them look for buyers for you. Give them your cards and have them hand them out to people they might meet that are looking to get into real estate investing.

7. Brochure Boxes Just like realtors use brochure boxes you can use them to. If you have a property to move leave a brochure box that talks minimally about the property that it is left at, always be sure to leave out pertitant info like price, sqft, or bed/baths. If you give all the info away then people will never call you about the property. Focus the brochure mainly on other potential deals in the area or say that you are looking for buyers for properties at 50-70%FMV.

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8. Out of towner and landlords Many people sell themselves short when they are dialing for dollars. Typically people call or mail out of town owners and other landlords to see if they want to sell. The funny part is if they dont want to sell then there is a chance that they want to buy, so ask them if they arent selling, then would they like to buy some more, or if your mailing then include buying info on your mailer as well.

For more info on wholesaling real estate and real estate bird dogging

Eric Medemar specializes in Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids HUD homes, and Grand Rapids Real Estate Investing.

Eric Medemar is a real estate consultant from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to check out his FREE real estate investing guide as well as his Highly acclaimed real estate investing course where he will show you his easy to understand methods for investing in real estate without cash or credit.

I Heart real estate wholesaling

2008-01-15T03:50:00.000-08:00

Why didn't I learn sooner? Wholesaling real estate, has always been there but where was I?

I feel like standing up and shouting to the world "Learn to make money!". I know this sounds a bit crazy, but far too many of you are learning to make a living rather, learning to make money. There is a tremendous difference.

By learning to make money rather than learning to make a living, you free yourself from the confines of being a slave to traditional employment.

I can't even explain to you how great of a business that real estate wholesaling is. I just wrapped up one more deal this week. I picked up a home for $12,000 and just finished closing it for $30,000.

After all was said and done I cleared about $16,000.

Now to many of you that may not sound like a lot of money. But, when you consider that the average american works about 2000 hours a year, that little deal just game me a pay raise of $8.00/hr.

Now to the sad part. If I would have done just one deal like this when I was in college I could have taken all four summers off instead of slaving away at the construction site.

Wholesaling real estate has shown me time and time again

Real Estate Investment Systems: Real Estate Wholesaling and Real Estate Bird Dogging

2008-01-02T11:12:00.000-08:00

I have been getting alot of emails from people wanting investment ideas and advice, I wish I had the time to answer all of the questions personally, but I do not. Here is a list of the resources that I have available for real estate investing.

I put these programs together after buying many courses and systems for myself. I wanted to have a great LOW COST system so that anyone who wants to have success in the real estate investing business will have the chance.

http://www.ultimatewholesalingsystem.com/ - This is a complete real estate wholesaling system that covers every question that you could think of about real estate wholesaling. It includes a 150 page guide, 3 CD's of audio and include 6 FREE Bonuses (Assignment contracts, Inspection Cheat Sheets, etc)

http://www.theforeclosurecollege.com/ - This system includes a complete real estate system for either wholesaling or birddogging plus use of my 1-877-You-Ugly phone number, and use of my http://www.offersinaday.com/ website, plus one-one coaching with me.

http://www.birddogbiz.com/- This is a complete guide to real estate bird dogging. It includes a 150 page guide 3 CD's worth of audio and 6 FREE Bonuses (Bird Dog Contracts, Inspection Cheat Sheets, etc)

http://www.investorslunch.com/ - This $29.95 course is an introduction to real estate wholesaling and includes the introduction to wholesaling Guide, as well as audio program Plus Assingment contracts, etc.

http://www.birddogslunch.com/ - This 29.95 course is an introduction to becoming a real estate bird dog and includes a introduction to bird dogging guide, as well as audio program plus Bird dog contracts, inspection cheat sheets.

All of my systems are backed by 100% Money back, no hassle guarantee. Try the product if you don't like it, then email my office and we will happily refund your money.

Have a great year and I wish you much success.

Wholesaling Real Estate: Investment Club Meetings For Wholesaling Buyers

2007-12-30T13:59:00.000-08:00

Having buyers is one of the most important part of the real estate wholesaling success equation. One of the quickest ways to meet investors who can later turn into buyers is by attending real estate investment club functions. The fees to join your local real estate investment club will vary, but I can promise you that investment clubs are well worth the money.

To get the most out of attending real estate investment club functions it will be very important to step out of your shell and meet the other investors in the group. Here are a few thing to keep in mind when attending your local REI club meetings:

Remember that you have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason.-Try to listen twice as often as you talk. If you have not noticed yet, people love to talk about themselves, so let them.

Don't try to be right- Even if you here the “Old investing pro” say something wrong, do not jump into correct him. People do not like to be corrected, and will often lash out at you if you try to make them look bad.

Have your success stories ready- Now do not confuse this with bragging, or tooting your own horn. Instead subtly drop your past success stories into the conversation to spark interest. If you have made another investor a lot of money tell that story. Maybe, you have found some great deals for another investor, talk about those great deals.

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Wholesaling Properties: Don't Miss These Critcal Wholesaling Success Steps

2007-12-01T11:27:00.001-08:00

There are numerous reasons why investors never realize any success in real estate wholesaling. In this article I am going to focus on one step of the wholesaling process that so many investors get wrong. The sad part is that many of the guru wholesaling courses actually teach newbie investors the wrong way.

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From my experience the most critical factor in the entire wholesaling real estate equation is having a solid buyers list in place. Many newbie investors make the mistake of focusing their energies on locating great deals on houses prior to having any investors to buy those houses. The best deal in the world is no good unless you have a buyer lined up ahead of time. Sure, you can find buyers after you have found a good deal, but going that route has some large risks:

Risk #1 One of the main risks of finding buyers after you find motivated sellers is that your chances of being able to follow through on the contract decrease substantially because you are starting from scratch.

Risk #2 If you cannot follow through on your contracts, then you will quickly start building a reputation as someone who cannot follow through on promises. Having a good reputation is critical to success in the long run. If you over promise and under deliver to the wrong Realtors or investors in a particular market, then your options for finding great deals, and selling those deals will quickly decrease substantially.

Risk #3 Your profits can decrease substantially. Because you are starting from scratch with your buyers list, you may end up having to sell your contract for far less than what it is worth simply because your buyer options are so limited.

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Wholesaling Real Estate: Using Detachment to Succeed In Real Estate Investing

2007-11-25T07:40:00.000-08:00

Real Estate Wholesaling is one of the most powerful wealth builders that does not require cash or credit. Far too many people complicate the wholesaling real estate process with their "what if" worries. What if I cannot find a buyer? What if the market changes? These are just a couple of the "what ifs" that first time and even seasoned real estate wholesalers spend far too much time on. Detachment is the process of pulling your emotions away from the outcome of any scenario.

The process of detachment will help you pull your emotions out of the real estate transaction. Detachment leaves you in a far better place to make decisions relating to real estate wholesaling, because there is no emotion or baggage that you need to include. Detachment sets you free from "what ifs", because all of your "what ifs" can be answered with "so whats". Not that your "what if's" are not legitimate concerns, but most of the time they are only emotional responses to issues that you bring up in your own head, rather than real world happenings.

Detachment can be achieved through realizing that "you" are not your outcomes. If the real estate market plummets to 10 year lows, you are still you. If the market skyrockets to all time highs, you are still just you. "You" will essentially be just you, regardless of the outcome of any real estate transaction. So stop stalling, I promise the world will not end if you make a mistake.

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Real Estate Investing: Termite Inspections For Our Minds

2007-11-25T07:27:00.000-08:00

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As real estate investors many of us are all too familiar with termites. I have lost a couple of sales because a home was infested with termites. Why are termites so dangerous? After all they are just a small bug, what harm could one little bug do? As I am sure you know, it's not one termite that destroys a house, it's a colony, but a colony is started with just a couple of bugs. If a couple of termites are allowed to penetrate the foundation of a home, a colony will soon arise.

Bad thoughts are a lot like termites. One bad thought will not take you down. The problem is, if you let one bad thought in, then one leads to another, then another. Soon you have your own colony of bad thoughts. It will not take long for a colony of bad thoughts to begin munching away at the foundation of your life.

Food for your bad thoughts is available every where. Our morning news is a breakfast for the termites of our minds. “Three dead today in a triple homicide” touts the smiling news person. Followed by “Our housing market is tumbling faster than Brittney's career”. The amazing thing with the news is that many Americans start their days with the news, and end their days with the news. I guess bad thoughts need their dinner too.

It is no wonder that America is one of the most wealthy nations of the world, yet our depression rates are skyrocketing, and our health is tumbling more rapidly than ever. So many Americans are being eaten alive by the termites of their minds. I think it's time to send in the termite inspector for the mind, that inspector is awareness.

We need to pay attention to. the things that we pay attention to. We need to start a bad thought extermination program. By taking the food from the bad thoughts, soon the bad thoughts will realize that they need to go someplace else if they want to eat. What are you feeding your mind? Are you starting your days with the breakfast of champions, or with 2 homicides over easy, and a side order of doom?

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Real Estate Wholesaling: If Plants Made Decisions, Cows Would be Shaking In Their Shoes

2007-11-21T08:04:00.000-08:00

It occurred to me one day that because humans have the ability to make their own decisions, we also have the ability to hold ourselves back. Many real estate investors that I know, have been held back their entire lives because of poor, or no decision making.

I have a strong feeling that every cow on earth would be shaking in it's shoes if plants had the ability to make decisions like humans did. If plants had to make decisions, I am afraid to say, it would be all meat, all the time. I can see it now, a small little seed of corn gets buried in the ground. Instead of growing like it needs to, the corn would stay at the seed stage for a couple of years until it can get past the fact that it had one more inch of dirt over it than the seeds around it.

Once the small seed had grown into a one inch corn plant, then it would need a couple of more years to grow into a medium size cornstalk. It would be difficult for the small plant to grow because instead of using it's energy for growth, all of it's energy would be dedicated to figuring out why the corn around it was getting more sun. Finally, after a couple of years of evaluating why the other corn had it so much better, the little plant would become medium sized. Only of course, after it had exhausted all of it's options for keeping the other plants from getting more sun.

Now the medium sized plant would have some big decisions to make. Should it grow up to full size and risk not producing corn that would be good enough for the farmer to eat. Maybe it should stay medium sized, so that it doesn't need to face the possible painful rejection by the farmer.

Can you even imagine? What decisions have you been making in your real estate investing career that have kept you a seedling rather than a full stalk of corn? Who are you blaming for blaming for your lack of sun? The answers to these questions will help take you from where you are now to where you want to be.

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Real Estate Wholesaling: Escaping Investor Anxiety

2007-11-12T03:47:00.000-08:00

One of the main reasons that people fail at any endeavor in life is that they fear failure, or fear the unknown. So many times new investors would rather live with a known bad situation, than put there neck out for an unknown outcome. Including outcomes that more often then not will end up better than where they are currently at in life.

One of my favorite, yet most saddening quotes is by Henry Thoreau "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them". Don't be one of those men or women. Instead live the life of this other Thoreau quote "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"

One of the tools that I have used to get beyond the ordinary, small life of quiet desperation is weighing my opportunity cost. Failing to weigh the opportunity cost of not doing, can leave you living your life like a paper weight. Opportunity cost is the cost of what you are doing compared to what you could be doing. Example: If your time is worth $30/hr, and you take a day off work to sit around on your butt, then your opportunity cost for sitting on your but is $30/hr. You are essentially paying $30/hr to sit on your but.

This relates to real estate investing because if you could be making an extra $20,000 a year as an investor, then your opportunity cost for doing nothing is $20,000 a year. Essentially, most wannabe investors who have become paralyzed by fear are paying at least $20,000 a year, to remain in the "getting ready, to get ready" state of mind.

Take a few moments and write down the things that you have been giving up in your life in exchange for giving into your feelings of fear. What is your fear costing your everyday. For many of you it may be costing you:

1.The great feelings of satisfaction from living the life of your dreams.
2.An extra $20,000 a year that could take you from living a life of scarcity to living the life of your dreams.
3. Paying for you child's education
4. Allowing retirement 15 years earlier. Think of all that you could do with 15 years of life.

The list could go on and on. Please take a few moments to write out what fear has cost you. Taking your thoughts down from your head and onto to paper will allow you to experience your thoughts with you senses. If you can come up with a list of 20 things that your FEAR is costing you, you will be well on your way to gaining the needed leverage to improve your life.

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Real Estate Wholesaling and Real Estate Bird Dogging Articles and Tips

2007-11-03T16:00:00.000-07:00

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2007-11-01T19:06:00.001-07:00

Real Estate Investing: 13 Lessons I Have Learned

2007-10-19T13:11:00.000-07:00

I thought I might share some lessons and observations that I have made while being a landlord, I would love to here some other lessons so that I may not need to discover them on my own. These are all things that I have actually seen, done and learned while real estate investing.

1. If someone gets shot in your house, regular carpet cleaner (Resolve) does not work to remove the nasty stuff that comes out when you get shot.

2. Normal people do not want to live in a house where the neighbors have spray painted R.I.P James Smith on the side walk.

3. If a tenant calls and begins the conversation with "I have always liked you", or " I hope your having a blessed day" it really means "I do not intend on paying rent this month".

4. When a prospective tenant says "I live with my grand mother, or any other relative" they are actually saying "There is not a landlord in the world that would give me a good reference, so I will just say I live at home".

5. If a tenant offers to paint a rental unit for their security deposit, and they say they are good painters. It really means that they are experts at painting linoleom, wood floors, and windows, but your walls may not turn out right. Do they make a 2000 sqft tarp?

6. When a tenant says that they "Don't do drugs" they really mean "I don't do certain drugs". I ask "Do you do drugs?" they say to me "No I hate drugs", they actually mean, "I hate crack, but weed and vicodin are staples in my life.

7. If your ceiling is torn down in one of your rental properties and the tenant tries to convince you that "It just Fell", what they really mean is "There was a drug bust here, and we were growing weed in the cieling".

8. Somehow the postal system is being very discriminate to only my tenants. This is an actual quote "Eric, I know this is the third month in a row that my social security check has not shown up on time, but the postmaster said "He fixed it".

9. Do not call a heating and cooling guy when a tenant calls and says "My furnace isnt working" because what they really mean is "I have the heat set at 90 and its 95 in here, so my furnace isnt coming on".

10. This is just a suspicion, but I think tenants are in cahoots with the gas companies, because I have walked into units where the landlord is paying the heat and I swear its 100 degrees, and they have all the windows open in the middle of winter. I asked them why the windows were open, and the furnace was on and they replied "The heats Free". They act as if the gas company gives them a dollar for every dollar they waste on gas.

11. A house, is just not a house, until it has what I call the "Ghetto stamp of approval", this is when I install new carpet and within 30 minutes of moving in, the tenant has burned the outline of the iron into the carpet in at least 6 spots. What are they doing ironing anyway? Unless they need to wear a suit and tie to the Department of human services.

12. I have found this very interesting, I live in a nice neighborhood with very nice homes, and many of my neighbors work 60+ hrs a week, and they have yards that look like the ninth whole at a golf course, and they maintain it themselves. Many of my tenants on the other hand, work 2 hours a week depending on the length of unemployment line, so one might deduce that their yard would be drop dead gorgeous, as they have so much time to work in it. This is not the case however, I can see missing a Twinky wrapper when you get out of your car, but how in the heck do you accidentally leave a couch in the front yard.

13. It is possible to mow a lawn, with a push mower in one had and a 40 oz of Colt 45 in the other. I was very happy to learn this because I have been mowing my lawn for years and was always stuck wearing a beer helmet.

Real Estate Wholesaling: Success Through Refinement

2007-10-11T04:55:00.000-07:00

Wholesaling real estate is one of the best ways that I have found to make loads of cash in real estate investing without needing cash, credit, or handling risk. Successful real estate wholesalers know that they much constantly change their business as the real estate market changes.

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Throughout my life I have been a person who never accepts the status quo. I have always sought out better and more efficient ways to do everything. As a real estate wholesaler I have experienced a tremendous amount of success because I am always refining my business. I treat my wholesaling business like a Nascar pit crew would treat the engine of their driver. Constantly tweaking it to add just a little more horsepower. The more horsepower that I can add to my real estate business the more cash I put in my pocket.

The key to refining your real estate wholesaling business is to ask yourself the following questions at the end of every week that you have been doing business:

1. In what ways could I have run my business more efficiently this week?

2. What problems have I encountered over the past week, and how could I better handle them next time?

3. What did I do well in my business this week, and are there parts of my real estate wholesaling business that I could carry the same ideas over to?

4. If I had my week to do over again what would I do differently?

As you can see these questions are the foundation for just about any business including wholesaling real estate. These same questions can be used to improve any other aspect of your life as well.
Eric Medemar is a Realtor/Real Estate Investor out of Grand Rapids, MI. Eric currently owns 35+ rental properties, and is the creator of the ultimate Wholesaling Real Estate system the programs that enables you to duplicate his exact real estate system. You can view Eric's Blog at Free Guide To Wholesaling Real Estate guide also, be sure to check out Erics Ultimate Real Estate Bird Dog System

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Become A Real Estate Middleman-Wholesaling Real Estate

2007-10-06T05:58:00.000-07:00

How would you like to become a real estate middleman. You know, the middleman who takes all the profit without having to take on any of the risk. Real estate wholesaling will allow you to become a real estate middleman.

So what is a real estate middleman? A real estate middleman is the person who buyers come to for great deals, and sellers come to for quick sales. As a real estate wholesaler that is essentially how you make your money. You get paid the difference between the price that buyers are willing to pay and that sellers are willing to sell for.

So what kind of money can you make as a real estate middleman? I have had clients of mine make upwards of $150,000 doing middleman deals. Typical real estate middlemen can expect profits of $7,000-$20,000 per deal. I have had several deals where I have made close to $30,000. The amazing thing is that with those deals I paid under $30,000 for the homes. Where else but in real estate investing can you expect returns of over 100% in under 60 days. Using real estate middleman techniques I have made $9,000 in under 3 days and 20 minutes worth of work. That is why I love being in the middleman business.

In our current slow housing market becoming a real estate middleman is the perfect answer. Real estate middlemen do not have to worry about slow sales, because they do not buy what they have not already sold. Being a real estate middleman lets you buy with no risk, no cash, and no credit.

Eric Medemar is a Realtor/Real Estate Investor out of Grand Rapids, MI. Eric currently owns 35+ rental properties, and is the creator of the ultimate Real Estate Wholesaling system the programs that enables you to duplicate his exact real estate system. You can view Eric's Blog at Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling guide, also be sure to check out Erics Ultimate Real Estate Bird Dog System

Real Estate Bird Dogging Need in Our Schools

2007-09-20T14:47:00.000-07:00

Our school system is turning out credit flunkies. We need to start educating our kids about credit. Think about it for a moment. When was the last time you used the pythagorean theorem, or that you had to know the area of a circle. This is the stuff that our school systems are teaching our kids to prepare them for life after high school. Chemistry, do not even get me started with that! I know about two things from having three semesters of chemistry. H2O is water, and sodium blows up when you put it in H20. Three semesters of my time to learn something that I could have done without.

I would like to see our schools teach children about credit, the time value of money, and how to invest wisely. Instead, the life a college freshman looks something like this:

Day 1- Arrive on campus only to be bombarded with credit card offers. The clever freshmen unknowingly decides to give up their credit for a free coffee mug with the university logo on it.

30 days later-The bill arrives for the fake money. The clever freshman decides to rebel because there are no parents around anyway, nobody can make them pay.

60 days later-Another bill arrives this time with a note stating that there will be a $80 fee, and that they may be sent to collections. The clever graduates blows off the whole thing in one last rebellion against the society that has held them back for so long.

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Real Estate Bird Dog Course: Test Drive The Ultimate Bird Dogging Course

2007-09-09T17:52:00.000-07:00

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Real Estate Bird Dogging: Get Paid To Learn Real Estate Investing

2007-09-08T07:27:00.000-07:00

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One of the problems faced by many newbies (new investors) in the real estate business is lack of confidence. Confidence cannot be built without doing the activity that you are trying to build confidence in. This presents a problem with most people because real estate is not something that you can just practice, you cannot practice buying a house, or practice selling it. You could pretend to buy houses I guess, or pretend to sell houses, but pretending is for kids. This is where real estate bird-dogging comes into play. It gives you a reason to practice, you get paid. Now if money won't make you practice then nothing will.

Instead of not getting paid for all those hours spent learning the market, you could be making thousands. I cannot think of a better way to learn real estate than getting out and looking for good deals, then finding good deals and showing them to buyers, who pay you for your services. Then after the buyers close you can follow the progress of the home and see if you made a good decision or not. The best part is that during your practice, even if you made a not so great decision you still get paid, and you do not lose a penny.

I started out my investment career as a Realtor. I built my confidence through selling investment properties to other people and watching them make money. After selling 9 homes to other investors and seeing them profit tremendously, I knew it was time for me to start making myself some money.

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BirdDogging Real Estate: The Hunter That Never Was

2007-09-07T21:38:00.000-07:00

It was opening morning, Nates dad had set him a great spot where he had shot dozens of bucks. Out of the corner of his eye Nate saw a huge buck coming up over the ridge. Nate looked at the buck through his scope. "This is the one" he thought to himself as he slowly sqeezed the trigger. The rifle let out a huge boom, and not 10 minutes later Nate was proudly posing for a picture next to his prized buck.

Thats the funny part about guns, you can have the best gun in the world, but if you don't know how to pull the trigger, you'll never get the deer.

Later Nate and Joe were talking about Nates huge buck and Joe said to him "Nate I thought you have never hunted before, how on earth did you shoot that big boy"

Nate replied "I never have hunted, but my dad has, I asked him where to go, then all I had to do was pull the trigger."

Are you a Joe?

Are you a Nate?

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Real Estate Wholesaling: Profiting From Loser Clients

2007-09-07T15:52:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite Wholesaling Real Estate Stories

So i get a call from a past client stating that his manager will be calling me to buy an investment property. We talk back and forth on the phone for weeks. I think he maybe in the "Getting Ready to Get Ready" stage of investing. Finally I get him out to look at a 5 unit that should be marketed for around $240,000 and my wholesaler was going to sell him the house for $210,000. When we were leaving the house he asked my wholesaler for a card. After weeks of over analyzation on the house he decided to pass.

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Fast forward 2 weeks, and I get a call on Monday from my wholesaler and he said that this buyer had gone around me and called him, and told him not to pay me for anything he bought. He actually said I dont want Eric to know about us and I can save money if you dont pay him. My wholesaler and I have a great business relationship so I just told him to pay me 4% on whatever he bought. Well that thursday I took out the super buyer to look at homes and found a perfect investment property worth about 75k for 57k, he hemmed and hawwed, so I finally told him hay if you dont buy it I will so make up your mind. He called 15 minutes later and said I have some other projects going so Im going to have to pass on this one, because I have some other deals im looking at. Not 2 minutes after he called my wholesale guy calls me and tells me that the buyer called him and said he wanted to buy a 2 unit that I had sold to my buyer the first time around, the home he was selling was not a great deal in the least, but hey the buyer was on his own now. So the buyer ended up buying from my wholesaler and not knowing that I made 4% of 80k rather that 3% of 57k.

Oh but it gets much better, I went ahead and bought the property that he had passed on for 57k and then collected the 3% commission.

Oh it gets even better, I didnt need anymoney to close because I had sold the property to my wholesalers dad for 65k, he brough a cashiers check and we did a back to back closing so I didnt need a dime.

The results looked like this

without a weasel buyer I would have made 3% of 57k so around $1710

with a weasel buyer I made 3% of 57k $1710, 4% of 80k $3200 and $6500 wholesaling the property using none of my own money. for a total of a
Weasel killing $11,410 all done using none of my own cash, none of my own credit.

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The Things That make me Happy?

2007-09-06T07:32:00.000-07:00

Happiness is such a vastly strange thing. We all want it, we know what it is, but many of us are not as happy as what we would like to be. Take a moment and answer the question: "What are the things that make me happy?" try to take about two minutes to answer the question. Make a good list.

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Wholesaling Real Estate-What Is Wholesaling Real Estate

2007-09-01T04:50:00.000-07:00

What is real estate wholesaling?

Real estate wholesaling is the process of putting buyers and sellers together for profit. Just like many businesses have a middleman that they buy their products from, real estate wholesalers find the products (houses) for the end user (buyers) and make a profit for doing so.

To keep it easy, I am going to compare real estate wholesaling to selling a bike when you have no money to buy it.

In order to make money on any product you need to find the product for less money than what you intend to sell it for. For conversation sake, let's say you found a bicycle that you knew you could sell for $200 if you put the pedals back on. Without the pedals you could sell the bike for $150. If you had the money you could buy the bike for $100. The problem is you have no money to buy the bike or the pedals. You are flat broke.

In the old days you would have had to walk away from this deal.

Not with wholesaling, with wholesaling you don't need money or credit. Instead you talk to the owner of the bike and make him an offer to buy the bike for $100. Then you tell the owner that you don't need to take the bike. You would just like him to hold the bike for 3 days, and you will work on finding the money to buy it. If after 3 days you don't have the money, he can go ahead and sell it to someone else.

Once the owner agrees you call up Fred who you know is looking for a great deal on a bike. You tell Fred, "Hey Fred, I found a great deal on a bike, this bike will sell for $200 when you put the pedals on, you could buy some pedals for $10 at the hardware". You go on to say "You are not going to believe this Fred but I am selling this bike for $130". Fred says "Awesome, when can I pick it up".

You call the owner of the bike and let him know that you will be buying the bike as long as your friend says it has no problems. Then you ask him if you could pick up the bike and have a friend look it over. Then you pick up the bike from the owner and call Fred. Fred gives you $130 for the bike. You go and pay the bike owner $100. The bikes owner is happy. Fred got a great deal on a bike. You made $30 for not spending a penny, all you had to do was make a couple of phone calls.

"Except with Wholesaling Real Estate that $30 becomes $10,000"

Eric Medemar is the author of several real estate wholesaling courses including http://www.investorslunch.com/ and http://www.theforeclosurecollege.com/

Real Estate Wholesaling: Vena Jones Cox Real Estate Course Review

2007-08-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

I have just recieved my Vena Jones Cox real estate system and will be reviewing all of the details over the next couple of days. I will post my review of her system shortly. From what I have seen.......?

Eric Medemar is the author of http://www.investorslunch.com/ a 29.95 guide to wholesaling real estate or http://www.theforeclosurecollege.com/ a full use of Eric's Current system of selling real estate wholesaling.

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Wholesaling Real Estate: Contol Your Mind, Contol Your Destiny

2007-07-25T03:21:00.000-07:00

From my experience we all have a very good chance at being successful, except we get in our own way ALOT.

Most of us live in America, America is the only country on the planet that is followed by the word dream, there is no French dream, chinese dream, just the good old American Dream yet somehow many of us stop dreaming by the time we get to our 20's or many times even earlier.

So why do we many of us fall so short on our potential? From my experience, our greatest gift, is also our greatest detriment. Humans are the only living creatures that can think about the future. This is a gift in that it allows us to think about what is going to happen when we do something before we do it. The danger is that we often over think, and "what if" ourselves to death. Even worse than death, a vast majority of people simply become couch weights, passing their time here on earth making sure that our couches don't get up and run away.

If you stop for a moment and evaluate why it is that you have such a hard time with life, most people say that their life is stressful. Stress, Have you ever looked out your window and seen a stress? Probably not because stress is something that we create. Regardless of who or what we try to shift the blame to stress can only be caused by one person. Yes, that person is you.

Stress is simply just an outcome from the gift of future thinking. Stress comes when we try to see what is going to happen in the future, and we don't like what we "think" we will see. More often then not things dont end up nearly as badly as what our minds lead us to believe that it will. Simply put stress is nothing more than thought. Practically every bad thing in our life comes from thought. If you want to feel bad think bad thoughts, if you want to feel good think good thoughts.

Yet our schools, our parents, and our employers never teach us about the intracacies of our minds. We all go through life under this illusion of struggle. When in reality most struggle is created by our minds.

People fail to realize the power that their thoughts. Think for a moment about the average realtor who has a "stressful job". My guess is thier actual job is to show up at work, type something, talk into a phone, and write some stuff and maybe drive some people around. I think you will agree that is what most realtors do in a physical sense. The part that everyone seems to struggle with is the inner game. The stress game. "Oh, I make alot of money but my job is very stressful", I have heard it a million times. Ok, why the stress? Well its my buyers, its a huge workload, etc, etc. The real reason that anything is stressful is because we think that our future happenings are not going to meet our satisfaction thereby creating this illusion of stress.

Real Estate Wholesalers could double and even quadruple there rate of success if they could learn to control their minds. The doubt, the worry, the fear, can all be banished if you recognize that ALL of those things are created solely by you, in your mind.

"The Mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master"

I have alot more to say on the subject, and hope that at least one person finds this helpful.

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Real estate wholesaling: What to do with no earnest money

2007-07-19T08:41:00.000-07:00

Many of the people that go into real estate wholesaling do so because they lack the capital or credit necessary to buy and sell homes with their own money. The problem that many real estate wholesaler's face is getting around the required earnest money.

Earnest money is the money required by the sellers if they decide to accept your offer. Sellers view earnest money as an indicator that you are serious about buying their home. Many sellers will think that if you are planning on giving them earnest money, then you must not be serious about purchasing their home.

The key to getting around the earnest money situation, as well as eliminating much of the risk in the transaction is to put a special inspection clause into the contract. An inspection clause is a clause in the real estate contract that says you have a certain amount of days to inspect the property. If the inspections are not to your satisfaction then you may cancel the contract. Along with the inspection clause you ad that the earnest money will be due upon the release of the inspection clause at the end of the inspection period.

By making the earnest money due at the end of the inspection clause, you will be able to get your buyers through during the inspection period. If your buyers do like the home then get a non-refundable earnest money deposit from them which you will end up giving to the seller. If your buyers do not like the home then simply cancel the contract.

Eric Medemar is a real estate consultant/investor/realtor with over 35 properties. Eric is considered by many to be on of the countries leading experts in real estate wholesaling. His real estate wholesaling courses include: http://www.InvestorsLunch.com This low cost Introduction to real estate wholesaling has been called The Best Course For Under $30, that I have ever seen by newbie investors from accross the U.S. Eric's second course is http://www.TheForeclosureCollege.com this one of a kind real estate course allows you to talk with Eric one-one, use his branded toll free number, plus his profit generating website. You can view Eric's Blog at http://www.TheMillionairesBlog.com
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2007-07-17T12:35:00.001-07:00

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Answer to what makes me happy

2007-06-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

Ok, now to be honest you did not need more than 1 second to answer that question let alone 2 minutes. The only person, thing, or action that truly "makes" you happy is you. Regardless of what you listed on your "make me happy" list, it all boils down to you. The things that you perceive to make you happy, only make you feel happiness because it is at those points in time that you allow yourself to be happy.

Sadly we no longer acquire things to live as we did in the cave man days, now we live to acquire. Think for a moment about the stupid things you tell yourself about happiness. "Oh, I will be so happy when I get that car", "Oh, when I retire I will be so happy", "As soon as I make $100,000 I will be so happy". Happiness is always there, like a caged animal in your mind. The moments that you allow yourself to be happy, are the only moments that you unlock the cage and let happiness run free. No sooner than happiness is set free, we come up with more things to be done in order for happiness to once again be released from the cages of our minds.

Look at all of the things that you currently have in your life. I am guessing that at one time or another you had thought to yourself, when I get this I will be happy. Well, you got it and.............

Everything that we as people do boils down to a level of happiness that we would like to achieve. We delay our happiness until certain moments arrive that we allow ourselves to be happy. The problem is when we get to those moments of arrival, the happiness is very short lived. Once that moment of finally arrives; we don't truly enjoy the happiness that we thought we would. Instead we begin thinking of bigger better things to delay our happiness, and the cycle continues on and on and on.

I encourage you, go to your cage and throw the lock away. Let your happiness run free until you find something worthy of caging it again. This world of caging happiness until we have a reason to set it free is a very miserable place.

Wholesaling Real Estate for a fathers day gift

2007-06-14T16:34:00.000-07:00

Real Estate wholesaling is by far the greatest way to build wealth without capital or credit. This week I am putting together a real estate wholesale deal for my dad as a favor and he doesnt even need to participate.

2 weeks ago I found him a great deal on a Grand Rapids Foreclosure. We ended up getting it for about $43,000. We will be closing on it in about 2 more weeks. Today I got a call from a buyer who was looking at one of my deals that I am wholesaling, except she didnt like it. So I ran her by the one that I got for my dad. She loved it and is wants to buy the home for $57,000. I called him, and hes thinking on it. If he goes with it essentially he will make $13,000 after expenses for a home that I found him, and brought the buyer to.

Some people get there dads bad ties, I got mine $13,000 in profit. (Thats alot of ties)

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Wholesaling Real Estate: Finding Buyers lesson part 1

2007-06-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

I get email virtually every day from people who want to know where to find buyers for their wholesale deals. I see countless posts on here of people asking where to find buyers. So I figured I would put together most of the ideas that I have used or have seen used for finding buyers into a single post.

I am sure there are countless other places and ways to find buyers beyond what I am mentioning, so I will leave it up to other people to fill in the blanks that I have missed.

Keep in mind these are ways that I or my clients have actually used, so I know that they work because I have done it.

1. We Buy Houses Signs I call every single one of these signs that I see, I actually keep a note book full of numbers and info that I find out about these companies when I call.

I usually ask them whether they are still buying, what they are looking for, what percentage up FMV they are typically paying, and what areas of town they want to buy in.

While I have them on the phone I also ask them if they wholesale out any of their homes, if they do then I ask them to call me when they have something good. I tell them that if the deal is right I can close in less than 2 weeks with cash.(I can do this because I have other buyers already in place to buy their deals, sometimes these buyers could be other cash for your house buyers)

Here is a sample of a deal that I put together using this.

1. I called a we buy houses sign
2. Found out where they were looking
3. Put a home under contract for $52k in that area
4. Called them and let them know.
5. I signed a 6 month lease option with them for $64k
6. I closed the home.
7. The lease option started
8. He sold the home
9. We close this week, I make about $12,000 (I also made commission when I bought the house, because im a realtor)
10. He makes around $12k.
11. Were all happy.

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2. Call realtors I call realtors and find out if they have any cash buyers that are looking to buy some wholesale deals. It varies on what I offer to pay them but typically I offer 10%-20% of my profit, or a flat 2-3% fee, each time the buyer they have given me buys a home. It creates a win- win, I get a buyer and they get paid whenever their buyer buys a home.

I offer the continuous pay because a realtors worst fear is that they give you a buyer and he buys from you, then when they have a good property to show their buyers they cant buy because they have already purchased from you.

If the realtors dont have cash buyers, I tell them that if they bump into any great deals, they should call me and if the deals good enough we can buy with cash and close in less than 2 weeks.( Often times you can use other realtors buyers to buy another realtors house and you can make money setting the two up)

An example of one of my clients deals that he ran this way.

1. I called my client about a great HUD deal
2. He liked the deal and put the home under contract for $115k (I made a $4800 commission on the home when it closed so I was happy)
3. We had 60 days to close the HUD home so he started calling realtors
4. He found a realtor with a cash buyer that was willing to pay $122,000
5. We assigned the contract (this is a secret)
6. We went to closing and his buyer brought $122,000 cashiers check.
7. My buyer left with a check for $7,000 ( he used none of his own money, and I found him the house so he was happy)
8. I left with my $4800 commission
9. The realtor who brought the buyer took no commission but got a commitment from his buyer that he would list the home with him when he sold it.

3. Newspaper ads I dont personally use this one, I have clients who have had great success with it though. They simply place a small classified ad that reads "Looking for buyers to purchase homes at 50-70% of true value"

I have picked up endless buyers with this ad though "Free List of 45 foreclosed/distressed homes" call or visit www.$$$.com. The reason that I have had so much success with this ad is because anyone thinking of buying real estate would much rather get a free list of 45 then have to call each individual ad. You can have a local realtor put together a list of properties for you and email them to you if you cant find your own. Then take the list that they send you and email it out to people that respond to your ad. Keep in mind you dont really care about the list that you send, you care about getting the name, phone number, and buying qualifications of responding buyers.

A real life example.
1. I placed my free list ad
2. I got about 30 responses for the month
3. Found one buyer who has paid me over $75,000 in commisions over the next 3 years on deals I brought him.

These were realtor commissions, but if you can find a buyer who is taking the kind of action he was you could seriously line your pockets wholesaling to him.

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4. HUD homes this is my own technique that I started using to get buyers just for my realtor purposes. Watch for a great deal on a HUD home or any great deal for that matter, then park outside for a few hours and talk to the people going to check out the home. Most of the areas investors will find there way to the property and you can give them your card and be sure to get there info. Tell them that you run into alot of deals and ask them if they would like you to give them a call when you run into something decent.

A personal example.

1. I went to look at a good HUD home that I was going to buy myself.
2. The neighbor came over and wanted to see the home while I was there.
3. I showed him the home and he ended up buying it from me.
4. I ended up making $2500 in commission on it.

If I were not a realtor, I would have simply talked to him and found out what he was willing to pay, then wrote up a wholesale contract, then put the home under contract with HUD, then played the spread.

This was my most recent deal, but I have picked up endless buyers for other homes while parked outside of HUD homes. I call it hunting for buyers. Its kind of like deer hunting with a bait pile. The home is the bait pile and the buyers are all coming to eat.

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4. Talk to your current buyers buyer typically know other buyers, ask your buyers if they know of anyone else who is buying (let them know you will only call the referal if they are passing on the property). You also might offer to pay your buyer for a referall fee if one of there people end up buying a house from you. This technique also works great if you have a buyer that only wants to buy in a certain area, then you can call their referall if you have a home outside that area.

Personal example.

1. One of my buyers had too many homes and could not buy.
2. I asked him if he knew anyone else who might be interested.
3. He gave me the number to a cousin who was an even bigger investor
4. I ended up selling 3 homes to his cousin this year, and paid him a referal for each one.

5.Local REI meetings If you have a local investor club join it, if you dont then start one. It kind of speaks for itself that this is where many great buyers will be. Just be sure you know a fair bit about what you are doing before talking to very many people about potential deals. The last thing you want to do is burn alot of bridges by showing your new found buyers a bunch of crap.

6. Birddogs for buyers Outside of having bird dogs look for homes for you, you can also have them look for buyers for you. Give them your cards and have them hand them out to people they might meet that are looking to get into real estate investing.

7. Brochure Boxes Just like realtors use brochure boxes you can use them to. If you have a property to move leave a brochure box that talks minimally about the property that it is left at, always be sure to leave out pertitant info like price, sqft, or bed/baths. If you give all the info away then people will never call you about the property. Focus the brochure mainly on other potential deals in the area or say that you are looking for buyers for properties at 50-70%FMV.

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8. Out of towner and landlords Many people sell themselves short when they are dialing for dollars. Typically people call or mail out of town owners and other landlords to see if they want to sell. The funny part is if they dont want to sell then there is a chance that they want to buy, so ask them if they arent selling, then would they like to buy some more, or if your mailing then include buying info on your mailer as well.

I gotta go now, the wifes ready for shopping, I will add to the post with some of my other ways but this should be a start. Hopefully the big dogs can come in and fill in the blanks.

Eric Medemar specializes in Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids HUD homes, and Grand Rapids Real Estate Investing.

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2007-06-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

Real Estate Wholesaling-Why Most Investors Fail

2007-06-07T16:33:00.000-07:00

Eric Medemar Specializes in Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids HUD homes, and Grand Rapids Rental Property.

Why do most real estate investors fail?

The answer may appear easy at first, but let me tell you it probably isn't what you are thinking. Many people assume that most investors fail because they are either lazy, dumb, or have no money.

What if I were to tell you that none of those answers are correct?

Have you ever read a great real estate book, been to a great real estate seminar, or have just been reading online and have gotten hype, I mean mind blowing hype? It feels almost as if the creator himself has reached down and said "Go Forth and Make Money in Real Estate".

If your anything like I was, this happens far more often than what you would like to admit. I'll get to that in a second.........

So after the creator has spoken to you, you start thinking of all of your options, so many options, so many ways to make money. Perhaps you are even losing sleep now, because of all of the ways you are going to make money in real estate. Your mind is going crazy with visuals, you in your sports car, you sitting on the beach or at the pool in some gorgeous tropical location. You maybe picturing exactly how it will look when you walk in and tell your boss to "Take this job and shove it". Won't that feel good.

All of the sudden your mind is FINALLY free flowing with all of these ideas that you have learned, you are in the zone. Why has your mind waited all this time to finally open up? Finally, it is your time. THIS IS NOT YOUR PRACTICE LIFE, and finally things are falling into place. You will have so much more time to spend with family, so much more time to spend doing the things you have always wanted. Never again will you have to wake up and dread going to work. This is awesome, you feel great.

Then maybe 22 hours later, things have somehow changed, there seems to be no possibility left in the world. Life is tough again, that boss who you just told to "shove it", is now back to slowly stealing your precious hours on this earth, not to mention your pride. That sports car, has somehow turned back into your "not so sporty car", and the idea tropical vacation seems to have washed away faster than your real estate dreams.

Real estate dreams? "Nobody can really make money in real estate!, Heck the whole market is bad, especially around here. I think I am going to wait and save some money up, study some more, then when the market gets better I will start doing real estate".

How could this happen? Has the world somehow changed in the last 22 hours?

Maybe it's just you. Maybe your crazy.

I wish it were that easy.

Well, I have bad news, and good news. The bad news is not much much in the world has changed over the last 22 hours, except you. The good news is, that not much in the world has changed in the world over the last 22 hours, except YOU. Hmmmmm...........

YOU are the problem. YOU are the reason you have been stuck in a rut. YOU are the reason the world seems to have changed over night. Except..........

It is not the YOU that comes to mind first. The YOU that I am talking about is your mind trying to protect YOU, from you. Ok, now your confused, and I really don't want to get philosophical on you. In fact I can't, I am not that smart!

Your mind has turned on you. Your subconscious has went into protection mode. It has started telling you all of the things that you have heard throughout your life that were supposed to protect you. It is now giving you all of the reasons that you are going to fail, why you can't make it, and why it would be a total waste to even try. It is telling you "Stick with what you know", you know the 9-5 that you hate. Your mind wants to stick with what you know because it associates failure with pain and failure comes with doing something new (like real estate investing).

So how can you beat your mind?

Essentially what you need is someone to tell you the opposite of what your mind is telling you. For most people it is next to impossible to do on your own. Don't even think about going to other people (friends, and family), they are the ones that put the voices in your mind in the first place. Think for a moment about the things your mind tells you. Sound familiar, perhaps like the voices of you friends and family who you have told about your real estate dreams.

No, this is not some cheesy coaching program, where you will talk to a hired crony, that has never has invested a day in his life. This is rock solid mentorship, by me. You will have my personal phone number and email to call anytime.

I am not going to brag and tell you what I can do. I will tell you what I have done so far. I currently own 35+ rental units, I have made over $150,000 in 2007 wholesaling real estate and flipping properties. I have a been a realtor for over 6 years and have completed over 200 transactions. I have helped other investors make hundreds of thousands investing in real estate. I currently have 7 homes that I am rehabbing. Not long ago I was borrowing money from my mom to buy groceries. You can see my articles in the additional help section at www.BiggerPockets.com as well as www.EzineArticles.com. You can also view many of my numerous real estate postings by googling Eric Medemar

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I do real estate full time, I have my dream house, dream job, dream cars and dream life. I get out of bed when I want to, I go to work when I want to, I spend time with my family when I want to. I have been lucky enough to realize this is not my PRACTICE LIFE. This is the big game. I am not guaranteed a tomorrow, nor are you, so what are you waiting for?

How long have you been "thinking about investing"? Thinking about investing, for more than a month or two means you are "Thinking about not investing".

How long have you been "Getting ready to get ready", "Preparing to prepare"? Oh, I am sure if you listen to one more CD, or read one more article then you will make it big in real estate. Yeah right.

Do you believe in the power of your subconscious mind? Do you want to hear it talk? STOP! Listen for a minute, right now I bet it is telling you, "You have been here before, don't buy anything, you'll get ripped off, this guy just wants your money". I have news for your subconscious "I DON'T NEED YOUR MONEY",

"Believe me if you want to start investing, you need me, far more than I need you"

So why do I charge for mentoring? If you haven't figured it out yet there are two things that are scarce on this planet and they are time and money. If I take time to help you succeed, then I can either take time away from my job which pays very well, or my family which a price cant be put on. I think you get the picture.

You might be asking yourself "OK if your so successful at real estate then why do mentoring?" Well to be honest, it is something that I actually enjoy doing more than real estate itself. I like to make a difference in peoples lives by teaching them what I know.

I can help you silence that voice of failure inside your head. With my knowledge and your desire, we will duct tape that voices mouth shut for good.

I am taking on 8 people to mentor for the year (the next 365 Days). Not all students will be taken, I reserve the right to cancel your mentoring if I don't feel you are up to standard (you don't want it enough) after our first phone conversation, and a full refund will be given promptly. You will also have the opportunity to cancel within 24 hours of our first conversation if you feel that I am not up to your standard as a mentor.

The price is $499 this includes giving you my personal number (616-813-9773), my personal email address theforeclosurecollege@yahoo.com , all calls will be returned within 24 hours.

What to expect:

1. Within 2 days of joining our program I will personally call you to find out where you are at, and where you want to be in your real estate business.

2. From that call I will personally layout a real estate success plan that will serve as your roadmap to investment success.

3. Once you have started implementing your real estate program, I will be there to help you get past any obstacles that may be in your way.

4. I will be your personal mentor, whatever you need, I can help. My goal is to make you a "mini me", my knowledge will be your knowledge. You will never have to make any of the costly mistakes that I had to make on my way up.

If you are teetering on joining the program feel free to call me direct at the number above (leave a message) or email me, and I will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

I know that you may be able to find a mentor for FREE in your area, but from my own mistakes I have realized that local mentors don't show you everything they know, they don't want to end up competing with you on deals.

Thank you,

Eric Medemar www.TheMillionairesBlog.com

Eric Medemar has authored several books on wholesaling real esate and real estate wholesaling.

Real Estate Wholesaling: To buy or Not to buy in "Bad Areas"

2007-05-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

I am in a very slow market right now but I am still having alot of success Wholesaling Real estate Buying could be very dangerous if you dont know what your doing, but I'm loving it. Where do you buy in a bad market? Easy answer, anywhere you can make money. I like the "bad areas" right now. Why, because most investors dont want to buy there. The nice part about bad locations is that the homes are so cheap, that while your waiting to sell you can cashflow like crazy with tenants.

A few of My "Bad Location Homes" have been like this:

paid 26k, repairs 5k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 38k, repairs 5k, rented $1000 (2 unit) sold for $62k
paid 33k, repairs 5k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 30k, repairs 12k, rented $675, sold for $62k
paid 30k, repairs 10k, rented $675k, sold it for $62k
Total paid $157, Repairs $37k, Sold $319k Gross Profit $125k

These are all homes that anyone could have bought, but they were in the "bad areas".

Im beginning to think that "good areas" might be "bad areas" for the wallet.

The neat part with bad area homes is you spend 40k to make 20k, not spend 100k to make 15k.
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Look at the cash on cash returns.

Good area= 15000/100000 =15% cash on cash return

Bad area= 20000/40000= 50% cash on cash return

Good area rents $800 on $100,000 home .08% return on Rent

Bad area $675 on a $40,000 home 1.6% return on rent

But wait, your thinking bad area bad tenants, good area good tenants, right?

Wrong. Bad tenants are bad tenants ANYWHERE, good tenants are good tenants ANYWHERE.

Eric Medemar Specializes in Real Estate Wholesaling, Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids HUD homes, and Grand Rapids Rental Properties

Real Estate Wholesaling: Road mapping your Goals

2007-05-25T13:35:00.000-07:00

It seems like everyday I talk to someone who is wanting to start real estate wholesaling. Wholesaling real estate is fairly easy once you lay out a good plan and implement it. One of the main problems that I see people having is not having good written goals in place. The process of writing goals gives you something concrete to fall back on when your concious starts questioning your every move.

Have you ever driven accross the U.S? I am sure that many of you have at least traveled a thousand miles or more from home. Imagine for a minute trying to drive from New York to Califorinia without a map, and no knowledge of the highways. Instead you decide to go by following the north star. Sure you could get to California eventually, but it would be much quicker and more efficient to have a map in place. Intstead of just following a star, you would go from New York, to Kansas to etc, well you get the idea. A map essentially breaks down the huge distance from New York to California into small easy to follow steps.

Proper Goal setting will do the same thing. They take the large arduous task of Wholesaling Real estate, and break it down into mini steps, that can be more easily achieved. For help in building your map to real estate success visit me at www.TheForeclosureCollege.com , I will give you every tool that I have used to achieve real estate success.

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Eric Medemar specializes in Grand Rapids Foreclosures, Grand Rapids Rental Property and Grand Rapids HUD homes.

Grand Rapids Rental Property Adventures

2007-05-18T06:25:00.000-07:00

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor who specializes in Grand Rapids Forclosures, Grand Rapids HUD homes, and Real Estate Wholesaling. For discount carpet check out http://www.carpetliquidationsale.com/

Last year I bought a home that somebody died in. I found at after closing when I was talking to the neighbors, I have 35 rentals so it seemed a welcome addition to my family of disfunctional homes. They had told me that it was hard to keep tenants there because it was haunted. I found out that a grand kid had stabbed his grandma 23 times and she layed dead in the house for a couple of weeks. Later he was killed elsewhere up the street.

Anyway, I had another of my tenants call and wanted to move into the house. She had been my tenant for over a year at another property and always seemed sound in mind. I didnt want her to have any preconcieved notions about the house being haunted, so I let her move in. After a couple of weeks I called to see how everything was going, I asked her if everything was going OK and she said "Yeh but the house is haunted". I said how do you know, did someone tell you that? She said no I came down the stairs one night because there was some knocking in the kitchen and there in the kitchen was an old lady and a boy. Let me tell you every hair on my body was standing on end. She went onto tell me how if she closes certain doors in the house at night that they will be banging all night. I thought it must be the wind but she said it only happens at night and they learned just to leave the doors open. She had been my tenant for a long time before this and never had any problems so I believed her.

I asked her how she was so comfortable with ghosts, and she told me that she had rented another house where a guy had killed his girlfriend then himself, and she would see them around the basement.

A couple of weeks later I woke up and was watching the news and saw the news reporter at the scene of a homicide. Nothing new, except for the fact that my already haunted property was in the background with police tape around it. I guess a guy got shot outside and ran inside to die. Needless to say the neighbors were not happy with the people who I moved into the house. The girl was OK but her friends had shot the guy. She went to jail and the neighbors threw bricks through the windows and then ransacked the home. I ended up about $2000 ahead with insurance money.

The new tenant that moved in called when he turned on the furnace for the first time and he had been vomiting all morning. I had never turned the furnace on since I bought the home in march. Evidently when grandma died in the basement it was next to the furnace and the smell that the furnace was pumping out was enough to make my tenant repeatedly vomit for the afternoon. Earlier this month I bought another home that a man had committed suicide in. Well I was cleaning out his stuff and came to a drawer that was filled with about 500 bipolar pills that he had not taken. Hmmm....Maybe he should have taken them. You gotta love those Grand Rapids Rental Properties

I was never a big believer in ghosts myself, and my wife was always telling me that our first house which was a rental was haunted, she would tell me in the morning that she could here banging on the glass. Me, being the man that I am just told her that it was the bushes on the windows. Until, the night she woke me up with the quick jab to the throat and said Eric listen its here. I groggily rubbed my eyes and was just about to get up and walk her to the window where the "bush was rubbing" just as my toe hit the floor, the basement door right across from our bedroom door started shaking rather loudly and the handle was twisting very fast back and forth. It was a old wood door with a rusty handle so the sound was unmistakeabley horrifying. Thats when I came a believe.

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