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Top 5 Real Estate Investing Books
Give a quick listen as I talk about my top 5 Real Estate Investing books. These 5 books really helped (and still do help) me in my real estate investing career. Then stop by the Smarter Library and order a copy for yourself. Don’t see your favorite on the list? Drop me a comment and let me know what your favorites are.
Podcast – Why Invest in Real Estate
Check out my latest podcast where I along with Jo Garner and Richard Scarbrough discuss why you should invest in real estate. Originally aired on AM 600 WREC on 12/3/2011.
Featured Posts
The Key to the Deal is Motivation
There are generally two types of investment properties out there on the market to buyers like me. These are: Investment properties that are owned by other investors. Investment properties that are owned by banks. I have bought from both of these owners over the course of my investing career. Both present their own unique circumstances. But no matter who the owner is, they have to be motivated. Without motivation, there is generally no deal to be made. Investor owned properties that are on the market…
5 Traits of an Effective Landlord
What makes an effective landlord? Here are my top five traits. Effective Landlords are Sagacious. Yeah I know, sagacious is a rarely used word but I think it really works here. It means that effective landlords have a keen mental discernment and good judgment. In other words, we have good BS detectors. This trait is important because being a landlord means that you have to shift through a lot of BS to get things done or get to the truth. Being sagacious means we can…
Update – Property Reappraisal Challenges
This is an update to my previous post, I Thought Real Estate Was In the Dumps. It is a property reappraisal year where I live and despite the down real estate market the county property assessor seems to think we are in the boom times. Follow along with me as I go through the process of challenging these appraisals. I have received more property reappraisal notices over the past week. So far I am looking at an even greater supposed substantial increase in property value…
I Thought Real Estate Was In the Dumps?
I thought real estate was in the dumps. After all, all we have heard for the last few years is about foreclosures, underwater mortgages, short sales, falling prices, declining values and so on. I guess my local property assessor has been listening to some other news source. Let me start at the beginning. Every four years in Tennessee each county property assessor is required to reappraise all properties within their jurisdiction and adjust them to the “fair market value.” 2013 is a reappraisal year here…
Cash for Keys
Tenant screening is one of the most important things that a landlord can do. You want to make sure that you selected people to live in your properties that can pay, will pay, will pay on time and will not tear up the place and cause trouble. However, no matter how well you screen your tenants, every once in a while you will have a tenant that cannot pay. Perhaps the tenant lost their job, or had some other unfortunate circumstance happen. Whatever the reason,…
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