Archive for November, 2008

The Honest Man’s Guide To Mortgage Foreclosure Solutions

People who are dealing with the issue of foreclosure are usually in need of some guidance in relation to mortgage foreclosure solutions. These solutions can help you keep your home and limit family problems related to foreclosure.

You have to build a system for true success in Real Estate

If you decide that you want to get into real estate investing full time and be successful in it, or even if you want to be really good at it part time, then you have to build systems, effective systems for everything.

How to do a deal with no credit and no cash.

All of us run into a situation sometimes when we believe to have good deal on hand but cannot get any money to make an offer on the home. This is after one called everybody one could think of – hard money lenders, banks, family.

?Foreclosure Facts: Important Things You Should Know

Foreclosure is what occurs when an immovable property gets repossessed by a bank or another lender who offered someone a loan to pay for the property and that person is no longer able to make payments on the loan. In order to foreclose on a property, the lender needs to show that the borrower has somehow broken the terms of their loan agreement. This becomes secure when a lien is placed on the property. When the process is over with, the lender has foreclosed on a mortgage or a lien.

?Save Homes By Means of Foreclosure Help

There is great concern amongst many families regarding the possibility of losing their homes because of foreclosure. This is due to the instability of employment and the economy. Some people are foreclosed on because they have handled their personal finances in an entirely irresponsible way. Others, however, need foreclosure help because of events that have occurred due to no fault of their own.

Will they laugh at you if you make a low ball real estate offer?

Most of the time, the banks set a price on properties too high because they are in the business of lending money, not real estate, and as a result often they do not have a good understanding of the real estate market. Also, most banks are large, they have specific policies on dropping the price on a property based on how long it has been on the market.

How to make money renting houses

To be successful in the rental house business I have a few tips for you. First you need to do some research on where rental homes are needed.

You can sell real estate before you buy it.

Have you ever heard of this idea?

How to approach a wholesale transaction when you buy a REO.

Obviously the first question is how to get around the assignment clause that most banks have in their contract. What I do now, since I flip so many deals, I either double close or I have multiple hard money lenders that give me access to the money to wholesale my deals even if I have to close on them before I actually sell them.

Why some foreclosures never get on the market?

Let’s look at the situation where you are looking at a REO listed at 25k and they have just come down from 29k. The bank most likely did not really look at it because it isn’t worth that much. The house is in bad condition and would have to be gutted to rehab; the only good part of the house is the structure. You don’t want to rehab it yourself but you would like to make a low ball offer on it to flip it.