Once you have staked your claim by registering your online domain, you are ready to move on to the next step in the process of getting your website online. A domain name is just the a forwarding address that will direct visitors to your website. Your site itself will exist on a server and it…
Real estate investors often pride themselves on their ability to be creative, and to design win-win deals as an outcome to many different scenarios. The problem then becomes choosing which of the possible win-win scenarios to pursue. Each of us only have so much time, so much energy, and so many resources available to put…
Welcome to my 6 part series on websites for real estate investors. In this series I will break down the common perceptions that creating your own website is expensive, time consuming, and difficult. The truth is, you can create a professional online presence for less than $50 per year and it doesn’t have to be…
As I attended a real estate investment event a couple weeks back, I couldn’t help but take interest in each of the speakers and seeing what they were all about. Some speakers seemed to have a genuine interest in creating value for their audience and deliving valuable content, while others seemed most interested in lining…
The following is a guest post by Don R. Campbell; best selling author, and President of The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN). What does 2011 hold for Canadian Homeowners and Real Estate Investors? Almost a quarter of the way into the new year, many people are still looking for ‘predictions’ of what 2011 will hold.…
In our real estate investment careers, most of us run up against a funding wall. One of the common ways to move beyond this barrier is to work with partners who help us continue to finance deals. In order to secure the funding we need, we ought to have have a well delivered pitch and…
When we earn income we have 3 main options for how to put it to use. We can spend it, we can save it, or we can give it away. Many new investors have some degree of debt and are anxious to get involved in real estate or stock investing. The question they then ask…
It seems that real estate investment tends to attract a lot of Type A personalities. It also tends to attract many people who want to be involved with every step of the investment process, like myself. The problem is, when we are too involved as investors, we get in our own way. If you find…
By now, the word “bubble” no longer conjures up images of childhood fun for most adults. Most of us now associate the term with the real estate market based on what has happened over the past few years. To make sure we learn from history, this article examines house prices of the last decade across…
If you’ve ever been faced with a bill for new appliances upon purchasing a rental property, you’ll know that this expense comes at the worst possible time. Nobody wants to pay the interest and fees that go along with traditional retail financing for appliances, but conserving cash is also important. During the early months of…