Buying Houses with Code Violations – “But That’s How I Bought It!”
Buying Houses with Code Violations, What Do You Need to Know? As municipalities struggle for sources of revenue, they are forced to go to extremes that they never had to in the past. We see traffic cameras, employee layoffs and the tweaking of code enforcement. Many cities have sent their enforcement officers into the field literally going street by street to look…
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Ode to Lowly Real Estate Investor Business Cards
Real Estate Investor Business Cards, Small but Mighty I talk (or mostly listen) to a lot of people at various events. I love doing it because I sincerely like to help investors whenever possible but within reason. I almost always ask for a business card to remember them. I also keep their cards if they have a “specialty” for future use.…
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The Art and Science of Negotiating for Bank Owned REO Properties
How Do You Navigate Negotiating for Bank Owned REO properties? It used to be that a contract was just a simple contract in real estate investing. Today there are both REO and Non-REO contracts and the differences are huge! REO (bank-owned properties) still account for less than 1/3 of our wholesale deals, but consume most of our energy because of the middlemen in…
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