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To be a successful investor, you have to comfortably wear different hats. You’ve got to know how to hire and manage people, and you need to know construction basics. You need to understand the local real estate market. You need to have excellent time and money management skills. Perhaps most importantly, you need to be able to find profitable real estate deals. As a private mortgage lender, we see our borrowers successfully employing many different strategies to do that. This article is Part 1 of our series on finding real deals. Before you begin, go ahead and check out the series Introduction published previously.
Hard Money Blog: Invest, Revitalize, Create, Prosper
The Four Pillars of Rehab Project Costs
When buying an investment property using a hard money loan, you can’t simply think about the worth of the home. You have to consider other factors that can drive up the total project cost and make or break your investment. Here are the four pillars of the cost of a rehab project.
Investor or Agent: Should You Be Both?
We got a question from one of our hard money loan clients the other day about whether or not he should hire a real estate agent, or if he should just get a license himself. That’s a great question given the availability of online courses on real estate these days. None of these will take the place of good old fashion research by the way. But the ease of which you can obtain a real estate license has made it a viable option for investors. If you are a real estate investor pondering the same question, let’s take an unbiased look at the pros and cons.
Do You Have the Mindset For Rehabbing?
Many of our private rehab loan customers ask us to wish them good luck on their rehab investment, but real estate investment isn’t about luck. It’s about well thought out decisions based on good research. It’s about markets and timing. However, all of that aside, it’s mostly about YOU. As a football coach would tell their team during half time, “You gotta get your head in the game!” To make successful decisions, you have to have the right mindset. What is the right mindset you ask?
Of Magic Beans and Real Estate Investments
Growing up, I remember hearing the story of Jack and the beanstalk. The story begins with Jack, a poor farmer, investing his money in a bag of magic beans. No one believed him that the beans were magic, and it wasn’t until he climbed a beanstalk, fought a giant and chopped down the aforementioned beanstalk did his investment really pay off. Our experience in investment property financing has taught us that real estate investment is a lot like that. It will be adventurous, scary, frustrating, and so much more…but the return can be like getting a goose that lays financially golden eggs.
But before you go counting chickens before they hatch, here are five frustrating things about real estate investing that you need to consider for this financial journey:
3 Signs of Immaturity in Real Estate Investors
What separates newbies from weathered rehabbers? What are the key differences between investors who can consistently turn solid profits by flipping homes and someone who is chasing a dream, even if it’s a pipe dream? As a hard money lender, I have some telltale signs of a real estate investor who is still has some maturing to do.
