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Real Estate agent is an essential part of your investment team. Perhaps the most important piece of advice I can give you as a private mortgage lender is to find an agent who specializes in working with investors. The truth is that representing an individual who wants to purchase a home to live in and representing a real estate investor is VERY different. It requires different types of skills that not every Realtor might have.
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How to Build a Great Investment Team: Part 5
Have you ever heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child?” As we continue our private mortgage lender series on building a great investment team, it may feel like we are truly recruiting a village. Today we will focus on a team member you may not have thought about, the interior decorator. Unlike a real estate agent or contractor, interior decorators might not be necessary for each project. However, for certain fix and flips, spending money on interior decorator might actually help improve your return on investment.
Finding Real Estate Deals: REO
I am a private mortgage lender and as such I’ve seen successful investors draw on different types of skills. Some are handy and can build sweat equity by doing parts of their rehab themselves. Others are negotiators and managers extraordinaire. They are the ones who squeeze every penny, negotiate for every nail and breathe down the neck of their contractors every day. Working with them is not a picnic for contractors, but those investors do make money when their softer competitors don’t. Still, regardless of their skills, all of those investors share a single strength in common: an ability to find real estate investment opportunities. Identifying properties with money-making potential and putting them under contract is at the heart of real estate investing.
How to Build a Great Investment Team: Part 1
As the saying goes, no man is an island. This is very true when it comes to your real estate investments. To help you achieve maximum return on investment when it comes to buying investment property, you are going to need a TEAM of professionals. You can’t do it all alone. Our next few blogs will talk specifically about some of the people you need to consider when forming a real estate investment team.
Finding Real Estate Deals: Foreclosure Auctions
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.
Why Private Lenders Want You to Invest in Your Deal
Private mortgage lenders – any lender for that matter – want to make sure that borrowers not only repay their loans, but also pay them on time, so lenders can deploy their money elsewhere. The best way to ensure repayment is to lend to responsible and competent borrowers who are vested in the transaction. When it comes to private mortgage lenders, to be “responsible” and “competent” means not only being able to put a great investment property under contract, but also to realize your rehab vision on time and within budget. In other words, we want to work with borrowers who are well positioned to make a profit.
