I have spoken many times about buy and hold investing for long-term wealth. There are many reasons that I believe rental properties are by far the best investment out there over the long term.   Rental properties are not very sexy which is why so many avoid investing in them. But, this is a HUGE mistake. Just because a small rental house only provides $150/mo of cash flow does not mean it is something you should not do. We must take a look at the bigger picture.   Don’t get me wrong I love fix and flipping and wholesaling. Read more…

  Have you been wanting to be a real estate investor for a long time but life, career, family, time gotten in your way?   Maybe you are already an investor but would like to add another profit stream to your business.   For a limited time I am opening up the opportunity for those of you that are a part of the StreetWise Property Investing tribe to work along side of me in my business.   Many of you have been asking me for an opportunity such as this, and I want to let you be able to participate Read more…

I am certain that marketing is important to your real estate business. In fact in my 20 years of business I’ve come to learn that marketing “is” your business. If you are not marketing you are dead (or will be soon). It does not matter what business you are in, whether you are selling sandwiches, cars, magazines, services, mortgages or real estate they all require marketing if you are going to stay in business very long. In fact, as I stated above, if you are really going to CRUSH it in your real estate business your focus needs to be Read more…

  Have you ever thought about what it is like to be the bank?   And, by “be the bank” I mean like Wells Fargo or Bank of America…where you have people bring you money all day every day and then you get to lend that money back out and make fees?   Being the bank is a pretty sweet gig. Let’s think about this for a moment. At your local bank you willingly give them your money for little to know interest in return. They lend out that money on the long term (mortgages) at low interest rates 3%-4%, Read more…

Sixteen years ago I began my career as a real estate investor in the often overlooked, and sometimes treacherous waters of the foreclosure auctions (aka Trustee Sales).   The Trustee Sales can be a tremendous place to find continuous below market deals without having to deal with sellers. There is, and will always be foreclosures. So today I want to show you how you can add bidding at the Trustee Sales to your investor tool belt.   The first thing that you need to know about investing at the foreclosure auctions is that it truly is “buyer beware”. Now, don’t Read more…

    In real estate, just as in any business venture, we have to know when to throw in the towel. Or, as Kenny Rogers so famously sang “you gotta know when to fold em, know when to walk away and know when to run!”   Some of you might be saying to yourself, “what the heck are you talking about Andy?” Ok, ok, fair enough. Stick with me for a minute and I will elaborate.   There will be many times in your real estate investing career when you buy a property, fix it up, do what seems like Read more…

Happy New Year! That’s right we are a few days into 2016 and it is time to roll up our shirt-sleeves and get to work. I know it has been a little while since you have heard from me. I promise I have not gone anywhere. In fact quite the contrary…I have been ramping things up on my end to be able to send you more quality content and serve you better in the up coming year. I had a tremendous time finishing the year off strong with a group of investors that came to Phoenix from all over the Read more…

By: Ari Page, business funding expert I never advocate that anyone borrow just to borrow. But if you need capital to flip houses, make payroll, invest in something that you know will reap a short-term profit, then you need access to capital. In the past few years, even though money has been tight, there have always been options. Banks always need to lend to stay in business. You just need to know where to look. Act I: Grandmother Isn’t Always Right One of Steve Martin’s earliest routines went something like this. “I’ll never forget what my grandmother taught me. She Read more…

  Last time I wrote about how and where to find wholesale deals. If you did not read it already you can check it out here.   Today I want to spend some time on the massive importance of a distribution list.   So many investors, both new and experienced, are far too focused on finding the deal. Don’t get me wrong, the deal is very important because without it there is no wholesale fee or profit to be had. Or…is that really true?? I’m going to challenge you a little bit here with how the distribution list is vastly Read more…

I have been getting tons of feedback lately from many of you. Thank you! It is your engagement that helps me keep sending you what you want to learn and read. Many of you have been requesting I write more on wholesaling. So, if that is you…read on… One of the questions that I hear a lot is “how do I find under market value distressed properties?” There is no “one” way to go about this. In fact there are MANY ways. The following is just a sampling of these ways:   Pre-foreclosures Short Sales REO (bank owned properties) HUD Read more…