Real Estate Investing
Articles, Tips and Stories

Articles from the Last 60 Days:

• What to do When Your House Isn't Selling
  What to do when your house isn't selling: there are other ways to exit a deal other than selling. In this article Julie Broad explains three potential options.

• Four Mistakes to Avoid as a Real Estate Investor
  Want more success in real estate, faster and easier? The best way is to avoid making a ton of costly mistakes.In this article, Julie Broad explains four important mistakes to avoid as a real estate investor.

• How to Double Your Money with Real Estate
  Doubling your money with real estate investing is actually fairly straightforward but you need to figure out what role you're going to play and you have to buy properties with a CAUSE. Dave Peniuk explains how he and his wife Julie Broad double their money with real estate and how you can too.

• 2 Things That Never Work When Raising Money for Real Estate Deals
  When you're raising money for your real estate deals there are a lot of things that will work ... and there are two things that NEVER work. In this quick article Julie Broad explains what works and doesn't work when looking for private money and joint venture partners.

• 5 Tips to Create Credibility as a Real Estate Investor
  Credibility is important when you're trying to get deals done as a real estate investor - especially if you're raising money to do your deals. In this short article Julie Broad shares 5 tips to create more credibility as an investor.
  

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General Investing Stories and Tips

Top 4 of 2011 (as at November 1st, 2011):

1. Making Money in Real Estate is as Easy as 1-2-3
2. Make your vacation a tax write off
3. 10 Simple Wealth Creation Strategies
4. Real Estate Investing as a Couple

View all general real estate investing stories and tips articles.

Evaluating a Real Estate Investment

Top 4 of 2011 (as at November 1st, 2011):

1. Questions to Ask Before You Buy a Condo
2. How to Evaluate a Rental Property in 60 Seconds
3. Multi Family vs. Single Family Investing
4. Headlines and the Coming Housing Boom

View all articles on evaluating real estate investments.

Property Managers, Real Estate Agents, and Tenants

Top 4 of 2011 (as at November 1st, 2011):

1. 8 Ways to Know if You Should Hire a Property Manager
2. Five Steps to Rent Out Your Property
3. Tenant Screening Checklist
4. Dealing with Tenants: How to Tame Tenant Turmoil

View all articles on property managers, real estate agents and tenants.

Financing Your Real Estate Investments:

Top 4 of 2011 (as at June 1st, 2011):

1. Overcome the biggest obstacle when working with JV Partners
2. Seller Financing: How to Find VTB's 
3. Words with Magical Persuasion Powers
4. Vendor Take Back Mortgages

View all articles on financing your real estate investments.

Book Reviews:

Covert Persuasion by Kevin Hogan & James Speakman

Secrets of the Canadian Real Estate Cycle by Don R Campbell, Kieran Trass, Greg Head & Christine Ruptash

Crash Boom! by Greg Rand

Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

Hard Goals by Mark Murphy

Fire Sale! How to Buy US Foreclosures Now by Philip McKernan

Investing in Rent to Own Property: by Mark Loeffler

Paradox of Choice: Choices, Anchors and Frames and other things to avoid in Rent to Own Negotiations

What's Your Genius: Left Turns for Success, Right Turns for Long Lasting Pain

South of 49: Buying the US for Canadians by Philip McKernan

The Housing Bubble by Kieran Trass

Get Off Your But by Sean Stephenson

What Claude Hopkins Taught Me About Real Estate Investing

The Peebles Path to Real Estate Wealth

Rich Dad Poor Dad Revisited

The Dip by Seth Godin

7 Habits of Highly Effective Real Estate Investors

Emerging Real Estate Markets

Automatic Wealth

Rich Dad Poor Dad

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