One of the biggest keys to success in Real Estate investing is building a team of professionals around you that you can trust.  There are so many pieces to the puzzle, that no one really does it all themselves, you need to surround yourself with reliable, talented people that make your business operate at its [...]

A recent article in Forbes magazine listed Ft. Worth as one of the best cities for real estate deals.  Noting that Ft. Worth was undervalued and affordable, and hadn’t experienced a huge post boom price correction, but was expecting acceleration in sales volumes, which would make this an ideal time to invest.  For the list [...]

In a recent speech in Florida, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed the opinion that he thought the worst of the subprime problems were over.  If you want to read an article about it you can find the link here. 
 John

Two words: Don’t be.
Everyday I get questions from other investors like: “With the big credit crunch in the mortgage markets, am I going to be able to sell my houses?”, “Should I look at holding my properties since there are fewer buyers out there?”, and on and on.
All of these are legitimate questions and [...]

Before Adam and I founded We Fund Houses, I was looking to get some deals funded last year and I ran into a term I hadn’t seen before on some other hard money lender’s sites. That term was “interest reserve”. It sounded harmless, but when I talked to them on the phone and found out [...]

Over the next few days I’ll be posting comments about 6 common mistakes or misconceptions too many investors seem to have about hard money loans for residential investing. I hope you’ll find them helpful, and don’t forget to watch for our other posts about rehabbing fast for maximum profit!
Mistake #1: Not Using Hard Money Lenders

When [...]