Real Estate Investment Mastermind

My primary mentor in my life always used to say this about people in general... Brilliant people never make mistakes... Dumb people just keep making the same mistakes... But the average SUCCESSFUL person learns from others mistakes and prospers as a result.  Seems simple and uncomplicated doesn't...

If you are finding that more and more real estate investors are approaching you and wanting to use your services as an agent... that is great news... and I hope this is working well for you. However, based on my experience, I suspect that many of these real estate investors have no idea what they...

I don't know about you, but I have started to see an increase in the number of investors entering into the real estate market.  Normally I would say this is a good thing, but in today's market, many of these wanna-be's don't know what they are doing... and the market is not going to cover for the...

I have sold a lot of properties... and those real estate investors who I coach have collectively sold even more.  Lots of deals and lots of profits. Yet, if I were to identify the biggest complaint expressed by real estate investors in selling a property it wouldn't be the inspections, or the app...

I have been focusing on fundamentals with many of my coaching clients lately because I am starting to see a whole new bunch of newbie real estate investors jump into this business without really knowing what they should know.  Does that make sense?  Many of these newbie's seem to be rushing in wi...

I can't tell you how many times I have spoken with new real estate investor who wants to know what it takes to purchase a rental property. My response is now almost pure reflex. Instead of starting a discussion on how to find great properties, or evaluate them for their cash flow potential, I ask...

In early 2007 I wrote a couple of articles that dealt with finding good lenders who understood what we do, the risks and how they are managed and rewards for executing per our plans.  In these articles I discussed how important good... no "great" lending relationships are to the life of every rea...

For the most part I have considered myself a savvy and yet contrarian real estate investor. Not unlike those "professionial" investors in the financial world who are selling when others are buying and buying when others are selling. Historically, I have mostly invested in areas where most real es...

Pete... She yells... these buggers are drawing blood!  My only comment was "keep moving and they aren't so bad." Just minutes before I found myself standing in front of a huge pile of leaves, sweating and being totally engulfed by the scourge of an early Maine summer.  Black Flies... everywhere.....

It seems that, everywhere you turn lately, the news of our economy only gets gloomier and gloomier. While I attribute much of this "sensationalism" on the media desperately trying to make a buck by out-doing one another with "I have the BEST worst news", there is a strong underlying truth that ca...