Category: Newsletter

I have written posts on dressing for success before. It matters not if you are new to real estate or a seasoned investor. Revisiting what you choose to have as your wardrobe and what you wear takes on new importance as more millennials and ever aging baby boomers become prospective clients of yours. Successful investors…

To be and remain a successful real estate investor, you need to keep up with the operative state and federal laws that may or will impact what you do and how you do it. Unlike state laws that do vary from state to state, Dodd-Frank is federal law and that law will impact you no…

Successful real estate investors, myself included, recognize the importance and vitality of investing in real estate education to sharpen skills, increase knowledge, and hone the real estate strategies that seasoned investors employ. I have personally invested well in excess of a quarter of a million dollars over the years to further my education, directly and…

Marko goes over the reasons to personalize mailings. Listen to him break down misconceptions regarding how to send out mail marketing pieces. Also learn when is the right time to hand-address mail pieces as opposed to printing labels.

There are many threads to the coat of the real estate investor. Recently, I noted the three pillars of a successful real estate practice, marketing, automation, and delegation and emphasized the importance of empathy and ego as well. With the pillars in place, to insure the strong balance of empathy and ego, comfortably and credibly…

With the Republican and Democratic conventions now in the rear view mirror, watching the two principal contestants for President on the campaign trail, what they are saying and how they say it, I could not help but observe how it always seems to be about them and not us, the American people. So much ego…

A short sale, simply put, is the process of selling a primary residence for less than what is owed to a lender. A simple illustration will paint the picture. A bank has the only lien against a home. That home is currently “underwater”, which means the owner owes more than the property is currently worth…

The due on sale clause refers to that provision commonly found in a mortgage contract that requires the mortgage paid in full upon a sale or conveyance of the subject real estate that secures the lien. Mortgages with a due on sale clause are not assumable. The provision is all about protecting the lender’s interests….

Many real estate investors look at land contracts and land trusts as the same thing, peas in a pod, never realizing that they are not the same at all. A quick refresher. Land trusts are revocable living trusts providing the tandem of privacy and liability protection. A land contract is referred to as many things,…