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Now that the mortgage market for buying investment real estate is all but dead - investors need to have other sources available or go out business. Fannie and Freddie will no longer be available for investor mortgages, traditional banks and saving and loans will not touch investors loans for many years to come and hard money lenders, when available, can have total cost over 25%. The answer is private money raised from people, not banks, through a process called private lending. Here are... Read Full Story

If you have no money of your own and you still want to invest in the real estate business. Don't be disappointed. There are various innovative and created methods that you can employ to become a real estate investor even if you have no money at all. First of all you will have to become pro-active since real estate is a highly charged game. Timing is everything. When you enter the real-estate world you will come to know several people who do not invest a single penny in a deal yet they make... Read Full Story

Let's go through tenant screening. Let's say you prepared the property. You've done all the things you've talked about. You've gone through your marketing plan. You've advertised and done all that. Now people are calling you and even expressing interest in terms of filling out an application. How do you go through and screen your tenants? How do you eliminate the bad ones and hopefully find good tenants? I guarantee you if you can find a good tenant it will make your life so much easier... Read Full Story

(CNNMoney) — Renters beware: Double-digit rent hikes may be coming soon. Already, rental vacancy rates have dipped below the 10% mark, where they had been lodged for most of the past three years. “The demand for rental housing has already started to increase,” said Peggy Alford, president of Rent .com. “Young people are starting to get rid of their roommates and move out of their parent’s basements.” By 2012, she predicts the vacancy rate will hover at a mere 5% . And with fewer... Read Full Story

Private Lending Magic: Renters Beware: Double-digit Rent Hikes May be Coming Soon. Read Full Story

(CNNMoney) — Renters beware: Double-digit rent hikes may be coming soon. Already, rental vacancy rates have dipped below the 10% mark, where they had been lodged for most of the past three years. “The demand for rental housing has already started to increase,” said Peggy Alford, president of Rent .com. “Young people are starting to get rid of their roommates and move out of their parent’s basements.” By 2012, she predicts the vacancy rate will hover at a mere 5% . And with fewer... Read Full Story

Learn about the many tax deductions available to rental property owners.  Every year, millions of landlords pay more taxes on their rental income than they have to. Why? Because they fail to take advantage of all the tax deductions available for owners of rental property. Rental real estate provides more tax benefits than almost any other investment. Often, these benefits make the difference between losing money and earning a profit on a rental property. Here are the top ten tax deductions... Read Full Story

There are so many misunderstandings related with private money lending for real estate investors. In fact, most real estate investor do not understand or participate in private money because they do not understand what it is or how is started. There is a long a history of private money lenders going to invest their own money in real estate investments. Like many things, private money comes and goes depending largely on interest rates and the demand from real estate investors and other... Read Full Story

Many investors are surprised to find out how much money management is actually involved with residential property management.  Once the right property in the perfect location is selected, many investors believe all they have left to do is collect the monthly rent check from their tenants and then wait for their investment to mature.  What the true reality is, there are deposits, bookkeeping, income and expense reports and complete financial records necessary for year-end tax purposes.  These... Read Full Story

Three common sources to find your private lenders Author: Alan Cowgill There are a number of candidates out there for your private lending needs. I have a thorough description of how to make it happen in other books and products that I have available But just briefly, it could be people who have bought a bank CD. They probably won’t need that money for a while and you can show them that there is a better possible performance by investing in you. There are people who have lost their job... Read Full Story