The Best Real Estate Investing Tools

Have you heard of the 5 Day Sale?  Thousands of people across the country are selling their homes for top dollar without using a Realtor, even in slower markets.

This book outlines

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Almost everyone sends documents in PDF format.   You need to have a reader to open them up.  Adobe provides a free reader, just click here.

If you want to create PDFs, click here to find out about a great free PDF writer.  It works just like a printer, so anything that you can physically print out can be ‘printed’ to PDF format.

I’m sure by now you have heard about the importance of writing down your goals.  I was using traditional pen and paper methods but the problem was that I would always lose the paper I wrote it down on.

I tried using my daily notebook, but every time I ran out of space or changed notebooks I would always lose an important piece of information.  Does this sound familiar?

But I would not be denied, so I tried using Excel sheets and that worked reasonably well.  I never lost them because they were on my computer and it was pretty easy to have them open up as soon as I turned on my computer.  However, there was still something missing.  It was hard to keep things organized and track all my goals.  I knew that there was a better way.

Just like everything else you want to find in life, I used Google to start my search.  Someone had to have invented a goal setting program!  There were a few out there, but most had the same functionality as using an Excel spreadsheet.  I was looking for something BETTER.

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Here is an interesting PDF from Brian Dickerson on the mortgage statistics by state. It shows free and clear properties, the exposure to subprime loans and [Read more →]

Home staging can help you sell your home faster, especially in the tougher markets around the country. We are actually learning about the importance of staging first hand with one of our properties.

Staging has made a huge difference in… [Read more →]

I have been looking for something like this Moleskine Notebook forever! I just didn’t know it until I found it.

This is my organizer / notebook / sketchpad / journal / document holder.

Why do you need to keep a journal?  Well you don’t have to, but only if you want to be successful.  Listen here to find out more about the importance of journal writing.

How to Use a Journal

Apparently there is a cult following of people who use this notebook. When I first heard about it, I didn’t understand what the big deal was. After all, how special could a notebook be? The website says that it was modeled after similar notebooks used by the likes of… [Read more →]

This is best (in my opinion) real estate investing marketing software system available on the today! It tracks all our marketing and provides the ease of filling out all our contracts for us. We use this in our business every day and since we like it so much, the owner of the company has personally allowed us to sell it to our readers for a special price, which is a significant discount from the regular listed price on his website.

Powerful Multi-Functional Real Estate Marketing System
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This is probably the best business bookkeeping software. It is easy to use and is very powerful. Here are the features:
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If you are in real estate, sooner or later you will need a lockbox. This is the best one we have found. It has survived drive by shootings, grenades and sledgehammers. This is perfect if you invest in ‘war zones.’

OK not really, but it is tough and you can set your own combination, which provides us the opportunity to use our birth date again as our super secret password. Order a few at once so you can have them handy when you need them.

Check out this article! If you are stressing (like me) about fixing up a little single family house, just imagine what it would take to put this thing up. If they really go forward, it will cost an estimated… [Read more →]