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Real Estate Development And Property Improvement For Investors, Speculators And Mortgage Professionals

This loan officer training department covers information specific to real estate development and starting new initiatives from the ground-up, with a focus on major development projects. For smaller projects such as rentals and small unit ownership (such as a 3-family property), please see our "real estate investing" category. We also have a separate department which covers "condo conversions" as this is a specialized area within real estate development. Dealing in any of these areas can be very profitable if done right! We show you how with these real estate training resources.

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Cutting Your Losses Early...Know When It's Time To Bail On A Bad Deal
When your primary plan of action doesn't work, you need to have a backup strategy. This may involve switching gears from a retail sale to a rental or rent-to-own deal. It may also involve dropping your price, dropping your rent, or, if you are lucky enough to realize your mistake early, walking away from an earnest money deposit instead of closing on a bad deal. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
The Not-So-Handy Man's Guide To Fixing And Flipping Properties
There are many ways to make handsome profits in real estate. You can be a "wholesaler" - someone who quickly snatches up houses and flips them to other investors - or a retailer, someone who fixes them up to resell at the retail level. In almost every case, the bulk of the profit goes to the investor who fixes and up and sells properties to owner-occupants. Investors at other levels get their cut, but the retailer receives the biggest reward. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Making Money In Real Estate: 10 Basic Ways
Making money in real estate is an endless topic that includes all the various types of real estate investments. There is land, apartment buildings, homes, commercial buildings and more. Whatever the type however, you'll make your profits in some of the basic ways listed below. Use this list to get yourself thinking of the possibilities. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Real Estate Research: Talk To Everyone
Real estate research might start with a look at the U.S. Census information about a town. It can include inspections of specific properties, too. There are many statical tools and information that can help, but don't forget one of the easiest and most useful research tools: talking. Let me explain with a true story. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Low Income Housing Investments
Low income housing providers get a bad rap. Be ready to be called a slumlord if you invest in it. Much of what people call slumlording though, is simply providing reasonable housing for those with low incomes. It is of benefit to the renter AND the landlord. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Building A Successful Real Estate Team
I didn't understand the concept of a real estate team at first, so I had a hard time with real estate investment. I tended to be a "lone wolf," trying to do too much myself. I have since learned that in real estate, you need a team of people you can trust and rely on. Here are some possible team members, and what they need to be on the team. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Hiring A Property Management Company
Hiring a property management company is a great idea if you have even a small apartment building. Having someone taking care of all the small details of a rental property means you'll have more time to find the next good investment. Also, trying to do it all yourself is the surest way to make your real estate investment experience a bitter one. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Ten Steps To Avoid Mold Problems And Lawsuits In The Rental Of Residential And Commercial Real Estate
Real estate residential and commercial landlords, tenants, and rental agents in the USA, Canada, and worldwide should take ten steps to avoid mold problems and lawsuits in the rental of real estate properties, according to Phillip Fry, Certified Mold Inspector and author of the books Mold Legal Guide and Mold Health Guide. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Want To Be Profitable In This Real Estate Bubble? I'll Show You How In Just Three Easy Steps
This is a question I get almost everyday from either our web site or from my individual investment activities. The question is "How Can I Be Profitable When We Are In A Real Estate Bubble"? . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Becoming A Battle Hardened Real Estate Veteran Without All The Scars: Seven Steps That Real Investors Make
As part of a new web site that we just launched, I get repeated requests asking if a particular deal is good or not. While we can't answer this for individual projects, we can certainly look at what HAS to get done by the investor to dramatically increase the odds of a successful transaction. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
How To Become A Successful Real Estate Developer
Real estate investment and development has never been a more popular pastime or career changing challenge; if you would like to learn seven secrets for consistently successful real estate investing through development or you would like to know how you can continue to profit from property even if the market takes a downward turn just read on. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
A Secret To Real Estate Profits: Follow The Builder
As the real estate market cools, the profit potential of home ownership has cooled as well. Here's a strategy called "follow the builder." It is relatively easy to make a profit when you sell your home if the market is rising sharply like it has been in most of the country for the last three years. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Losing Money In Real Estate: A True Story
The story takes place in 2002, in a mountain town in Montana, where the last of the good jobs had left town twenty-two years earlier when the copper smelter closed. It is a beautiful town, but the resulting economic decline caused a population decline of more than 30%, down to about 7,000 or 8,000 people. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
How To Get Started In Preconstruction Investing
Before you even begin investing, you need a working knowledge of exactly what is meant by "preconstruction" investing, why has preconstruction investing generated returns in excess of 100% per year for many investors, what is the terminology used in preconstruction real estate investing, etc. The good news is this is your easiest step to take. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
The Importance Of Adding To Your Real Estate Investment Group
But teacher, the computer gremlins ate my homework!!!!! Unfortunately, that is what happened to my well crafted article for last week, right before I left to teach classes at the Learning Annex in New York. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Market Update: The Need For Bread & Butter Investing
Remember back when George Bush Sr. was defeated, in large part because people felt he did not address the tough economic conditions that voters faced? In fact, there became a slogan that reminded him "It's the economy, stupid!" Since the voters felt like he did not properly address those issues, he was replaced. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Investing Locally Vs. Nationally In Real Estate Development
You're driving down the street in your hometown when suddenly you see a goldmine sitting in front of you; it is a vacant house, with overgrown weeds and in need of some TLC. It's screaming "buy me cheap," and the wheels start spinning in your head about the 10 to 50 thousand dollars you can make by rapidly acquiring this home, renovating, and then selling as a pretty house. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
When You Have Tenants: You Break It, You Buy It
Some tenants are under the impression that anything needing repairs is the landlord's responsibility. Be advised that the landlord is responsible for repairing problems affecting habitability--not your toilet paper holder. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Working With Contractors And Soliciting Bids For Development Work: Keeping The Process Orderly
Working with contractors and soliciting development bids is a necessary part of the real estate building process. It is very rare to find even big developers who do all their own contracting work in-house. For new and inexperienced developers, working with independent contractors is an absolute necessity in order to fully maximize the value of a job site and do so at the lowest relative cost possible. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Building Community Consensus For Real Estate Development Projects: Some Ideas
Building community consensus for any new real estate development project is always a frequent worry for the developer. Horror stories abound concerning worthwhile and financially profitable projects ultimately blocked by fanatical opposition from community groups and local activists and these tales of capitalist woe are swapped between real estate developers much like fish tales amongst anglers. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Spec Building And Development: What It Is And Some Money Making Ideas For Developers
Building spec homes or other projects and doing so profitably is one of the great challenges of the real estate development world. The allure of spec development is seductive for many builders and there are obvious advantages that spec has over contract for hire construction. But building spec homes is inherently risky and requires a level of skill and sophistication that even the most experienced builders and developers lack on occasion. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
All About Proffers; Why Developers Hate Them And How You can Profit As A Land Investor With Them
Proffers has become one of the dirtiest words in the dictionary of real estate development. Most developers and land investors hate them and rightly so. Who enjoys paying large sums of money to the government for anything? . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Interpreting Apartment Development Construction Statistics And The Importance Of Absorption Rates
Never make investment or construction decisions based on national sales or census figures. Real estate markets are inherently local, in fact, they are so small in reality as to be microscopic. In my area, for example, I couldn't even base a construction decision based on countywide statistics. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Smart Growth Land Planning: What Is It And How To Make Money As A Land Investor And Developer Under It
Smart Growth land planning is the latest attempt by government and anti-sprawl advocates to regulate development in and around urban areas. The effort certainly cannot be faulted since low density single use development has led to urban migration and suburban sprawl that has left both the cities and the suburbs suffering from the unintended but nevertheless negative effects of new commercial and residential development. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Mezzanine Real Estate Investing: What It Is And How Investors Can Make Money Doing It
Mezzanine real estate financing is often a confusing subject for developers of all levels of experience. It is also an extremely lucrative method for cash rich investors, real estate lenders, and other professional money managers to buy into real estate projects and earn high yield income and future appreciation profits far in excess of conventional debt or equity placements. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Real Estate Development And Building Permits: What They Are And How To Get Them
Before you can build anything on your land and after you have zoning approval from your local county or city government, you have to get a series of development permits from the municipality where your land is located commonly (but also erroneously) called building permits. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Real Estate Development Projects And Tenant Amenities: Some Advice For Developers
Deciding whether to provide tenant amenities for any development project can be a crucial choice for any real estate developer. Too often poorly planned or maintained amenities become property liabilities rather than the cash flow and financing generators they were meant to be. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Crunching The Numbers II: Real Estate Development Profitability Ratios
Profitability ratios are used to evaluate the financial attributes and rewards of investing in any real estate development project much like stock market investors use a variety of ratios related to the price of a stock to determine its attractiveness as a buying opportunity. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Crunching The Numbers: The Mathematics Of Real Estate Development
The mathematics of real estate development certainly can be daunting for the new investor or developer. It is quite intimidating to be presented with an proposed project prospectus or a bank financing package and view spreadsheets filled with columns and columns of numbers sometimes hundreds of pages in length. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Developing Historic Properties: Criteria For Doing It The Right Way
Developing historic properties and land is always a challenge since there is an inevitable clash between two mutually exclusive but also equally correct points of view. Preservationists want to capture the buildings, vistas, and experiences of the past for the benefit of the future while developers rightly point out that without new projects historic properties are not economically viable, fall into disrepair, and otherwise are for the most part unrealistic. You cannot preserve the past by preventing the future. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Drafting Real Estate Development Joint Venture Agreements: The Most Important Issues To Cover
Joint venture agreements between partners on a real estate development project can be quite easy to draft or a major negotiating chore, depending on the needs and disposition of the parties. I've drafted agreements between amateur investors short of capital but long on enthusiasm and experienced professionals needing cash that were a snap to put together and also endured endless, tiresome, bickering wars of attrition around the negotiating table between parties with the same levels of experience. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Infill Development: The Pros And Cons
Infill development is simply redevelopment within existing developments. Instead of starting with raw land in a relatively pristine area and building a residential subdivision or office park like traditional developers, the infill developer attempts to create new and usually higher density uses for land within existing developments. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
Performance Zoning: What Is It And How Does It Work?
Performance zoning is a theoretical alternative to classic land use planning. Traditional zoning plans divide up an area into districts or specific land parcels and regulates what uses and activities are permitted in each of the divisions. The distinctions are usually black-and-white, as in some activity is allowed or some use is forbidden but the focus is almost entirely on how each district, division, or parcel of land is used. . . . >>>> READ MORE...
The Five Major Kinds Of Developers And How Each Kind Makes Money
Often these people own land and are considering building on it. Sometimes they have construction experience and want to earn profits by building on the land of others. Regardless of their situation, my advice is always the same. My first recommendation is to determine which type of real estate developer you want to become. . . . >>>> READ MORE...


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