Alan Cowgill is a 20 year veteran of the real estate investing business and perhaps the most widely known expert in the U.S. on the topic of raising private money. He’s also one of 13 featured speakers at this years National Real Estate Summit sponsored by OREIA. You can register for that now at a…

Back in February, I wrote a couple of articles about the return of the “Work for Equity” deal (you can find them in the blog feed on the Inner Circle page). Since that time, I’ve done several more of these deals, which look like this: The property is a single family home, typically in a…

As you probably know, evaluating properties is one of the most important skills an real estate investor has to develop. Unless you can figure out the value and repair costs of a property, there’s no way to make an intelligent offer. And there’s a particular evaluation error that I see over and over in your…