This months’ deal evaluation comes from Mike Nees, a member from Columbus, Ohio, who wholesales and owns rental properties. He’s been in real estate since the 90’s, but is a relative newbie to investing in self-directed accounts, He’s one of the half-dozen real-life investors presenting at the 2017 Tax-Free Investing Summit in Columbus on August...

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...

There’s been this thing going around the real estate investing world for the past few years about being “debt free”. It echoes a movement in the larger culture that has been championed by Dave Ramsey and his ilk that is a probably much-needed reaction to the too-easy availability of consumer credit in this country since...