by Vena Jones-Cox                   When you’re doing your first few deals—or doing your first few deals in a strategy that you haven’t explored before—you need help.                   Maybe it’s help evaluating the deal. Maybe it’s help with negotiation or contracts. Maybe it’s help understanding how to ‘price’ the rent or sale price. Maybe it’s help…

I was having a discussion this week with leaders of 12 real estate associations about why: “Small investor sentiment” is way down right now. Surveys are showing that nearly half of small rental owners and rehabbers think that this is a bad time to acquire properties, find deals, invest etc. But at the same time,…

By Vena Jones-Cox Our business fascinates me. Whether it’s creative deals or watching how REIA groups develop and maintain individual cultures or observing how different types of people react to the pressures and rewards of being real estate entrepreneurs, I find myself filing, categorizing, reorganizing, and contemplating where real estate investing fits in the bigger…

2022 will be filled with challenging situations, and your skills in structuring creative deals is key both to your ability to buy properties that give you long term wealth and income, AND to helping desperate sellers who NEED to get rid of a property but can’t sell it conventionally. The more you know about the…