By Vena jones-Cox Let’s face it: making deals complicates our lives.   When we first become involved in real estate, buying a property can be very anxiety-provoking: I mean, really, even though we’ve done all our due diligence and run the numbers 15 different ways and talked to our favorite mentor about it and it STILL…

by Vena Jones-Cox

If you don’t think that real estate investing is a relationship business, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s your connections with other investors that bring you the local knowledge, the referrals to the right professionals, the money, the partnerships, and the deals that let you prosper now, and for years to come. …

            I was in Minneapolis a few weeks back, trying to explain to a room full of real estate investors how to leverage each other’s time and resources in a way that was mutually beneficial.             The problem that I’d stumbled on, AGAIN, was that the brand-new investors in the room were either afraid to…

For whatever reason, a lot of real estate investor have this idea that a career path in real estate is strategy-based; we’re all supposed to start with wholesaling, move on to the bigger checks (and bigger complications) of retailing, then buy single family rentals, and then, we we’re really knowledgeable, wealthy and experienced, end up…

Who Wants to Win $6500 Worth of Home Study Courses? It’s time for the 1st annual “Get Your Year Started Right” giveaway, and one lucky winner will take home every home study course I have–detailed instructions, audios, forms and contracts for: How to wholesale houses for quick cash How to build a wholesaling business that…