investment property

2012 Denver Real Estate Listings are LOW LOW LOW

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 No More Low Hanging Fruit? Denver MLS Report – Can you say RECOVERY? I don’t know how else to interpret these numbers.  I thought that the Denver MLS might be pulling a bunch of non-metro stuff in, so this is analyzed by city.  Here are some interesting facts: Wow, there are only 6200 homes Active [...]

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Park Hill Tudor Fix and Flip Project For Sale

SOLD 1517 Olive St., Denver, CO 80207.  4 beds, 2 baths, 2 car, finished basement.  Original wood work, hardwood floors in basement!  ARV ~$299K, Fix estimate ~$40K, Sale Price $188,000.   Hardwood floors, original word work, doors, trim.  3 beds on main level.  Stately Tudor construction. Please Contact Us for more information about this property.  Enter [...]

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Prepare for Lender Meetings Like a Pro

Keep Updated Personal Financial Statements The best preparation for meeting with a lender – especially a private or hard money lender – is to have your “docs in a row.” When I work with a new client that does not have a current personal financial statement, our first step is to get their complete financial [...]

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Investment Property Purchase Formulas

Dealer Margin, Fix and Flip Profit, and Income Valuation One of the first lessons I teach new investors or distressed niche agents in our mastermind group lessons are the different financial models for purchasing investment property.  There are several types of real estate investors, and they use different criteria to estimate profits depending on the [...]

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Qualifying Real Estate Investors

Scouts – Dealers – Rehabbers – Landlords I have a few key methods of qualifying real estate investors to determine whether or not I want to work with them.  This has little to do with the amount of experience they have, and less to do with the amount of money they have then you may [...]

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Why Realtors Should Work with Investors

Capitalize on an Underserved $300 Billion Market As the nation continues to take its proverbial medicine for the spoils of Wall Street’s residential real estate backed securities fiasco, Realtors are suffering massive drops in transactions and income. If you are working the traditional residential market, you’re likely facing pretty grim volume now, and for the [...]

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2 Minute Cap Rate Valuation

As the “apartment guy” in our real estate office,  I field a lot of questions about income properties from residential agents.  The most common question is “how do I value this building?”  The agents are all very accomplished at running values using comparable sales for single family houses, and even duplexes.  But when the valuation [...]

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Adapting to New Investment Models

In the current financial environment, residential real estate investing continues to be a viable business, but the business has changed dramatically.  There are more challenges and deals require different credentials and strategies compared to recent years of loose lending standards and appreciating prices.  Private investment placement managers and established cash buyers are squeezing out the [...]

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Using an “Acquisition Criteria” to Qualify Investors

One of the ways that I evaluate the level of sophistication of fellow real estate investors, and potential clients, is the answer to this question:  “What is your acquisition criteria?”   More often than not, the answer is “I just want a good deal,”  which is usually a sign of a novice investor.  Experienced investors know [...]

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Does your email address turn off clients?

I had lunch recently with a real estate agent who was pitching me to hire him as a buyer’s agent for investment properties.  He presented himself as a having a solid work ethic and excellent knowledge of the market.  But when he handed me his card, he had a firstname86 at hotmail dot com account [...]

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