Rapid Real Estate Investing Results

If you are brand spankin’ new to real estate, I would say no, you absolutely should NOT check out Bulk REO or commercial real estate for that matter.

If you have been around real estate for a while now, and you are looking for better, bigger discounted deals, then yes, this is what you should be looking at.

The typical rehabber should not be looking at bulk REO deals unless they want to get out of rehabbing or if they have a great rehabbing team that they don’t need to stay on top of things 24/7.

In fact, if you want to check out Bulk REO deals, go grab this free report.

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It’s the real deal.

I have been working with a couple of hedge funds for the last year and they are HUNGRY for these deals

You can also see my thoughts on using BULK REO investing to become the toll booth for bargain real estate in your market.

http://rapidreiresults.com/wordpress/real-estate-investing/using-bulk-reo-pools-to-become-the-toll-booth-for-your-real-estate-market/

You find the BULK REO deals, they buy or fund them for you.  Good deal in my opinion.

Check out Bulk REO Investing here

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It’s totally true.  Well, mostly anyway.
Actually, 80% of my tenants are great.

The other 20% though will make you want to pack up and quit this game.
I’m not just talking about the slow pays either, you have to expect that to some extent.
The one’s that drive me nuts are the one’s that pay slow AND do not care for the house… at all.

My most recent eviction has made me realize that some people just do not care about how they treat you or the property you are allowing them to rent from you. It started out fine and they were the nicest people. Then something happened and they weren’t able to pay on time… then they did not tell me about maintenance issues until it was WAY too late.

Then, once the eviction was over, I got to really dig in and see the damage that they have done. I’m thinking about posting some pics to demonstrate… Look for those sometime next week. Let’s just say, this beautiful home that we almost completely rehabbed 2.5 years ago needs more than a little cleaning. I don’t normally have to rehab my rentals but this one is at least a paint and carpet rehab and likely will be much more.

So, I have really been pondering where I’m going in real estate over the past several years. I’m not planning on straight renting anymore. It does not make sense. I had a hard rule early on that I would not just rent to anyone. I let that slide while the market was soft because I wanted to get things occupied. I’m going back to lease options and land contracts/Seller financing as my main exit strategies.

I’m also looking at alternatives to acquiring properties to hold.
Thursday I’m hosting a webinar to show you an alternative to actually buying the house.
Check it out.
http://RapidReiResults.com/liens

If you are interested in discovering a secret way of making a fortune with
foreclosures…without having to buy or sell the houses?!

Then join me on this weeks training session on how to:
Start making a sizable income in 30 days or less starting with only $1.

Generate thousands per month without using credit, partners, loans or cash
And much, much more!

(Your results will be very different and you might not make a dime… especially if you don’t actually do ANYTHING with this information.   Learn it… then USE it.)

Check it out.
http://RapidReiResults.com/liens

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I have been writing a great deal over the last few months on my blogs about the current trends in the commercial real estate market.

With the pressure the banks are having placed on them by regulators, they are having to force their borrowers to pay off their loans. This is known as “Accelerating the Loan” in commercial real estate. You can imagine the trouble this causes for the owner of a property.

These may even be performing notes. The problem is caused by the bank looking at their current loans and trying to figure out how they can generate enough capital to get their reserves where they need to be to satisfy regulators.

I guess they feel like if they have a performing note, it is more likely they will get paid off in full if they accelerate that note. To some degree this makes sense. However, for the borrower, this creates a major problem. With lending being as tight as it is all over the place right now, even a performing property may have trouble refinancing.

Admittedly, I’m not a commercial real estate expert.   I have studied it from some of the best trainers out there.   I also network with many people in the trenches every day. What I have learned is so much more exciting to me than residential real estate.

One thing is clear, you need a team behind you if you are going to get into commercial real estate. You should also take the time to learn as much as you can WHILE you are also looking at properties.
Don’t get paralysis analysis, it’s not good for you.

Get out there and start looking.
Find a commercial real estate agent in your area, start looking on Loopnet.com and start looking for distressed properties in your area.

Other ways to start finding properties:
1) Look on Loopnet
2) Talk to your local banks (you will need to build a relationship here)
3) Contact a commercial real estate brokerage (Again, relationship building)
4) Go to your local REIA Meetings
5) Contact your local Apartment association
6) Find a meetup group near you
7) Call smaller apartment and commercial property owners to network with (tell them you want to get into the business and ask if you can buy them lunch)

People LOVE to talk about their passion and you will learn a ton from people in the trenches.

If you want to learn more, register for my Commercial Foreclosure and Short Sale Newsletter group. I have a video that a few of my associates put together this week.
It will show you what they are doing to find commercial real estate foreclosures and short sale properties.
Click here to register for my newsletter and I will send you the details for the video.

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If you watch any news at all, they are telling you that the economy might be turning the corner.

Well, even if it is, commercial real estate is going to lag the overall economy.

It will be interesting to see what happens in residential real estate over the next 3 months now that the First Time Home Buyer tax credit has expired.

I found this article today while doing some more research on the trends in the commercial real estate market.

It was posted in the Wall Street Journal almost 1 year ago.

“Local Banks Face Big Losses” and spells out some of the challenges local banks are having.

I will be on an informative webinar this Thursday to discuss some of these challenges.

If you are interested in hearing how you can be part of the solution to the commercial real estate foreclosure challenges, go to my sign up page here.

I will send you the webinar registration page on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday depending on which day you see this and sign up.    See you on the webinar.

This will be powerful and very informative.

Click Here to sign up:

http://RapidReiResults.com

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Over the past year, we saw 140 banks close down in 2009.
This year we already have 57 failed banks as of April 23rd,
just before the end of the first 4 months of the year.
Rest assured, tomorrow there will be more.

So, if we can assume there will be at least 3 more tomorrow,
that is 60 for the first four months of 2010…
1/3rd of the way done with the year.
Extrapolate that out for the year and we will exceed the number
of failed institutions from 2009 by 40 banks!!
That is a pretty big jump.

OK, so you argue we are in a recovery now…
Not so fast. Commercial real estate and I believe
residential mortgages are still going to continue to default.
These things don’t just stop because the new
unemployment filings are down for the past two weeks.

There is a big log jam still waiting to break free.
The biggest of which is in commercial real estate.

The failing institutions are not the too big to fail Wall Street banks.
Nope, these are your neighborhood banks and smaller regional banks.

The government is NOT going to prop them up.
They shut them down and transfer the assets to another, seemingly stronger institution.
Further consolidating the banking industry and making it less personal when you go
to the teller window. Oh, you don’t go in there anymore.. try it sometime.
See the difference between a local bank and a large regional bank… but I digress.

I am going to be holding a webinar with an expert in the commercial real estate foreclosure and short sale niche. This is actually going to be a series that we’ll be doing over the next couple of months to get you prepared to take this head on… with a team behind you.

Let’s help those local banks not get swallowed up and spit back out by the FDIC.

Let’s help local businesses and commercial real estate investors with their troubled loans.

Let’s become the savior in our own communities for these troubled folks and help as many people as we can.

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Zig.

“You can get ANYTHING in life that you want… if you will just help enough OTHER people get what THEY want”

How does that sound?
Ready to get busy?

Click this link and on the following page, put your e-mail address in the sign-up form and let’s rock!

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Seriously, why is Obama picking just 5 states to help out with the foreclosure crisis to the tune of an additional $1.5 billion???

I do not understand this logic at all.
We already have programs in place to help with affordable housing.
The banks already have loan modification/workout groups and loss mitigation departments.
The banks will already do a short sale which, many times is a better solution for the homeowner than a loan modification. (This is not legal advice either, but the options are there).

See the article below.
http://cli.gs/zgjTyz

The administration and the government as a whole need to focus 100% of their attention on how they can spur the private sector to expand and create more jobs.
The clues are right there in the article folks.
(Hint, it’s not going to happen if you increase taxes)

It is all about jobs, JOBS JOBS!!!!!

We can’t spend our way out of this by throwing money at more government programs and handouts!

The private sector can get the economy going again if they have access to funding.
Right now, they can’t get the funding they need so they are not hiring.
Thus, no one is producing anything and since 10% of the country is not working (Actually much higher if you take into account the number of people that are not looking for work right now), no one is buying anything.

Look at the housing sector. The only reason that housing has had an increase in anything is because of the tax credit for home buyers. Without that incentive (A tax reduction incentive) the housing numbers would be abysmal.

How is dumping more money to save someone’s underwater mortgage going to help the private sector?
The only people that will help in the long run are the government workers (Which we keep getting more and more of) and the BANKS!!!

The big banks all made money last year right?
What did the banks do to actually help the economy though? Nothing.
They did not lend any money out.
We the people forcibly loaned the banks money and they turned around and horded it and bought smaller banks to get more access to your money.

The government needs to help small businesses get more funding and then step back and get their hands off the economy. Don’t increase taxes, don’t overhaul our insurance programs which will increase taxes and greatly expand government. They just need to back off. Spending tax payer money just so you can say we are doing SOMETHING is just plain stupid. Obviously, the stimulus program has not helped. Over the last year, what has happened? Has the economy gotten better? Unemployment numbers haven’t.

One thing the government is doing that I support is they do have some programs to help investors supply affordable housing and to rehabilitate commercial properties. Why do I support this? Because it puts construction crews to work and it creates safe, affordable housing. This helps spur the private sector.

If you want to join me for a webinar on some of the available Government Funding Options for Real Estate Investors, enter your name and e-mail address below.
I’ll be holding an encore call on Tuesday night, Feb. 23 at 9:00 PM EST.

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In a few weeks I will be holding a webinar with a friend of mine that I’ve
been following for several years. I started checking him out when he
came out with a loan modification program for residential borrowers.

Well, I started exchanging e-mails with him about 6-8 months ago and I
found out a few months back that he was getting into commercial loan modification.

So, I let him know that I would like to get together and do a webinar for
everyone on my property buyers list because I know several of you want
to get into commercial real estate or already are. Plus, several of you are
in a tight situation with one of your commercial properties or know
someone who is in need of some help.

If that is you, check out some of the info below that we will be covering
on the webinar. Actually, I was able to get Richard to setup a replay webinar for my guests that want to get started in this right away. I’m still planning a live call with Richard, but you can get access right away.

I’m telling you, Richard delivers a TON of great info on his calls.
Get signed up for the webinar right here:

I want you to walk away from one of my webinars knowing that
you learned something that you can put to use right away.

So, sign-up right now, the webinar is going to be packed full
of actionable items that you can use in your real estate
business right away. You will be forwarded to the replay page immediately after verifying your e-mail address.

So PLEASE register as we’ve had tons and
tons of people who want to be in on this and he may force me to pull it down any day now because my guest is planning to take this call and put it into his paid mentorship program.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

* How to enter the secretive realm of the
hedge funds, to connect them with money making
opportunities right in your neighborhood right now

* How to benefit from the commercial real estate
crash, without investing a dime in buying or selling
properties

* How to find deals with almost no work, so you
simply introduce someone to a private equity
fund or hedge fund and get a guaranteed
commission that can be enormous

* How to find a lender as opposed to yet another broker.
The difference? You’ll have access to the direct
decision-makers on the loans you want funded. And
they’ll have access to private equity and hedge fund
investors because everyone is participating in the
loans, not brokering them to someone else

* How to submit a deal so that there is no further work
required on your part

* A simple “back of the envelope” way to know
that a deal is likely to fly, and when it’s not.

* What makes a good deal or a bad deal?

* How to go to networking meetings and find deals
right and left

* How to connect applicants with lenders with a simple
two page form guaranteeing you will get paid, so that
is ALL you have to do, you’re done, and someone else
makes you money while you move on or pursue your
hobbies and spend time with family.

* How to make the big money in “commercial
loan modifications” and “workouts”

Remember, you will be sent to the replay page immediately after verifying your e-mail address and you will NOT walk away disappointed.
Enter your name and e-mail address right below to register for the call.

After you register above, you will get an e-mail to confirm your registration.
Open the e-mail and click the confirm link to be sent to the replay page.

Technorati Tags: commercial real estate, Loan Mod, real estate, real estate financing, real estate investing

Hey, did you hear the news?

Unless you get direct updates from the FDIC, you probably haven’t heard this yet. SIX (6) banks went belly up on Friday. That is a total of 15 for the year!! Last year, we only lost 140. Yeah right, ONLY 140. That was a HUGE number. This year is going to be an even bigger year of banks closing. I’ll bet that we see between 200-250 banks get shutdown.

So… WHO do you think is the most motivated seller out there right now? They don’t want you to know it and they put up a great front, but the banks and other lenders are the MOST motivated sellers for today and likely for the next 2-3 years. Why are they so motivated?

It’s simple actually, but not intuitive. The banks are getting hammered by the FDIC right now, so much so, the FDIC can not even keep up with the numbers of banks that they need to close. If the FDIC had the manpower and a way to handle it all, they would likely get it all over with quickly like ripping off a band-aid… but they can NOT handle all of the volume.

The Office of Thrift Supervision is one of the agencies that goes in and examines the banks’ books. If the bank is found to be out of compliance in the number of performing loans to non-performing loans and the amount of cash on hand, they have serious consequences.
So serious in fact, if the deficiencies are not corrected quickly, they come in and close down the bank. That is why you can bank on at least 2-5 banks closing on any given Friday right now.

What’s even worse, to help correct the issue, banks are calling commercial loans due to build up their cash reserves. The strange thing is, they are calling the PERFORMING LOANS due!!! They are then taking significant discounts on even performing loans just to raise cash. The reason the call commercial loans due is because they CAN. It is written into most of the commercial loans out there that the bank can call them due.

So, how can YOU take advantage of this situation?

If not more importantly, how can you HELP in this situation? Well, you and I are not going to fix this problem ourselves, it is just too big. However, there are several ways to help sellers, the banks and your own wallet in this economy. First, you need to arm yourself with the knowledge and the capital to get it done.

Good news!! If you are already dabbling with commercial real estate, or you think you’d like to, there are many ways to get involved. I suggest start small, learn the language and get relationships.
I will be hosting some webinars over the next several weeks to help you in that education process.

Also, if you missed my webinar on Thursday night, go below for the encore call.
You’ll see why once you get a chance to see it.

My guest has a way to accelerate your involvement in commercial real estate by hooking you up with funding straight from Government agencies that MUST lend this money out. In fact, they added an additional $4.5 Billion to this amount in 2009… Tons of it is still available.

If you tried to get on the call Thursday and couldn’t get connected, I would like to apologize. We had an issue with the original webinar link so we had to create a new meeting. A few people e-mailed me to let me know they connected but only saw a blank screen. So, I’m very sorry about the issue. To make up for it, Tuesday night I’m hosting an encore webinar.

Anyway, enter your name and e-mail address below for the replay.

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Enter your name and e-mail address here for access to the encore of our webinar on Government Funding Solutions for Investors and Developers. It happens Tuesday, February 23rd at 9:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM PT.

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We covered a TON of the questions that everyone sent in during the registration, and some of mine, too.

Of note, Sean went over:
• Low Income Housing Tax Credits
• HUD Programs
• Section 8
• The effect of the economic stimulus bill on us investors
• What the foreclosure bill has done to the market
• How much government money is available to us
• Soft financing programs
• Real live case studies
• And so much more

Full Disclosure: While Sean covered some great content on the call and there is no charge for the webinar, he can’t possibly teach you everything you need to know in a 1 hour webinar. There is an offer at the end to get further training and support from Sean.
If you decide to purchase his program, my company will be compensated and you’ll be helping me feed our children.
Just need to let you know that.

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