Category: Evaluating Deals

Low Inventory Real Estate Market Got You Down? Looking Elsewhere Could Be the Answer

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

I’d like to address a dilemma that you may have run into a time or two as a real estate investor…LOW INVENTORY REAL ESTATE MARKETS.

This is a situation where competition is high and inventory is tight. If you’re an investor, you KNOW this can be a real problem because you might only have limited inventory to work with.

You see…as investors, we’re in the business of buying and selling houses, and in order to do that we need to buy and sell houses. (I hope you get my subtle sarcastic humor here.)

If there are a limited number of

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How To Find and Profit From Pre-Foreclosures

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

Pre-foreclosures can be tricky, and it’s important to know how to best use pre-foreclosure lists and – more importantly – how to contact and communicate with the owners if you want to successfully invest in pre-foreclosures.

You’ve probably heard of pre-foreclosures and know what a pre-foreclosure is, but let’s quickly refresh our memories… after all, it’s certainly a great strategy to have in your investing arsenal.

A house typically becomes a pre-foreclosure when the owner is more than 90 days late on their mortgage payments. At this point, the lender will start the foreclosure process with a notice of default.

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Double Closings Explained and Why You Shouldn’t Attend Them

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

Double closings – not to be confused with assignments – aren’t as complex as they seem.

Simply put, a double closing in real estate investing is the simultaneous purchase and sale of a property that involves three parties:

  • The seller
  • The investor
  • The end buyer

It’s essentially two transactions commonly referred to as the “A to B & B to C” strategy and looks like this:

  • Person “A” is the distressed/motivated seller
  • Person “B” is you, the real estate investor
  • Person “C” is the final buyer.

During the

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9 MUST KNOW Factors For Pulling Real Estate Comps You Can Trust

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

Sooner or later, you’re going to have to pull comparables on the properties you’re considering buying. It’s an important part of every successful Real Estate Investor’s day… So let’s define a couple of terms before we dig into this… First, the “subject property” is the one you’re considering buying. Comparables are your absolute best tool to determine the value of the subject property. Real estate agents and investors like you and I will “run or pull comps”, to determine and justify the value of a subject property based on comparable properties that have sold recently within the area. In other words, properties

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