Category: Flipping Houses

Small Town vs Big City: What’s The Right Real Estate Investor Marketing Strategy for Your Area?

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

Real estate investor marketing in small towns is SO underrated…

Small town investors come to me often…and they are FILLED with questions about how to market in these areas.

“Cam, will real estate investing work in my rural area?”

I gotta say, it’s a fair question.

The vast majority of marketing strategies we tend to see are aimed toward the “big city” metropolitan centers. However, I’m about to share with you some MAJOR ADVANTAGES of working in small towns that just might be your key to success in these areas. Let’s dig into those advantages…

Familiarity

If you yourself are

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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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How to Avoid Major “Bumps in the Road” When Wholesaling REO Properties

Posted on by Cameron Dunlap

Investor friends, here’s a short yet interesting post that I think you’ll appreciate. It, of course has great lessons to take away… It dawned on me that you could benefit from hearing this story about how I got past a few bumps in the road when wholesaling REO Properties with an FHA-approved REO. You see… this could have turned into a complete disaster – with loads of time and effort lost and wasted. But thanks to some preparation and creative thinking, I managed to make it work. I want to share this lesson with you, so you too, can see

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