HUD Homes 101: What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know – Part 1

Today’s post is all about…you guessed it…HUD homes.

There is much to uncover in this two-part blog series…what are HUD homes, what does the investing process entail, how do you find HUD homes, etc…But first, let’s touch on the basics of this type of property.

Simply put, the term “HUD” refers to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A“HUD home” is a 1-to-4-unit residential property acquired by HUD as a result of a foreclosure action on an FHA-insured mortgage. HUD then becomes the property owner and offers it for sale to recover the loss on the foreclosure claim.



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How Creative Real Estate Investing Can Land You Sweet Deals

Students are always sharing amazing and unique stories with me about how they use creative real estate investing strategies to help them close some incredible (and otherwise unlikely) deals.

There is one particular scenario that intrigued me recently…

I think you’ll find it just as interesting as I did and a great lesson about how thinking creatively in real estate investing can really work out in your favor!

The Back Story…

A student of mine had an investor friend (who also happened to be a property manager) who was trying to liquidate his properties – we’re talking 10 or so. One

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Deal Maker Interviews – The Inside Scoop On How 2 Clients Recently Used Our Transactional Funding For Wholesale Deals And Brought In $22,742 In Profits.

Many people think that this time of year business slows down and “no one is doing deals”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

We’ve been doing transactional funding for wholesale deals, all month long for clients and I’ve had the chance to jump on a deal maker call with 2 of the clients we’ve recently funded for so I could get the inside scoop on…

— What’s working for them in their markets right now?

— What tools and resources they’re using to find their deals

— How they were able to navigate through the unexpected hurdles that

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Deal Maker Interview – From “Shiny Object Syndrome” to $23,719.37 in 60 days!

Every once in a while I get the opportunity to jump on the phone and talk with successful clients where I can really dig into specifics of what they’re doing and how they’re using our services to create more wealth and do more deals.

The most recent Deal Maker Interview was with Barzel McKinney and it was fantastic!

Barzel is a client of ours who was a self-admitted shiny object seeker that used a few of our tools to focus on what’s important and get things done, which resulted in 3 deals over the past 60 days in the amount

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