Finding Private Money For Real Estate Investing
December 17, 2010 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
Have you ever wished you had all the money you could use for all the deals you could possible handle? If you?ve been investing in real estate for long, you certainly have thought about how you could find private money for real estate investing. In this article I?ll attempt to give you some ideas for doing just that.
The first thing you should do in your search for private money for real estate investing is know what you want the money for. Since you?ll be talking to folks who will potentially loan you money, and they?ll be asking you questions, doesn?t it make sense to think through the answers to those questions ahead of time. Put your thoughts down on paper, and develop a written investing business plan.
Answer the questions lenders are most likely to ask? things like the type of property you invest in, how much money you?re likely to need, how much of your own money you?ll be using, how long you?ll need the money for, how you plan to pay it back, what rate of return can they count on, and so on. All of these things and more will be on your potential private lender?s mind. When you?re planning your approach for private money for real estate investing, you need to give these areas some thought.
One of the keys to finding private money for real estate investing is self-promotion. Don?t be shy about getting the word out that you?re looking for private money for real estate investing. Use all the same promotion tools you would use for other purposes. Classified ads, billboards, bandit signs, radio, TV, and promotional items like pens, hats, and magnets all make good ways of reaching your target audience. Let?s face it? you never know who?s got the money to lend, so you?ve got to get the message out to as many folks as possible.
Another key to finding all the private money for real estate investing you?ll ever need is planning and preparing a professional presentation. Put yourself in the place of a potential lender. What would you like to know in order to be comfortable loaning you money? How can you present your business plan in a professional yet persuasive way? What tools will impress and communicate effectively? Use everything at your disposal to put yourself and your investing business in the best possible light.
Presentation binders, handouts, flyers, and PowerPoint are all tools that have been used quite successfully by others looking for private money for real estate investing. Testimonials are especially powerful and effective. If someone has loaned you private money for real estate investing before, and you paid it back as agreed, ask them for a written testimony about the experience. Put their testimony into your presentation materials.
In fact, whenever you sign up a new private lender, ask them for a testimony about their experience. Finding private money for real estate investing doesn?t have to be a struggle. Use all or some of the tools in this article, and from a more in-depth article I?ve written called Private Money For Real Estate Investing. Then you?ll stand head-and-shoulders above the other investors in your area who?ll wish they had access to all the private money you do!
Now, go make more offers!
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Real Estate Investing - Start Learning Today!
March 15, 2010 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
You often hear about every day people who made their money investing in the stock market, but you also hear about people who lost it all the same way. You hardly ever hear about real-estate investors who lost all there money because it doesn’t happen nearly as much.
Those who invested in the key areas of real estate years ago are living the dream! The information I am providing I feel will prove helpful for any experience level of investors.
Why just think about it! Do something about it!
Everyone has heard there is money in real estate but no one does anything about it! This is because no one hears actually how much money there is to make by investing in real estate. Why doesnt everyone try to make there share?
The reason is simply the fear inside of everyone. The majority of people feel that it is to much work and to much of a risk to take. Even with all the helpful information thats out there today. People still feel they dont know enough to take the chance of investment. Fortunately for you it will always be this way and they will always be the ones supporting you with rent money each month.
What do you have to look forward to?
When I decided that investing in real estate was what I wanted to do. I really didnt know what to expect The only thing I knew was that making money without dealing with my boss was what I wanted. No one just said here I want to pay you so you dont have to work, I had to come up with a plan and idea of exactly what I wanted to do.
Real estate takes alot of time and patients. You will be dealing with all types of tenants good ones bad ones and everything in between. You also need to deal with stuff when it breaks, heating bills, and just fixing the place up now and then.
Looking at it that way may upset you but dont forget, I dont have to follow my boss around asking what he needs done next all day for the same salary every week. Getting paid for extra work you accomplish is a breath of fresh air after working 40 hours a week trying to help your boss make money. Knowing extra work you do helps the company more then it helps you.
The weather is crummy and I want to get away I leave, its that simple I dont loose money! I EARN it my rent money keeps coming each month and loans keep amortizing! The job does itself even while I lay on the beach.
Knowing that I could have the freedom to go where ever I want when ever I want while earning money doing it was enough of a reason for me to love real estate. All this without a boss breathing down ur neck and throw in the other little benefits I think I found my new full time job!
Cash flow
It is what is says basically cash flow is the difference between your income and your expenses. Basically it’s your situation when it comes to your investment you can have a positive or a negative cash flow. If you dont know what one you want please dont read anymore!
When you do obtain a little positive cash flow never use it all to pay get out of a debt in a certain area. You have alot more options by keeping a strong positive cash flow.
Appreciation
The two types of appreciation are economic conditions and market appreciation. Economic conditions would be out of your control like a inflation in a certain area but as you know the more popular the area the higher cost of living so you dont make as much here. Market appreciation is the more profitable of the two its a increase in value due to renovations. Buying a home touching it up and reselling for a profit would be a example of market appreciation.
Appreciation is the increase in value of a property. There are two kinds of appreciation. The first is from economic conditions beyond your control, such as inflation. But you won’t gain much from this type of appreciation since the gain is offset by the higher cost of living.
The second kind is market appreciation, which you can control. When you improve a property (through renovations), you force its value higher. You can purchase a piece of property in need of repairs and bring it back up to neighborhood standards or slightly higher; this will give you a property that is much higher in value.
Leverage
Having the ability to borrow a percentage of the value of a piece of property is what leverage is. Most of the investments im sure you have been looking at are not even a comparison to real estate when it comes to leverage. In example a couple who buy a single family home can obtain up to 95% financing. This being said allows you to purchase real estate with little or none of your own money. Like I said what other investment offers this high of a degree of leverage?
Amortization
When you are able to make money off of other people’s money how could you not be involved! Loans of course have interest but each payment also goes to pay off principal. Principal reduction is called amortization and this my friend can make you wealthy!
Advantages
When you own your own real estate and are focused of making profit with it, you have the option to deduct interest and other payments when tax time hits. Although purchasing real estate just to receive tax advantages is not what you should be aiming for. You need to purchase it because it makes sense.
Benefits of purchasing
Owning your own real estate business is wonderful way to escape and obtain the financial freedom you have been looking for.
Remember real estate can be a hobby or it could be your new full time career the sky is the limit its what ever you make it.
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Ryan Dymond writes on marketing and business related issues. You can learn more by visiting my blog, Investing in Real Estate |
Real Estate Investing - Start Learning Today!
November 10, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
You often hear about every day people who made their money investing in the stock market, but you also hear about people who lost it all the same way. You hardly ever hear about real-estate investors who lost all there money because it doesn’t happen nearly as much.
Those who invested in the key areas of real estate years ago are living the dream! The information I am providing I feel will prove helpful for any experience level of investors.
Why just think about it! Do something about it!
Everyone has heard there is money in real estate but no one does anything about it! This is because no one hears actually how much money there is to make by investing in real estate. Why doesnt everyone try to make there share?
The reason is simply the fear inside of everyone. The majority of people feel that it is to much work and to much of a risk to take. Even with all the helpful information thats out there today. People still feel they dont know enough to take the chance of investment. Fortunately for you it will always be this way and they will always be the ones supporting you with rent money each month.
What do you have to look forward to?
When I decided that investing in real estate was what I wanted to do. I really didnt know what to expect The only thing I knew was that making money without dealing with my boss was what I wanted. No one just said here I want to pay you so you dont have to work, I had to come up with a plan and idea of exactly what I wanted to do.
Real estate takes alot of time and patients. You will be dealing with all types of tenants good ones bad ones and everything in between. You also need to deal with stuff when it breaks, heating bills, and just fixing the place up now and then.
Looking at it that way may upset you but dont forget, I dont have to follow my boss around asking what he needs done next all day for the same salary every week. Getting paid for extra work you accomplish is a breath of fresh air after working 40 hours a week trying to help your boss make money. Knowing extra work you do helps the company more then it helps you.
The weather is crummy and I want to get away I leave, its that simple I dont loose money! I EARN it my rent money keeps coming each month and loans keep amortizing! The job does itself even while I lay on the beach.
Knowing that I could have the freedom to go where ever I want when ever I want while earning money doing it was enough of a reason for me to love real estate. All this without a boss breathing down ur neck and throw in the other little benefits I think I found my new full time job!
Cash flow
It is what is says basically cash flow is the difference between your income and your expenses. Basically it’s your situation when it comes to your investment you can have a positive or a negative cash flow. If you dont know what one you want please dont read anymore!
When you do obtain a little positive cash flow never use it all to pay get out of a debt in a certain area. You have alot more options by keeping a strong positive cash flow.
Appreciation
The two types of appreciation are economic conditions and market appreciation. Economic conditions would be out of your control like a inflation in a certain area but as you know the more popular the area the higher cost of living so you dont make as much here. Market appreciation is the more profitable of the two its a increase in value due to renovations. Buying a home touching it up and reselling for a profit would be a example of market appreciation.
Appreciation is the increase in value of a property. There are two kinds of appreciation. The first is from economic conditions beyond your control, such as inflation. But you won’t gain much from this type of appreciation since the gain is offset by the higher cost of living.
The second kind is market appreciation, which you can control. When you improve a property (through renovations), you force its value higher. You can purchase a piece of property in need of repairs and bring it back up to neighborhood standards or slightly higher; this will give you a property that is much higher in value.
Leverage
Having the ability to borrow a percentage of the value of a piece of property is what leverage is. Most of the investments im sure you have been looking at are not even a comparison to real estate when it comes to leverage. In example a couple who buy a single family home can obtain up to 95% financing. This being said allows you to purchase real estate with little or none of your own money. Like I said what other investment offers this high of a degree of leverage?
Amortization
When you are able to make money off of other people’s money how could you not be involved! Loans of course have interest but each payment also goes to pay off principal. Principal reduction is called amortization and this my friend can make you wealthy!
Advantages
When you own your own real estate and are focused of making profit with it, you have the option to deduct interest and other payments when tax time hits. Although purchasing real estate just to receive tax advantages is not what you should be aiming for. You need to purchase it because it makes sense.
Benefits of purchasing
Owning your own real estate business is wonderful way to escape and obtain the financial freedom you have been looking for.
Remember real estate can be a hobby or it could be your new full time career the sky is the limit its what ever you make it.
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Ryan Dymond writes on marketing and business related issues. You can learn more by visiting my blog, Investing in Real Estate |
Real Estate Investing - The Tax Benefits…
October 3, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
How many times have you heard people grumble about taxes? Eventually, they get tired of simply complaining about how much money in taxes they have to pay and move on to how much money on taxes the rich DON’T have to pay. It can be frustrating, can’t it, knowing that people with less money get fewer breaks than people with loads of money? It’s frustrating because it isn’t fair. And if you happen to be one of the people on the low-income/high tax-percentage side, then you may experience some resentment.
Well, the fact is, no amount of grumbling and complaining is going to make the powers that be suddenly make things fair for you. This is because of the Golden Rule: ?He who has the gold, makes the rules.? Chances are, they are going to make the rules in their favor. They’re going to keep all the good tax breaks to themselves. They are going to tell you there just isn’t enough money to go around, even as you watch so many people drive around in so many expensive cars and eat in so many posh restaurants. Even politicians who promise tax breaks to the downtrodden masses?even the ones who are sincere in their desire to help the average working stiff?are limited in their ability to affect the system.
That’s why you are going to have to take action. Don’t be one of the downtrodden masses. If you want more money, you are going to have to go get it yourself. And yes, you too can get more money in the form of tax breaks.
In his Rich Dad book series, Robert Kiyosaki advocates figuring out what the rich do to be rich, and do that. Except that you don’t have to figure it out. He didn’t even have to figure it out, because he had a rich ?dad? to tell him the secret of the rich: investing. Especially in real estate.
?One of the reasons I chose to work predominantly in the B and I quadrants are the tax advantages,? he says in his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant.? The cash flow quadrant, after which he named the book, is his rich dad’s diagram of the four different kinds of people, with respect to where they get their money and their philosophy about procuring money which, oddly enough, match up. In other words, people who are Employees have one set of values while the people who are Self-employed have another.
Kiyosaki prefers to belong to the Business and Investment quadrants because that, he says, is where the money is.
You know the saying, ?If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.? That is good advice, especially if the guys you want to beat are the rich. It’s actually great news that they are getting so many tax breaks. That means that, when you become one of them, you will get those same tax breaks, IF you know how.
Here’s how. You become one of them by using investments to make your money multiply. You can do that while remaining also in the E and S quadrants, if you are well-paid, but Kiyosaki advises that you join the B quadrant, by building a business system that will essentially work on its own without much input from you. Then you can either keep it or sell it, but you must invest.
Investing, preferably in real estate?condos, rental property, land and the like?is your ticket to financial freedom.
About the Author:
Alex Anderson Connects Investors With Appreciating Minnesota Investment Properties and Investment Properties Orlando.
Real Estate Investing - The Tax Benefits…
September 24, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
How many times have you heard people grumble about taxes? Eventually, they get tired of simply complaining about how much money in taxes they have to pay and move on to how much money on taxes the rich DON’T have to pay. It can be frustrating, can’t it, knowing that people with less money get fewer breaks than people with loads of money? It’s frustrating because it isn’t fair. And if you happen to be one of the people on the low-income/high tax-percentage side, then you may experience some resentment.
Well, the fact is, no amount of grumbling and complaining is going to make the powers that be suddenly make things fair for you. This is because of the Golden Rule: ?He who has the gold, makes the rules.? Chances are, they are going to make the rules in their favor. They’re going to keep all the good tax breaks to themselves. They are going to tell you there just isn’t enough money to go around, even as you watch so many people drive around in so many expensive cars and eat in so many posh restaurants. Even politicians who promise tax breaks to the downtrodden masses?even the ones who are sincere in their desire to help the average working stiff?are limited in their ability to affect the system.
That’s why you are going to have to take action. Don’t be one of the downtrodden masses. If you want more money, you are going to have to go get it yourself. And yes, you too can get more money in the form of tax breaks.
In his Rich Dad book series, Robert Kiyosaki advocates figuring out what the rich do to be rich, and do that. Except that you don’t have to figure it out. He didn’t even have to figure it out, because he had a rich ?dad? to tell him the secret of the rich: investing. Especially in real estate.
?One of the reasons I chose to work predominantly in the B and I quadrants are the tax advantages,? he says in his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant.? The cash flow quadrant, after which he named the book, is his rich dad’s diagram of the four different kinds of people, with respect to where they get their money and their philosophy about procuring money which, oddly enough, match up. In other words, people who are Employees have one set of values while the people who are Self-employed have another.
Kiyosaki prefers to belong to the Business and Investment quadrants because that, he says, is where the money is.
You know the saying, ?If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.? That is good advice, especially if the guys you want to beat are the rich. It’s actually great news that they are getting so many tax breaks. That means that, when you become one of them, you will get those same tax breaks, IF you know how.
Here’s how. You become one of them by using investments to make your money multiply. You can do that while remaining also in the E and S quadrants, if you are well-paid, but Kiyosaki advises that you join the B quadrant, by building a business system that will essentially work on its own without much input from you. Then you can either keep it or sell it, but you must invest.
Investing, preferably in real estate?condos, rental property, land and the like?is your ticket to financial freedom.
About the Author:
Alex Anderson Connects Investors With Appreciating Minnesota Investment Properties and Investment Properties Orlando.

