How to Creatively Finance Your Real Estate Investments and Build Your Personal Fortune: What Smart Investors Need to Know-Explained Simply

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ISBN: 9780910627047 | 0910627045
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/30/2007

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In this book you will learn: how to negotiate with sellers, proven effective valuation techniques, how to use other people's money, use other people's credit, sell it before you buy it or pay for it, create positive cash flow, subject-to deals, over twenty nothing down scenarios, profiting from foreclosures, dealing with over-financed properties, working with judgements and liens, quit claim deeds, discounting mortgages and liens, lease options, wraparound financing and wrap notes, using trusts, self-directed IRA's, 1031 exchanges, create assumable loans, VA loans, options, and futures.

Foreword	p. 11
Preface	p. 15
The Way Things Were Many Moons Ago	p. 23
The Old Way of Doing Business	p. 27
The Down Payment of Years Gone By	p. 29
Dealing with Banks and Mortgage Companies	p. 30
Interest Rates	p. 30
Taking the Creative Road to a Better Approach	p. 32
Finding the Perfect Property Using the Perfect Agent	p. 35
Why Using a Real Estate Agent Works for Investors	p. 36
Finding the Agent You Need for Your Goals	p. 40
What to Expect from Your Real Estate Agent	p. 43
How to Find the Best Property for Your Goals	p. 45
What You Need to Know to Make Smart Investments	p. 46
Do Not Touch That Bank Account	p. 49
The Other Guy's Dough	p. 51
Preparing Yourself for Smart Investing	p. 53
Banks and Loan Officers	p. 56
Finding the Best Property at the Best Price Without Using Your Cash	p. 57
The Paper Trail You Need to Prepare	p. 59
Living on Borrowed Dimes	p. 61
Loans and Fees	p. 62
Hard Truths	p. 63
The Change Up and Breaking a Million	p. 66
Negotiating with Sellers to Get the Financing You Need	p. 71
Seller on the Fly and Investor on the Run	p. 72
Selling Your Ideas to the Seller	p. 73
Writing Winning Offers	p. 75
Let's Talk Money	p. 77
Looking at Your Options	p. 78
Using the Investor's Money and Credit	p. 81
Trump the Contrarian	p. 81
Buck the System	p. 85
Will That Be Cash or Credit?	p. 86
Approaching Creditworthy Investors	p. 89
Finding the Best Investors	p. 90
Things to Know About Using Investors	p. 91
The Investor-Investor Contract	p. 91
Options Are Gold	p. 93
Understanding Options	p. 93
The Best Way to Use Options	p. 95
Approaching the Right Seller with an Option	p. 95
Things to Know about Options	p. 96
The Best Option Contract	p. 98
So You Want to Be a Landlord	p. 101
Finding the Best Rental Properties	p. 102
What You Should Know Before You Become a Landlord	p. 103
Turning a Tenant into a Buyer	p. 104
Things to Know About the Renting Business	p. 106
Contracts You Need Before You Become a Landlord	p. 107
Finding Deals in Vacation Rentals, Foreclosures, and Subject-to Deals	p. 109
Smart Buying with Foreclosures	p. 111
Finding the Foreclosure	p. 114
Working with Foreclosures	p. 114
How to Make Foreclosures Work for You	p. 115
Things to Watch for in Foreclosures	p. 115
Just a Word about Subject-to Deals	p. 116
Smart Buying When No One Is Buying	p. 117
Smart Buying Vacation Rentals	p. 119
The Financing You Need	p. 123
FHA and VA Loans	p. 123
Assumable Mortgages	p. 126
Wraparound Financing	p. 127
Finding the Best Way to Finance the Property You Want to Buy	p. 128
Where to Find the Money	p. 155
Calling Off a Deal Going Bad	p. 155
The Undesirable Properties	p. 157
Dealing with Over-Financed Properties	p. 158
Too Many Liens Can Be Advantageous to the Buyer	p. 158
Working with Undesirables	p. 159
Damaged-by-Reputation	p. 161
How to Find the Money You Need	p. 165
Where to Find the Money	p. 165
Getting Money Out of Your 401(k)	p. 170
Using Your Self-Directed IRA	p. 170
A Note About Short-Term Loans	p. 171
Bringing It All Together	p. 188
How to Promote Sales	p. 195
Selling When Everyone Is Selling	p. 197
What Really Affects the Time to Sell	p. 199
Where the Market is Today	p. 200
Ask Questions	p. 201
How to Finance Your Real Estate (to Buyers Who Want to Buy)	p. 201
Finding the Best Approach	p. 202
The Best Buyer a Seller Can Have	p. 203
On the Contrary, I Am Speculating Successfully	p. 205
The Contrarian Collects Real Estate, Not Dust	p. 207
Speculating Successfully Using Purchase-Money Mortgages	p. 209
Assumable Mortgages	p. 210
Second Mortgages and Investing	p. 211
Using Options to Speculate in Real Estate	p. 212
Private Investors and the Contrarian	p. 214
The Property Collector's Portfolio	p. 215
Other Thoughts on Your Real Property Collection	p. 217
Overpriced and Climbing	p. 220
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 225
Glossary of Terms	p. 227
Appendix	p. 239
Before Closing As the Buyer	p. 240
Home Inspection Checklist for Rental Properties and Handy-Man Specials	p. 242
Sample Amortization Tables	p. 244
	p. 244
	p. 247
	p. 249
	p. 262
	p. 266
References	p. 271
Author Dedication and Biography	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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How to Creatively Finance Your Real Estate Investments and Build Your Personal Fortune: What Smart Investors Need to Know-Explained Simply

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