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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

How to Create Fantastic Real Estate Flyers

As a Agent, Investor or a Homeowner that's looking to sell your home or investment property, you need superior marketing material. What marketing materials do you use? Do you outsource your marketing? Is it time consuming and Costly? If you answered these questions with a YES or would like to take more control of your marketing campaigns to maximize your profit? Well, for myself as a Real Estate Wholesaler, I'm always looking for new and innovative ways to marketing my properties especially if it's economical and I can have creative control over my marketing tools. For the past couple of years I've been using free software like Word, Publisher, Gimp and others to create flyers, email newsletters and updates. It was average but it worked.
This method worked but I wanted my properties and ads to stand above novice or even experience investors. I wanted something new, so one day doing a basic search on the internet I came across Turn-Key Flyers (Professional Real Estate Templates) which is PDF base templates that allow you to have professionally designed PDF Flyers for marketing. Real Estate flyers are the cornerstone to any complete marketing campaign to promote, advertise, and sell properties. Colorful flyers add integrity to your marketing efforts and business. Creating your own Real Estate flyer with Turn-Key will help you to display the advantages and benefits of your primary residents or investment properties in a visual manner.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Property Flip - How to Do Wonders With A Small Budget!

Do you think it's possible to rehab a property flip with a small budget? The answer is "Yes." It's extremely possible as long as you understand how to get the most bangs for your buck.
The most important thing when it comes to a property flip is you need to know who your buyers are. Understanding your buyers will allow you to focus on key factors a new homeowner might find appealing.
Let me explain...
There are three major parts of a property flip you should always focus on with great detail. They are the kitchen, the bathroom, and the master bedroom.
The kitchen, bathroom, and master bedroom are the three main areas the homeowners will be spending most of their time in and if it doesn't stand out, you can bet you'll have a much harder time doing a property flip.
If you're considering a property flip on a small budget, why not focus on these three area's of the house.
Here are a few tips that will save you a ton of money and yield you a great return on your property flip.
Kitchen: always look at the big picture. Ask yourself this question? Could I keep the existing cabinets by simply adding a fresh new coat of paint. If your existing cabinets show sign of decay or damaged beyond repair then go to your local hardware store and buy the already made cabinets. The cost per cabinets is cheap and they look awesome once installed.
I know you've probably watched a dozen or so flip shows on T.V. and they spend upwards of $30,000 to $40,000 in property rehab. This is not necessary. Save what you can save as long as it's not outdated or damaged beyond repair.
Use granite tiles for your counter tops instead of purchasing a whole slab, it's cheaper and it still looks great.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What Should an Office Lease Include?

Leasing an office space is a convenient approach to starting a business with a low start-up cost. Though it helps shorten the route to becoming successful in the business world, there are a few important things to learn to make the most out of a lease.
Unlike renting a house, leasing commercial real estate property is a bit more technical and involves terms and agreements that can be confusing for a first time tenant. Without understanding the common terms and agreement, it could wind up costing more on the tenant's part. To avoid such a scenario, here are some of the common elements involved in a commercial lease to learn.
  • Rent Escalation- The rent payment is bound to increase over the lifetime of the lease. Most people use the Consumer Price Index or CPI as the basis for the additional cost. Such an increase is relatively acceptable; commercial property that does not apply such a practice is pretty rare. To protect the tenant's interest, it is advisable to negotiate with the landlord to withhold the CPI rent increase for at least 2 years at the beginning of the rental contract. Then, as much as possible, negotiate to put a cap on each year's increase or better yet, negotiate for a predetermined fixed increase.
  • Tenant Improvements- When leasing an office space, any renter will eventually require improvements of the office space. Be certain that the contract terms and agreement includes a clause that would allow tenants to make such improvements and alterations as needed. When such a clause is included, it may also come with an additional clause that would require the renter to restore any alteration or improvements done to the property to its original condition at the end of the lease term. A possible exception to that clause would be the addition of an alternative clause that requires approval by the owner of any such changes; that scenario usually allows any approved changes to remain at the conclusion of the lease term.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Is Cash Flow Important? When Should You Throw In The Towel?

Is cash flow important? It is, this is what makes a difference in your life on a month to month basis. But just to be clear it's not the only important thing. I'm not in real estate only for the cash flow but for another very important reason.
Why I continue to focus on real estate especially Rent to Own homes is the feeling of helping a family that deserves the help. To me, this is the real reward. You can feel it in their handshake, their hugs and the occasional small droplets of joyful tears when you hand them the keys to their new home. It's a pay if forward feeling.
As much as I love going out searching for properties, my real passion is helping as many people as I can into home ownership. There's another side as well. I also enjoy helping the beginning investor trying to purchase their first investment property, or the veteran real estate guru working on their ninth home. It's a good.... no, great feeling at the end of the day when I lay down to say, we helped another family.
Is it always smooth sailing.... not a chance. There are bumps in the road from time to time but like anything in life that's worth attaining, you have to work hard at it.
Could you call it a win if you couldn't lose?
Could you call a touchdown a touchdown by running the length of the football field with no opponents?