It depends! Obviously not all foreclosed properties are good deals.
It’s common sense that not all properties are good investments, foreclosed or otherwise, you don’t need to be a real estate investing guru to know this. However, based on the number of times I’ve either heard people ask or get asked this very same question, I [...]

My mentor Trace Trajano interviewed me recently and the interview was all about how to buy foreclosed properties from banks, which are also often referred to as bank acquired assets, bank owned properties, ROPOA’s, ROPA’s, non-performing assets, etc. We basically covered buying foreclosed properties from banks:

Before the auction (pre-auction)
During auctions
After the auction (negotiated sale)

I suppose all of us have an idea on being proactive, unless you have been living under a rock. We often hear it, but do we really know what it means to be proactive? How can we apply this to real estate investing? Read on to find out just some of my ideas on how [...]

Welcome to the fifth and last part of this series on the 3 types of income one can get through real estate investing. Before you begin reading this article, I recommend you review the first four parts:
How to get portfolio income through real estate investing
Earned income through real estate investing
Passive income through real estate investing [...]

Welcome to the fourth part of this series on the 3 types of income one can get through real estate investing. This is actually part 2 the third type of income which is passive income. Before you begin reading this article, I recommend you review the first three parts:
How to get portfolio income through real estate [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since I first greeted you all here with a financial independence day greeting. This time around I would like to greet you all again by sharing a story of how an Information Technology professional was able to cross-over to Real Estate investing. I hope this inspires [...]

Welcome to the third part of this series on the 3 types of income one can get through real estate investing. This was supposed to be the third and last part which is about passive income, but it has turned out to be a huge article in itself (more than 4000 words) , which is [...]

This is the second part of a series on the three types of income one can get through real estate investing. If you missed the first part, please read it before reading this. You can find part one here – How to get portfolio income through real estate investing
Earned income is the type of income [...]

This is part one of a 3-part series on the types of income one can get through in real estate investing. Rather than write another 3000+ word nosebleed article, I’ll break it down into three parts which should be more manageable and easier to digest.

Through this series, I hope to help beginning real estate investors by sharing my thoughts and ideas for each type of income, based mostly in actual experiences. You continue reading after the jump…

I have been so busy lately with the title transfer of a foreclosed property that I purchased and I realized that it would be better if I just outsourced the title transfer to someone else. The amount of time that I have already allocated for this could have been put to better use finding more [...]

A post by Cherry Castillo
I have come across many comments from OFW’s who want to invest in real estate in the Philippines but have no one to rely on to do the legwork in the country – choosing a property, collecting rents, etc. While my husband and his teammates  from RYP Realty are starting to [...]

If you attended the recently held Think Rich Quick seminar last March 27, 2010, you already know that Trace Trajano has come up with an Apprentice Challenge. My teammates and I are currently competing in that challenge. For those who were not able to attend the seminar and who don’t know Trace yet, he is [...]