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 [...]

The Money Summit and Wealth Expo 2010 promises to be the biggest wealth building and income opportunities conference in the Philippines, featuring 4 proven ways to build wealth and generate passive income. The Money Summit and Wealth Expo will be held on July 2-3, 2010, 8:30AM to 5:30PM, at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC [...]

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…

“If only it were this easy in real life!” , a Think Rich Pinoy Seminar attendee exclaimed after buying his fifth property while playing Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow 101 game.
I heard him say this as I helped facilitate the Cashflow 101 game at their table during the afternoon session of the Think Rich Pinoy seminar last [...]

I hope that got your attention! As we start 2010, I’m sure a lot of you have a lot of New Year resolutions and plans.  There’s really nothing wrong with that. However, I can’t help but throw the same question to you as I did to myself, when I started to make plans for 2010. [...]

I was cleaning out my archived emails in preparation for returning my company issued laptop when I stumbled upon this very interesting story in one of my emails in my sent items. I forwarded this same story to my friends way back in January 2006, a few months after I first read “Rich Dad Poor [...]

My wife who has become so obsessed with finding a new house we can call our home shares updates on what we are thinking of doing with our old house that was devastated by Ondoy, what things to consider, our target locations, finding not just a house but also a sound real estate investment by [...]

Scenario: A foreclosed property looks ugly because it has not been maintained for quite a long time, it obviously needs repairs, it is dirty and stinks, and looks like a house that does not belong to the neighborhood because the surrounding houses look okay, although the house is really not that different from the other [...]

Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad” often said that “Excuses are the words coming from the loser in you.”. I remember hearing this from one of his audio books some time ago but this has been running through my head often because there have been a lot moments lately where I notice [...]