Real Estate Investor

If you want to catch my short talk on the basics of how to “Do the numbers” and learn more from Larry Gamboa, best selling author of the book “Think Rich Pinoy!”, you may want to attend the Think Rich Pinoy Seminar on March 17, 2012, Saturday, 8am to 6pm, at the Citisec Training Center, [...]

I was invited to speak at the upcoming Think Rich Pinoy Seminar on December 3, 2011 and I want to ask “How may I help you?”. If you are attending the seminar, I would like to know what is it that you want me to discuss that would be most helpful to you. My talk [...]

I visited the Registry of Deeds in Binangonan a couple of weeks ago and on my way there, I noticed something that every real estate investor or anyone buying a property should watch out for as part of due diligence, BEFORE buying a property in any area – floodlines!

I remember how good it felt to be able to help people in our office to do their work more effectively when we had setup an IT Support Helpdesk System way back in 2003. It felt great to be able to empower others. Little did I know that many years later it would also lead [...]

This is a guest post by Ronald Cagape of LivingCasflow101.com The RESA law is a comprehensive law intended to professionalize the ranks of real estate service providers – brokers, agents, appraisers, assessors and consultants. However, this law has cast some doubt on the practice of buying and selling real estate. Let me share with you [...]

So you have announced to the world that you are now a real estate investor, and suddenly, everyone has a property they want to show to you. This often happens to me, and can also happen to you as follows. A friends calls and says “Hey Jay, I found a foreclosed property for sale and [...]

I would like to share this update dated June 2, 2011 – After much thought, I have decided to leave Trace Trajano‘s local coaching program and my role as one of the local coaches. I would also like to inform everyone that I am not part of Trace’s other programs. For those who don’t know, I [...]

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 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 [...]

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…