Ben Innes-Ker
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Why Most Real Estate Entrepreneurs Don’t Make Consistent Profits
Go to just about any town or city in the country and you’ll find real estate entrepreneurs and investors like yourself working far more than they should for the return they are getting. And this despite all the promises of “fast cash” and “easy money” that sold the courses that got them into the business in the first place. You see, the reason many Real Estate Entrepreneurs don’t do so well is not because of lack of intelligence or their willingness to work hard. It is simply due to being focused on the wrong area of their business. We come…
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Use Options To Minimize Risk And Maximize Profits
I received an ad call one afternoon. It was a woman named Leanne. She was married with three grown children. She wanted to sell their house, so I went through the process of screening the call and getting the relevant information about the house, the mortgage balances, and what they wanted. It was a nice house, 3/1, 1300 sf, basement, on 2.5 acres, no repairs needed, just outside a town called Spencer, Indiana. They had two mortgages totaling $64,000 and were $4,000 behind in payments. The property was appraised one year ago for $97,500. We talked for a while and…
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The Key to Real Estate Success: Marketing!
How did you get into real estate investing? Did you read a book on it? Was it a seminar? A meeting of some sort with speakers selling courses? Did you get really, really jazzed and pumped up by these simple (“not easy”) concepts that were delivered to you in parable form from the stage by a charismatic speaker? Did you find yourself levitating to the back of the room, powerless but to slap down your plastic to buy the kits that were being sold there? Like…”Yes Mr. Ker, we do take traveler’s checks. Yes, cash is okay, too. HEY BARNEY,…
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Is Your Real Estate Investing Comfort Zone Being Threatened?
Have you ever imagined yourself putting through a multi-million dollar deal, going to closing and picking up a check with six zeros? It’s the ultimate dream for real estate investors. But why must it be a dream when it can just as easily be a reality. Every day there are real estate investors making offers on high end houses just as there are real estate investors making offers on median price range houses and below. There are just a lot fewer going after the big game.High dollar houses naturally instill fear in real estate investors as they feel if they…
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A Marketing Plan – The Thing That Makes Deals Happen!
You’re a Real Estate Entrepreneur or Investor, and you’re out there in the market place looking for deals. I have a question for you.Are you doing a bit of advertising and just hoping that a deal will fall in your lap, or are you operating in a way that makes certain it will happen. If you don’t have a process for making sure deals happen, you don’t yet understand the importance of having a marketing plan.The sad fact is that even after all their training, less than one percent of all real estate entrepreneurs and investors actually have a marketing…
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7 Big Reasons To Invest In Pre-Foreclosures
Looking for an “in” to real estate investing? Working a nine to five job swapping time for money can be incredibly dispiriting. After the futility of it all hits home, it’s all you can do to limit the number of home business opportunities you investigate to twenty per week. One of the more compelling home business opportunities is real estate investing. Real estate investing is the perennial wealth builder, and the transition from working a job to achieving wealth through real estate investing is becoming increasingly well documented. You’ve probably thought about investing in real state yourself but you’ve not…
