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Armando Montelongo is the current "king" of real estate seminars. And if his students could make a fraction from real estate that he makes from his students, there would be no issue. But that is rarely the case. As Forbes magazine put it, seminars are not for teaching - they are for selling. They...
10/07/2013
A good coach for "newbie" real estate investors is terribly difficult to find, and of those that are found on the internet, it seems they all want megabucks. Even if they are good mentors, coaching really is not worth thousands of dollars. Having developed "The Simple Man's Guide to Real Estate" ...
07/28/2013
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Over the last several months a lot of people have approached me to make some of my Bonus Books available online. I have decided to do just that, so I have created several real estate eBooks in .PDF format and they are free to all who want to download them - I do not even require your name or emai...
07/23/2013
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It amazes me that so many "experts" who post articles and blogs about the Double Escrow (aka Simultaneous Closing) have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. And it is not just "arm-chair" investors, either. It's Realtors, attorneys - and yes, even a state Supreme Court Justice chiming ...
07/22/2013
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As an investor, and creator of an investor training course, ("The Simple Man's Guide to Real Estate") this is a question I am asked almost daily. And while some things have changed, it is still possible to become a homeowner without having to come up with a chunk of cash for a down payment. In fa...
07/17/2013
It's hard to believe, but Carleton Sheets has been promoting his real estate investing course for over 3 decades. I rember buying one of the earliest versions just to see what it was like - it was watered down information designed solely to whet your appetite and teach you just enough to make you...
06/29/2013
Your real estate website needs two things in order to get ranked well on Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines - CONTENT and LINKING. The more quality content you have, the better you will rank. But no matter how good or plentiful your content, your ranking in all search engines will not b...
06/27/2013
scam Slang n. A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle. To include misleading, misdirected or exaggerated claims in advertising. A ploy by a shyster to raise money. A deception practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain. Any act, expression, omission, or concealment that deceives anothe...
06/26/2013
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(Excerpted from "The Simple Man's Guide to Real Estate" by Bill Vaughn) HOW TO STOP FORECLOSURES AND REPOSSESSIONS Foreclosure or repossession can cost you your family home, business or some other valuable asset. And if the subsequent auction does not pay off your note, it can leave a large defic...
06/11/2013
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Several (many) years ago I wrote a free little book on the secrets of success that has since been downloaded over 4 million times. And I have received thousands of letters from folks who got a lot out of it. The following is an excerpt from that book, "Success - By Design". It is Secret #3... The...
06/08/2013