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This article is by Alan Cowgill that I interviewed on Investing with the Stars.

This topic is near and dear to my heart. When I started my RE career, I heard about the necessity of finding private lenders. In fact I even found two. But then I stopped. For four years I PROCRASTINATED. I didn’t get it!!! For four years I continued to go to banks and jump through their hoops. I also had used hard money lenders, but found them VERY expensive.

It wasn’t until I quit my J.O.B. and found that banks wouldn’t loan me money that I realized that I needed to bring private lenders into my life quickly.

Real estate has proven to be one area that people always turned to to invest. Over the years it has historically been an excellent investment tool. But recently because of all the negative feelings on the news and how worse of the real estate market is people are afraid. People who normally place their investments in real estate are turning to other markets. Well in this article we are going to show you some ways you still can make money in real estate.

At all real estate meetings, boot camps, or seminars the topic of advertising comes up. Everyone will mention Facebook (that’s a whole different story) which is likely closely followed by a comment about Twitter. So… let’s evaluate is Twitter valuable? If it IS worth it, how can you best use it for the best results? First, lets look at just what Twitter really is and what it can accomplish for your marketing efforts.

As you know, Investing in real estate has become a new lifestyle choice for thousands of people all over the world. With the increase in foreclosed homes and auction sold properties in the last year; there has been a dramatic increase in the possibilities of finding great houses for bargain prices. Investors are buying foreclosed properties, doing them up and selling them on for great profits. Flipping houses has become a new trend in real estate, and has proved to be a great way to make money. Having money readily available to refurbish the properties however is one of the biggest problems that new investors face, but business lines of credit are providing them with the ultimate solution.

When you go to tax sales and would want to invest on tax liens, you should always expect that you are not alone or that only small time investors take part on such auctions. You need to know that institutional investors in tax liens are also present and are considered as your main competition. However, do not be discouraged and taken aback with the presence of institutional investors as they also have auctions that are only intended for them because of the money that they can invest.

Many potential home buyers are hesitant to try to get a mortgage after hearing all the talk that no one is lending money or if you have bad or not so great credit buying a home will be impossible. It must be said that there is always someone lending money such as higher end banks. They deal with it by limiting the amount they lend out and to whom, but other lending options are out there. It is a myth that those with bad credit can’t get a loan but know that you won’t get the best interest rate available.

Dealing with short sales

These short sales are becoming much more frequent mainly because they are an alternative to foreclosure. Homeowners who are facing foreclosure are looking for ways to keep from damaging their credit, and a short sale does just that. Quite basically, a short sale is when the lender agrees to accept an amount less than what is owed on the property loan.

The first step is calling the lender that is holding your mortgage loan. You need to specify that you need to speak only to someone who handles the short sales for the company. Be prepared to be put on hold, transferred, and even disconnected a ton of times before you get to the right person.

The idea and process of actively looking for investment rental property is almost always very exciting, but before you get too excited it is also very important to remember to run some preliminary figures to be absolutely sure that you know what you are actually looking at so as to be sure of a successful outcome of your investment.

First, you need to carefully examine potential rental income. If the property has already served as a rental property, you need to take the time to find out how much the property has rented for in the past and then do some research to determine whether that amount is on target or not.

REO properties is the hottest ways to invest in real estate these days. Lenders do not need to, nor do they want to; hold onto these homes for any longer than they have to. This is why, REO properties can be bought for nearly any reasonable offer. Of course, there are many things to think about these properties.

You should complete a thorough inspection of the property which should include the major structures of the home. The roof, sub flooring, basement, plumbing and wiring will need to be inspected.

The World Wide Web has helped us to have the world at our finger tips by using its numerous communication tools. And to make those tools more efficient a lot of technological changes are taking place almost every passing day. If you are a businessperson you should know about these changes, be able to adapt to them and remain updated all the time. With the real estate sector as the forerunner we can see every marketing industry is opting for these changes to increase their profits. They all agree Video marketing has become a successful tool of advertising on the internet. So, if you are a real estate professional you can use real estate video marketing for attracting your customers’ attention to your product.