Anyone with foreclosures or short sales experience?
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You'll receive a billion answers, because there's quite a bunch of ways to start this. The first thing you should do is buy more books, read and re-read until your confident. Don't go to a seminar and spend $4,000. But rather, spend $50.00 or so and buy 2-3 good books written by investors. It's almost as good as having a mentor by your side except you're not paying anything to them.
One thing that I want to comment is that you're in the right path about building capital. That's your first priority. Second is making the right decisions and making sure the market you are in is sellable -- you are able to flip that property within 6 months or less.
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I think if you want to get into the foreclosure business, first search were the foreclosures are in cleveland, then do some research on how much the houses near it (same style, bedrooms, baths) are going for. Compare it to how much you are going to buy it for. Figure how much money your're going to put into the house. Only buy houses that are in a decent area or you could get burned
Starting your own business is a great idea.
Starting your own business in something that you don't know about is a bad idea. Go to work in someone elses loss mitigation department before you practise on yourself. Practise while getting paid to learn. Then start your business.
Otherwise open a property management firm, which you know about.
Best of luck
a lot of hard work.....
no two deals are the same.....
good luck..
See the link below. Lots of useful info there for investing and a number of active investors dealing with short-sales and foreclosures. Some will be in OH. One of the best is over in IN (look for posts by JT).
I have meet many of the more active investors who post. The site has been up since the mid 1990's and might be the oldest RE website on the web. The individuals are very much hands on plus know their stuff.
I post mainly in the finance forum. You can search the achieves. I post under my name, John Corey
Well, whatever you do don't fall victim to an infomercial guru promising you thousands of dollars or properties in months.
Anything you will need to know is in a book- less than $20.
some Real estate gurus get you hooked on their "program" then ask you to put $5,000 on your credit card for a Coach! Not even any kind of investment.
Watch out for these scams. Also Google Tom Butler or any other investor before you buy any "program"
When you are ready to jump in, I recommend the following site:
http://www.foreclosure.com
Good luck
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