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10 Tips for Investing in Distressed or Foreclosed Properties
1. Search on the world wide web for distressed or foreclosed properties as a starting point. Use a professional REALTOR to identify great foreclosure deals for you. You may be successful at searching the web on your own, but keep in mind some...
A Guide To Investing
Everyone seems to have their own secret or strategy or trick to making money in the stock market. Here are two strategies that have helped many people.
1. It's your time, how do you want to spend it?
Some people suggest high risk investments...
Can Fast Money Be Made by Investing Online?
The answer to that question depends on what one means by fast.
Let's just compare it to your average 9 to 5 job. Then, by that
yard stick the answer is yes. Comparing the question to the
lottery, the answer becomes not quite that fast.
That...
How To Realistically Set Your Fees - Part 3
Effect of Benefits
We have previously examined realistic billable hours and the effect of business expenses on your hourly rate. Now we'll look at the effect of benefits.
Once upon at time, when we were employed, we received a benefits...
The Capital Asset Pricing Model of Stock Investing (CAPM)
In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe
shared the first Nobel Prize in the very young area of financial
economics. The Nobel committee recognized Harry Markowitz for
developing portofolio theory, Miller for the theory of...
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3 Truths About Tax Lien Certificate Investing
Truth #1 - It is going to take some work on your part to
succeed. If you have done some research into tax lien
certificates and tax deeds you may have heard some so called
"gurus" bragging about how easy it is to make a fortune. While
it is easier and safer than many investments, it doesn't come
without some work on your part. You need to learn about the
business and you need to invest some of your time to succeed.
The good news is that with less work than most traditional
investments you can get substantially higher returns while
exposing yourself to less risk.
Truth #2 - There are hidden treasures for those that are
persistent. You've heard the stories I'm sure. An investor
buys a tax lien certificate at auction, the owner doesn't
redeem, and the investor ends up with 25 acres of land for the
low price of 68 dollars.
First let me say that these sorts of things do happen and more
often than you think. I personally know the gentlemen who bought
the previous piece of land for 68
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dollars. But you can be sure
that it did not happen the first time at the auction. With some
persistence and a little bit of experience you can get better at
finding the jackpots.
Truth #3 - Most properties at auction do have real value.
There are a lot of reasons that a property can end up at
auction. The common misconception is that most of the properties
do not have any real value. True - there are properties on the
auction that seem worthless, and to many, they are - but to the
creative investor they are literal gold mines.
Think outside the box. Put your mind to work and you'll discover
that there are a lot of things you can do with the property that
no one else wants. By being creative you give yourself an
advantage over 99% of the people at the auction. Now cash in on
it!
Invest some time and money into the business and you will
discover that there are huge returns waiting.
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