Diversify your investments like the Hollywood stars do it! France offers investors a great opportunity to benefit from the ever increasing property values. France is very fortunate to have a stable housing market, which will continue to stay that way for years and years to come. (more…)
Advertising on Craigslist (Craigs List) is worthwhile for not only real estate professionals, it is a golden key for just about ANYONE! Whether you are a business offering products or services or simply want to become an expert ‘reseller’ of goods…you must master Craigslist and your bank account will thank you! What is great about craigs list is that it is free and ANYONE can use it, from a work at home mom, to a teenager selling his iPod or used sport equipment…to myself how has sold thousands of dollars worth of real estate, cars, assets on Craig’s List!
Craigslist is very simple to use and the best way to get started is to purchase a VERY inexpensive ‘How to Advertise on Craig’s List’ educational program…I’ve pointed out one below that is quite good!
Whether your products are offered through ecommerce websites or physical stores or you simply need some QUICK CASH by clearing out some of your household goods…you can see financial gains through advertising on Craigslist.
Firstly unlike other advertising opportunities there is very little risk involved in posting on Craigslist as it is FREE to post your advertisement! With the exception of job postings and housing postings in specific markets, advertising is free on Craigslist.
My first experience with Craig’s List was advertising one of my rental properties for rent…within 6 days I got the house rented! After that…game over, I was hooked on craigslist and quickly started to sell other things on Craigslist, from RV’s to real estate investment properties to personal services such as internet marketing consulting, Craigslist has been a powerful tool in my business arsenal!
Who else is concerned about where to put their hard earned money? We have an interesting dichotomy right now where foreigners are using their strong Euro, Canadian dollar, Saudi Riyal, United Arab Emirates Emirati dirham, to buy up United States real estate…and for American residents, we are wondering where we should invest as the U.S. dollar weakens, stocks plummet and real estate prices decline. (more…)
In my last post, the principles of real estate value was discussed and I alluded to the next demand cycle for real estate in Las Vegas and promised to you the list of casinos that will assist in this demand cycle. This is all part in understanding supply and demand cycles in real estate. (more…)
One of the basic “Real Estate 101″ things to know is supply and demand cycles. This is taught and mostly forgotten in realtors’ pre-licensing courses: The Principles of Value. If anyone can really understand the main principle of value in real estate: YOU must know SUPPLY AND DEMAND, then you will make money.
Some experts say that 98% of real estate agents don’t understand or grasp basic supply and demand cycles. The 2% that do will be all stars in their field. In addition, as a real estate investor, you will then know what type of real estate investing to do based on supply and demand in your area. Click more to read on… (more…)
You read this right, yes…a Stripper Pole! What does that got to do with real estate? Well, as a real estate investor I make my calls to for sale by owners and motivated sellers and the other day I called one of the ads in the newspaper, property is surrounded by foreclosed properties in a nice area of town and this property is a potential deal.
I made plans to meet the motivated seller at the home and while touring the interior of the home and entering the master bedroom…voila…a stripper pole installed on a nice stage in the master bedroom!
Only in Las Vegas?? Click to read more! (more…)
On to lesson II of what I learned from the enlightened wealth institute.
2. The Power of YOUR Mindset – When it comes to being an entrepreneur, it can be very daunting to face your F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) and I vividly remember Karen Nelson Bell sitting down with me on a personal one-to-one discussion in 2003 where she laid it out plain and simple that you MUST visualize your future as today and even write a letter to Robert Allen or your loved ones as if it was three years out and here is the exercise:
More than five years ago I took my first real estate investing course, the enlightened wealth institute workshop and after those 3 intense days…my first thought was “Why the heck don’t they teach this stuff in high school, college, or for goodness sakes…even MBA courses!”. (more…)
Foreclosure is just one of those areas. It was Robert Allen who said “More bargains are available in the area of foreclosures than in any other area of real estate.” (Multiple Streams of Income – p.157)
Some of you may know that one of the keys to making my first million in real estate was research and watching for economic trends of an area. For instance, in the early 2000s…I’ve never visited Las Vegas yet I fully moved there just for the real estate market!Fast forward to today, I do see great trends for a few areas and each area has a specific ‘real estate investing’ tactic required to create wealth for you. Let’s look at one trend some of you may know I’ve been watching for over a year now. That trend is the foreign investment in other countries and fractional real estate. My trip last fall to Ecuador to investigate in-depth with real estate developers the ‘lay of the land’ so to say of Ecuador real estate showed me that indeed, Ecuador is the where Costa Rica or Mexico was 10 years ago and I believe it is time to seriously consider buying real estate in Ecuador.
Now…let’s go to the ‘great sign’, just released today is a press release from Delta Airlines how they are adding more non-stop flights to Ecuador. You can read the press release by clicking here, and the interesting trend is that while airlines are closing or decreasing certain flight routes… here is a major airline investing into the routes to Ecuador!
Hope you enjoyed this post, Maria Gudelis
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