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VIDEO: Investors – NOT Just Vultures on Dateline ABC

maria gudelis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:01:44 +0000

A BIG Congrats to Bruce Norris, one of the real estate industry’s most trusted speakers, investors whom I’ve personally met.

Bruce was on Nightline ABC Last night in a great segment about:

Professional Real Estate Investors being the solution to the current market!

This is extremely important and one of the first examples I’ve seen of main stream media portraying investors as something other than “vultures.” This is a huge step and one that will hopefully continue.

Check it out below by going to ABCNEWS website to view the VIDEO!

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=8188741

To Your Success, Maria Gudelis

How to buy a real estate deal at a real estate auction

maria gudelis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:30:34 +0000

It amazed me the other day while I attended a real estate conference by Bill Gatten and Bruce Norris that a lot of folks did know the procedure in how to buy real estate at an auction that are put on my REDC – Real Estate Disposition Corporation and many other similar companies. You know the ones I’m talking about – they advertise huge full page ads in the newspapers with starting bids of home at something like 1/4 of the value of the home.

OK, so the first thing you need to do is simply call them to find out their purchase procedures. Yes – it really is that easy! Just tell them you are a real estate investor and you are interested in buying a property at their upcoming auction.

Here is how it worked at a recent auction I phoned about – they simply wanted a cashiers check for $5,000 initially for you to bid, and say if the winning bid was $200,000, then they wanted 5% within 24 hours – meaning I would have to bring in another 5% for a total of $10,000. Then they wanted you to close in 30 days. So you would need to either get a loan or use cash (private hard money lending for instance) within the 30 days to buy.

Sound pretty simple right? Well here is something else Bruce Norris said at the Bill Gatten / Norris conference – can you believe that the lenders are the ones that don’t have their ducks in a row and the closing sometimes goes way over the 30 days as they don’t have all the paperwork ready for you to close! Fancy that – a lender being swamped with paperwork! I’m just joking – we all know their is a mountain of paperwork lenders are facing in today’s foreclosure environment but just wanted to give you a heads up that you may have more time than 30 days to close and what that means, more time to find your retail buyer to flip that house to!

News on California Real Estate and Real Estate Auctions

maria gudelis — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:30:31 +0000

It seems the tide is turning to finally get great deals at the real estate auctions you see advertised for the last year by big companies like REDC and others. Just look in your local newspaper for that HUGE advertisement of a live real estate auction. As you know, I, Maria Gudelis am a huge fan of selling your real estate via an online real estate auction but I haven’t spent a lot of time at real estate auctions to buy real estate as they were not the best place to find deals over regular mailings, phoning fsbo’s and other marketing methods to get your deal.

You see, in the last year if you went with a mindset that you will get a great deal at these auctions your chances of that were pretty slim as they didn’t let the price go too low or as low as a SANE real estate investor would pay for a property to allow a profit margin after fix up, marketing costs, realtor commissions paid, holding costs and your cost of financing.

Well, as reported by Bruce Norris at a recent Bill Gatten real estate seminar, the tide has turned as his company finally won an auction for a price that is a deal for a real estate investor. His team had to look at 40 houses to find that one deal but he figures there is about $20,000 profit in that deal.

Stay tuned for more info on the real estate auction house prices.