What if you were able to buy a decent two bedroom home for about $30,000, fix it up a little and put it on the market for $80,000? Do you think you could make some money that way? This is the story of a man who lost it all that way, followed by a few lessons to be learned from his sad tale.

The story takes place in 2002, in a mountain town in Montana, where the last of the good jobs had left town twenty-two years earlier when the copper smelter closed. It is a beautiful town, but the... More about: Losing Money In Real Estate - A True Story

So many of you have been telling us that you're ready to get started investing, but "you can't find any deals! and what are the steps and secrets to finding great deals?" Some of you have even written asking us if there still ARE any deals left… OF COURSE there are! We find them all the time. But you ain't gonna find them looking at for-sale ads in the paper, for-sale signs in the yard, or by concentrating solely on short sales, foreclosures, REOs and agent-listed... More about: Real Estate Investing - Writing Killer Postcards to Attract Motivated Sellers!

Should you use an LLC for your real estate investing?

Accountants and attorneys love limited liability companies. But do limited liability companies—LLCs for short—really make sense for real estate investors. Probably they do for two almost unknown reasons.

The Big Legal Benefit of an LLC: Limited Liability…

The big legal benefit of an LLC is that limited liability companies provide all the same liability protection as a corporation—but with much less red tape. A regular... More about: Should You Use an LLC for Your Real Estate Investing? Probably--and Here's Why