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General Credit Course (3)Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014, 9 am - 12 pm Add a hard money lender to your group of professionals; Learn what your investor clients expect of you; Introduce hard money to your investor clients; Learn the power of leveraging hard money. Stand out from every other agent. Get...

General Credit Course (3)Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014, 9 am - 12 pm Add a hard money lender to your group of professionals; Learn what your investor clients expect of you; Introduce hard money to your investor clients; Learn the power of leveraging hard money. Stand out from every other agent. Get...

  Tuesday July 15, 2014    12pm-1pm When this valuable seminar is over, you will: Add a hard money lender to your Rolodex of real estate service professionals  Introduce hard money to your investor clients Learn the power of leveraging hard money Lunch will be served to all who attend this event...

The American Academy of Real Estate presents a 4 hour class with 3 credits toward your CE requirements. At this class, agents will be introduced to the public foreclosure auction (Trustee Sale) and see the entire process from an agent’s and investor's point of view.At the end of this class, agen...

  Millions of dollars’ worth of real estate are purchased every year at your local real estate auction.   These trustee sales can produce hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of commissions. Have I at least piqued your interest yet?   Learn how you can take advantage of this hidden inventory ...

  My company bids at the foreclosure auction on behalf of our clients, and also provides hard money loans to allow those investors with winning bids to pay for those properties within the required time frame. In Arizona, a winning bid must pay an immediate $10,000 deposit, and pay the full remain...

Negative hype.  All I've seen regarding the foreclosure market here on ActiveRain is a bunch of negative hype. The only posts I've seen have featured terrible properties, posted by agents who have not been properly educated on the space of public auction. Have you seen any solid examples of good ...

The foreclosure auction is a place of unbridled capitalism. The property being auctioned by the Trustee goes to the highest bidder. My company helps investors in determining the maximum bid they should make to achieve their investment objective. Anything more, and they are undercutting the profi...

Can you really call yourself a ‘full service’ Realtor if you don’t know how to work with the people who account for 50% of all transactions? This is a fact. In the past 5 years, investors are responsible for over 50% of all real estate transactions, and many of those transactions take place at th...

I have been investing in real estate for 16 years, mostly by buying properties at the foreclosure auction. For most of that time, I have been a ‘fix and flip’ investor, buying houses well below actual market value, paint them and add new carpets and some other cosmetic improvements and then quic...