Mike Watson’s Blog

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 27, 2008 I just got word from one of my students that they have made another incredible profit in a “bad” market. This student from Southern California , Ryan Rude and his team, used a program I teach call the “Equity Builder” Program to find some great tenants to put in h...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 23, 2008 I found this Harvard study online and decided I would take the top 5 most important pieces of information from it and share them with you. The observations are listed below. If you want to go to the study itself you can go to it here. 1. Construction of rental uni...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 23, 2008 I had a student recently buy a run down house in Southern California. He bought it cheap enough that he was able to put some nice rehab money in it and put it back up for sale very inexpensively. It was inexpensive enough that a fixed thirty year mortgage for a fi...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 17, 2008 I was excited to hear about a couple of students of mine, Andy and Warren Langsford, and their amazing success. So many investors today are so focused on the bad market, bad lending situation, falling prices and other things that they can’t see the positive opport...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 13, 2008 Our current real estate market is shaping up right now to be one of the best it has ever been. Did you hear me right? No gloom and doom? That’s right! Educated investors profit in every market and the available profits from thismarket are going to be as good as th...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 13, 2008 Have you ever noticed that when a newspaper prints a really bad article about something it is on the front page or some other prominent place? It seems that the newspapers have been full of prominent negative articles on the real estate market lately. I was shocke...

by ADMIN on JUNE 9, 2008 These first few blog posts have been a blast to write! You can subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed by email or get the feed in your RSS reader. Click on the link below to subscribe, it only takes a second! Subscribing is easy, and you’ll get convenient updates whenever ther...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 9, 2008 I often find investor’s that I meet across the country have one of two (or both) very important misconceptions about seller financing. Investors either think they know how to seller finance or that seller financing is not important in today’s market. Unfortunately,...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 7, 2008 I am in Phoenix right now and I just got done teaching my 2-day investing seminar. Phoenix has been one of the hardest hit cities in America by foreclosures and personal bankruptcies. As a result, people are really down on real estate here. Honestly, I can deal wit...

by MIKE WATSON on JUNE 5, 2008 The market around the country has faced some unique challenges as of late. I have really been thinking about what has contributed to the slow down in real estate. I have also tried to determine what has contributed to the slow down in investor’s actions. As far as ...