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Brokerage is at the heart of the real estate profession and real estate brokers have their fingers on the pulse of local markets. Despite their omnipresence, the term 'Real Estate Broker' is often misused and misunderstood. Brokers are interchangeably, and sometimes mistakenly, called: Real Estate Agents, Realtors, Listing Agents, Selling Agents, Agent Broker, and Buyers Broker.

In What Is A Real Estate Broker? The Ultimate Guide, we lay out all the essential facts about real estate brokers to help you become a wiser real estate entrepreneur. 

So, let's dive right in! Feel free to use this menu to jump to your topic of choice:

 • 1. What Is A Real Estate Broker?
• 2. What Do Real Estate Brokers Do?
• 3. What Is The Difference Between Real Estate Salesperson And Real Estate Broker?
• 4. What Is A Real Estate Broker License?
• 5. How To Become A Real Estate Broker (7 Steps)
• 6. How Much Is A...

Business cards speak a lot about who you are as a professional, the kind of services you offer, and how serious you are about marketing your real estate business.

Without a doubt, your real estate investor business cards give people a first impression, and the critical thing about first impressions is that you only get one.

It helps your prospects and members of the industry develop a perception about you, that you are an expert who can solve their diverse problems.

Whether you're just starting out in real estate or an industry veteran rebranding your marketing materials, this article will help you create the ideal business card.

Read on and enjoy Real Estate Investor Business Cards: The Ultimate Guide! Use this menu to jump to your section of choice:

• 1. What Are Real Estate Investor Business Cards?
• 2. Do You Need Real Estate Investor Business Cards If You're Brand New?
• 3. Why Do You Want Real Estate Investor Business Cards?
• 4. How...

According to the 2020 U.S. Real Estate Predictions by The Street, competition in the real estate market has grown by over 25% over the past five years. This means that the industry is crowded, and as a novice investor or professional, standing out is not a stroll in the park.

Look – to stick out of the competition; you need more than creating flashy ads and posting them on social media platforms. Luckily, some good, old-fashioned branding such as a real estate tagline or slogan can help in building the visibility of your brand and set it apart from the rest of the noise.

Read on and enjoy Real Estate Slogans: The Definitive Guide! Use this menu to jump to your section of choice:

• 1. What Is A Real Estate Slogan?
• 2. Is A Simple Real Estate Slogan Better?
• 3. Do You Need A Real Estate Slogan? 
• 4. What Is Better: A Real Estate Slogan Or Tagline?
• 5. How Do You Come Up With A Real Estate Slogan?
• 6. What Are Some Of The Best Real Estate Slogan Ideas?
• 7. What Are Good...

Our team at Real Estate Skills recently heard about a house flipping simulation game that lets you buy repair and remodel fixer upper houses– yes, you heard that correctly.  Being the real estate enthusiasts that we are, it certainly caught our attention.

Whether you’re a die-hard gamer or just looking to get into your first fix and flip house, the House Flipper game is one of those video games that should be on your radar.

So, if you want to have your own HGTV experience without rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty, perhaps this is the perfect type of entertainment for you.

Read on and enjoy House Flipper Game: The Ultimate Guide! Use this menu to jump to your section of choice:

• 1. What Is The House Flipper Game?
• 2. Who Made The House Flipper Game?
• 3. What Is House Flipping?
• 4. Is The House Flipper Game Anything Like Real Life?
• 5. What’s The House Flipper Gameplay Like?
• 6. Who Plays The House Flipper Game?
• 7. What Is House Flipper...

In the real estate world, there have been loads of discussions about direct mail marketing and strategies that can be used to make it work for small businesses.

What you should know is that properly utilizing direct mail as one of your top marketing strategies can clog your funnel with thousands of leads.

But before you scribble direct marketing at the helm of your marketing list, do you have enough knowledge about it? Well, if you don’t, you have come to the right place!

We hope you enjoy Direct Mail: The Ultimate Guide! Use this menu to jump to your section of choice:

• 1. What Is Direct Mail?
• 2. Is Direct Mail Dead?
• 3. Why Is Direct Mail Marketing In Real Estate Effective?
• 4. How To Run A Direct Mail Campaign?
• 5. Who Should I Send Direct Mail To?
• 6. How Many Direct Mail Postcards Should I Send?
• 7. How Much Does Direct Mail Cost?
• 8. How Much Does Direct Mail Cost Per 1000 Postcards?
• 9. What’s The Best Size For Direct Mail Postcards?
• 10. What Are Some Good Direct Mail...

Learning how to flip a house for the first time doesn’t have to be complicated!

If you’re looking for a simple step-by-step guide to follow on how to flip a house as a first timer, then you’ve come to the right place!

In this Ultimate Guide, I’m going to show you everything you need to know when it comes to learning how to flip a house for profit.

You’ll even learn how to flip a house without using your own money, with bad credit, and even with no credit. 

I completed my first house flip at the young age of 20 years old, and I’m no genius. If I can do this, then so can you!

Ready to get started? Let’s dive right into this simple, step-by-step tutorial for how to flip a house.

Enjoy The Ultimate Guide On How To Flip A House For The First Time!

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• 1. What Does It Mean To Flip A House?
• 2. Do You Need A Real Estate License To Flip Houses?
• 3. How To Flip A House For The First Time (6...

Cash buyers are essential players in the national real estate market. If you’ve been in the real estate business for any amount of time, you've certainly heard about cash buyers. The old saying “cash is king,” especially applies to the property market.

According to the National Association of Realtors, cash buyers made up 27.8% of all single-family and condo sales in 2018. In some real estate markets, cash buyers represented nearly 90% of transactions! That said, you may be wondering:

• What is a cash buyer? What are the benefits of real estate cash buyers?
• How can I work with cash buyers? Why would a cash buyer work with me?
• How are cash home buyers different from other buyers?
• Where can I find cash buyers for real estate? How do I build a cash buyers list?

Whether you’re a brand new investor, experienced house flipper, home buyer, condo seller, real estate agent, or property wholesaler, understanding all about cash buyers can open...

Skip tracing, also known as fugitive or debtor recovery, is a term that you may have heard being tossed around by private investigators and bounty hunters, especially in movies such as Skip Tracer (1977) and investigative TV programs.

Often, these TV programs that use skip tracing revolve around finding fugitives and bringing them to book. What you might not know is that this process is also wildly useful in the real estate business.

In case skip tracing is critical to you, but you don’t have much information about it, you have come to the right place. Read this guide to the end, and you will doubtlessly have a better understanding of skip tracing. 

Enjoy Skip Tracing: The Ultimate Guide For Real Estate Investors! Use this guide to jump to your section of choice:

• 1. What Is Skip Tracing?
• 2. Is Skip Tracing Legal?
• 3. What Is Skip Tracing In Real Estate?
• 4. How Do You Use Skip Tracing In Real Estate?
• 5. How To Perform A Skip Trace On A Property Owner?
• ...

It's hard to fathom where I would be today if it wasn't for making the decision to learn how to wholesale real estate almost a decade ago!

Being a real estate investor has been my livelihood, and learning how to wholesale real estate was the starting point of my investing journey.

Whichever way you look at it, we all have something to gain from learning how to invest in real estate as a wholesaler!

If you’re on the fence about becoming a real estate investor, or don't know exactly how to get started, then wholesaling can be the avenue for you to get started!

Before we get into the 8 Benefits of Learning How To Wholesale Real Estate, let's briefly cover what wholesaling is!

Wholesaling Real Estate: What Is it?

Wholesaling is when you find properties that can be purchased below market value, get ownership interest in the property by getting it under contract, and then sell the rights of that contract to an end buyer for a profit.

Wholesaling...

The BRRRR method is a powerful, wealth-building real estate investing strategy that’s exploded with popularity lately. Although it’s been practiced by successful property investors for decades, only recently has BRRRR emerged into mainstream headlines.

The main buzz around the BRRRR strategy in real estate boils down to this -- you can buy rental properties and build a large income-producing portfolio without running out of money.

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? It’s not.

It’s a tried and true model that works in any real estate market if you follow the process.

I can tell you from experience, it's not all hype. I went from knowing next to nothing about real estate many years ago, to purchasing my first income producing apartment building following the BRRRR method closely. Since then, I've been able to pull out all of my capital from that building and recycle it into other investments. 

So, sit back and read on as we’ll...