Articles For Aspiring & Active Real Estate Investors
The first step for anyone wishing to embark on a real estate career is to get licensed. But to get licensed, candidates need to successfully complete the required education courses—online or in-person—from an education provider approved by their state licensing board.
But the education requirements don’t stop upon licensing. Real estate agents and brokers, like other licensed professionals, must complete continuing education requirements to keep their licenses in good standing.
Founded in 1996, Colibri Real Estate (formerly known as Real Estate Express) is a real estate education provider offering online real estate pre-license and post-license courses across a nationally accredited platform.
Are you looking to scale up your real estate business? Ensure your sales pipeline is always full of leads—such as homeowners in default and motivated sellers of distressed real estate.
This will safeguard your business continuity and generate the revenue you need. However, finding these leads isn't always easy, so you might consider tools like REIkit. Discover what REIkit is and all there is to it in our REIkit Review.
But first, check out this quick video below that talks about what REIkit is for!
For a marketing campaign to be successful, a point of contact must be created for a transaction to be initiated. This is why bandit signs are considered an essential element of a real estate marketing system for many investors.
Even though some might dismiss them as ‘primitive’ when compared to contemporary techniques, bandit sign marketing can go a long way in generating unparalleled exposure for investors at all levels and can enhance brand awareness.
Do bandit signs work? Today, even the most successful real estate investors make use of different variations of bandit signs since they have been tested and proven for years.
Their simplicity disguises their complexity. You don’t need a lot of resources and effort to place bandit signs. However, if you want them to give you long-term success, there is a lot you need to learn.
Remember, the success of your bandit sign campaign will ultimately determine the profitability of your real estate business.
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In this competitive real estate market, an investor has to be ready to make an offer the minute they see a property that fits their investment criteria. While some investors rely on a skilled realtor to do this, it’s a good idea to learn how to write your own offer letter.
Want to venture into the real estate business without using up all your savings or capital? Wholesaling real estate is the way to go.
Unlike other capital-intensive real estate investing ventures, wholesaling won’t have you dipping your hands into your savings jar, and you don’t need to own investment property either.
The real work lies in finding motivated seller leads for wholesaling, something this guide breaks down in eleven ways. It also explores the best lead sources, the number of wholesale leads it takes to land a good deal, and even ways to get free wholesale leads so you can fill up your sales pipeline.
Technology has changed how we do most of our daily activities. The dream of doing many things with just a click of a button is now a reality. This reality is felt across all niches, including the real estate industry.
Without technology, real estate investors, buyers, agents, and other professionals would have no efficient way to carry out research. Imagine having to collect market and property data manually, compiling the data on a spreadsheet, then computing the different neighborhood-level and property-level numbers. This would take you days and sometimes weeks. Also, imagine the kind of inaccuracy a simple error would cause.
As you can see, real estate software solutions make realtors’ lives easier. One of these solutions is Mashvisor. In this Mashvisor review, we’re going to be looking at what Mashvisor is, what it has to offer, and how it compares to some of its main competitors.
Most real estate agents, wholesalers, house flippers, and experts in the real estate industry can agree on one thing; finding leads is not difficult, finding quality ones is.
Leads are usually everywhere, from those next-door neighbors, and colleagues to associates, but the quality ones don’t just sit waiting around. You need to actively seek them out by combining traditional, and digital lead generation strategies such as cold calling via REDX.
REDX eases real estate marketing and lead generation through the provision of automated access to quality real estate leads. Find out how it works, and all there is to know about it in our REDX review below.
In today’s digitally advanced world, strategic real estate lead generation is the secret to creating and maintaining a healthy pipeline of leads. It can be done organically through referrals from friends and family, or via advanced lead generation platforms like Smart Zip.
The platform uses predictive analytics to generate lead lists of high potential sellers and claims to have a set of automation tools guaranteed to ease lead nurturing. Is it really worth the hype?
Learn more about it, in this Smart Zip review.
Real estate wholesaling might be one of the most lucrative, and also easiest real estate investing strategies, but that doesn’t mean everything is handed to wholesalers on a silver platter.
The strategy comes with a slew of responsibilities which include scouting around for profitable properties, converting owners into motivated sellers, and finding buyers, all before the closing date. In between the mentioned processes comes the mundane tasks such as creating contracts.
That is why every wholesaler looking to scale their business needs quality real estate wholesaling software. Here’s a comprehensive guide covering what a wholesale real estate CRM is, the best in the market, and tips on how to determine the best fit for your practice.
Does your enterprise have three or more employees who frequently work on projects together? Do your employees work on simultaneous projects you need to track in real-time?
Do team members have difficulty keeping track of project timelines, or do they regularly skip important updates because they didn’t see them on time? If your answer is yes to either or all of the questions, you need a project management platform like Podio.
Such software comes with task management tools that allow team managers to easily delegate tasks and manage workflows, ensuring timely and professional project implementation.
It also serves as a unified communication platform for team members to discuss and work together on projects, conversely enhancing project collaboration. Discover more of what it offers in the comprehensive Podio review below.
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