APRIL 2006    • Estimating Value and Projecting Salability • Flipping Part 2: Who are the "quick-turners?" • Internal Dialogue • A Method for Finding Motivated Sellers • Tips & Tricks: Increase your real estate resale value. Estimating Value and Projecting Salability Finally, after months of effort, you’ve found what looks like the perfect deal. It’s a nice 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom rambler in an area that's heating up by the day. From your initial calculations you should make close to $10,000 – not bad for your first deal. Then reality sets in. After 2 months on the market, the property is not selling. Plenty of people have come by to look but still no offers. It's the classic sign of being over-priced. You end up selling the property for just enough to break even. There go all your efforts with nothing to show for it. More... Flipping Part 2: Who are the "quick-turners?" There are three different types of quick-turn investors, usually based upon experience: The Scout, The Dealer, and The Retailer. More... Internal Dialogue Most of us like to think of ourselves as positive people, and we understand how important it is for us to rid ourselves of negative internal dialogue. How do we know when we are engaging in negative internal dialogue? When we use negative internal dialogue it means we are focusing on a problem, rather than looking for a solution. This only delays finding a solution to the problem. As a real estate investor it is easy to allow outside influences to cause a negative internal dialogue within us. More... A Method for Finding Motivated Sellers Whether you realize it or not, divorce is probably the number one reason why many houses go into foreclosure. As a result, many married couples fit into the definition of "Motivated Seller" when they enter into a divorce situation. More... Tips & Tricks: Increase your real estate resale value. The ultimate goal of every real estate investor is to "buy low—sell high." If it were easy to do this, everyone would be an investor. In real life it usually works out like this: buy at the best price you can and then sell it for more than you paid for it. More... View Previous Issues Of The Robert Shemin Update Professional Real Estate Investors Group, 7965 South 700 East, Sandy, UT 84070 Phone: 1-800-731-7220 Contact Us By E-Mail    Copyright © 2010 Professional Real Estate Investors Group, Inc.