The discovery of CoronaVirus is certainly a hot topic of 2020. Given that most of us who runs a real estate business is more or less self-employed in nature (which means we are a critical part of our business), the CoronaVirus made us thinking about an emergency plan to sustain our business (and our family’s…
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Foreclosure Leads Generation
In our previous blog post, we talked about the similarities and differences between Foreclosure and Short Sale (you can read here), we received a lot of positive feedbacks from the readers, and a lot of them also wanted us to drill down on these topics. So we decided to dedicate this post to talk about…
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Foreclosure and Short Sale
People often get confused between foreclosure and short sale. If you do not care so much about the details, perhaps they do mean the same thing. But if you are a real estate investor, especially a sophisticated real estate investor, knowing the (subtle) differences between foreclosure and short sale will give you a competitive edge.…
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The Stack
We first heard about the term “The Stack” from Brandon Turner at BiggerPockets.com. After digging into the details of the Stack, we value it more from the perspective of it being a philosophical term than a methodical term. Let’s dig into it again together. The Argument The reason why Brandon Turner presented this concept is…
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House Flipping
House Flipping is one of most popular real estate investing strategies for the past few years, more or less thanks to HGTV’s good amount of reality shows on flipping properties. Regardless of the influence on HGTV, we at DoorInvestor also believe it is not only a popular way to get started in real estate investing,…
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Seller Financing Loans
In a previous post, we talked about the various types of money loans (read here). One of the types we briefly discussed was the Seller Financing Loans. We would like to spend more time going into more details. What is it? Typically, when a seller sells you a property, no matter how you come up…
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Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
The starting of a new year is the perfect time for us to set our goal for next 12 months. There are many ways to set your goals but we like to follow the concept of S.M.A.R.T. as it has been working well for all the team members. S.M.A.R.T. is the acronyms for: Specific Measurable…
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Buy Toys with Passive Income
For most of us who work a full time 9-5 W2 job, it is quite common to use our earned income, or sometimes called active income, for spending, whether the spending is for survival or for pleasure. There is nothing wrong with this model, and as a matter of fact, this may be the only…
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Don’t Wait to Buy Real Estate
Don’t Wait to Buy Real Estate. Buy Real Estate and Wait. — Will Rogers I came across this quote the other day and found it quite inspirational. Most of us “average joes” are by nature procrastinators, which means we want to play safe, and we want to stand put and observe. It is the human…
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Business Credit for Real Estate
You may have heard of the phrase, “It makes money to make money.” We at DoorInvestor do not necessarily disagree with that philosophy, but like Rich Dad said, you can use OPM (Other People’s Money). Let’s face it, if you are working on your real estate portfolio, or any portfolio as a matter of fact,…