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When I was a young real estate investor (nearly two decades ago), I thought the best kind of leads were free ones. It just made sense. Well, it turns out that real estate leads with no upfront [...]

Around 1997, when I was still fairly new to real estate, I tried to convince a couple of buddies in the industry to start a real estate investing “website”. I put it in quotes because, back then, [...]

When I first got into real estate here in NYC, I was hungry to become a landlord. After all, everyone knows how hard it is to find an NYC apartment. It seemed like a no-brainer. Get a place, put [...]

Becoming a real estate investor takes dedication. It takes drive. It takes hustle. And it also takes funding. This is a fast-paced business, and you will rarely, if ever, have the liquidity to [...]

When assessing a property’s value, many real estate investors focus on the mantra: “Location, location, location.” But for the kind of aggressive real estate buying that I do—the kind that drives [...]

Whenever someone new to investing asks me if it is hard to get real estate leads with no upfront cost, they’re surprised when I tell them that it’s not hard at all. You can get tons of leads [...]

If you’re looking to invest in Illinois real estate, chances are you’ll find yourself having to conduct a Cook County real estate investing records search. It can be overwhelming. This huge, [...]

If you’re from Chicago you know that when telling a fellow Chicagoan where you grew up, you have to specify which parish you lived by. It’s not enough to say you were born in Bridgeport, for [...]

If I told you that by bidding in Buffalo, NY’s tax foreclosure auction you could get a great house for only $500, you would either sign up in a heartbeat or ask me if I was joking. But honestly, [...]