Interested in cultivating real estate profits? Then maybe you need to consider creating your own Farmville.  Not the Farmville you may see posting on your Facebook page but one that you create as a real estate investor.  Farming can actually put long and short term profits in your pocket. Here’s a few tips .

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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Sir Francis Bacon

Lets talk numbers.

As we have talked about in previous articles it is all about the numbers. Whether it is an apartment or a commercial property the value is almost always derived from how much money it makes.

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Thinking Ahead: High-Speed Rail in Southern California, a new report released by the Center for Urban Infrastructure, states that the California High-Speed Rail Project, which will ultimately link Sacramento to San Diego, will contribute a regional income benefit of $701 million to southern California workers who otherwise would have been unemployed. By 2035, high-speed rail will attract over 127,000 new permanent jobs to southern California due to the region’s increased livability and enhanced transportation network.

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My partners and I are getting a ton of leads lately. And most of them are absentee owner leads since that’s the niche I target. I’ve got one lead I’m working on where the guy is in Hawaii and he’s super motivated because the house is vacant.

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Tax Implications of Lease/Options:

As you have read from the previous information, lease/option strategy is a great way to leverage your real estate investments because it requires very little cash. The lease/option is more of a financing alternative than a financing strategy because you don’t own the property. The basic lease/option strategy involves two legal documents, a lease agreement and an option. A lease gives you the right to possess the property, or, as an investor, to have someone else occupy it. If you can obtain a lease on a property at below market rent, you can profit by subleasing it at market rent.

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$100,000 is what you need to close your deal. And it’s a good one at that. Suppose you’re at the point now, where you have enough information on your deal and you have a few prospects of who you could approach as investors for your deal. What’s next is getting your investors to write you the check?

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Have you ever felt that we are living in a fast forward world? If you have ever known anyone that’s a stock day trader, you certainly know what I’m talking about. Stress City! But commercial real estate is a much different animal than the stock market. For one, it certainly does not need twenty-four hour news coverage like the markets.

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The Lease-Option program is and can be a very lucrative investing program for someone who understands the process and is looking to make it a “win-win” outcome.

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The real estate industry for the last 100 years has accomplished much. From fair housing to a commitment to diversity and the real estate consumer, the list is one to be proud of. Now, the industry might soon have another great accomplishment to its list: making sustainability a reality.

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We all know how important networking is to our success as real estate investors. These days I get many of my deals from referrals because of the constant networking I did when I first started out in this business.

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