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Acquisition Success Stories: Alphonse the Acquisitionist

We’re starting a new series on acquisitions and negotiations to help our loyal readers gain valuable skills to build their investment portfolios by profiling the strategies of successful investors and real estate practitioners. Alphonse Mack has been in Atlanta’s real estate game since 1997, when he started knocking on pre-foreclosure doors. He says that he […]

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How to use the Least Attempted Real Estate Strategy to Win Every Negotiation

This is Part 3 of a 7 part series designed to help real estate investors grow their acquisition skills to build successful long-term businesses.  Part 1… asks the burning question – are you an Investor or a Stooge? Part 2 focuses on building an investment strategy from a new angle as an Expert Community Resource. […]

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The Most Underutilized Negotiation Strategy Might be the Best

There’s an old saying in poker that if you don’t recognize the stooge at the table, you’re the stooge. Too many investors – especially when they’re first starting out – are really just falling into the same trap. Are you an investor or a stooge? Investors are making serious money off of strategic assets. A […]

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How to present a lowball offer to a seller (and get it accepted)

So you want a deal, huh? Good. That’s the secret to investing: money is made when you buy, not when you sell. If you buy below the price the market is paying, you’ll always have equity. You always have some wiggle room. If the market starts to drop, you can exit fast (assuming that you’re […]

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How to find (and capture) great foreclosure deals

There’s a lot of competition to find great deals on foreclosures. Finding them is only one part of the process – you also need to know how to capture them. Here are a few secrets from the pros that we’ve used with great success. 1. Comb through the same listings everyone uses. There’s a lot […]

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