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Investing In Real Estate With Lex Levinrad

Do you want to learn how to buy rental properties, wholesale real estate and flip houses?
Join Lex Levinrad on the Investing in Real Estate Podcast and learn how YOU can get started investing in real estate today. This podcast is full of ACTION PACKED information and CONCRETE ACTION STEPS that you can start taking TODAY to learn how to start investing in real estate, buying rental properties, fixing and flipping and wholesaling houses.

Join Lex as he talks about EVERY TOPIC related to INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE including wholesaling, locating deals, finding properties, flipping properties, hard money lenders, online auction sites, marketing for motivated sellers, building your cash buyer lists, deal structuring, fixing and flipping, buying and holding real estate long term, buying rental properties, buy repair rent and refinance, and investing in Airbnb.

Lex has trained thousands of students from all over the world how to invest in real estate. Lex has personally flipped over 1,000 houses and he can teach you the one thing that everyone is looking for – FINANCIAL FREEDOM.
Listen to Lex interview some of his successful students who have quit their jobs and now flip houses for a living. If you want to get MOTIVATED and INSPIRED by people who are actually flipping houses RIGHT NOW, then LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST.

Lex will also introduce you to some of his real estate friends and he will interview some of the biggest wholesalers and flippers in the country. You will learn from the experience of real estate investors who are doing deals every single day, investors who are literally doing thousands of deals. Listen to this podcast so YOU can learn how to achieve massive results investing in real estate.

If you want to learn how to invest in real estate and how to find, fix and flip houses for a living (and maybe even quit your job) then SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST.

Latest Episodes:

Bidding on Online Real Estate Auction Sites Aug 18, 2018

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On this podcast episode I discuss bidding on online auction sites like Hubzu, Auction and Xome. Online auction sites that list bank owned properties (REO's), and short sales are an excellent resource to find good deals at wholesale prices. Many of these deals have enough profit potential for you to be able to wholesale the property to rehabbers or fix and flip the property yourself. For example, I recently posted a video of myself standing in front of a house with a Hubzu sign. That house was purchased by a wholesaler and flipped to me (for a $10,000 profit to the wholesaler). I then fixed the house (which cost $25,000) and sold it a few days ago for $175,000 and netted a profit of $34,000. (See tomorrow's episode of the checks and HUD's from this deal). So there was $44,000 of total profit in this deal. And it was on a free online auction site that you or anyone else could have bid on!. Before you bid on online real estate auction sites, make sure you know how they work. They are all different and have different bidding requirements. For example presently Hubzu does not require a credit card to register (but they did 6 months ago). Auction and Xome both require a credit card. This difference is huge because what it means is that if you bid on a property on Xome or Auction, your credit card gets charged for $2,500. Another issue on some of these sites is that they are feeding retail MLS listings into their sites (which are not wholesale deals). And watch out for the foreclosure trustee sales. These are not REO's owned by the bank. They are properties being sold at the county court houses and you should not bid on these if you don't have an attorney or title company running lien and title searches for you. Listen to this podcast episode to learn more about bidding on online auction sites. If you are brand new to real estate and want to learn more about how to fix and flip houses then please register for the free fixing and flipping houses training at this link: https://www.lexlevinrad.com/fixandflipwebinar For more information about the Fixing and Flipping Houses Boot Camp please visit this link: https://www.lexlevinrad.com/fixing-and-flipping-boot-camp/ DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: http://www.lexlevinrad.com http://www.facebook.com/lexlevinradrealestate http://www.twitter.com/lexlevinrad http://www.instagram.com/lexlevinrad http://www.linkedin.com/in/lexlevinrad http://www.pinterest.com/lexlevinrad https://plus.google.com/+LexLevinradrealestate DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY OF MY BOOK Download a free copy of my best selling book "Wholesaling Bank Owned Properties" at https://www.lexlevinrad.com

Estimating The Cost Of Repairs - Fixing and Flipping Houses Aug 12, 2018

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One of the biggest challenges for new investors who are looking to get into fixing and flipping houses, is the fear of not having a good contractor to do the work for them. I have seen this fear stop investors dead in their tracks, even when they have a good house, and the money lined up to buy the house. The fear of not knowing a contractor that will do the work or how much it will cost will prevent many new investors from pulling the trigger and moving forward on the deal. Don't let this fear of paralysis analysis stop you from doing your first fix and flip. The best way to overcome fear is with education and knowledge. Start out today by learning the basics of estimating the material costs by taking a visit to your nearest Home Depot or Loews Store. Allow yourself around 2 hours for this exercise and make sure you take your notepad and a calculator. Go through each aisle and take note of the material components that you will use for each room in the house. Write down the costs of flooring, cabinets, faucets, counter tops, toilets, vanities etc and go through the store aisle by aisle to make sure you don't miss anything. Make sure you take pictures of all of the items with your smartphone. Save all of your notes into Dropbox or Evernote or Google Drive or somewhere where you can easily access the information in the future. Once you understand the cost of each component of your materials costs you will be able to add up all of your materials and have a good understanding of the total cost of your materials. Knowing the cost of the materials is 90% of the battle because once you know the cost of materials, you know how much you are being charged for labor when you get an estimate. Your job, is to shop that labor estimate! You can download a copy of our "Repair Estimate Cheat Sheet" at this link: https://www.lexlevinrad.com/estimating-the-cost-of-repairs-for-fixing-and-flipping-houses/

Understanding the ARV, and Retail & Wholesale Prices Aug 11, 2018

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On this podcast episode I discuss the importance of understanding full retail value when calculating the After Repair Value. As an investor it is very important for you to understand what a house would sell for once it has been fixed up. In order to know this, you need to understand the difference between full retail price on a property that has been completely remodeled with granite counter tops, nice cabinets and stainless steel appliances versus a house that is at retail price in great condition but occupied by the owners and that has not been remodeled. The difficulty for new investors is understanding how much to offer on a house that is in less than perfect condition. For example, a house that has not been renovated in 20 years and has a tenant living in the house. How much should you offer on that house? Listen to today's episode to learn how buying the exact same house can have different exit strategies for different investors depending on whether they are planning on keeping the property as a rental property or fixing and flipping the property for a profit.

Finding Real Estate Deals By Driving For Dollars Aug 10, 2018

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One of the best ways to locate real estate deals is by something called “driving for dollars”. Many of your competitors may be mailing post cards and yellow letters, or paying for expensive pay per click campaigns on Google or buying Facebook Ads. Some of your competitors may even be using automated dialers to cold call expired listings, for sale by owners or targeted lists that they have acquired. Those approaches all work great (and we use them all). But let me ask you a question. How many of your competitors are actually getting into their car and driving around looking for deals? The answer is not many! How do I know this? Because I find deals all of the time that are right in my backyard! Almost every single time I get in my car, and go driving through my target markets, I find deals. Almost every single time! Investors have become spoiled and lazy. It is easy to overlook this old approach of “driving for dollars”. But it works. Driving through any neighborhood and noticing vacant, boarded up properties, houses with damage (like fire damage), and FSBO signs is not something you can do sitting in front of your computer. And all of your competitors are….. (in front of their computer). If you want to find the smoking hot deals. The ones that can make you profits of $30,000, $50,000 or more then you should start driving through your target market more and looking for these types of houses. And when you find them, there are real estate apps out there that you can download on your smartphone that could really help you locate sellers. I really like these two apps listed below (I use them both) Both of these apps do almost the same thing but with some variation. SEND FUSE > http://getsendfuse.com/ Send Fuse is free to join and only $1 a postcard to mail. You get a sequence of 6 postcards that you can have go out to owners of the property. All you need to do is text the address to your send fuse number in your phone and the postcard sequence begins. You can also add users to your Send Fuse account so you could recruit some bird dogs and offer to pay them $1,000 for any deal they bring to you, and have them download the app on their phone (with your account). I really like the ease of use and the fact that there are no fees at all. This app is very easy to use and I recommend it to my students. DEAL MACHINE > https://dealmachineapp.com/ The really cool feature about Deal Machine is that you can take a picture of the property and add it to the postcard. You can literally take out your smart phone and take a picture of a vacant, boarded up house. And then using the app you can have a postcard sent to the owner (with a picture of their house) asking them “Is this your house?”. That is a very smart way of getting the owner’s attention and it works really well. The response rate is way higher than a typical post card. The other really nice feature of Deal Machine is that you can look up the owners info right there and even get their phone number in some cases. Deal Machine let’s you try their service out for free for 14 days and then they charge $49 per month which is really a very small charge considering what the app does. Imagine if using this app you made $30,000 profit on one house! Use this code FTCYXN to get $5 of direct mail credit when you sign up. If you are already out driving for dollars, do yourself a favor and have some bandit signs made up and keep a few in your trunk. It wouldn’t kill you to put a few bandit signs out and have some sellers call you. Even better, hire your kids or someone else and pay them $1 to $2 per bandit sign that they put out. And don’t forget to send out direct mail. It works! Start out by mailing a list of absentee owners since this is the easiest list to obtain. Even if you can only afford to mail out 500 postcards a month, make yourself a commitment that you will mail 500 a month for at least 6 months. If you only get 1 deal out of that mailing over the 6 month period then that would be a very good return on your investment. And don’t forget to track those phone numbers when your phone starts ringing. I like Call Rail for tracking where the calls are coming from so I can see which marketing efforts are working best To see show notes and more about this episode please visit http://www.lexlevinrad.com/locatingdeals

Wholesaling and Assigning Contracts How Wholesalers Do It Aug 09, 2018

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On this podcast episode I discuss how wholesalers assign contracts when they are flipping houses and how assignments of contract work. We talk about the pros and cons of assigning a contract versus paying for a double closing and when you should double close versus assigning the contract. My personal preference is to always double close but many wholesalers that I know always assign almost every house that they flip. You can download an "assignment of contract form" at this link which was mentioned in the podcast: https://www.lexlevinrad.com/assignment

Having A Sense Of Urgency In Real Estate Aug 08, 2018

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On this podcast episode I talk about something that from the guy that taught me real estate - my mentor Ben. It's the concept of urgency and how when you spot a deal you need to have the sense of urgency to understand what you have and lock it up before someone else does. I like to use the analogy of a lion in the wild. If a lion has not eaten for weeks and it spots a deer then it doesn't think to itself hmmm should I eat. No it pounces on the deer and it eats. If you are a real estate investor and you see a smoking hot deal you should't be going hmmm is that a deal. You should be pouncing on it. Hence the term "you eat what you kill".

Motivated Seller Appointments Jan 19, 2018

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On this podcast episode I talk about motivated seller appointments. When you are marketing to motivated sellers, regardless of the method you use to market to sellers, you will need to go on motivated seller appointments. On this podcast I discuss the initial lead intake form, and the type of conversation that you will have with a motivated seller. When you have that first conversation with the seller, you will need to know what questions to ask them. It is helpful if you have a script to use. You also want to make sure that you are using call tracking in order to keep track of where your calls are coming from. If you have multiple channels like a website, bandit signs and direct mail then you need to know which lead source generated the phone call. We use call rail for that. After you have gathered the initial data from the lead, you should move on to the appointment setting. As a new investor you should try go on as many appointments as you can. As a general rule of thumb if they have multiple pain points, you should go on the appointment. At that point you will need to have a comparable sales report in order to estimate the ARV of the property. When you get to the property you should review the repairs needed so that you have an accurate repair estimate. Once you have that you can plug the numbers in to figure out where you want your offer price to be. Going on motivated seller appointments is a valuable skill set and it will take some time for you to learn how to be good at it. But if you keep at it you will get better and better at identifying which houses represent the best opportunity for you to buy. If you are brand new to real estate and want to learn more about how to wholesale real estate and flip houses then please register for the free wholesaling real estate training at this link below: FREE WHOLESALING TRAINING https://www.lexlevinrad.com/webinar FIXING AND FLIPPING TRAINING If you want to learn how to fix and flip houses I have a fix and flip training webinar at this link: https://www.lexlevinrad.com/fixandflipwebinar DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST TO BE NOTIFIED OF UPDATES SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://www.youtube.com/lexlevinrad?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE http://www.lexlevinrad.com http://www.facebook.com/lexlevinradrealestate http://www.twitter.com/lexlevinrad http://www.instagram.com/lexlevinrad http://www.linkedin.com/in/lexlevinrad http://www.pinterest.com/lexlevinrad https://plus.google.com/+LexLevinradrealestate DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY OF MY BOOK ON WHOLESALING PROPERTIES For more real estate tips about property investment, investing in real estate, and how to start wholesaling, download a FREE copy of my best selling book "Wholesaling Bank Owned Properties" at https://www.lexlevinrad.com

Bandit Signs 101 - Marketing To Distressed Sellers Jan 01, 2017

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In this brief training video Lex shows you how to use bandit signs to market for Distressed Sellers

How To Be More Productive Dec 18, 2016

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On this podcast episode Lex talks about how you can learn to be more productive by structuring your day into specific segments. Topics covered include productivity apps, and how to structure learning and reading into your day to become way more productive.

Thoughts Become Actions Dec 02, 2016

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Listen to this podcast to learn how thoughts become actions and how what you think, and what you believe are ultimately what end up happening to you. Lex explains this concept and how it relates to real estate.

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