Jim Willig, president of the Sarasota Real Estate Investors Association, was our guest speaker at the Bradenton Real Estate Club today.  He spoke about Robert Lawry’s article, “13 Deadly Mistakes Beginning Real Estate Investors Make.”

From lack of action, to fear of failure, to abusing weasel clauses, was among the mistakes covered.  If you would like a copy of the article by email just send me a request. Contact Me

You are invited to join our meeting every Friday.  Click here for details.

At today’s Bradenton Real Estate Club meeting we talked about “Analyzing the Deal.”  We talked about the various strategies that real estate investors use and zeroed in on the Fixer-Upper.

We talked about how to determine what your purchase price must be in order to make the profit you desire.

Here’s a copy of the Buy, Fix-Up, and Sell Worksheet.

Buy And Sell Worksheet 

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3 Keys to Investing Success - CD

This CD contains the material shared in our 2 hour investor workshop:

Three Keys to Investing Success:
· How to find motivated sellers
· How to determine market value
· How to evaluate deals

This two hour workshop is led by Dan Forbes, president and co-owner of Premier Team Inc., along with his partner Marie Avery. Dan is a Certified Residential Specialist, a Graduate of the Realtor Institute, holds a masters degree, and is founder of the Bradenton Real Estate Club. He is a practicing real estate broker, Realtor, and investor in Bradenton, Florida. Dan has served as President of the Manatee Association of Realtors, Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee, and an Ethics Instructor. He was named Realtor of the Year in 2005. Premier Team was named Small Business of the Year by the Manatee Chamber of Commerce in 2002.

The workshop includes a fast-paced powerpoint presentation loaded with practical advice to help the novice to intermediate real estate investor.

What you will learn:
° How to know a motivated seller from all the others
° 14 types of motivated sellers and how to find them
° Why you need to look for problems instead of looking for properties
° 30 ways to find motivated sellers
° A telephone prospecting script that works
° Simple ways to determine the market value of a house
° How to get experts to give you useful advice for free
° How to determine if a deal is good or not
° 7 principles you absolutely must follow when making deals
° How to avoid the alligator and attract the cash cow
° Using a Buy, Fix-up, and Sell Worksheet
° Using a Buy and Hold Worksheet
° How to make a good deal even better

The CD contains the following documents:

1. The entire 58 Slide Power Point Presentation (PDF)

2. The telephone prospecting script for qualifying the seller and discovering their motivation (Word and PDF)

3. How to prepare you own CMA. A Comparative Market Analysis Worksheet with a step by step demonstration of using the property appraiser’s website (Word and PDF)

4. Preparing a Comparative Market Analysis (Article in Word and PDF)

5. The Buy and Sell Worksheet. Just plug your numbers in and the worksheet generates what your offer should be (Excel and PDF)

6. The Buy and Hold Worksheet. Just plug your numbers in and the worksheet calculates your cash flow based on your offer price (Excel and PDF)

Cost: $20.00

Please order through our website:

http://bradentonrealestateclub.com/Products.htm

I’m Dan Forbes and I want to be your Realtor and resource for all your Bradenton real estate needs.