Archive>"How to" Articles
How To Use Hard Money Loans To Finance Real Estate   Author: Brian Davis   
A guide to what hard money lenders are, and what kind of borrowers and loans are appropriate for hard money loans.
How To Invest Anywhere In The World As An Expatriate   Author: Todd Millar   
Advice for expatriates on investing in real estate anywhere in the world.
How To Access Home Equity Without Interest Or Monthly Payments   Author: David Nilssen   
Debt-free home equity financing is a new way to access cash from your home without taking on debt, being charged interest or making monthly payments.
How To Invest In Foreclosures Safely and Effectively   Author: Glenn Plantone    
Having an understanding as to what area within the field of foreclosures you choose to invest in and understanding the timing involved can have dramatic effects on your success in picking the right foreclosure for you.
How To Physically Prepare Your Mobile Home Park For a Sale   Author: Vince Reynolds   
Getting your mobile home park ready for sale involves more than just preparing income and expense reports and updating rent rolls. To obtain top dollar a mobile home park owner needs to address the physical aspects of the park.
How To Choose A New Residential Development In A Foreign Country   Author: Perry Despeignes   
How do you figure out whether a new development will really develop as planned.
How To Protect Your Assets As A Rental Property Owner   Author: Brian Davis   
Nobody wants to be sued, so do everything you can to avoid it and, if it happens, minimizing your legal exposure. How? Read on, my real estate investing friend...
How To Evaluate Undeveloped Land Investments   Author: Gina Lynell Smith   
More and more individuals are turning to self-directed IRAs to assist them in reaching their retirement goals. One simple investment, which is now allowable by the IRS, and can be purchased with a self-directed IRA is land. Here are 10 criteria to consider when purchasing land with your IRA.
How To Hire A Qualified RV Park Or Campground Broker   Author: Vince Reynolds   
When hiring a RV Park and Campground Broker to sell your park you need to qualify that person and validate that they are the right Broker and Company for the job. As a park owner who has made the commitment to sell your RV Park or Campground you will want to obtain not just the most exposure for your park but exposure to serious, qualified buyers. By asking your potential RV Park broker just a few simple questions you will help to eliminate many of the pitfalls encountered during the sale process and increase the chances of obtaining the best price and terms for your park.
How To Leverage Your Portfolio With 1031 Exchanges   Author: Ken Zimmerman   
This article discusses the benefits of 1031 exchanges and explains how they can be used to better leverage real estate in an investor's portfolio.
How To Make Money In The Mobile Home Park Business   Author: David Reynolds   
Making money with mobile home parks
How To Name Your Mobile Home Park   Author: David Reynolds   
Naming your Mobile Home Park
How To Invest In Real Estate With Your IRA   Author: David Nilssen   
Using a self-directed IRA, investors can direct their tax-deferred or tax-exempt retirement dollars into real estate investments.
How To Find Good Real Estate Deals   Author: James Kobzeff   
Learn six proven ways real estate investors look for profitable real estate investment deals.
How To Get Your Free Credit Report   Author: Ross Hair   
The Real Estate Advocate shows you how to get your free credit report.
How To Invest In Panama Real Estate   Author: Wendy Jordan   
How choosing what seems perfect can sometimes require much more from you
How to Invest in Real Estate in the Alberta, Canada Oil Sands   Author: Todd Millar   
If you're seeking refuge from the volatile markets of the U.S. and Europe, you just may want to head to Canada. Learn about how to source your own investment properties in the Oil rich province of Alberta, Canada.
How To Screen Tenants   Author: Brian Davis   
How landlords and real estate investors can protect themselves through good tenants and a good lease.
How To Invest And Profit In A Falling Real Estate Market   Author: Todd Millar   
Cross border tips that help you determine your market, invest with confidence and cherry pick the good deals in a slow and sometimes scary market.
How to Evaluate and Manage Risk in Nicaragua's Political Environment   Author: Perry Despeignes   
How to navigate Nicaragua's current political storm...and be positioned to profit
How To Buy Real Estate And Build Your Home In Nicaragua   Author: Henkel Smith   
With so many Nicaragua real estate options to choose from, it is important to consider certain key factors when searching for property to build your second home. This brief overview points out some of the most important things to consider.
How to Buy Real Estate in Mexico   Author: Charles Sipe   
This article explains the required steps you will need to take to safely purchase property in Mexico.
How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing   Author: Matthew Whitaker   

How To Make Money Investing In Multi-family Properties   Author: James Kobzeff   
Discover the three things real estate investors must do to purchase multifamily property and maximize wealth.
How To Avoid Mistakes When Investing In Panama Real Estate   Author: Claire Saylor   
Six serious mistakes in Panama investment as well as the solutions as to how to avoid them.
How To Invest In The GO Zone Without Getting Burned   Author: John Zehr   
The misunderstandings surrounding GO Zone tax breaks could cause the initiative to create more problems than it solves and investing in the GO Zone should be approached with a great deal of caution.
How to Build a Billboard the Correct Way   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Building a Billboard
How To Get Your Landlord's Cooperation When Selling A Business   Author: Peter Siegel, MBA   
While property owners can, and do interfere with tenants wanting to sell their small businesses, there are some key steps that a company owner can take to overcome landlord problems.
Buying Mobile Home Parks: How To Take Advantage Of The Best Prices In Decades   Author: David Reynolds   
An ongoing slump in mobile home park sales has many sellers desperate—even if their prks are turning a profit—which translates to great opportunities for interested buyers.
Buying A Home: How To Successfully Close The Sale   Author: Bob Burns   
Homebuyers and Sellers have a lot to do and consider in a home sal transaction, and deals can collapse at the last minute. Here are som tips to close a sale succesffuly.
Buying And Selling Small Businesses: How To Do Inventory   Author: Peter Siegel, MBA   
Here are some things you need to know, whether you are a buyer or a seller, about the inventory count that is conducted in connection with the sale of a small business, so you can complete this process successfully.
How To Negotiate Price And Terms When Buying A House   Author: Bob Burns   
When buying a home, learn the true value of the property and negotiate wisely and fairly. Here are some tools and tips to help you.
How To Survive Oncoming Economic Turbulence   Author: Brian Schwartz   
Recession hovers on the financial horizon. The economic indicators point towards a downtrend in business, which means problems for investors and job seekers. It is time to prepare for a rainy day.
How To Set Investment Goals And Reward Yourself   Author: Todd Millar   
We live life at breakneck speed and run the risk of not only missing the roses along the way, but mowing them down. Learn the importance of writing a 'reward plan' to appreciate the milestones along your path to success.
How to Develop a Real Estate Investing Team   Author: Matthew Whitaker   
Here are some key tips to remember when creating a successful investment team.
How To Fractionalize a Home   Author: Sherman Potvin   
The ten essential steps you must take to sell a home as fractional property.
How to Build a House or Office in Nicaragua   Author: Barry Oliver   
The process, helpful hints and lessons learned about building in Nicaragua.
How to Sell a Billboard Groundlease to a Competitor   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Selling billboards and ground leases
How To Find Your First Home   Author: Bob Burns   
This is an article to help the first time homebuyer to look at alternative ways to purchase a home or property.
Mobile Home Parks: How to Avoid Buying a Pretty Loser   Author: David Reynolds   
Mobile home park cashflow is usually more important than the amenities and age of the park.
How to Calculate Adjusted Net Income   Author: Peter Siegel, MBA   
Computing adjusted net income is critical when selling a small business. Businesses for sale marketed without this "magical number" tend to sit on the market without buyer interest.
How to Buy a Business    Author: Richard Parker   
Buying a business can be a great investment opportunity, but it's a big risk. Before you buy a business, here's what you need to know.
How to Lose Money on Panama Real Estate   Author: Claire Saylor   
Panama real estate has taken a lot of heads: the people left on the ground, screaming from the errors they made as first time investors. Here are 12 mistakes to remember when investing in the Republic of Panama.
How to Avoid a Panama Real Estate Disaster   Author: Claire Saylor   
There are many advantages to arriving in a new real estate market before the proverbial hordes. The following is the one, best piece of advice we can give to people looking to invest in Panama and strike it rich.
Panama Vacations: How To Choose Between A Travel Agency And Planning Your Own Trip   Author: Cpanama Real Estate Corp.   
Panama has a lot of vacation spots and activities to offer, but how do you choose and navigate between them on your own itinerary?
Panama's Pacific Coast and Caribbean Coast: How To Choose Beach Real Estate in Panama    Author: Cpanama Real Estate Corp.   
Whether you are into the Pacific or Caribbean side, you need to be sure of your property purchase by looking for the right real estate agent who will tour and guide you in the best places for property investment.
How To Retire Right: The Benefits of Retiring in Panama   Author: Cpanama Real Estate Corp.   
There are plenty benefits to retiring in Panama, attracting many retirees to its sunny shores.
How to Benefit From Investing in the Panama Real Estate Market   Author: Cpanama Real Estate Corp.   
Properties in Panama easily appreciate, you can sell the property a few months after buying at a higher selling price than the purchase price, which would give you a considerable amount of profit.
How to Use Leverage with Real Estate IRAs   Author: David Nilssen   
Self-directed IRA accounts can make use of borrowed money as long as the credit history, income and/or assets of the account holder are not used to acquire or guarantee repayment of the loan. There is only one leverage option that meets these criteria: non-recourse loans.
Commercial Property Investments: How to Find the "Upside"   Author: Dike Drummond   
When you are looking to invest in a commercial property...how can you find the "Upside" that drives the higher returns you seek?
How to Invest in Tax Liens With Your IRA   Author: David Nilssen   
How to invest in tax liens with a self-directed IRA.
How to Fill Your Vacant Mobile Home Park Lots   Author: David Reynolds   
Filling vacant units in a mobile home park isn't as easy as it once was. Here are some effective and ethical ways to bring in new tenants at minimal cost.
How to Find Your First Billboard Location in One Afternoon   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Finding billboard locations can be time-consuming and intimidating, but there are ways of minimizing the time you spend looking while fining a location that will help you boost your confidence in the billboard business.
How to Avoid Buying a Drug House   Author: Todd Millar   
Investors or first-time home buyers need to be aware of what to look for and what to beware of in a property purchase. Sometimes, those 'good deals' can hide an ugly and dangerous past.
How to Perform Due Diligence in the Panama Real Estate Market   Author: Cpanama Real Estate Corp.   
When investing in Panama for the first time, you have to make sure to get a reputable and reliable broker. You need to be sure that you are dealing with the right real estate agency.
How to Profit from the Mortgage Crisis with your Retirement Funds   Author: Tom Anderson   
Savvy real estate investors are finding opportunities using retirement funds and seller financing to fund purchases and close deals with buyer who cannot get mortgages through traitional sources.
How to Get Started in the Billboard and Billboard Lease Business   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Flipping billboards leases and permits and building billboards for quick profits.
How to Appeal a Medical Insurance Claim and Hold onto your Savings   Author: Barbara Zigah   
Insurance companies will fight to not pay for your expenses even if you are entitld, so here are some tips to help you fight back.
How To Use a Self-Directed IRA to Buy Your Retirement Home Now   Author: David Nilssen   
How to buy your retirement home with a self-directed IRA.
How to Buy the Dream Property that is Beyond your Means: Fractional Ownership   Author: Barbara Zigah   
Fractional ownership allows you and a group of other individuals to own a percentage of an investment. It can be complicated, but here are ten steps to help you to arrange a deal satisfying to everyone.
How to Identify the Right Advisor or Custodian for Your Self-Directed IRA Investments   Author: T.J. Valenzuela   
Finding a qualified self directed IRA custodian or advisor can be daunting, but here are some ways to find the right one for your investment interests.
How to Maintain 100% Occupancy on your Billboards   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Strategies and tips on keeping your billboards rented at all times.
How to Start Buying REO Properties the Right Way   Author: Tom Lazzaro   
Learn the proper way to search for REO properties, write the offer correctly the first time, and know when to walk away from a time and money-wasting deal.
How to Buy or Refinance Property with a Diminished Credit History   Author: Barbara Zigah   
The liquidity crisis has resulted in tightening and strengthening of earlier lax credit criteria; many consumers and investors are finding that their "average" credit is no longer good enough.
How to Conduct a Physical Evaluation of a Mobile Home Park   Author: David Reynolds   
Mobile home park physical evaluation: and what to look for...and look out for.
Guatemalan Real Estate: How to Get Mortgage Financing for Foreigners   Author: Brian Wilson   
Foreigners can now buy Guatemalan real estate with mortgage financing.
How to Buy Gold Bars and Protect your Investment   Author: Barbara Zigah   
The skyrocketing price of gold makes gold bars an attractive investment. You don't need a degree in metallurgy to buy gold bars, but you do have to exercise caution... as with every investment, there's risk involved. Be an informed buyer, know how, what and where to buy, and how to protect your precious investment.
How to Make the Best of a Billboard with Poor Visibility   Author: Frank Rolfe   
Virtually every billboard owner has one billboard face with poor visibility. Here are some ways that investors can improve a bad sign and maximize its profits.
How to Collect Rent from your Mobile Home Park Residents   Author: David Reynolds   
Mobile home park landlords can run into problems with rent collection from tenants, and a "No pay—no stay" policy may be just what you need if you have tenants who are behind. These are some tips to show tenants the "tough love" they need to keep themselves—and the park out of debt.
How to Format "How to" Articles   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Designed for first time "how to" article writers, this article teaches how to format a "how to" article.
Guatemala Real Estate: How to Navigate the Sales Process   Author: Brian Wilson   
Buying Guatemala real estate is not complicated, and there are several appealing features when compared to other countries around the world. This article taks you step by step through process.
How to be a Successful Nicaragua Real Estate Investor   Author: Claudia Gonella   
What makes a successful real estate investor in Nicaragua? Here are seven success strategies that make sense on the ground.
Mexico Real Estate: How to Navigate Mexican Tax Laws   Author: Linda Neil   
Mexico real estate is becoming increasingly attractive to investors. Diverse groups including retirees and workers transferred by their company need rental property, which has created a positive cashflow market with the possibility of appreciating land values.
Mobile Home Parks: How to Quickly Evaluate Potential Properties   Author: David Reynolds   
Tips on how to quickly analyze and value mobile home parks before investing extra time and money in researching them.
Nicaragua Real Estate: How to Avoid Common Buyer Mistakes   Author: Barry Oliver   

Mobile Home Parks: How to Find Opportunities   Author: David Reynolds   
Finding mobile home sparks for sale isn't as difficult as it may seem. There are creative ways to find investment opportunities with less competition.
Real Estate Scams: How to Protect Yourself   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Although it’s easy to get swept away with ideas of how your life could change with a windfall of cash from a real estate investment, it’s also relatively easy to protect yourself from real estate scams if you know what to look for and where to look.
How to Use Networking to Effectively Promote Your Business   Author: Kesha Gayles-Brown   
Networking is one of the best ways to promote your business, and you can do it anywhere and at any time if you are prepared. Learn to use it to your full advantage and overcome your networking fears.
How to Determine if Your Vacation Home is Eligible for a 1031 Exchange   Author: Scott Saunders   
This article discusses the requirements of maintaining "for investment" status in 1031 exchanges.
How to Write Better Real Estate Contracts   Author: Traci Ellis   
This article teaches investors specific items that one should never omit from a real estate contract, whether buying or purchasing property.
How to Keep Your Self-Directed IRA Healthy and the IRS Happy   Author: David Nilssen   
This article includes a detailed description of self-directed IRAs and the restrictions and taxes associated with self-directed accounts.
How to Invest in Community Bank Stock with a Self-Directed IRA   Author: TommyJoe Valenzuela   
Learn how to invest your IRA funds in community bank stock.
How to Make Your Offer to Purchase Real Estate Stand Out   Author: Todd Millar   
Learn how to write a cover letter that will help your offer to purchase real estate get accepted.
How to Find Your First Real Estate Investment   Author: Todd Millar   
Learn seven steps to find your first profitable real estate investment.
How to Link Build for Your “How to” Articles   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Learn how to build quality inbound links to your "how to" articles.
How to Optimize Your “How to” Article for Search Engines   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Learn how to focus on search engine optimization for your "how to" articles.
How to Maximize Keywords in Your “How to” Articles   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Learn how to effeciently use keywords for maximum effect inside your "how to" articles.
How to Write a "How to" Article   Author: Jeremy Ames   
Learn the fundamentals of how to write "how to" articles.

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