by LouCastillo8 | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
A huge fear for investors getting started in the business is actually making offers to purchase property. Of course, you can’t wholesale any houses if you never make any offers to buy and get them under contract. Is that your fear? Are you afraid to make offers?...
by LouCastillo8 | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was recently consulting (actually I was consoling)with a real estate investor who just closed on a property using a hard money loan and realized at closing how much that loan had cost him in both hard costs and loss of cash flow. If you’re thinking of using a Hard...
by LouCastillo8 | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
It has been about 25 years now since I first started toying with real estate investing. As part of throwback Thursday I thought it would be a good idea to share how I started and the lessons I learned. My desire here is that you learn from my mistakes – or even...
by LouCastillo8 | Apr 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Probably one of the toughest parts of real estate investing is deciding what to offer for the property. Offer too little, and you lose the deal. Offer too much and there is no profit. Whether buying to renovate the house and resell; to keep it as a rental; or to sell...
by LouCastillo8 | Mar 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve been investing for over 20 years and have worked with hundreds – if not thousands – of investors and I can tell you that… The #1 reason that investors fail is a lack of consistency or tenacity. The #2 reason investors fail is they have unrealistic...
by LouCastillo8 | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
The only way to make a fortune investing in real estate is to find a steady stream of deals. That requires marketing. What many investors don’t realize about marketing is that it usually doesn’t work immediately. Why? First, because it requires repetition. There is so...