Tips, Tricks, Foreclosures, and Flips of a Millionaire Real Estate Investor (eBook)

AARON ADAMS is a full-time real estate investor who has made millions buying and selling properties across the country. In 2005, he founded Alpine Capital Solutions, which provides passive, turnkey real estate investment opportunities to individual investors all over the world. With over 350 employees across the country, Alpine Capital Solutions manages more than 2,000 properties in four unique markets.

From Employee to Investor xi

1 Using Public Records to Find Home Run Deals 1

2 Using Hand-Delivered Letters to Get Deals 5

3 Using Yard Signs to Find Motivated Sellers 9

4 Finding Where All the Real Investors Hang Out (It's Not at Real Estate Investing Clubs!) 13

5 Using Property Management Companies to Find Deals 17

6 Creatively Selling Properties to Other Investors 21

7 Finding Motivated Buyers 25

8 Selling to Tenants: Working Backward to Find a Buyer 29

9 Selling to the Tenants: Be the Bank 33

10 How to Get Money to Invest When You are Broke 35

11 Buying Properties in the U.S. at Foreclosure Auctions 39

12 Flipping Properties to Homeowners 45

13 Active vs. Passive, High Value vs. Low Value 51

14 Understanding the Four Cs of Real Estate Investing 59

15 Four Factors That Make a Great Market 67

16 The Five Fs 75

17 PPP 83

18 Key Points for the International Investor 91

19 Five Glass Ceilings 97

20 Glass Ceiling #1: Finding and Supplying a Product to Sell 103

21 Glass Ceiling #2: Selling a Product 109

22 Glass Ceiling #3: Building a Team of Employees and Partners 117

23 Glass Ceiling #4: Raising Capital to Fund and Grow Your Business 129

24 Glass Ceiling #5: Developing Systems to Accelerate Growth 143

25 Finding, Flipping, and Financing Mobile Homes for Quick Cash 159

Acknowledgments 173

About the Author 175

Index 177