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A number of Americans and analyst are in denial that a default is even possible.  But a default is very possible and grows more likely everyday.  The only way to protect your wealth and savings in a currency debasement is to buy gold and silver.  Gold and silver have no counter party risk and cannot default and cannot be debased or printed which makes them great diversifications.

My prediction is that our government will come up with a temporary 12 – 18 mo fix on our debt situation.  During this time, some type of crisis will occur which will justify the printing of more fiat currency.  At this point, default is genuinely inevitable.

As the saying goes, better safe then sorry.  Buy Gold & Silver online today and protect your savings.  In the event that a default doesn’t occur, rest assured that purchasing gold and silver now will hedge your wealth and savings against the falling dollar and at some point in the future when the dollar becomes more stable, you can sell your precious metals.

As most of you are housing investors, I would like to pose this question to you:
Do you think that purchasing real property will be a good hedge of your wealth if the US were to default on it’s debt?

Many people don’t understand that the economy runs in strategic economic cycles. The current cycle that we are in puts paper (fiat) money in a declining position and  puts gold and silver in a valuable advancing position! This stage will allow you far more real estate purchasing power by buying gold and silver now, than if you buy just real estate now.

Here is a scenario to support this statement. Let’s say we have a house in 1971 that sales for $20,663 and the average price of silver is $1.39/oz. By 1980 that same house sales for $42,747 and the price of silver is $52.50/oz due to the precious metals bull run in the 70′s that lasted for nine years. If you had sold that house in 1971 for $20,663 and purchased silver, by January 1980, your investment would have outpaced real estate by a factor of 17, growing to $770,796! If you then sold your silver, you could buy eighteen median-price, single-family homes, all cash and benefit from 100 percent of the cash flows from those properties, or , if you were feeling really adventurous, you could put 20% down and buy ninety homes for the same price.

The point is, with real estate so overhauled, and silver so undervalued, chances are that they will both overshoot to the opposite extreme, before reverting to the mean.  What that means for you is that you now have a very rare chance to become very wealthy, very quickly , by simply taking advantage of economic cycles and the wealth transfer they create.

Here are a few sources I use to buy gold online:

• Mike Maloney’s online store: www.goldsilver.com.  This site is an educating site as well as a gold and silver shop.  The site sells gold and silver coins and bars.  It is primarily for bulk orders.  Some items require a $15,000 minimum order.
• Wealth Metals: www.wealthmetals.com.   This is a great site to buy gold and silver online as they have creative purchase options.  You can buy gold and silver with small monthly payments, as little as $25/mo, via the “nest egg savings” program.  For those that want to get in the game without paying a huge amount of money up-front, this is a great option.  You can also buy gold and silver outright and the product is delivered to you via FedEx.  One great advantage to buying YOUnique gold and silver is that you get to purchase collectibles without paying extreme overages of the current spot price.
• Gainesville Coins: www.gainesvillecoins.com.  This site has a wide variety of gold and silver to choose from.  Given the best bullion award by the National Inflation Institute (NIA)  in 2011.

I hope that this post gives you an idea of why now is a great time to buy gold and silver if you are a real estate investor and take advantage of the biggest transfer of wealth.  This opportunity is surely a once and a lifetime one!

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Most investors, collectors, etc. are not familiar with the realities of the silver market.  The main problem with the precious metal is that, in some transactions there is no real, physical silver and what the investor gets in return for his/her money is paper silver.  Some federal banks have pursued that trend for a quite long time and continue to add to their huge pile of liability by issuing more and more paper silver.  The manipulation is feared to leave a huge impact on the market in the long run.

Once reality sits in and the federal banks have to come up with this silver, they will be purchasing all the silver on the open market, which will cause the price to skyrocket!!  Currently you can buy an oz of silver for under $30.  Imagine the gains if you were to buy silver now and the price shoots up to $500/oz or more!  Not to mention the thought of the dollar crashing, which will increase the demand for silver as well as gold.

Currently silver and gold are on Bull Market Runs and have been for the past 10 years.  From my research, this can continue for another 8 -10 years or till the dollar collapse.

The assumption is that the price of silver will rise so steeply and the value of the dollar will be little to nothing that you can use 500 – 1000 ounces to buy a house.  I’m currently picking up silver, gold, and cash flowing real estate.  The company that I purchase my gold and silver from also allows me to buy the commodities in a savings plan where I pay as little as $25/mo each month till the full purchase price is paid.  This allows  me to buy more commodities without the strain of dispensing all of my on hand cash.  Once it is paid for, the company ships the items off to me and I can store them as I see fit.

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For the last year, the unemployment rate has been the highest it’s been in years.  The average for the country now is around 10%.  The unemployment rate for states such as California, Florida, and Michigan is over the national average with numbers in the 12 – 13% range.  Until more Americans can get a secure and steady job, the real estate market won’t be able to gain any momentum. Gaining momentum is the hardest part of starting anything.  But once the market begins to gain momentum, we’ll begin to see changes in the market, home prices rising, time on the market decreasing, etc.  There are pockets of communities actually seeing this as we speak.  When can we expect to see this gain in momentum as a whole?  Not this year.  Things like this take time.  It’s like a huge ship turning around in the middle of the ocean.  Once it begins to turn it will be awhile before it actually turns completely.  The same principle applies to the real estate market.  My strategy is to watch the numbers for my target cities.  Once I  can see a downward trend in unemployment and a rise consumer confidence, that’s when I will begin to sale.  Yes, Sale! Right now, you need to buy, buy, buy.  In the words of Warren Buffet, “When everyone else is buying, you want to sell.  When everyone is selling, you want to buy”.

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Real Estate marketing in twitter is very effective. Just having followers will not guarantee that you have good prospects because more often, those people you followed are bots or marketers too and not buying prospects. With Tweet Attacks anti spammer filteringoptions you can ignore those spammers and follow only real human users.  And when someone enters “buy a house in Tampa” and you sale houses in Tampa, you will be able to send them a direct message and offer your services, totally automated!  You will be able to targets specific individuals on twitter and drive them to your website or squeeze page.  Here’s some of the features:

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Since the “tax income credit” has expired, it is predicted that bank’s inventory of REO properties will begin to rise back to countless numbers.  This in turn encouraged me to take a deeper look into REO properties and wholesaling them.  Wholesaling an REO is a totally different monster then just a normal wholesale deal.  There are rules and protocols that you must follow or your chances to get these deals done are very slim.  You have to know what you are doing.

I begin to research more on REO properties toward the end of 2009.  That is when I ran across Steph Davis’ ebook entitled “Flip This REO“.  In this eBook, Steph covers every question that you have now and will have in the future as you begin to flip REO properties like pancakes!  Yes, that easy!!  Banks are now becoming more

flexible with the short sales and REO’s.  Steph’s book provided me with the info I needed to flip these REO properties to my buyers.  She covers every thing you need to know on How To Wholesale REO properties.   Check out the info below taken directly from her page.

What Questions Will Be Answered in This eBook?

Every Question You’ve Ever Had About Wholesaling REOs- and Then Some!

To Name a Few….

* Do I need MLS access if I want to offer on REOs? Should I get my license?

* What if I can’t get MLS access? Then what?

* How do I select a target neighborhood?

* Once I’ve selected a target neighborhood, how do I know what a good deal is in that   neighborhood?

* How do I decide which properties to offer on?

* How do I decide how much to offer?

* What about repairs- how do I estimate those?

* Can I use my own contract when submitting an offer on an REO? If not, which   contract should I use?

* Do I need an earnest money deposit to make an offer on an REO? Is so, how much   do I need?

* What if I want to make multiple offers? Do I need an earnest money deposit to   submit with each offer?

* What do I do if all of my offers get accepted at once?

* Where can I get a free proof of funds letter to submit with my offer?

* How can I structure my offer so I can protect myself and my earnest money deposit   if I can’t find a buyer?

* If I add an inspection contingency to my offers and cancel the contract before it is up,   will I get my earnest money back? If so, what do I need to do to get it back?

* How can I write my offer so it has the greatest chance of getting accepted by the   bank?

* What are the best ways to find buyers for my deals?

* What questions should I ask my buyers to find out if they are the real deal?

* What if my buyer sees that the property is listed on the MLS for less than what I am   selling it for?

* Should I get a deposit from my buyer?  If so, how much?

* What contingencies should I put in my contract with my end buyer?

* What happens if my buyer backs out the day of closing? Am I still on the hook to buy   the property?

* If I can’t assign my contract, how can I wholesale my REO deals to an end buyer?

* How can I get the bank to let me use my own title company?

* What is the best way to find an investor-friendly title company in my area?

* If I do a double or simultaneous closing, are there two sets of closing costs involved?    If so, who is responsible for paying them?

* What steps should I take to get started?  What should I do first?

Find out the answers to these questions, and many more..

Learn How to Flip REO Properties

Check out Steph’s eBook today.  For the small price of $47, this eBook is packed with information so that you can get that REO flipped!  And Steph even has a full 100% 30 day money back guarantee!  So after 30 days, if you don’t think the book was worth it, get your money back.  That is as good as it gets.

Marketing for short sale leads and negotiating short sales are beyond the scope of this post.  But I will give you a few resources that I’m sure you will find beneficial in your efforts to find leads and get them negotiated.  My preferred method of generating leads is marketing to homeowners who are 60 days late on their mortgage.  You can obtain this list from a reputable company named Yellow Letter.  They sell Pre-NOD leads to investors and can also mail out letters to these individuals for you for a fee.   

As for short sale negotiations, I would recommend using First Choice Loss Mitigation.  They negotiate short sales for buyers, sellers, Realtors, investors, attorneys, and lenders.  You can also partner up with them and not only will they negotiate the deal for you, but they will assist in bringing in a buyer to buy the property.  The wonderful part about their service is, you don’t pay them anything upfront and they are only paid if they negotiate the deal and it is closed.  Your only concern would be bringing them the lead and collecting your check. 

Now, how to make $10,000 or more on your next quick turn short sale, your exit strategy.  Of course you can’t negotiate a short sale without having an offer on the property.  Once your company has submitted an offer and the lender has ordered and completed the BPO, you want to have the seller cancel the listing with the Realtor.    Now the contracted buyer can re-list the property with the same agent at a price higher then his/her short sale offer amount but lower then the original seller’s list price.  The listing should state in the listing remarks “owner by contract”.  Disclosing to the potential buyer that you haven’t actually closed the deal with the original seller yet is an important aspect of the deal.  Also the listing remarks should state that this is an all “cash purchase, no financing”.  In order to quickly turn the real estate for a profit, the end buyer must use cash or a lender that’s on board and won’t have title insurance issues. 

Using this method will allow the MLS to bring you a buyer quickly.  Your listing should have an addendum attached that discloses to the potential buyer the entire process of the closing.  This includes how you will be using their funds to close on the A to B transaction and then closing the B to C transaction.  With ”A” being the original homeowner, “B” being you the investor, and “C” being the end buyer.  Be sure that your spread from your purchase price and your sale price are enough for you to pay some closing cost and agent commissions.  Also your short sale offer should be low enough so that you have room to increase/negotiate your offer amount and still make a decent profit. 

The list price should be higher then your minimum sale price.  If the least you will accept for a property is $100K, then you want to list it around $110K.  This will give you some negotiating power. 

Once you receive the short sale acceptance letter and an acceptable offer on the property, you can proceed with your exit strategy and schedule a closing.  By this time you should have secured a closing agent and performed a title search.  A number of closing agents won’t touch these type of closings because they don’t understand them.  But as long as your end buyer is using cash and you fully disclose all aspects of the deal, you are protected from fraudulent actions.  We are closing deals like this all the time and have attorneys that we use in Greensboro and Charlotte, NC that we can refer to you if needed. 

At the closing, there are two HUDs for two separate closings.  The first HUD is the closing with the original seller, the short sale.  This closing is executed with the end buyers funds.  The second closing is the closing with the end buyer.  The great part about this is that you really never take title to the property, but you get a pass through title.  Also if the short sale is negotiated well, the original seller/bank will pay for some of the closing cost while your end buyer pays for the remaining cost. 

Your profit is the spread of the A to B purchase and the B to C sell.  You can easily quick turn a short sale for $10K to $20K+ profit on each deal.  The key is to use a good loss mitigator, have a well educated listing agent, and influencing the BPO. Once these factors are met, you can create great spreads on all of your short sale deals and make boatloads of cash.

When a wholesaler gets a property under contract, they normally sell the property to an end buyer by assigning the contract or receiving a fee from the end buyer to purchase directly from the seller.  But in some situations, such as a short sale, the wholesaler must purchase the property first in order to fulfill the arrangements made with the foreclosing lender.  This simultaneous closing transaction is structured something like this: Party A (lender/seller) sells to Party B (wholesaler), who in turn sells to Party C (end buyer).  Party B can either bring in 1 day funds to close the transaction with the lender or disclose everything to Party C and inform them that their funds will be used to closed the initial transaction, Party A to Party B.  This IS NOT illegal as long as it is disclosed in the form of an addendum and Party C is using all cash or hard money.  It is difficult if Party C is getting financed.  Though there are a couple of lenders that would fund this type of transaction.

A question a number of wholesalers ask “who is getting the end loans to the C buyers done with no hassles and no vesting requirements?”  Quicken loans were lending to these type of transactions but withdrew from the market this week and will not close any more “C” loans at this time.  But here are two more to add to your list:

These lenders are of course very busy.  If you need to speak with them, please understand their time constraints and make it brief.  If you have any lenders that you’d like us to add to our list, please let us know. 

You can also seek out hard money or private funds for a temporary loan of 6 – 9 months.  This will give you time to make the repairs and refinance.  It is much easier to refinance then it is to get a loan to make a purchase. 

Not only is it hard to find lenders, but it can be a challenge to find a closing agent.  We have a national closing agent that closes deals nationwide.  They are a small company and stay busy.  If you need them to close on your deal, please allow them 2 weeks plus to schedule you in.

These wholesale real estate tips should make wholesalers jobs much easier in these challenging times.  Remember to always disclose everything to the buyer and seller of each transaction.  Failure to disclose all aspects of the deal can result in fraud and possible criminal actions taken out against you.  This is a very serious matter.  Keep your nose clean and have fun investing in real estate.