RealtyTrac tells us that foreclosures fell in January compared to December.  Good news?  Not so fast…

For several years, January foreclosures have been lower than December, so this is not necessarily an indicator of a reversal in the foreclosure problem in America.  Furthermore, January’s foreclosure rate was 15% lower than it was last January, which is simply astounding and not a positive indicator.

Along with that news, Zillow tells us that a little more than 1 of every 5 homes in the United States is currently “under water” (debt is greater than property value leading to negative equity).  These types of properties have a high probability of increasing the foreclosure problem in the immediate future.

Still, I believe optimism is in order.  Not because of foreclosure rates (which are still horrible) or unemployment statistics (which are abysmal) or government policies (which are utterly laughable)…

…but because of you and other individuals like you.  America is successful economically BECAUSE of all of the “little people” out there - just like you and me.  Fundamentally, it’s all about your focus - do you have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish financially?  Remember - times are tough right now, but they won’t be tough forever.  This difficulty might be the biggest opportunity you have ever had.

One of the things that I’m focused on is providing information to my subscribers (if you’re not on my email list yet, please use the space in the right side of this page) to both inform and encourage them.  There’s a lot of news that reflects poorly on the state of our economy - but that doesn’t have to be the same thing as “bad news” for you.  In fact - it shouldn’t.

It’s a great time to be alive, and a great time to be an American.  The future is bright!

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I’m sick of it.

I’ve just gotten yet another email from a real estate “guru” who never sends me anything but “invitations” to webinars and teleconferences.

Look, I’m all for webinars and teleconferences and even offer them myself sometimes. But geez! This guy, who is here in Atlanta, seems absolutely opposed to giving away any valuable content without delivering it through a teleconference and attaching a price tag to it.

So I made a radical decision: I looked through my e-mail to find the name of every real estate guru who has e-mailed me this week. And if I’ve not gotten at least one useful piece of information from them in that time period, I removed myself from their email list.

Enough is enough. It’s reasonable for these people to sell things to make money, but it’s nothing but purely disrespectful to you if that’s all they ever do. So here are the steps I recommend:

• Take a minute to go through your e-mail inbox for the past couple of weeks - it’s helpful to “sort” your inbox by the sender’s name
• For every email from a real estate “guru” - do a quick scan of the content they send you. Is any of it worthwhile or potentially worthwhile? If not, go to the end of any email from the guru and click the “unsubscribe” link.
• If the emails you receive from a particular guru are helpful or informative, send them a note or make a post on their blog thanking them for it - they’ll really appreciate it

Ok, my rant is over. Back to business

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Just go ahead and fill in the info below. Thanks, and I’ll look forward to talking with you very soon!

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I’ve decided to create a completely new website for use by real estate investors interested in finding motivated sellers (including foreclosures). It will have all of the bells and whistles of all of the “guru websites”, except for one thing:

It will be 100% free. Won’t cost a penny.

I’ll be totally honest with you: My reason for creating this and giving it away for free is because I want to get more subscribers on my email list. I figure you’ll be willing to spread the word about my software if I give it to you absolutely free and include all the features (and more) of the “guru” websites that cost thousands of dollars.

But to make this happen, I really need your input. I need to know exactly what you’d like to see this software do for you. So please, leave a comment below and answer at least one (or more) of these questions:

• Do you already have a real estate website? If so, did you create it yourself or buy it? From whom?
• The URL of one or more real estate website(s) that you think is/are particularly effective, attractive or desirable (Presently, I’m really only interested in websites that target motivated sellers.) What do you like about that website?
• What is one (or more) features of a motivated seller-oriented website that you would like to see in the new free software?

Please, I encourage you to answer this right now. I’m sparing no expense to make sure that this is the best program available to all real estate investors. I really want the program to address your needs, so now is the time to speak up!

Please, leave your responses in the comments area below, right now:

Wholesaling real estate can be a great way to make money. If you’re not familiar, the idea is this: You find a property at a great price (maybe because it’s a foreclosure or needs a lot of work). You get it under contract for a really great price, and then you sell the CONTRACT to someone else for maybe $5,000 to $25,000 or so.

There are thousands of real estate investors all over America that do this type of transaction on a regular basis, but nearly every one of them is done exclusively locally. That’s because it’s far easier and faster that way.

Unfortunately, it’s also far more limiting to do business ONLY in your own back yard. Furthermore, it’s not necessary to limit yourself like that. The internet makes this type of nation-wide business very achievable.

But there are really at least two parts to this puzzle:

• You’ve got to understand how the process of real estate wholesaling actually works. There’s a pretty cheap e-Book that explains this pretty well. Here’s where you can get to it: Instant Property Profits
• Next, you’ve got to have an infrastructure in place to be able to find and flip the real estate deals as you find them. This requires a few things, like having a website with information gathering forms and an email list so you can easily advertise your properties.

Frankly, I think I’m the very best person in the entire world to teach you about the second part - the internet part of the business. I was flipping property on the internet years ago - long before the people who are now selling websites were even in the real estate business.

So that’s what I’ll do: During the next several days, I’ll put up some posts that will teach you exactly how to
use the internet to find and flip wholesale deals. In the mean time, please put up any questions you have about this in the comments section below:

UPDATE: If you’re a real estate investor interested in flipping/wholesaling property nationwide using the internet, check out the 7 Internet Secrets For Nationwide Wholesaling/Flipping