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Understanding Residential Cash Flow Models is Critical

Buying homes as investment properties where they are fixed up and then a rented for cash flow has long been dominated by individual mom and pop Main Street type investors. But now Wall Street hedge funds, private-equity firms, pension funds and university endowments are entering the market in a very big way. The attraction for Wall Street is really simple, double digit returns at a time when most bonds and other income investments yield very little.  The most popular strategy is for a big …

Master Lease Options are one of the best ways for acquiring Commercial Real Estate Investment Properties with little to no money down! Even better, you can really mitigate the risk of your investment since you are ultimately committing to very little with the seller!
In 2013 there is really only one way to profit in Commercial real estate with out cash, credit, experience or risk. That is being able to master Commercial Master Lease Options techniques. Here’s how a Commercial Master Lease Option works:
First you identify an owner of an underperforming …

In today’s real estate market, record low prices and significant windfall opportunities mean that more and more people are turning to off market selling.  With potential of better prices and higher quality bidders, “off market investment property” deals are growing in popularity.
What Is An “Off Market Investment Property”?
An off market investment property is simply a sale that takes place outside a formal setting.  These deals are usually negotiated privately between buyers and sellers or their brokers. Off market trades go on in private out of the public eye.
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Dollar General Investment Properties & Family Dollar Investment Properties
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The BuyersUtopia network has Dollar General Investment Properties available all over the Country including 15 year NNN Dollar Generals that are brand new and hard to find.  Prices range from $500,000 – $1,ooo,ooo .  Even though many investors choose to make Dollar General acquisitions with 100% cash/equity transactions we also have financing options for investors with 35% down payments.
Dollar General Corp is the nation’s leading discount general store operator with 10,203 locations.These Dollar General leased properties give an investor the opportunity to receive …

Conservative Real Estate Investors continue to be attracted to the long term stability being offered by having corporate tenants in their investment properties.  Corporate tenant income properties have always been a favorite of institutions but now we are seeing more and more regular  investors moving out of residential and multi family properties and into single tenant commercial properties with corporate tenants.
With leases ranging from 5 years to 20 years on investment grade tenants offer investors the long term security they desire.  One of the big benefits of these long term …

Many real estate investors are learning how to use a Self Directed Individual Retirement Account for acquisition of investment property and it is proving to be a sound strategy for a number of reasons.
One of the primary motives coming out of the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes is simply control. Large numbers of investors are simply committed to taking control of their own retirement future by setting up a Self-Directed IRA plan. The other motive is simply return’s, when an investor is getting 10% Cash on Cash Return on residential income properties, it is a …

Foreign Real Estate Investor Trends in the United States
The National Association of Realtors (“NAR”) recently revealed statistics showing that foreign investors in the United States have increased to 24 percent since 2011. Over half of international investors hailed from India, China, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. Over 55 percent of foreign buyers came from these five countries.
Where were these buyers purchasing properties?  Primarily in the states of New York, California, Texas, Florida and Arizona. The majority of sales, approximately 60 percent, were concentrated in these five states. And 62 …

Why Residential Income Property
Nearly 4 million families have been pushed into the rental markets since the great recession began and the housing bubble burst. At the same time the supply of habitable rental units has shrunk substantially. The result is that rents are rising and investors are moving in for the returns. The National Association of Realtors projects a 4% average increase in rents nationally this year and 4% in 2013. Goldman Sachs economists estimate that rental properties (acquired at today’s prices) are yielding more than 6% on average nationwide.
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Demand for Walgreens Investment Properties continues to be strong. The Buyers Utopia team receives regular requests for Walgreens NNN investments. Walgreen’s buyers really vary widely from trade up 1031 investors to institutions and REIT’s to doctors, dentists and lawyers to small syndication’s and partnerships. Newly constructed Walgreens with 25 year leases are trading as low as 5% with an average of 5.75% cap rate.The opportunity for older Walgreen deals from 15-20 year lease see’s the CAP rates increase slightly to 6.5%. 10 year leases and less however see opportunities in the 7%- …

As a real estate investor if you’re going to take on the risk of owning property, you need to have a shot at getting a very nice return. Most people getting into real estate usually have enough extra cash for one additional acquisition. Therefore, if you’re going to tie up a bunch of your cash in an investment property, you better be getting a solid return. Enough of a return so that if something goes wrong, you can still get by with a lesser return.
For real estate investors it is …