Locating Real Estate Investments (part 5) - Private Real Estate Investor Sites

Private Investor Sites

In every community and every city there are real estate investors who are selling properties. Often these are wholesale deals which the investor picked up at a substantial discount, who is marking it up to make a profit, but still leaving a good amount of equity on the table for another investor who wants to fix up the property.

In many cases today, these investors are getting pretty savvy and have websites and mailing lists publicizing their deals. They can be a great resource for you.

Here’s an example of one investor’s site in San Antonio:
http://www.buynowsa.com

I am not making any recommendation to them – I am merely listing them as an example of what’s available.

Here are a couple of other examples:

In Phoenix
http://www.invest-n-homes.com/

In Dallas
http://www.dfwinvestors.net/

Again, I am not making an referrals or recommendations - I am merely using these of examples of what you can find out there.

You can find these types of real estate investor sites by searching in Google for your city of preference and the words “real estate investor” or “we buy houses”

There are even national networks of investors that are either franchises or outfits that supply investors with websites for their businesses. http://www.Homevestors.com is a good franchise resource. InetUSA http://www.inetusa.com/ is one of the web-building companies for investors. Their organization has a national search feature to access all their clients’ listings.

If you are in a position to do so, join any local real estate investor’s associations (REIA’s) in areas where you want to invest – network and get to know investors that have property for sale there. Get on their mailing lists. You can access a list of local REIA's through the National Real Estate Investors Association http://www.nationalreia.com

So, until next week, I’m Bill Flood; this is the Coast to Coast Real Estate Investor…live your real estate dreams!