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(More customer reviews)While this book is well-written and easy to read, it falls short on a couple of important points. "Day Trading" real estate, as defined by Goins, is really nothing more than basic double-closing/simultaneous closing house flipping that has been around for years. Yes, you're in and out the same day because both your purchase closing and sale closing are scheduled back-to-back, but you contract weeks in advance. Nothing new at all. Certainly more than a day to turn it around.
Also, the book claims that you can do this "without cash." However, in Chapter 7 Goins suggests that you borrow against your credit cards, life insurance, personal home or IRA. Or another suggestion - sell your stuff on Ebay. Sure are a lot of suggestions for getting that cash that the cover of the book declares you don't need to day trade real estate. Goins recommends a deposit of at least $500 for most contracts. That's required cash, pure and simple. It seems a bit deceptive to repeatedly say you don't need cash to do this when the reality of this method, or pretty much any real estate business method, is that at least some cash is required.
The print quality was lacking in the copy I received, with several of the front pages being illegible ink smears.
This book is well-organized and probably contains a nugget of good usable information here and there. If you've already read about flipping houses you will find little new material. If you haven't read about flipping then this book is as good as any to use for basic information.
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Real estate day trading is using the Internet to buy and sell houses without leaving home. In many cases, the investor closes on a house and resells it the same day. Readers will learn the author's system for how to buy and sell 5-10 houses a month in today's market, using the Internet, phone, fax, and email to analyze, research, and find the properties, buyers, and others needed for the transaction. Author Larry Goins has personally done deals in nine different states and has students in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Israel, the Philippines, and Denmark. Day trading can be used for wholesaling properties to other investors, retailing, lease options, short sales, foreclosure investing, etc. The basic steps are:
Search online for potential properties to make offers on, using specific techniques for finding the right ones.
Once an offer is accepted, usually within 1-2 weeks, put it on paper using clauses included in the book, and get the property inspected by a rehab contractor to get a free estimate of how much the repairs will cost. This is done by finding reputable contractors online and through referrals from realtors and through autoresponders.
Order an appraisal.
Sell it fast! Using the buyers list you have built on the internet through email marketing groups, social networking sites, blogs, free classified sites, bank-owned property sites, and more, send an email with the details of the property and instructions on how they can get the property under contract. Usually within two hours several potential buyers will reply.
Set up a closing to buy it and to sell it on the same day; closings are about 30 minutes apart. By it at 10:00 and sell it at 10:30, for example.
There are many ways to fund and close on the property. The book will contain step-by-step, easy processes for assignments, options, flex options, simultaneous closings, using hard money, private money, cash partners, and credit partners, none of which will require an investor's own cash or credit.
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