Getting Started in Real Estate Day Trading (PDF)

Real estate day trading is using the Internet to buy and sellhouses without leaving home. In many cases, the investor closes ona house and resells it the same day. Readers will learn theauthor's system for how to buy and sell 5-10 houses a month intoday's market, using the Internet, phone, fax, and email toanalyze, research, and find the properties, buyers, and othersneeded for the transaction. Author Larry Goins has personally donedeals in nine different states and has students in the US, Canada,Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Israel, the Philippines, andDenmark. Day trading can be used for wholesaling properties toother investors, retailing, lease options, short sales, foreclosureinvesting, etc. The basic steps are:
* Search online for potential properties to make offers on, usingspecific techniques for finding the right ones.
* Once an offer is accepted, usually within 1-2 weeks, put it onpaper using clauses included in the book, and get the propertyinspected by a rehab contractor to get a free estimate of how muchthe repairs will cost. This is done by finding reputablecontractors online and through referrals from realtors and throughautoresponders.
* Order an appraisal.
* Sell it fast! Using the buyers list you have built on theinternet 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 onhow they can get the property under contract. Usually within twohours 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 at10:30, for example.
* There are many ways to fund and close on the property. Thebook 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 whichwill require an investor's own cash or credit.

With praise from New York Times Bestselling Author Dr. AlbertLowery, Robert Shemin, Frank McKinney and foreword by Michael E.Gerber.

Larry Goins (Lake Wylie, SC; www.larrygoins.com) is one ofthe real estate industry's most popular speakers. He buys and sells5-15 houses a month all over the US, in today's difficult market,from the comfort of his office. Larry speaks live an average oftwice a week and holds two to three teleconferences a week. He islicensed as a mortgage lender, mortgage broker, real estate broker,and general contractor in North and South Carolina. Larry served asPresident (2003 & 2004) of the Metrolina Real Estate InvestorsAssociation in Charlotte, NC, a not-for-profit organization thathas over 350 members (it is also the local chapter of the NationalReal Estate Investors Association). He has been investing in realestate for over 20 years.