Sean Flanagan

You’ve set up your business. You’ve made great looking business cards. You’ve told friends and family members about your new company. You’ve been putting in a lot of effort over the past few weeks to make sure your new company look as good as it can.

One of the main reasons you pulled the trigger on a real estate investing career is because of the potential you saw to pull cash in hand over fist over the next year or two as the market works its way through the pile of foreclosed properties.

I've been telling my students repeatedly that the key to runaway success in real estate investing is to have a solid understanding how to utilize a few creative investing techniques so that they can capitalize on the opportunities available in today's market. One tool you need to add to your toolkit if you haven't already is the subject to deal.

If you want to truly succeed as a real estate investor, you need to disregard the majority of the marketing advice being promoted by the "I can teach you to walk on water overnight” guru real estate investor crowd.

One of the keys to success in the real estate world is building a strong investor list, otherwise known as a buyers list. When you have a solid buyers list, you can build a stronger career with the contacts and connections that you need to consistently perform well in the real estate market

There are some common mistakes that can kill you real estate investing career before it ever even gets started. By avoiding these common mistakes, you can push your business to the next level of success and circumvent some of the pitfalls that kill most real estate investors careers before they ever really get started.

If you've identified abandoned properties as a lucrative real estate investing niche because of the relative lack of competition, the tendency of the owners to be motivated to sell, and the fact that you can generate almost instant equity by making a few well-placed repairs, you'll probably be ready to dance a jig in the street once you've located an abandoned property you’d like to purchase and -- with just a little research -- figured out who owns the property.

Theirs thousands, probably even millions, of residential real estate investors who are securing the future of themselves and their families right now as a result of the real estate “blood bath”. These are savvy investors who have taken the time to learn the ins and outs of how to successfully buy properties from motivated sellers without using their own money.

The average real estate investor works their rear end off putting together real estate transactions designed to fatten their investing portfolio, increase their bank account balance, and reach their goals. Then they do their level best to undo all that hard work by making dumb decisions with the way they handle their insurance coverage. Are you a smart, savvy investor destined for the real estate investing hall of fame or do you need remedial education? Take my quiz and let’s find out.

If you want to truly succeed as a real estate investor, you need to disregard the majority of the marketing advice being promoted by the "I can teach you to walk on water overnight” guru real estate investor crowd. If you really want to reach the real estate investing Promised Land, you're going to have to quit worshiping at the altar of the guru investors. They're very good at marketing themselves and their overpriced, ineffective real estate investing courses, but if you want to really launch