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Scott Nachatilo - who has written 96 posts on Financially Free Real Estate Investor.


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The Two Biggest Difference Makers in Real Estate Investing

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Almost all the real estate investors I know have a common complaint: They don’t have enough time. I could remind you that we all have same amount of time, but I know you’ve heard that one already. But it’s true…and we all possess an equal share of this resource. But what [...]

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Real Estate Investing with Pigheaded Discipline and Determination

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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I’ve always been something of a health nut. I recently recommitted myself to my exercise program. For me, that consists of a short “wake up” set of exercises in the morning. I also commit to jogging at least 4 times each week at a bare minimum. I had been cruising along [...]

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Do You Believe these Two Landlord Myths?

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Bigger Pockets (www.biggerpockets.com) has one of the best forums on the internet for real estate investors. According to their figures, they currently have almost 50,000 members. One of the recent threads, “The Top Five Landlord Mistakes”, generated a lively discussion (http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/23212-the-top-5-landlord-mistakes?page=1). There are some really good “top mistakes” listed in these posts. [...]

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Is the Stock Market Really a Better Investment than Real Estate?

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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CNN published an article awhile back (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/real_estate/0704/gallery.stocks_v_realestate.moneymag/index.html) in which they drew a direct comparison between the stock market and real estate. The article pointed to an annual average return of 13.4% for the S&P 500 from 1978 to 2004. During that same period, they pointed to a “solid but unimpressive annualized return of [...]

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Good to Great Real Estate Investing

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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In his book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins talks about great companies having a “hedgehog concept”. His hedgehog concept comes from the story of a fox plotting time-after-time to get the hedge hog for his next meal. The fox uses one tricky plot after another to catch the hedgehog off guard, but the [...]

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Should You Assume a Loan When Buying Real Estate?

Sunday, March 7, 2010

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Question: Scott, I am looking at a house for sale by owner and the home is assessed by the county assessor at $50,000, the owner said to me, if you qualify you can assume my payments, she owns $30,000. Does that matter to the lending institution if I assume the loan and rent [...]

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Is Advertising for Private Money Legal?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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We recently had a speaker in Oklahoma City who came to talk about how to borrow money from private lenders. That speaker shall remain nameless in this article. He presented some excellent information on how to get private money from friends, family, and associates. And he told us how he had gotten [...]

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