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5 Lead Generation Resources For Finding Motivated Apartment Sellers Lead Generation is at the heart and soul of any business and it is no different with multifamily apartment investing. Are you at a loss as to how to track down sellers of multifamily properties? There are five solid resources for finding motivated sellers. These five sources are direct mail, brokers, www.loopnet.com, bird dogs and other venues. 10 Creative Applications for getting your Apartment Investing Deals Done When you are trying to figure out how to get your multifamily apartment investing deals done, there are techniques that you can use to do so. Any one of these techniques can be used individually or in a combination. They can be applied by rehabbers, wholesalers or buy and hold entrepreneurs. 4 Ways to Structure Your Multifamily Deal with the Seller Another thing you need to keep in mind along with the four ways to structure your multifamily apartment deal with a seller is that there are two types of sellers. You have previous sellers that you can work with as well as sellers from marketing. Get Out of Your Job and Get Into Investing In Real Estate... Faster Let's be honest: Work isn't always a pleasure. That's why it's called work! You fight traffic, you put up with your boss, you try to ignore the office politics, and you can't wait to get home at night. Day in and day out. No wonder so many people want to be their own boss! Creativity in Multifamily Apartment Investing When people think of investing, they often think that it's a numbers game and therefore full of rules that restrict. But rules were made to be broken and real estate investing is a business that requires a healthy dose of creativity! In this article, I want show you why it pays to be creative. So go ahead and break the rules! Applying a Business Guru's Insight to Multifamily Apartment Investing - Part 2 Business Guru Peter Drucker gave us a brilliant equation - business equals marketing plus innovation. In a previous article we looked at the first half of that equation - marketing - to learn how multifamily apartment investors could improve their marketing efforts. In this article, we will consider the second half - innovation. 2 Areas of Control in Multifamily Apartments There is a prevalent misconception out there that in order to deal with multifamily properties, you must own the properties. Nothing could be further from the truth. In actuality, control can be more important than ownership. There are a couple of areas that you can control when dealing with multifamily properties. 3 Things to Promote for in Multifamily Apartment Investing The most important part of multifamily investing is finding the deals. The person who controls the deals holds the "keys to the kingdom". Every business has two core elements: marketing and innovation. With apartments, you are always marketing for three things: deals, money and tenants. 3 Ways to Reposition Your Commercial Property Are you trying to figure out a way to raise the rent on your multifamily property? You can raise rents through a process called repositioning. Whenever you buy a property and make improvements or repairs or convert a property from a Class D to a Class C or a Class C to a Class B, you are repositioning. There are three ways you can reposition your multifamily property. How to Raise Private Money for Buying Multifamily Properties When it comes to raising private money for your multifamily property deals, you are only limited by the scope of your imagination and creativity. The amazing thing is that there is a simple, four-part formula that you can use to raise private money for apartments. Most people, however, don't know about this formula much less that there are four parts and what those four parts are. This article examines each of these four parts. Buy Multifamily Apartments Today - Top 10 Reasons In these tough economic times, people are looking for sound investment opportunities. People desire income opportunities that are low risk but yield great returns. Such opportunities are hard to come by. Owning multifamily properties offers you the best of both worlds. Cited here are 10 advantages of owning apartments - using none of your own money.