Find Investment Property

Investment real estate is a very competitive field and those that are not quick will have a hard time finding a good discount investment property. The worst thing you can do as an investor is to pay full price for a home and think that you can fix it up or flip it. Here is a guide to finding undervalued property and other forms of real estate investment.

The first option you have is to join a local property investment club and start networking with other investors. Networking is a great way to finding discounted fixer uppers because often many of these investors will have their hands full, but won't want to just leave a good deal alone. If they know you are actively looking for discount investment property, then they will call you instead of someone else, this means that you'll have your phone ringing telling you about deals before you can find them, which makes your job easy.

Another option is to start paying for bird dogs to look through property listings and help find you fixer uppers. Many times, if you have a list of several people that know you are looking for property, then you can get your phone ringing off the hook by offering to pay them a couple hundred dollars per lead. You have to make sure they know what price and value you are looking for in an investment property, but once they do you won't have to spend any time finding good deals.

Lastly, you can go through the property listings on your own and try to find the deals yourself. You can look through all of the newspapers, classified ads, and FSBO websites to try and find good deals if you feel you have the time. This can be a difficult process if you don't know what you are doing, however if you become good at this then you will soon shave tons of time off of the process. Once you've created a system of how and where to find undervalued property and good fixer uppers, then you can keep repeating the process until you've got enough houses to keep your hands full, at which point you can help others out by passing good deals on to them.

Having a network of allies is a great way to stay abreast of the latest in the investment property scene in the area you operate.

Although you can do everything on your own, you will soon realize that you hardly have enough time to perfect one area of the process, let alone all of them. Having a team at your side can make flipping houses or investing in investment property a much more profitable and successful venture than doing it alone.