Month of December , 2007

Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad books attempt to advise the potential real estate investor that there is nothing magical about investing, and that you and I can learn to accomplish it. Though he created the series, by introducing the idea in “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” that wealth is influenced by an individual’s financial philosophy, he is not the only author working on those books. He presents the reader to the possibility of mentors, or specialists, that distribute their expertise with regard to MN investment property with the real estate investor. One of his advisers is Ken McElroy. Robert Kiyosaki values Ken McElroy's expertise so much, that he asked Ken to help write his books.

In “The ABC's of Real Estate Investing,” McElroy explains the complete necessity of hiring specialists to assist you with real estate projects. There are countless reasons to employ experts to help, but the 2 most notable ones are time and knowledge. Those 2 reasons feed off of each.

For example, though the real estate investor must have a fundamental knowledge of construction, law, financing, accounting, the market, etc., there is no way she will ever be able to become an expert in ALL of those professions. He absolutely must become an expert in the real estate markets that interest him. This alone will take up most of his time and energy.

Therefore, if he tries to purchase a property using this basic knowledge of construction, for example, he will probably make wiser decisions than the typical citizen who is trying a similar thing. However, there’s a big chance that he will miss seeing something that an expert architect would see right away. Having that expert with him on your initial inspection is as vital as an fledgling adventurer bringing a tour guide with him on a walk through the jungle.  read more »

Google now offers tools for real estate professionals that lets you reach prospects in your region at all stages of their home search. These tools have been around for a while and Google is just repackaging and positioning them for real estate professionals.

The tools they are referring to are:

Google Base
AdWords
Maps
Earth
Local Business Center
Google Sketchup
Google Apps.

Google's overall message is that they can help generate real estate referrals and leads to help connect home buyers and sellers since Google has more real estate searches than all other search engines combined.