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How To Build A Good Power Dream Team As A Real Estate Investor

By Simon Macharia on Feb 23, 2011 |Finance

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New real estate investors get crowded with intimidating things they do not understand about the business. They are scared of messing things up.

A smart real estate investor lets professionals do their job. Instead of learning how to do everything yourself, building a power team can help you tremendously in your business.
These tips will help you get off the ground by building the right power team.

What is a power team?
A power team, or dream team, is a team of people who can handle your business needs as a real estate investor. Depending on what you do, you will some professionals, and not others, in your team.

Here is a list of people you may need in your power team:

1) Title company - to close your deals for you. The title company you choose must work with real estate investors. They know all the ins and outs of the business and this makes your work very easy. Once you fax them the contract, they will handle the rest. They also have attorneys in the title companies.
2) Insurance agent - to insure your properties
3) Home inspector - very important person in your power team. Inspections have saved me sometimes tens of thousands of dollars when buying a property.
4) Contractors - Handy when you need to fix things up. Most real estate investors need rehab work, even if it is minor.
5) Handymen, general cleaners - Sometimes you need these
6) Mortgage broker - you might need them when buying houses or when getting your buyers qualified for mortgages. This is a very important person in your dream team.
7) Hard money lender or private money lenders - private money investors are cheaper and better. A real estate investing website for attracting private money is necessary for this.

At the foot of this article is a good recommended website.

Hard money lenders do not lend based on your credit, but on the property. Identify a good HML to work with.
8) Appraiser - when selling your properties or refinancing, you may need an appraiser
9) CPA - to keep your finances clean!
10) Real estate investors - some have cash to buy the properties you have!
11) Realtors - sometimes you need the services of a real estate agent, e.g. to buy REOs. A good Realtor will help you get comps and general advice when you give them business. The Realtor you choose must like to work with real estate investors.

Where do you get all these people?
The best place to get your dream is your local real estate investment groups. The local real estate investors already know these people. Investors know who delivers and who does not. Sometimes one or two networking meeting is all you need to build your entire dream team.

Do you need all the people above? No, your business model determines who is in your dream team.

Most real estate meetings have vendors as sponsors. These vendors form your dream team all under one roof! If you do not have such groups in your area a little more research will be needed.

Doing deals is the most important part of real estate investing. Do not wait until you build a dream team, so you can buy your first deal. You build one as you go.

Successful real estate investing must be driven by a ready supply of private cash available from private money lenders. Targeting these lenders requires you convince them that their money is safely invested in your deals. Learn how you can attract investing cash through a private money website.

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