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-Titulo Original : Flip How To Find, Fix, And Sell Houses For Profit

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McGraw Hill

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FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit by Rick Villani, Clay Davi... From the Publisher Rick Villani and Clay Davis are senior executives at HomeFixers, North America’s leading real estate rehab franchise. About the Author McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide Rick Villani and Clay Davis are senior executives at HomeFixers, North America’s leading real estate rehab franchise. Gary Keller is Chairman of the Board of Keller Williams ® Realty International. Keller is responsible for providing strategic direction for all Keller Williams ® divisions and affiliate companies, including Keller Williams University, kw , homesbyAuction , and the agent-led Eagentc . Keller established Keller Williams ® with partner Joe Williams in 1983. The company began franchising in 1987 and expanded to Canada in 1998. From 1995 to present, Keller Williams ® has become one of the fastest growing real estate companies in the United States with sales and commissions growth topping 700% during that period. A native of Houston, Texas, Keller attended Baylor University, where he earned a B.B.A. in Marketing and Real Estate in 1979. Keller began his real estate career as an agent and later manager in the JB Goodwin Company from 1979 to 1983. Keller is a member of the Austin Board of Realtors, the Texas Association of Realtors, and the Austin Multiple Listing Service. Keller was nominated and later appointed to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Board of Directors in 2000. He has served on the Board of the Austin Jaycees, the Board of Directors of the Austin Center for Battered Women, and been listed in Oxford’s Who’s Who of Young Professionals. An accomplished teacher in all aspects of residential real estate, Gary is a strong proponent of professional education. Beyond his role overseeing the vision and implementation of Keller Williams University, Keller actively pursues mentoring and consulting relationships within and without the company. Keller is married to Mary Pfluger; they have one child, John Christian. He is a musician -- guitar and piano -- and enjoys reading, hiking, traveling, antiques, movies, football, basketball, and spending as much time as possible with his family. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. FLIP HOW TO FIND, FIX, AND SELL HOUSES FOR PROFIT By GARY KELLER RICK VILLANI CLAY DAVIS McGraw-Hill, Inc. Copyright © 2007 Rellek Publishing Partners, Ltd.All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-07-148610-1 Contents Chapter One Define Your Target After reading this chapter you will know how to * Target investment neighborhoods * Determine what elements make a good target neighborhood * Select the target neighborhoods that are right for you Would you buy investment properties in Kathmandu? Unless you live in Nepal, you probably dont have to think too long about your answer. And if someone pressed you for an explanation, it would be easy to come up with some practical reasons why not: Its too far away. Its too difficult to travel there. And what do you know about the Nepalese real estate market, anyway? When successful real estate investors make decisions about where to search for investment properties, they apply some of the same reasoning you just did in ruling out Kathmandu. In this chapter you will learn how to use a set of tried and true targeting criteria to determine the target neighborhoods that will give you the best profit potential for flips. In essence, youll learn how to create a personal house-buying bulls-eye. Defining target neighborhoods is a two-step process. In the first step, youll identify the various factors that go into evaluating a neighborhood. We call these factors your targeting criteria. Some will be proven investment criteria; others will be more personal criteria. In the