Buford GA Homes for Sale Active MLS Listings Update

Here are the most recent Buford GA Metro area MLS figures from our FMLS for Buford GA homes for sale and Buford real estate. If you are looking at Atlanta homes for sale you need to consider many of hte areas that make up the Atlanta metro area. Buford GA is a sought after destination for Atlanta homes. As of today Saturday December 10, 2011 MLS these are the statistics for Buford GA Single Family Detached Home Listings at a Glance:

• Active FMLS Listings - 415 Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found
• Contingency w/Kickout- 1 Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found
• Contingency - Due Diligence- 4 Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found
• Contingency - Other- 2 Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found
• Pending Sales - 128 Properties Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found
• Pending Existing Lender Approval - 41 Properties Detached Single Family Buford GA Homes for Sale Found

Buford GA Homes for Sale

Attend the all new, 4 day, Breakthrough Real Estate Investing Academy on November 3rd - 6th in Atlanta where you'll discover the latest BREAKTHROUGH real estate investing technologies, tools and techniques to make your investing business easier and more profitable than ever! You'll have two prominent, successful local investors, Don DeRosa and Duncan Wierman, both playing at the top of their games, sharing their secrets with you so you can break through whatever is preventing you from growing your business exponentially.

You'll learn techniques that will catapult your real estate investing business like running inexpensive, automated marketing programs to get your phone to ring instantly. Or tools that will help you get your life back like using Virtual Assistants to offload time-consuming tasks. These guys pack their seminars with content, and this one is literally overflowing! Read more...

Atlanta REIA Members can register today for only $99 and bring a guest for only $50 more! Non-Members can attend for $199 OR Join Atlanta REIA first as a Silver Member for $100 and then regisgter for the event as a member for only $99. Seating is very limited so Register Now!

If you are interested in making quick money by “Wholesaling” properties you have to join us on our next Training Opportunity Webcast! On Thursday, November 3rd, at 7:00 PM ET, our special guests will be Than Merrill & Jon Steingraber from A&E’s “Flip this House” on “How to Make Money Wholesaling Real Estate – A No B.S. discussion on what current opportunities are BEST in today’s market.” Than and Jon wholesale a ton of houses each month and on the webcast they're going to show you exactly how they run their business as well as how you can get started making money wholesaling distressed properties right here in Atlanta. Register for the webcast now and don't miss it! Read more...

Haves and Wants is a weekly investor's networking, brainstorming and deal making jam session hosted by Joe Thompson and held at 5 Seasons Brewing located at 5600 Roswell Rd (map) inside the Perimeter at the "Prado" in Sandy Springs from 1:30 PM till approximately 3:00 PM. This group is all about doing deals and making money right now. If you are a real estate player or want to be, this is one meeting you don't want to miss! Read more→

My good friend and mentor, Ron LeGrand, the Nation’s Leading Quick Turn Real Estate Expert, is back in Atlanta and has invited you to join him at his new Fast Track to Wealth Seminar on November 5th to help you discover that right now is the best opportunity to make an obscene amount of money in real estate and how you can be a part of it.

We are in the "Perfect Storm", contrary to what you hear on the news, because unusual chains of events have come together to create an economic climate for real estate investors, both beginners and seasoned pros, like Ron has never seen in his 27 years in the experience. If you don’t take action now, and get on the bandwagon, the greatest opportunity to create wealth on The Fast Track may pass you by before you even know what happened.

Ron promises this 1-day Fast Track Event will be a career-changing one, and from what I know of him, it will be. These are a few of the things he has told me you’ll be learning. Read more...

Our next What's Hot in Real Estate Investing Webcast is on Tuesday, October 18th at 7PM ET with website designer and internet marketing expert, Jens Beatty, on his WordPress LeadTheme 2.5. As you know, many real estate investors and small business owners use WordPress to power their websites and blogs because of it’s flexibility, ease of use and its ability to achieve great search engine rankings without a lot of technical know how. Because of the ever increasing interest in WordPress, Jens has created a fantastic WordPress theme that focuses on something that most WordPress themes do not… generating leads. His WordPress theme is called LeadTheme and it was designed specifically to make it super quick and easy to get your website online and generating leads. LeadTheme 2.5 is also designed to work with popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +. Read More...

Join us on the webcast and download LeadTheme 2.5 for FREE!

This month at the Atlanta REIA North Meeting on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:30 PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, Georgia, Jim Hitt of American IRA, will teach you how to use IRA's to invest in real estate. Jim will teach you how to use your Roth IRA to buy real estate tax free, how to lend money on real estate deals, how to borrow money from private lenders using their IRA and much more. Please join us at Atlanta REIA North to learn more about investing with IRAs!

Immediately after the Atlanta REIA North Monthly Meeting at approximately 9 PM, we will reconvene at the Mall of Georgia Tilted Kilt located at 3480 Financial Center Pkwy in Buford, GA for the meeting-after-the-meeting, AKA Late Nite Networking. We hope you will come out and eat, drink, network, learn and have fun with us and keep the investing conversations going late into the evening!

Haves and Wants is a weekly investor's networking, brainstorming and deal making jam session hosted by Joe Thompson and held at 5 Seasons Brewing located at 5600 Roswell Rd (map) inside the Perimeter at the "Prado" in Sandy Springs from 1:30 PM till approximately 3:00 PM. This group is all about doing deals and making money right now. If you are a real estate player or want to be, this is one meeting you don't want to miss! Read more...

This Thursday at 7PM ET, Don DeRosa will take the coolest tech tool out there - the iPad - and walk through step-by-step, how to use it to evaluate and structure real estate deals with the greatest of ease.

Don's going to walk through two of his recent deals and cover:

• How he got the lead
• How he evaluated the deal
• How he decided whether it was a buy and hold, or a fix and flip
• How he determined his repairs, and captured them for competitive bids
• How he determined how much he could offer
• How he negotiated with the seller
• How much he'll make on it
• and much more!

...all the things you need to know to get a deal done right in this market.

Don will also share the iPad apps he used - both "out of the box" from the Apple store, and those he tweaked a bit (he'll show you how he tweaked 'em to make them powerful investor tools), to see whether he had a buyer lined up already, to track determine repairs, and ultimately to get the contract done - on site - absolutely paperless! It's just too cool!

This is a Training Opportunity Webcast you won't want to miss. Whether you use an iPad or not, you'll get some great, current, local real estate education, tips, and insights from an expert, right in our own backyard, who always shares a ton of his knowledge. Learn where he's buying and why - so you can cash in on the amazing deals right here in your market. Register Now!

You really want to take advantage of this hot Buyer’s market, you know it’s a great time to be involved in real estate, but there’s something stopping you—something BIG. You just don’t know where to get the money to do your deals! Well we’re about to fix that-come join us at Atlanta REIA West on Monday, October 24^th at 6:30 PM and discover various ways to get access to CASH to do your deals. We’ll expose you to some pretty creative and non-conventional methods to fund your deals. This is one you definitely don’t want to miss, because its common knowledge that the one with the cash gets the best deals!

We have assembled a panel of REAL money sources for you. This group of lenders and experts has never before been brought together like this! Meet Jim Hitt with American IRA, a real source of a wealth of information on private money lending. Meet David Dick, a Hard Money Lender right here in the Atlanta area. Meet Tim Gibson, a Senior Loan Officer with the #1 Ranked Independent Mortgage Lender for Purchases in the U.S. Meet Jim Gibson, a Reverse Mortgage Specialist hand-picked from the masses to represent this very unique product. Attend Atlanta REIA West and meet them all, live and in person. These four people have access to millions of dollars to lend to people just like you. Read More...

PLEASE NOTE: This FREE Workshop will fill up fast since it is limited to the first 30 people who RSVP. Register now to reserve your seat!

Short Sale Expert, Bob Massey is back at Atlanta REIA teaching a FREE workshop for Atlanta REIA Members on Saturday, October 22nd from 9AM to 1PM at 1960 Skylar Hill Dr, Suite D in Buford, Georgia. This will be a two part workshop. The first will be on the foreclosure process in GA, the law and how it affects the agent, the seller and the investor.

The second half of the workshop will be to discuss real estate agents and their role with investors. This will NOT be the same presentation that Bob did at the September 2011 main meeting nor the Short Sale Webcast he did with us on October 6th. This is going to be all new material in a workshop environment where your will get tons of education about how to work with agents during the entire short sale process, from start to close.

Most investors have heard the phrase Lease Option. A few have even used a Lease Option when trying to rent a property to a tenant/buyer. But practically no one understands what the Option part of a Lease Option is, or realizes that Options are the safest way to create HUGE bundles of real estate profits!

I learned about the power of Options from Jack Miller (God rest his wise soul!) starting back in 1999. Jack was the King of Options. His knowledge was nothing short of amazing!!!

For the first time, I’m going to share a few of the things I’ve learned from Jack over the years. The Option techniques he taught were gamechangers for Kim and me and have allowed us to rake in solid real estate profits during this down market.

Example: In 2008, a homeowner was $3,200 in arrears on his mortgage because of a job loss. He found a new job, but was struggling to catch up his mortgage. The lender was threatening to foreclose. Because of his bad credit, the bank wouldn’t lend him any money. He only owed $68,000 on a home that was conservatively worth $155,000, and didn’t want to sell or move. How would you work this deal?

Here’s how we structured a creative and profitable win-win deal with the homeowner: For $3,200 – which we sent to the lender – we bought a seven-year Option to Purchase from the owner and recorded it against the property with a Security Deed. Within seven years, we had the right to buy the property at an amount equal to the owner’s mortgage balance at the time we purchased – an amount that would be (because of amortization) something less than $155,000.

So the owner wouldn’t have to immediately move – something he greatly valued – we agreed to not exercise our Option for at least three years so long as he kept his mortgage current. In addition, we agreed that if we exercised our option, we’d give the owner 50% of our net profit when we sold the property.

In early 2011, the homeowner called. He was back on his feet and doing well. He wanted to refinance his property and get a low-interest mortgage…plus he wanted to buy back our Option. He agreed to pay us $18,200 in exchange for our Option to Purchase Agreement.

This was a true win-win deal. The homeowner was able to remain in his house and save it from foreclosure, and we turned $3,200 into $18,200 with very little effort.

Could we have refused to sell back our Option to the homeowner and exercised it instead? Absolutely! But he was a good guy with a great family. Kim and I felt that making a $15,000 profit on a $3,200 investment for only two hours of work was more than a good enough return on our investment.

Are you beginning to understand the power of Options? And this is only scratching the surface of all the ways you can use Options to control real estate!

To learn more about Options and other creative deal-structuring strategies, Dyches Boddiford and I will be teaching at Atlanta REIA on October 3, 2011.

Bill & Kim Cook are a husband and wife real estate investing team. They live in Adairsville, Georgia and have been investing in real estate since 1995. They specialize in buying single-family homes, mobile homes and mobile home parks. They also run North Georgia REIA and teach folks how to successfully invest in real estate.

Buford Home for Sale

Our neweset "Homes In HD" - and it's our listing!  It's been a while since I had a home that was not a short sale so it's kind of fun to have all the focus go back to what the home can bring to potential owners versus focusing on bank practices and low prices.

This home (located at 3517 Ravens Nest Trail in Buford, GA) has 7 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 4 fireplaces, 3 car garage.  You could easily take it out of Hidden Falls and drop it into Chateau Elan, St. Marlo or Sugarloaf Country Club and not miss a beat.  The kitchen, master suite and basement finishing rival anything in those neighborhoods.

The home is owned by a "master" level photographer who finished the basement for his client's needs.  In this case, this means a full kitchen, full bathroom large enough to change in and several large rooms which could be living space, working space, training space or sets.

There's a ton to loveinside this home but outside there is a fireplace set for entertaining and let's not forget the home has 4 sides of brick, a rarety in Georgia.

For the complete photo album (before we post it to our website later today) go to our Facebook Page.