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Real-World Creative Deal Structuring With Dyches Boddiford & Bill Cook at Atlanta REIA Oct Main Meeting
Posted on September 25, 2011 bywith Dyches Boddiford & Bill Cook
Two Masters at Creative Deal Structuring
at the Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on Oct 3rd
You meet with a seller. The seller is VERY motivated and DESPERATE to sell. You’ve been looking for a deal just like this one! Five Questions: Are you sure it’s a good deal? What’s your exit strategy? What’s the best way to structure the deal? How are you going to pay for it? Do you know how to use creative deal structuring to make the IMPOSSIBLE deals POSSIBLE?
Our next Atlanta REIA Main Meeting on October 3rd is like no other! There’s no hype and no bla-bla-bla! Come participate as two of the best and most experienced investors in the country, Dyches Boddiford and Bill Cook, use their real-world examples to show how they make the impossible deals possible.
WARNING: This is NOT a sit-on-your-fanny-and-watch-the-show meeting. We want you to be part of the meeting and help us find the best ways a deal can be structured! Read More→
How to Buy Houses on the Courthouse Steps with Bill & Kim Cook
Posted on March 29, 2011 by
Leslie Mathis, myself and the rest of the attendees wanted to thank Bill and Kim Cook for speaking last night (3/28/11) at the Atlanta REIA West Meeting at the Cherokee Cattle Company on the fascinating topic of how to buy houses at the courthouse foreclosure auction. Bill did an excellent presentation for both new and seasoned investors. This meeting was very well attended and Bill and Kim were asked many excellent questions by the audience. Any time you see Bill and/or Kim speaking, we highly recommend you attend. They have years of experience buying and selling real estate and both specialize buying and the courthouse steps and doing short sales. Thanks again Bill and Kim!
Bill and Kim Cook Speaking at Atlanta REIA West on March 28, 2011
Posted on March 27, 2011 byI don’t know if you’ve noticed or not yet, but Bill Cook, real estate expert and leader of the North GaREIA, has been allowing us to publish his weekly articles on AtlantaREIA.com. Bill writes on a wide variety of topics such as finding motivated sellers, buying properties at auction, lowering your property taxes, and more… Click here for a Full List of Bill’s Articles.
Not only is Bill buying and selling foreclosures, writing articles and running his REIA group, but he and Kim will be speaking at our Atlanta REIA West Meeting on Monday, March 28, 2011, from 6:30 to 9 PM at the Cherokee Cattle Company at 2710 Canton Road, Marietta, GA (map). Bill and Kim will be speaking about…
How to Make Money at Foreclosure Auctions!
These days, with so many BIG-PROFIT deals popping up at each month’s foreclosure auction, lots of real estate investors – both new and experienced alike – are asking how to successfully buy at the foreclosure auction. Now is your chance to learn from a couple who buys at the courthouse steps every month! Read More→
Bill & Kim Cook
Posted on March 1, 2011 byBill and Kim are a husband and wife real estate investing team. Bill creatively constructed his first deal in 1990, and he’s been helping other investors do the same since 1997.
Their investment portfolio consists of single-family rental homes, mobile homes, a small mobile home park, plus notes and options.
They built their business square on the back of knocking on homeowner’s doors. Why? Because it’s the fastest, cheapest and most effective way to get face-to-face with homeowners and make written offers.
Their core belief is that real estate investing is not about buying, selling or renting houses. It’s about helping people solve their real estate problems. Read More→
Special Thanks To Those Who Made Our 1st Annual BIG Cookout a BIG Success!
Posted on July 6, 2013 byIf you were at Hammond Park on June 26th, you had some terrific tasting hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans and potato salad that couldn’t be beat. Over 180 Atlanta REIA members and guests were a part of a great time, took advantage of a tremendous networking opportunity, and listened to Dorsie Boddiford, talk about her start as a real estate investor, why she does it and what keeps her going. Bill Cook of North Georgia REIA spoke to us about what is the most important thing about real estate investing, talking face to face with sellers.
This event was sponsored by Chris Littleton of Solutions Realty Network, Craig Halperin of Halperin Lyman Attorneys At Law, Mike Cherwenka of Goldmine Properties, and Jim Hitt of American IRA. They spoke about their services and the importance of their services to new investors. We thank you so much for providing the food and beverages, and helping to make this event possible.
I would also like to extend a very special Thank You, to Dustin and Chrissy Griffin. For marketing and their logistic abilities to making this BIG Cookout a success. If you liked the baked beans, Chrissy added her special touch to make those delicious.
Our food wouldn’t have tasted so good without the grill master skills of Maggie, Marshall, and Bob. They all just stepped up to the grill and started going at it. Our heartfelt thank you goes out to them. Thanks to Russ Hiner as well who was on hand to help out with a number of tasks. Read More→
The Beginning Investors Group 1st Annual BIG Summer Cookout on June 26, 2013
Posted on June 21, 2013 by1st Annual BIG Summer Cookout!
with Special Guests, Bill Cook & Dorsie Boddiford
PLEASE NOTE: We had over 200 reservations for this event and had to shut down the FREE reservations due to the overwhelming demand. Anyone who wishes to attend that has not RSVP’d yes can still do so for only $5.00 per person to help cover food and beverage costs. Food and beverages will be limited to those people who RSVP and bring their ticket/receipt. We also encourage everyone to bring their own non-alcoholic beverages just in case we run out.
RSVP Here for Only $5.00 per person
The Atlanta REIA Beginning Investors Group (BIG) is having our 1st Annual BIG Summer Cookout on Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 at 6:00 PM at the Hammond Park Pavilion located at 705 Hammond Dr NE in Sandy Springs, GA.
Come listen to Dorsie Boddiford and Bill Cook talk about how they invest real estate, why they do it, and what keeps them motivated when the going gets tough. If you are a new or “new again” investor, you do not want to miss this fun and information packed event.
We are expecting over 100 people along with experienced investors as well as our sponsors who have products and services that every investor needs for success. This event will be a great way to network, build new friendships and partnerships. There will be hot dogs, hamburgers and lots of food. You can even bring your own food and beverages if you want. We will have 3 grills going. There is a playground very close by with adult supervision.
Halperin Lyman, LLC – A transactional real property law firm devoted to providing the full spectrum of non-litigation related real estate legal and consulting services to its clientele.
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Solutions Realty Network – Providing expert property management and investment services since 2003. You invest and we take care of the rest! We’re the solution to all your real estate needs. Read More>>
American IRA – The American IRA mission is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry. Contact us to learn how to invest in real estate with your IRA. Read More>>
Goldmine Properties, Inc. – As Atlanta’s first full service real estate wholesaler, we offer wholesale property at 65% loan to value, with financing available. Purchase price and repairs are 65% of certified after repaired appraisal. Read More>>
Never Take Orders From Paint
Posted on October 3, 2017 byThe late Jack Miller was one of my primary real estate investing teachers. He was a wonderful man and an incredible educator and mentor. It’s hard to believe that he went to heaven almost six years ago…not a day goes by that he and I don’t have a conversation in my head.
Jack was the type of guy who very much marched to his own drum. One of his best quotes was: Never take orders from paint.
Let me explain: Have you ever turned onto a street, seen the One Way sign and realized that you were going the wrong way? What did you do – an immediate U-turn, right? That’s what most of us would do. But not Jack! Jack would keep going the way he was going and say, “Never take orders from paint!” Read More→
How We Creatively Funded A Recent Deal
Posted on August 7, 2017 byHow do seasoned real estate investors creatively fund their deals without going to a bank? To show you one way, let’s look at a deal that Kim and I recently got funded using a private-money lender.
This deal began when Kim and I were high bidders at the December 3, 2013 property tax auction in Cartersville, Georgia. We bought the tax deed on 50 Akin Drive for $2,800. The purchase money came from our checking account and was used to pay up the property’s back taxes for tax years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. By the way, despite what the TV infomercial claims about buying tax deeds, as the high bidders, we only owned the tax deed, not the property!
Over the next twelve months, either the property owners (who had abandoned the property) or their mortgage company had the right to buy back the property’s tax deed for our $2,800 purchase price, plus pay us a fee of 20% interest. Read More→
Avoid the Certainty of Poverty
Posted on July 10, 2017 byHad a good conversation with an investor friend about the financial collapse of Greece. The country is so broke that not only can it not repay its loans, it can’t make its note payments either. What’s Greece’s solution to this financial meltdown? They want to borrow even MORE money!
It’s crazy for anyone – including a country – to believe that the way to get yourself out of a financial hole is to dig it even deeper! Yet that’s exactly what Greece – and way too many American families…and America herself – is doing.
Jack Miller, my long-time teacher until he joined the other angels in heaven, taught us how to avoid the certainty of poverty. He also shared what he had learned from Warren Hardin: It’s inconvenient to be physically alive but financially dead! Read More→
Buying at the Foreclosure Auction
Posted on June 5, 2017 byFrom 2013 through 2016, Kim and I have rarely been the high bidders on a property at the foreclosure auction. Why the dry spell? Because the cheese has moved! For example, from 2007 through 2009, the best deals were found buying short sales. From 2010 through 2012, the best deals were found buying at the foreclosure auction. From 2013 through 2016, the best deals have been found by buying pre-foreclosures. Remember, the cheese is always moving. To be successful, you can’t keep going back to where the cheese was – you must go to where it is today!
Here are the basic steps Kim and I follow when bidding at the foreclosure auction. (NOTE: Be aware that each state’s foreclosure laws are different.) First, in Georgia, before a property can be auctioned for foreclosure, it must be advertised in the county’s paper of record for four consecutive weeks before the auction. Call your county’s Clerk of Court’s office and they will tell you in which paper and on which day(s) the “legals” (including foreclosure notices) run.
On the day the foreclose notices first run for next month’s auction, we buy that paper and transfer the foreclosure info in the paper – which is difficult to read – onto our Foreclosure Sheet – which make it much easier to read! Read More→
How to Work Pre-Foreclosures
Posted on May 1, 2017 byGoing to the foreclosure auction was the best way to find real estate investing deals from 2009 through 2012…talk about lots of low-hanging fruit! We were often able to buy a nice three-bedroom, two-bath home in a solid neighborhood for $35 a square foot. Then in 2013, the cheese moved. Buying on the steps was no longer the best place to get deals.
Let me explain: In April 2012, there were close to two hundred properties advertised for foreclosure in Bartow County, but at the auction, there were only five investors bidding on them. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. One year later – April 2013 – there were less than eighty properties advertised with more than fifty – that’s 50 – investors and hedge funds bidding on that handful of properties. Suddenly, because of the law of supply and demand, winning bidders found themselves paying $80 to $110 a square foot for a house. This was a huge year-over-year price increase!
Did this mean that all the great deals had disappeared? No, it simply meant that to find great deals, investors had to look somewhere else – like buying properties pre-foreclosure. Read More→
Be 100% There!
Posted on April 3, 2017 byHow important is it, when meeting with a seller, buyer, renter, realtor or contractor, to be totally focused on that person? If you’re not paying complete attention to what that person says and how he or she says it (tone of voice, hand gestures, body position, eye movement), isn’t there a good chance you’ll miss critical information that’s being shared with you?
The number of people who are not 100% there during a meeting has become epidemic – and is a major pet peeve of mine! If you’re over fifty years old, you already know what I’m talking about. Baby Boomers grew up without cell phones, emails, and text messages. Heck, we didn’t even have phone answering machines!
Here’s an example of this epidemic at work. A real estate investor needed help structuring a deal and asked for an hour of my time. He drove up from Atlanta and met me at the Adairsville Waffle House. Read More→
