Real Estate Investing - The Marvel Of Home Depot And Lowes

Repairing a rental home (or your own home) use to require running down to the local hardware store or to the nearby building supply house. After several stops around town, you found everything you needed to solve your maintenance problem.

If you are a fixer upper or tenant landlord today, you now have the marvel of Home Depot and Lowe's!

Now we have one-stop shopping for virtually everything needed at one of these two stores.

But more than that efficient feature for saving time (and often cost), you can get instruction for repairs from either experienced employees and/or special classes of instruction. If you don't know how to perform the job, you will often find it easier than you imagined. I had never laid any tile, until I discovered that an experienced tile-layer-turned-Home Depot-employee showed me how easy it is. And I found I could get my tile cut free at the store to fit those difficult spots around the tub faucets.

And add to these attractive store features the ease of acquiring commercial and consumer credit, often with promotions of $299 or more purchases at 0% interest for 6 months or more.

I was in Phoenix many years ago when I visited my first Home Depot. It was love at first sight. I had always wanted good quality tools fit for the job at hand at discount prices, and what I saw was a dream come true. I walked that store in amazement as I saw row after row of ceiling-high supplies of every sort of tool and construction material imaginable. It was an awesome experience, and I have never lost that euphoria in walking into a Home Depot or Lowe's. I have become increasingly appreciative over the years at this luxury of shopping at these two stores. Shopping is time-saving, and I leave it to Home Depot and Lowe's to do the research on discovering which suppliers manufacture the best tools, equipment and supplies for the job at hand.

Even if you are a real estate investor who does NONE of your own labor, these stores are a great place to learn how a job should be done right.

But if you perform the repair work on your own properties, you can find the materials and instruction at Home Depot and Lowe's.

It seems Home Depot and Lowe's are gonna slug it out for the predominant position in the marketplace. In some areas, when one new store is opened, the other store buys the lot next door for its own new location. America loves these two competitive stores. Some individual stores do a million dollars of business a week. I find both stores are excellent sources for the best tools and materials I've ever found. And it's hard to beat their prices.

Home Depot and Lowe's fill a void for real estate investors with convenience, pricing, instruction and availability.

Phil Speer, Ph.D., started his real estate investing career 25 years ago. Without the availability of credit and using only a $10 bill, he purchased $1 million in properties in his first year, and had accumulated $10 million in properties by his fourth year. http://www.CashinHouses.com/ He was featured in a Wall St.Journal editorial as most successful investor in the Nothing Down Real Estate Movement, and was honored with a Caribbean cruise as top investor of the year. In his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, he has been a businessman and Human Resources Consultant for 30 years. He is an author, speaker and seminar director.

To learn how to profit in real estate investing, even without cash or credit, read his report at http://www.General-RealEstate.com/b usiness/flipping.html/ Subscription is free to his Fix-up Ezine. He and other contributing authors provide free articles and resources on real estate investing at his online "Academy of Advanced Real Estate Investing Techniques" at http://www.AAREIT.com/

---

Budgeting Your Log Home: Where Do You Start?

The Log home industry has matured these last many years,... Read More

You Have 15 Seconds to Sell Your Home! 11 Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home for Top Dollar

Selling your home? Here are some suggestions to help you... Read More

Wealth Building ? An Advantage of Home Ownership

As you grow older, the issue of wealth building comes... Read More

Sell Your Home Without Paying Any Commissions

All of us know that real estate commissions can work... Read More

Time Is A Major Real Estate Wealth Growth Tool, So Use IT And Watch Your...

In Real Estate "Time" is a Wealth Development ToolsReal estate... Read More

Making a First Impression When Selling Your Home

So you've decided to take advantage of the booming real... Read More

New Home Construction - The American Dream or The American Nightmare?

Buying a new home is suppose to be the American... Read More

Searching for CLUEs: What Homebuyers & Sellers Need to Know About Homeowners Insurance

Homebuyers and sellers should be aware about issues involving homeowners... Read More

Finding Structural Problems During Escrow ? Upscale Home Example

When buying and selling homes, the property purchase is often... Read More

The Many Benefits Of Lease Purchasing

Lease Purchasing affords wonderful benefits and opportunities to sellers, buyers,... Read More

Apartment Loan 101

So you're interested in going into business as a property... Read More

Curb Appeal

First impressions do make a difference when selling your home.... Read More

FSBO - Selling Your Home FSBO (for sale by owner) ? Is It Worth It?

FSBO, what is it? FSBO means For Sale by Owner,... Read More

Virtual Agent? Online Real Estate

When preparing to sell a house, you should always consider... Read More

Eleven Questions to Ask in an Agent Interview

Questions Sellers Should Ask in Agent Interviews:1. Is your license... Read More

Family Feud with an Auction Deadline ? Adventures in Probate/ Estate Purchases

One of our investor students told us of an interesting... Read More

Real Estate Investing in Rentals ? the $10 Million Real Estate Investing Mistake

Renting to tenants is no longer "where the money is"... Read More

Real Estate Investing - Protect Your Privacy

An irate tenant or disgruntled home-buyer, with the help of... Read More

Purchasing International Real Estate

Interested in investing somewhere other than your back yard?Management companies... Read More

Are Condo Hotels What the Orlando Real Estate Investor Has Been Looking For?

Earlier this year the Hawthorn suites in Lake Buena Vista... Read More

Home Inspection Checklist - Home Inspectors

Although architectural details, wall and floor coverings, modern conveniences and... Read More

Realtors: Forget Your Address?

It's a large real estate agency, and the company depends... Read More

High Tension for the Buyer and Seller of Real Estate Can Be Reduced

Tensions can run high in both the selling and buying... Read More

Avoid The Traps Of Finance

Most consumers are told where to get their mortgage because... Read More

How You Will NOT Make Money in Real Estate

We all have seen some book called "How I Turned... Read More

The Secret Jewel in the Mediterranean Crown

Since the Northern Cypriots famously voted 'yes' to the UN... Read More

Victorian. Modern. Colonial. What?s Your Architectural Style?

You are attracted to a home for more than its... Read More

Tenants in Common (TIC)

Tenants in Common is a way of sharing ownership of... Read More

Do You Need to Download a Landlord Inventory On-Line Today?

Do you need to download a Landlord Inventory on-line now?... Read More

Basic Real Estate Valuation

Given the current interest (dare I say hysteria) associated with... Read More

Buying Rental Property - Avoid Sellers Tricks

Be careful when buying rental property. We stayed at a... Read More

7 Marketing Methods for Real Estate Coaches

You shower, shampoo, dress your best, check to see if... Read More

A Beginners Guide to Flipping Houses

If you're dreaming of making money in real estate, it's... Read More