Real Estate Investing in the Real World
Real Estate Blog
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007

You can take courses, attend seminars, and read till you're blue in the face - but there's nothing like learning by doing. 

Here are a few cool sites by real estate investors who are out there making it happen, and who are using blogs to chronicle their experiences. 

  • Check out I bought a duplex.  A young woman late-20's talks about her adventure in landlording and real estate investing. 
  • Follow a Texas investor's experience from December '04 to today at My Real Estate Investing Venture. 
  • The Successful Landlord Blog follows the experiences of a landlord in Melbourne Beach, Florida. 
  • And you can find everything from newbies to grizzled veterans at the Creative Real Estate Online Forum - a great place to hang around and get a new idea or two. 
  • Tenants will do the craziest things, and they've seen it all over at Tenant Tales.  Entertaining reading. 
  • I like Shaun from Arizona's description of his site as meant for people who want to get into this investment area but need some encouragement, help, or just a general push in the right direction.... you'll see it's really not that difficult or scary.

I have a lot of respect for investors who put their experiences, successes and and mistakes out there for others to learn from.  Visit their websites and see what you think 

 April 25th:  Omission - I forgot Fred de la Riva's excellent Working with Real Estate Investors.  A great resource, especially for real estate agents who want to specialize in investor clients. 

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