Salespeople are full of catchy phrases.

And today, I've got a new one for you. Meditate on it like a mantra, and I promise it will keep you and your business alive, even while others wash out. 

"This is a man's world!" ~James Brown.  All due respect to the godfather of soul, we disagree. Unfortunately, while women make up the majority of realtors, a visit to any local REIA will reveal that the opposite is true when it comes to investing. At REIRail, we consider it part of our mission to change that. So it is a great pleasure to welcome our friend, Whitney Nicely to the blog. She has been preaching the gospel of wealth building through real estate to women around the country for years. In this post she expounds on why women are such great investors (better than men LOL). 

As you know, the goal of this blog is to help you stay at the top of your game through technology tips and tricks, marketing hacks, investment strategies and more. Well, here's our first must read piece of 2019. In this guest post from our friends at Mashvisor, Daniela Andreevska lays out the hottest REI markets around the country. If you're ready to start building your buy and hold portfolio, the tools Mashvisor provides will help you run the numbers to quickly identify the best deals in your market. Use promo code REIRAIL25 or simply click this link to receive 25% of any Mashvisor subscription. Now to the list...

You have your eye on some potentially hot real estate deals, but the owners are nowhere to be found. Maybe they skipped town to avoid paying some debts and they don’t want to be tracked down. Maybe they just moved away and left the property vacant because they don’t want to spend the money on improvements to make it rentable. Maybe a long-lost rich relative found them and whisked them away to live in a castle in Scotland. The point is, you never know until you start looking.  

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, especially when it comes to real estate investing. The competition isn’t friendly, and as soon as a seller realizes that they have something of value, making a favorable deal gets way harder. Having critical data at your fingertips could mean the difference between securing a gold mine or letting a property slip through your fingers. One way to give yourself the best chance of closing a deal is to use call tracking software. In fact, in the competitive real estate investing landscape, not having call tracking software puts you at a serious disadvantage that no amount of hard work can overcome.

You can’t deny that there has been some murmuring about bubbles and crashes in the real estate market over the past couple of years. And by murmuring, we mean that super loud whisper that grandma tries to do when she’s talking smack about the neighbor who is ten feet away and can hear every word she says.

You’re in the business of making money, not losing it. What you might not realize is that the outdated software you’re using to find, track, and close REI deals could actually be costing you. Hey, we can hear your chorus of responses right now: “But Excel isn’t outdated, everybody uses it.” “But all the software I use is free.” “But my system works for me.” But, but, but … But you’re probably not making as much money as you would be if you were using better software.

Max Maxwell is the prototypical REIRail user—a hard-working investor who relies on the software to streamline his processes and realize explosive revenue. The efficiency gains our call tracking software offers are attractive to many REI professionals because our solution reduces the time necessary to research properties and people, removes the need to juggle various siloed software applications, and delivers the best information needed to make connections with potential sellers. Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not.

Real estate investing is largely about gathering intelligence—finding properties to purchase, knowing the details of those properties to aid you in negotiations, and using all that information to close the deal.

The real estate investing market these days is hot, hot, hot! That’s the good news, and you probably already knew it. What you might not know is that it is also becoming tight, tight, tight! The return on investment is the lowest it has been since 2014, which has prompted the big boys to step up their game and go for the volume play. Unlike Bungalo, you probably don’t have $225 million to invest, so you’ll have to be smarter, faster, and better at real estate marketing if you want a full-time REI career—or to take that ridiculously swanky vacation.