Real Estate Investing - The Marvel Of Home Depot And Lowe's

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.

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

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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 9 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.

Real Estate Investing - The Marvel Of Home Depot And Lowe's

Phil Speer, Ph.D., started his real estate investing career 25 years ago. Without the availability of credit and using only a bill, he purchased million in properties in his first year, and had accumulated 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.

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Quick and Easy Ways to Spruce up Your Real Estate

When you need to spruce up that recent real estate investment or get your home ready to sell, but you don't want to spend a lot of time or money on it. Here are a few tips that are quick, easy and inexpensive ways to fix your fixer upper.

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Paint - When you are trying to improve the appearance a little paint can go a long way in improvement. A nice freshly painted surface can make it look as good as new. If you find a good looking paint you may want to think about brightening up the trim with a coat of semi gloss. Make sure to go with a beige or white neutral color when painting the interior.

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Cabinets - Do the bathroom and kitchen cabinets got you down? Spruce them up with a coat of paint to give them a new and improved look. If the cabinets are stained or heavily colored use a white semi gloss. A quick coat of paint on the cabinets is much less costly than replacing them and can make them shine. Take it a little further by purchasing some new hardware for the cabinets. You can pick up simple round handles inexpensively at any home improvement store.

Switch out the switch and outlet covers - Do not paint over switch plate covers. They are cheap so just purchase new ones and replace them for a fresh and clean look. If the problem is the entire switch does not work, replace the whole thing for as little as .

Give it new trim - If that trim is not looking good, just replace it. You can get the durable foam trim that looks just like the real stuff at Lowes or Home Depot. You will be able to find it either unfinished or already painted depending on what you are looking for.

Give it new doors and handles - Go ahead like on the outlet covers, bit the bullet and replace the doors. Doors are inexpensive you can typically replace an old door with a new six panel hollow core for around . Then take and give it even more by replacing the old, worn door handles with new ones. This can give it a fresh, less grungy look. Door handles will run about to depending on the style you choose.

On the topic of doors - Improve the entrance to the home by replacing that front door to make the home brighter. You can get a nice heavy door for about 0, but if you don't want to replace it try giving it a coat of high gloss paint instead. Use a color that makes it pop like red or green.

Make the mailman smile - Buy a new mailbox that makes a statement. For around to you can get a mailbox unlike anyone else's on the street. If you add another you should be able to get a nice, new sturdy post to place it on.

Quick and Easy Ways to Spruce up Your Real Estate

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