Rick Rickert's (americanacademyofrealestate) Blog

A very typical situation: A real estate investor talks with a Realtor and asks, “Can you find me a deal?” In most cases, the Realtor will jump on MLS, and search for a "deal", some property that is selling for less than market value. They are not going to find it! Or at least not the kind of "dea...

  I’m Rick Rickert, and I teach agents and investors how to buy foreclosed real estate for profit.   So do a whole lot of other people!   But here’s the difference. Most of the people out there who are teaching how to invest in real estate only do so in their dimmest memories, and only run real e...

  Yet another real estate agent I know told me that "there are no more deals at the foreclosure auction." When I asked if he had ever purchased a property at the auction, the answer was NO. 593 properties, totalling $106,157,772.81 were sold in the last quarter of 2012 at Maricopa County foreclos...

There are so many stories in the media depicting banks and other lenders as predatory monsters for trying to foreclose on people who haven’t paid their loan as promised. It’s easy to see them as villains, forcing a family out of their home. I know there is real pain out there. People who have bee...

I was told this years ago by a very successful real estate agent that there are three types of agent: Agents who think of real estate sales as a job Agents who think of real estate sales as a career Agents who think of real estate sales as a lifestyle Can you guess which agents are the most succe...