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Laptop Battery The fixer upper seems to be the fix-all for many real estate investors. Fixer uppers are the most sought after of real estate purchases, but they sometimes turn into a headache rather than an equity building vehicle.

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Thinkpad “I’ve done well doing fixers,”said Matt Stansfield, who just completed his nineteenth fixer. “But I haven’t made money on all of them. Anybody who thinks they’re going to make a fortune on fixers and doesn’t have the know-how may be mistaken.”

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Laptop Computers Stansfield has netted $1.34 million in the fixer upper market, which designates him as a fixer upper expert. “If you want to find the right property to make money on,” he said, “you better get ready to look high and low for them for a long time. Most of the real deals out there get bought up quickly.”

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Laptop Computer At 48 years of age and doing fixers for 18 years Stansfield is slowing down his hunt for the fixer upper. He worked for a large corporation right out of college, but as he says, “couldn’t stand the grind or drudgery.” The day to day odyssey of going to the office and keeping on the good side of his bosses wore on him and this self-professed independent man left the corporate world after just two years for good.

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Desktop Computer “I had to make my living my way,” he says. “And now I suppose I can say I have.” But learning the ins and outs of doing rehabs on homes in four states has taught Stansfield more about the real estate business than he could imagine.

Notebooks The fixer upper may be one way to making a fortune in real estate, but it isn’t without its pitfalls. Stansfield lost nearly $18,000 on his first two fixers, which would have knocked many people out of the game, but then Stansfield decided he needed a game plan before tackling his third. “I just said we have to have a budget and stick to it.”

Lenovo The cosmetic fixer was his next avenue, and with just carpet, paint, kitchen counters and vinyl Stansfield found the right house to net a $28,000 profit. He was off and running. “It was like hitting the lottery after two losers,” he said. “We only owned the house for three weeks and sold it. Everything worked like clock work.”

Hard Drive Everything hasn’t been the proverbial peaches and cream for Stansfield. He’s fought for zoning changes, found himself on the outs with lenders, on the brink of foreclosure twice, learned about IRS redemption periods on homes he’s purchased at auction and a merried of other aspects of real estate. He says it’s been a battle at times, but he seems to have won at what he calls a game of sorts.

Travelstar Partnering with hard working dependable contractors and good real estate agents have been key to his success. Stansfield has worked with the same contractor in most of his homes that have needed extensive repairs.

Gateway Finding good real estate agents in each area has been another matter. He’s found agents who would both sell and list his real estate. “Working with real estate agents who just do one or the other never worked for me,” he said. “So I decided long ago to work with agents who did both. It’s worked for me, but everybody seems to have a different game plan when it comes to marketing property.”

Laptop Parts While Stansfield has found great success in the fixer upper market, Don Ryerson has experienced a deadening end to his dreams of a wealthy retirement in Greenwich, Connecticut. After 23 years doing fixers he purchased a home for slightly more than $2-million, which needed extensive work. As a suburb of New York City, Greenwich has one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation.

Software But it took Ryerson more than seven months to finish the needed repairs, including a partial foundation failure and it took another eight months to finally get the home sold for what amounted to a net loss of $310,000.

Hard Drives While he still has a little more than $400,000 Ryerson is hanging up thoughts of conquering another fixer upper. He’d done more than two dozen fixers over the years. “The real estate market was booming,” he said. “Now things are changing with the interest rates going up so many times and I think it’s time to get off this merry-go-round.”

Electronics After a national real estate boom which has lasted more than five years in some places, real estate markets throughout many parts of the nation are changing. But there are some local real estate markets that are still very active, even some that are still hot.

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Title: Fixer Upper Dream Or Nightmare By: Mike Colpitts

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