The best advice for finding real estate opportunities is to keep your eyes open. Rather than planning to go home after work and spend an hour watching TV, spend 15 minutes each night looking for new real estate investment opportunities. That can mean going on MLS or calling real estate agents, but also simply driving around. Just looking around a neighborhood can find you excellent direct-to-owner deals that are highly profitable.
Some people psych themselves out and think you have to wait around for a good deal, but the best philosophy is to always be on the lookout for a good opportunity. If you try to beat the market, it will always win. If you try to find good investments, you will come out on top.
We all have the opportunity to decide what our threshold for life is, and the most successful of us wake up and go out and grab it by the horns. The more you put in, the more you get back.
