Real Estate Profits From Home With Your Computer

Real estate investing courses have always been big sellers on infomercials, and now all over the internet.  You find them on Facebook ads, Instagram ads, and anywhere you look after you've done a search for them online.

Real estate investing isn't exactly a simple business you can run with your computer.  Although, there was a course I looked into recently that claimed to allow you to make money in real estate with your computer without even leaving home.

It turned out to be a plan to do real estate "wholesaling", where you get properties under contract, and then try to sell the contract to a "real" investor.  For the most part you could supposedly do most everything with your computer.  The actual methods they recommended weren't really anything special though.  Basically using Zillow, Craigslist and Facebook ads.  These do qualify as using your computer, but that's about the extent of it.  So I didn't really learn any secret methods for finding properties to buy dirt cheap, which is obviously the hardest but most important part of the plan.

I did at least learn some tips on selling properties as quickly as possible.  And one thing I found out on my own is the importance of proper home staging.  This is literally arranging the inside of the house to appear completely furnished and ready to live in.  The idea is to keep the house from looking either too empty, or too over cluttered with stuff that needs to go.

So the importance of home staging can't be underestimated. According to Home Staging Delaware, properties that are staged well sell faster and for higher prices than their non-staged comparable properties.  The money you spend to do this preparation (or hire someone to do it for you) is usually much less than what you would probably lose by having to lower the selling price to get more decent offers, so it's a no brainer kind of decision.

So whether or not you believe you could buy and sell real estate from home at your computer...trust me on the importance of home staging when you happen to be selling a property!