Fliperati

I did countless web searches for all varieties of real estate investment information in the months prior to the point when I was actually ready to seek out and purchase a run-down property.  The limited (or weak, spammy, expensive and misleading) sites I found are part of what inspired me to start my own blog and develop a better forum for new and experienced investors to share their questions and insights.  However, I never specifically searched the many existing blog directories for flipping and real estate investment materials over the course of this research.  Only when I began submitting my own blog to the many directories and feed aggregators did I accidentally stumble across other blogs with a very similar mission.

While my first reaction was “WTF! I’m not the first person to start a candid real estate investment blog?!?!,” I quickly got over myself and began poring over the materials in some other good blogs (which often included links to other good blogs, and so on).  One of the first blogs I came across, Shaun’s Real Estate Adventures, is worthy of specific mention because it is exactly the kind of resource I wish I had come across months ago when I first started thinking about delving into real estate investment.  Shaun’s blog is packed full of detailed, real-life experiences that you can’t easily find in most of the published literature on these subjects because all those materials have been distilled down into generalized formulas for success and motivational gibber-jabber.  The play-by-play case studies available in blogs like Shaun’s are, in my personal opinion, much better motivational tools because they demonstrate how a regular person can successfully execute the strategies that you find in all the real estate investment books and seminars.  Even better, blogs are free and they provide glimpses into the thoughts and lives of their authors that no other medium has been able to match.