Finding hot leads is the main challenge for any real estate investor. One of the most popular and effective ways to find wholesale deals is called "driving for dollars," which simply means driving around targeted neighborhoods to locate ideal wholesale properties. Another option you can resort to is to have someone drive for you - a bird dog or a property scout. Good thing is that either way will work out depending on your resources or in other words how much time and money you have.
Gaining success in finding the right deals also depends upon how willing you are to go all the way in real estate investing. Also, you need to consider your situation. Let us say if you're a full time realtor, you can do the search yourself, find the deals on your own and discard the idea of paying a bird dog. On the other hand, if you are employed full-time, it would be difficult for you to drive for dollars and in this case you may have to hire a bird dog to do that job for you. But what really are Real Estate Bird Dogs and how can you find one?

Can real estate bird dogs make money in the real estate industry? And if so, how?
A virtual real estate bird dog is a person who finds property investment deals for real estate investors without having to buy it. It is considered a risk free method of real estate investing and a method of learning real estate investments while making money.
So how do they make money?
Successful real estate bird dogs are making good amount of money by locating deals for their investors whether in good or bad times. That is real estate "bird dogs" get a referral fee for finding good deals for other investors. This is often where people begin their investing career as there is only time at stake. They are typically paid when the deal closes. Typical fees for real estate bird dogs range between $500 and $3000.00 dollars. On the other hand, some real estate bird dogs bird dogs will structure companies and partnership arrangements as they're frequently not real estate agents and may not be able to collect a "referral fee" for their services.

 

Peeling back the layers of Squamish's residential real estate boom
Boom and Bustle

There's a difference between house and home. The former is just a structure, a construct of wood and concrete, insulation and siding, shingles, nails and glue, something picked over by inspectors and showcased by realtors. It's an early stop on the often expensive, always exciting and potentially defining continuum of personal success that typically fulfills itself through property ownership.
A home, meanwhile, is still a house, still has those fundamental characteristics. But it's a house in full. Embellished by décor, charged with life and aglow with the resulting experience, a well managed and responsibly purchased home is a reflection of its inhabitants, a vehicle for their commune and sanctum for their happiness.
 

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As I deal routinely with non-resident investors wanting to sell Canadian real estate assets, I would like to shed some light on this otherwise somewhat arcane subject. DISCLAIMER: please note that the following essay is presented solely for general information purposes, it is not intended to be legal advice or purported to be as such, it may or may not apply to your particular situation and that I strongly recommend - in fact I urge you - to discuss this topic in-depht further with your lawyer, notary, conveyancer or accountant - and not necessarily in this sequence - if a need there be.

If you are ready to put your home on the market, you certainly want to do everything you can to increase its value. After all, the more valuable the home, the more money you will be able to make off of the sale. At the same time, you don't want to go broke while increasing the home's value. By following these ten tips, you can improve your homes value for very little cost.

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