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Description of All Courses
Crown offers a wide variety of training opportunities on real estate investing, that can be presented in the Lunch and Learn format or one to six hour workshops, as well as provide speakers for local and national real estate conferences.
Investing In Real Estate Series
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Get Rich “Slow” Buying Houses
[1, 2 or 3 hours]
This is a broad overview course about buying houses as an investment. We start with why buy houses (as compared to duplexes, quads, and commercial properties), what to buy, what to avoid, where to find them, and how to approach the owner. We finish with an overview of the profit centers of real estate and tax issues. This a drink-out-of-a-fire-hose class with lots of do’s-and-don’ts of “buying pretty houses” as compared to the business of fixer-uppers and rehabbing. CE avail. more » |
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Profit Centers of Real Estate
[1 or 2 hours]
There is more to owning rental property than just Cash Flow. This course explains what the profit centers of real estate are and how to get the most out of them. We will address “when you give up cash flow in favor of pay-down of principle, or when to trade off appreciation for cash flow. We will examine how to split the appreciation and tax benefits between different parties. You will come away with a much better understanding of real estate as a profit-producing machine and appreciate some of the nuances of structuring deals. |
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Tax Benefits of Real Estate
[1 or 2 hours]
Most people know that owning real estate brings tax benefits but cannot explain exactly how it works. Many make the mistake of just letting their CPA handle it without realizing the impact on their tax return. This course familiarizes the student with the “10 tax benefits of owning real estate” from an investor’s perspective and will arm you with the information you need to ask intelligent questions to your CPA. |
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How the Roth IRA Can Boost Real Estate Profits
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
The self-directed Roth IRA is one of the best financial tools for accumulating wealth that has ever come down from the Department of Treasury. This course familiarizes the student with the uses of a Roth IRA in real estate investing. We will address how to set up and use your Roth to invest in real estate, options, and notes that can pay 30% to 50% annual return to the investor. CE avail. |
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Lease Purchase Profits – Basic
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
This course familiarizes the student with the basic understanding of why buyers and sellers should consider a lease purchase. The student will leave with a comprehensive overview of the issues involved with a lease purchase and an outline of how lease purchases should be structured. CE avail. |
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Using Wrap Around Mortgage
[1 or 2 hours]
Wrap Around mortgages are a miss-understood, but powerful tool for the real estate investor. Like a Contract for Deed, they are not a commonly used financing instrument which creates lots of opportunities. Used the right way, they are a powerful tool to direct income, trap pay-down, overcome high interest rates, and have a number of other creative uses. Some closing attorneys and real estate brokers will tell you, “They are not used in Georgia”. Nonsense! They are a powerful financing tool in the hands of a trained real estate technician. |
| Any of these subjects can be taught for shorter agendas such as luncheons, convention break out sessions, and professional association conferences. |
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Stealth Strategies for Investors
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In the lawsuit happy society we live in, holding title to real estate in your own name has some serious pitfalls. With the deed records now on the world wide web for all to see, snoopy in-laws, ex-spouses, angry tenants, disgruntled business partners, and “the world” can find out, with the click of a mouse, what you own, how much you paid, how much equity you have, and where to serve you with a frivolous lawsuit. These workshops address “how to hold title so the world does not know who the real owner is, without limiting your control, stiffening your tax benefits, or reaping the profits”.
Title Holding Strategies for Investors
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
Should you own a property in your personal name, an LLC, your corporation or a Land Trust? A good attorney is needed to address the legal issues, but this course familiarizes the student with the various choices an investor has in taking title to real estate and the considerations he must make in his decision. CE avail. more » |
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Using the Limited Liability Company for Investors
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
Whether you want to run a business, or hold title to a piece of real estate, the LLC has some great benefits for the investor, realtor and business owner. As a state sanctioned entity there is almost perfect liability protection with the LLC and the creative opportunities are endless. Every real estate investor needs at least one. CE avail. |
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Holding Title Privately with Land Trusts – Basic
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
Land Trusts are an effective tool to keep an owner’s name off public records and give him a high degree of anonymity. This is a general course concerning trusts as title holding entities. Students learn why title-holding trusts are necessary, who the players are, what documents are needed, and why land trusts are so popular with investors. CE avail. |
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Holding Title Privately With Land Trusts – Advanced
[6 hours]
This course gives you all the details, documents, forms, and reasons for doing Land Trusts. You will learn the history of land trusts, the players, the tax issues, and be prepared to fill out the forms and handle them yourself. This class is a joint venture with McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols and Clark LLC and will be taught in part by their attorneys. CE avail. |
Property Management Series
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Property Management - Basic
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
Most people want nothing to do with management, and for good reasons. For the brave-hearted, this course familiarizes the student with the basic issues of leasing and managing residential properties, including a review of the laws that govern the landlord’s behavior with the tenant. We cover the basic tools everyone needs to survive in the world of tenants. CE avail. |
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Property Management - Advanced
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
The learning curves for new property managers are costly if they have to pay for them with experience. Learn the pit falls from those who have successfully managed properties for years. This course familiarizes the student with the finer points of running a profitable property management business, handling maintaince issues, mold, skips, evictions, and collections. This class is for investors and agents with some experience in the management business. CE avail. |
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Reducing the Risks of Property Management
[1, 2 and 3 hours]
There are deep holes for the property manager to avoid in the leasing and managing of rental properties. Some can be avoided with good planning, some can be avoided by managing the right properties, and some just have to be managed as they come up. There are issues that can burn an unsuspecting property manager such as federal credit reporting laws, Landlord/Tenant laws, federal discrimination laws, state housing laws and trust account laws, just to name a few. This course prepares the student to define, assess and hopefully prevent some of the expensive learning curves involved in the leasing and managing of rental property. CE avail. |
| Any of these subjects can be taught for shorter agendas such as luncheons, convention break out sessions, and professional association conferences. |
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