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Investor Strategy and Mindset
Durable judgment, business models, incentives, resilience, market cycles, and myth correction for real estate investors.
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01 4 Schemes Real Estate Gurus Won't Talk About Four cutthroat tactics that happen more than you'd think: redemption hacking, contractor poaching, deal lurking, and the squeeze. 02 4 Unorthodox Rules to Skip Years of Pain The four rules I credit with an estimated 80% of my wealth coming in the last five years: right contractors, scopes, houses, and sellers. 03 Construction Is Control: Why Defense Wins in Real Estate The deal is the offense, and construction is the defense that keeps the work from erasing the value created by a great purchase. 04 Exposing the 3 Biggest Con Artists in House Flipping How agents, wholesalers, and cost-plus contractors get paid, where their incentives may conflict with yours, and how I protect the deal. 05 The Four Controls of a Real Estate Deal (and Why Simple Wins) A simpler view of every real estate deal through four controls: the deal, the strategy, the work, and the market. 06 How to Survive a Real Estate Crash Three things to do in good times to survive the bad, how to handle a project caught in a crash, and three reasons a crash is actually an opportunity for the prepared. 07 I Ranked the 7 Best House Flipping Strategies Ross ranks seven house-flipping strategies, from wholesale to new builds, by risk, deal ease, management burden, profit, and investor stage. 08 Market Crashes Bury Dumb Investors. Use This Strategy Instead. Ross contrasts speculation with forced-appreciation deals and explains how an equity gap, patience, and fixed rules shape his approach in any market. 09 Real Estate Is King: The Case Made in the Foundation Lesson Ross explains why he chose real estate, how he divides money by time horizon, and which features of property support his plan. 10 Real Estate Success Is Cutthroat: The Hard Choices That Actually Move the Business Ross examines the full cost of hard business choices such as firing a contractor or ending a partnership rather than judging only the immediate loss. 11 Stop Worrying About the Market Crash. Do This Instead. Ross gives seven rules for downturn preparation, from front-end equity and current-value underwriting to fixed loans and rental fallback math. 12 Take Decisive Action Ross argues that decisive speed separates investors who close deals from those who stay stuck and identifies where that speed matters. 13 Why House Flippers Want to Quit—and Why I Kept Going Five pressures make house flippers want to quit, but each one points to a system that can make the next deal safer and easier to run.
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