If you are really serious about making money from financially distressed real estate, you need to get your hands on a copy of the all-time best-selling foreclosure book, The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit ($24.95), which has sold over 100,000 copies since December 27, 2004! In Tom Lucier's one of a kind book, you get the equivalent of a one-on-one graduate-level seminar on buying pre-foreclosure properties from a seasoned professional, who not only tells you what you need to do to be successful, he also tells you exactly how to do it! You get twenty meaty chapters that are packed chock-full of step-by-step instructions, ready-to-use information and practical, no-nonsense advice.

In The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit, you learn Thomas J. Lucier's 14 step process for buying properties directly from owners with mortgage or deed of trust loans that are in default and facing foreclosure. You get the lowdown on:
1. Why the pre-foreclosure stage is the best time to buy property during the foreclosure process.
2. How to get started as a pre-foreclosure property investor today without having to hock the family jewels in order to do it.
3. Why now is one of the best times ever to invest in pre-foreclosure properties.
4. The difference between judicial and non-judicial foreclosure actions.
5. How the short payoff sale acquisition technique works.
6. How to get subordinate or junior lienholders to discount their liens by 50 percent or more.
7. How to use foreclosure notices to find all of the property owners in your county with loans that are in a default status.
8. Why most conventional foreclosure strategies being taught today aren't worth doing.
9. How to use direct mail to contact property owners in foreclosure.
10. How to use the Internet to perform due diligence on pre-foreclosure properties.
11. How to quickly verify existing loan information with foreclosing lenders.
12. Realistic ways to finance the purchase of a pre-foreclosure property.
13. How to accurately estimate the current market value of a pre-foreclosure.
14. How to negotiate with property owners in foreclosure.
15. How to properly prepare your purchase agreements and protect your interests when buying pre-foreclosure properties.
16. How to package, market and resell pre-foreclosures for maximum profit.
17. How to do a thorough pre-buy property inspection, so you don't get stuck with a lemon property needing costly repairs.
18. What you need to know about your state's foreclosure statute when buying pre-foreclosure properties.
19. How to actually close on the purchase of a pre-foreclosure property.

The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit also comes complete with 39 ready-to-use worksheets, letters, checklists, notices, forms and agreements that you can download for free and customize to fit your own personal needs.

Click here to read Chapter 1 from The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit.

The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor's Kit was chosen as one of the 10 best real estate books of 2005, by nationally syndicated columnist, Robert J. Bruss.

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