Real Estate Investment Contracts
Reading Between the Lines
INTRODUCTION
This course is a deep dive into real estate contracts for investors so you know what to look for and what to avoid.
It prepares you for when you are looking at real estate deals online by addressing some of the key issues related to the contracts.
The course is structured as follows. First, I give you a global perspective how to look at these contracts. They're really huge contracts and I'm going to give you a high-level overview from 50,000 feet of how you should be looking at them; how you should be internalizing all the concepts that the course covers.
The next section covers detailed conversations with the Legal Dream Team of Gene Trowbridge, of Trowbridge Sidoti, Scott Smith, of Royal Legal Solutions, and Richard Ormond, of Buchalter.
The course wraps up with a summary of all the key points that have been made so you have it in a well encapsulated, easy reference format.
Note: I am not a lawyer, an accountant or a financial adviser. I do not give law, accounting, tax, financial or investment advice.
The course covers:
3 Common Threads that Run Through All Contracts
10 Key things to look for so that you can assess the risk profile of each deal
5 Red flags, deal killers to avoid
8 Ways to arm yourself so you can protect your own interests and minimize the chance of losing everything
Real Estate Investment Contracts is NOT a substitute for hiring your own attorney to review any contracts you are contemplating signing.
It will, however, provide you with a deep insight into what to look for before calling your attorney so that you can screen out deals that make no sense first.
Learn from some of the country's top legal experts what to watch for, how to avoid disasters, and what steps to take to protect yourself and your investment.
Your Instructor
Dr. Adam Gower is the world's foremost expert on raising real estate capital online.
He has combined his decades long experience in real estate investment and finance with best-of-class digital marketing techniques to create the Investor Acquisition System - a process utilized by sponsors and crowdfunding platforms to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.
He has held senior management positions at some of the largest real estate companies and institutions in the world and is recognized as an industry thought leader on the impact of crowd funding on the industry. During the 1990’s he was President and CEO of a division of Universal Studios developing their real estate portfolio throughout the Asia Pacific Region. After the financial crisis of 2008 had taken hold, Dr. Gower advised major regional banks and the world's largest private equity fund on their asset disposition strategies, assisting them to divest of large portfolios of real estate collateralized loans, and personally transacting in excess of $1.5 billion in real estate of all types.
Dr. Gower builds digital marketing platforms for developers so they can raise capital online and has taught the only fully accredited course in the country that focuses on real estate syndication investment via crowdfunding. In total he has taught real estate syndication courses to over 5,000 investors and is a prolific author.
His most popular books include SYNDICATE, a guide to raising capital online, The SECRET World of Real Estate and Crowdfunding, that reveals hidden benefits of investing in real estate, REALITY, covers how to access discounted real estate investments while protecting your capital, and in Capital Calls and RESCUE Capital you'll learn what to do during a downturn when things go wrong.
Dr. Gower hosts The Real Estate Reality Show on YouTube and podcast channels and curates the (free) GowerCrowd newsletter, the real estate syndication industry's leading resource for news, training, and online education for both sponsors and investors alike.
Visit GowerCrowd.com to learn more.