real estate designationsWhile today’s real estate world might resemble yesterday’s on the surface, there are monumental uprisings lurking beneath, threatening to tip the balance of power from traditional buy a home and hold it forever to the income property model. As an agent, ignoring this reality could hit your pocketbook hard. The old real estate designations are no longer completely adequate to prepare you to reach the level of success you’ve dreamed about.

There are a few reasons the real estate market is shifting toward the income property model.

1. Anemic stock market returns are sending investors scrambling for more profitable assets.

2. The Obama Foreclosure Circus (OFC) has created an enormous, and still growing pool, of desperate renters.

What do you do when everyone is desperately seeking rentals? You start buying up all the foreclosed residential houses at a bargain, silly, and put them up for rent! But it takes more than your average run-of-the-mill agent to talk the talk when investors come around looking for advice about properties to buy. Forget the usual alphabet soup of real estate designations. You need a unique approach to meet the growing demand for income property advice.

That’s where the Accredited Income Property Investment Specialist (AIPIS) designation comes in. Created by arguably one of the most successful income property entrepreneurs to ever lace up shoes, AIPIS teaches you how to sell what people actually want to buy in today’s real estate market. We’re headed for something like the situation the horse industry ran into when Henry Ford streamlined the mass production process for the automobile around the turn of the 20th century. Who wants to travel by horse when you can have a car?

Today’s question is who wants to invest in stocks when you can have income property? When customers begin asking you that particular question, is your answer going to be, “Uhhh…let me get back to you on that.” Some real estate designations get your foot in the door. AIPIS kicks it down. For a free consultation about how to get started, call us at 714-820-4200.

The AIPIS Team

Accredited Income Property Investment Specialist

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