Author: Sammy Lyon

Real Estate for Social Good

This is how I FIRE

This is how I FIRE Financial Independence Retire Early My goal is to become work optional by 40 ⛱ I’m investing 50% of my income in real estate and passive income. 💸 And I’m helping my clients get there along the way too! 📊 It’s not as hard as you think to get started.  HMU…
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Under contract: first house in South LA

Woohoo! Congrats to my buyers for getting their FIRST offer accepted! I know, the media will have you thinking you need to make 80 offers to get in escrow, but that’s not always the case! They loved it the moment they saw it, and made an excellent offer. And it won! Inspections going well, normal…
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Improving Your Credit to Invest In Real Estate

Improving Your Credit to Invest In Real Estate: Homebuyer Q&A Free Video Replay Shiva Bhaskar from Tier One Credit, Fiona Bryan from Academy Mortgage, and Sammy Lyon from Dow Capital host an interactive live Q&A on how to improve your credit to buy real estate. Topics we cover: 5 tips to boost your credit score…
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Insuring Your Real Estate

Insuring Your Real Estate — All You Need To Know Before (and After) You Buy: Homebuyer Q&A Free Video Replay Jackie Sanchez from State Farm and Sammy Lyon from Dow Capital host an interactive Q&A on everything you need to know about insurance when you invest in real estate. Topics we cover: homeowner’s policies vs.…
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Sold! 662 Burwood

Wowee! This was a fun one! Congrats to my buyers for closing on this gorgeous NELA treehouse!! It was meant to be. We went back and forth on this for 3 weeks + before we got it under contract. They kept going to the open houses, and looking at it, and saying this is it.…
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Common ways to invest in real estate

Looking to invest in real estate? Here are 5 common ways people invest! 1) Flips This is where you buy a run down property, renovate it and sell it quickly. It takes a lot of capital and a lot of expertise and hands-on time to do this effectively and quickly. When you stop flipping, you stop…
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Sold! 4260 Via Arbolada #232

Congrats to my seller for closing escrow on their investment condo! They asked if they should redo the carpet and paint before listing and I said absolutely not. That’s what I believe — sell the house as is and let the buyer make their own choices! Yes, everyone wants a pretty, renovated house, but also…
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Under Contract! TIC sale in LA

Congrats to my buyer for opening escrow on a TIC sale!! This is a strategy that allows more than one person to purchase a property, and make it more affordable. TIC stands for “tenants in common.” There are multiple ways to do this strategy, but in this case the duplex is split into two units…
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Mailbox money Monday!

Mailbox money Monday <3 This is me on the way to #FIRE (Financial independence retire early) I am about a third of the way toward my goal and I’ve got 4 more years to get there! My rentals pay me via check but now I invest passively in real estate syndications which allow me to…
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Under contract! Land visions in Sunland

Congrats to my buyers for opening escrow on this gorgeous land vision home! I was so excited when we first talked about their dreams of creating community farming space, growing food & human connection intertwined. We’ve been looking in the San Fernando Valley where their roots are, and stumbled on this fixer house with mature…
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