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How to Find Attractive Commercial Real

Estate for Sale Using the Internet



As a new Professional Commercial Real Estate Property

Scout, one of the first things people learn is how to

find promising properties which could be attractive

investments. There are several different approaches,

but today let’s just discuss one of the most popular.



How to Find Promising Properties

Using the Internet



One of the best, quickest and easiest ways is to find

commercial real estate for sale is using the power of the

Internet. The reason most professional Property Scouts

love this approach is they can do anytime, it’s low

cost, and best of all, they can search for properties

around the country without leaving the comforts of home.



What’s great is commercial real estate agents and brokers

are starting to become very computer savvy and beginning

to list their properties they have under contract online.

Usually they upload pictures, descriptions, characteristics

data and other relevant information into massive real

estate listing databases.



Right now, there are millions of properties online. Most

are segregated into the following categoies:



1. Multi-Family (Condominiums and Apartment Complexes)

2. Office Complexes

3. Retail Properties

4. Mobile Home and RV Parks

5. Mixed Use Buildings and Warehouses

6. Raw Land That Can Be Developed



The key to finding properties is knowing where to look. And

by far the easiest place and most success-certain place to

look is commercial real estate listing database websites.



While there are hundreds, if not thousands of these websites

on the Internet, one of the most popular is one called

http://loopnet.com. Another popular one is called

http://www.costar.com/.



These websites are probably the biggest, containing literally

millions of properties to search through. They have free

services and they also have premium services. Most property

Scouts who are serious sign-up for the premium services.



Why?



Because one of the services you get is to be able to

specific the criteria you are looking for and then as new

properties are uploaded that meet that criteria, the website

will alert you via email. This especially attractive

especially when you are very discriminating and have a particular

profile of the type and attributes of the property you want.



You can get very detailed in your profiles also.



For instance, it’s easy to search for raw land in a particular

geographic area with specific qualities, with specific owner

attributes, and special financing terms. The Property Scouts of

Maverick Real Estate Investments, Inc. are trained in detail in

which properties yield the most profit and which are not so

attractive.



The key is to have a crystal clear profile of the type of property

you want. The more general you are the more properties will

“pop up”, but one doesn’t have the time to search through hundreds

or thousands of properties one by one.



You want to be discriminating. You want to think quality instead of

quantity.



Once you know and understand your property profile, and once you have

learned to navigational basics inside a specific website, then you

can start to fully exploit all it’s features and functionality. For

instance, it pays dividends to learn how to use advanced search

functions, like using descriptive keywords to find the properties

you want.



Let’s say you may want look for properties in the path of progress.

One of the most certain indicators of this is having a Walmart in the

area. So you could search for “Wal-Mart” in the notes associated with a

properties being searched. Usually a smart broker will be thoughtful

enough to put that in the description or notes regarding a property

for sale.



Some website have lots of functions and other have rather minimal

functions. Usually, if a Property Scout values their time, they’ll

take the time to learn a specific listing website and ALL it’s

functions and stick with it. In other words, they try to become an

expert within a certain website, so that they can be efficient and

not let potential opportunity slip through their fingers.



The bottomline is searching the Internet for promising commercial

properties is kind of like using Internet search engines. One doesn’t

have time to search through millions of them. You want to find the ones

that are most relevant to what you are searching for.



The same thing applies to finding promising commercial real estate on

the Internet.



To find out more about Commercial Real Estate investing, Maverick Real

Estate Investments, Inc., or the Property Scout profession,

visit: http://go2-url.com/aazdax

Or Download the free Property Scout White Paper pdf
file here : http://go2-url.com/aazdad



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