If you're like most beginning real estate investors, you've taken seminars, read books, watched infomercials and DVDs, and have spent considerable amounts of money to learn about the ins and outs of the field. If you're still struggling with how to get started, here are some of successful investors favorite ways to make money in real estate.

Like most investments, no guarantees of profits come with real estate. Here are five tips to help you make a profit:

Successful real estate investors have been making money flipping houses in all markets. Just like any business, some investors lose money, even during the best market conditions. The difference, besides experience, is knowledge. Here are three key points.

If you're selling a vacant investment house, you need to "smell to sell." Does the house smell musty because its closed up? If so, you might not want to lose all the cool air by opening the windows. Here are some tips to clean up the air and entice your buyers' sense of smell.

You might think it's too hot to work outside on your front yard during this summer's unwelcome heat extremes. However, if you're selling a home, you might want to suffer the heat or pay someone to help you. Your landscaping needs to arouse buyers' expectations and entice them into viewing the inside of your home. Here are some quick and easy landscaping tips to get you in out of the heat fast and to get buyers interested in your home.

Many real estate investors struggle for years and never make the money they dream about. They buy books, ebooks, and DVDs, watch all the infomercials and reality TV shows, go to expensive seminars to learn from the real estate gurus, and pay exorbitant mentoring fees. After all the excitement wears off, they real realize they never took action to make money. Why?

Selecting the right colors to paint a resale home can make a huge difference in your paycheck at closing. For instance, did you know that the exterior color of houses selling most quickly is a certain shade of yellow, but that choosing the wrong shade of yellow can kill a sale?

Home sales in the Inland Valley area of Southern California are slowing down because of rising gasoline prices. The usual crowd of Orange County home buyers searching for larger homes are avoiding the drive to Lake Elsinore.