Articles by John Beck Home > Articles > How Do I Know If A Property Is A Good One?   How Do I Know If A Property Is A Good One? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a very good question and the obvious answer is that you know a property is good one if you make money on it.  But how can you know if you will make money on a property before you buy it and before you actually sell it?  The real dilemma here is that no one can see the future and so no one can know for sure if the property “is a good one” and will make money. No one can know the future, but everyone has a right to guess.  In fact, the world’s greatest “forecasters” are nothing more than really good guessers!  What makes these guessers so good?  A combination of technology, experience, knowledge and skill helps these guessers make better, more accurate guesses. So how do you know if a property is a good one?  You guess!  But you don’t just guess like a gambler would without really knowing the game and with all the odds against them.  You need to learn how to guess like an investor, someone who has put as many of the odds in their favor as they can. You put the odds in your favor by finding out a great deal about the property—enough to make a really good guess.  A really good guess is a highly accurate guess.  You do this by following a specific system for gathering information and by trusting in the system enough to actually do what it tells you to do. In this case, John Beck’s tax lien and tax deed system tells you exactly what you need to do to research a property correctly—to learn all you need to learn about a property to make an above accurate guess about how good that property is. Good properties don’t have to look pretty.  They can be located anywhere and be in the middle of no where.  These properties can be desert, mountainous, wooded or whatever.  They could be properties you would love to own or they could be properties you would never own in a million years.  It just doesn’t matter.  All that does matter is that the properties adhere to the criteria John Beck’s system tells you to look for and that other people want to own them. These criteria include finding out about a property so you can do some market research on that property.  Let’s face it, you don’t really need to care about the property, but it must appeal to someone.  This means you need to do enough research to know exactly what the property is so you can then research to find out what people are paying for that kind of property.  John’s system will teach you everything you really need to look for when conducting your research so you know exactly what the property is.  This will give you two very important things.  The first is that you will not buy a property for too much money.  Your research will tell you exactly what you can spend for a property to be able to sell it for a profit.  This will help you know the property is a good one. The second thing this research will give you is a great source of rich marketing materials which you can use to resell the property for a profit.  That’s right.  What you find out about the property will help you market that property more effectively and the more you can find out about a property, the better your marketing will appeal to someone who likes that kind of property. Another thing a great deal of research will give you is simple confidence.  If you know everything relevant there is to know about a property you will also know if it is a good property and will become a profitable investment.  So the answer to this question is simply; you will know if the property is a good investment if you do all the research to know what the property is, so you can determine what people who are interested in that kind of property are paying to own it.  If people are paying more for that kind of property than you can buy it for, it is a good property.