Year after year real estate proves to be one of the best investments in America, and it will likely continue to be for years to come. Supply and demand drive the price of real estate, and for the long-term future, it looks as though real estate prices will continue to increase. Higher land and development costs, and fewer available land tracts, especially in close proximity to job markets, create opportunities for real estate investments in the future.

Much of the market for single family housing units with less than 2,000 square feet of living area has shifted to the condo market, the mobile or modular home market, or to the outskirts of major metropolitan markets. As a result, professional home rehabbing as a business or investment has become extremely popular. During the past decade, scores of investors have turned the idea of buying and rehabbing (or recycling) older homes into a big business and American Investors Club of America, Inc. and its American Investors Club franchisees are one of the largest companies in the rehabbing business.

The American Investors ClubŪ Franchise System successfully taps into the discount and rehab house buying market.

In 1996, Ho m e Vestors of America, Inc. began awarding franchises to a limited number of qualified and dedicated investors in selected markets of the United States. The franchisees commit major amounts of capital to build a business of buying and selling houses.

American Investors ClubŪ franchisees spend many millions of dollars for a professionally-planned and executed advertising program that's designed to find houses they can purchase at a discount. The franchisees are also supported by a sophisticated, state-of-the-art research system that helps them locate hard-to-find owners of vacant, abandoned or deferred maintenance properties. These systems, along with others developed by American Investors Club of America, Inc., create a steady flow of house-buying leads for American Investors ClubŪ franchisees. In fact, American Investors ClubŪ call distribution system distributes more than 10,000 leads each month to American Investors Club franchisees.

Most of the houses purchased by American Investors ClubŪ franchisees must be professionally rehabbed before they can be rented or sold. However, there are only so many houses that a franchisee can rehab in any given year, and franchisees almost always have access to more properties than they can personally handle. Consequently, they look for local investors and professional rehabbers who are dependable and knowledgeable, and who are known for operating with integrity. The franchisees will discount and sell some of their properties to reliable local investors and professional rehabbers. In fact, in virtually every American Investors ClubŪ market, a select number of local investors and professional rehabbers depend upon American Investors ClubŪ as a primary source for rehab products and discounted houses. Once a franchisee develops a relationship with an investor, repetitive opportunities arise. When a franchisee develops a satisfying and long-term relationship with an investor, the franchisee is likely to sell more houses to the investor.

While American Investors ClubŪ franchisees are important to local investors and professional rehabbers, they in turn are important to the franchisees! By developing relationships with local investors and professional rehabbers, American Investors ClubŪ franchisees are able to buy more houses than they can typically handle themselves and can therefore be more aggressive in pursuing their leads.

This year, American Investors ClubŪ will sell more than a thousand single family houses at a discount to local investors and rehabbers. By the year 2005, that number is expected to increase tenfold!

If you're looking for houses to acquire and then rehab for resale or to lease, then your next call should be to your local American Investors ClubŪ franchisee.