I was working with a multifamily investing client the other day when he started complaining about how there is no good way to find multifamily deals because all the "good places" have been picked over. That's when I realized that he did not know how to use Google to find multifamily deals.

I asked him what he considered was a good place and he proceeded to lay out there the usual suspects - Loopnet, Costar, blah, blah, blah. I asked him have you ever just tried using Google to find deals? He had no idea that you could do that. Well, you can, provided you know how to use Google correctly.

So I decided to lay out a few pointers as to how you can search for deals on Google. After I showed him these tools, he totally changed his tune as to how to look under every nook and cranny.

[caption id="attachment_134" align="aligncenter" width="310"] multifamily investing using Google[/caption]  

Here's what you should do. In this example, I am using 'multifamily investing' but you can use...