‘investment strategy’ Archives
Should I Change My Business Plan?
A question I get asked a lot is whether or not you should change your business plan or investment strategy once it is written. My answer is always, absolutely. It is very rare to find someone who hasn't changed it to some extent. When starting out in Real Estate Investing, you should always have a Business Plan. Your Business Plan will [...]
Real Estate Investing – Still The Best Investment
... And Way Better Than The Stock Market If Real Estate Investing is still the best investment, then why are people still investing in the stock market or other investments. I think there are a number of reasons: 1) real estate investing is too much work; 2) people don`t want to take responsibility for their investments; 3) real estate [...]
21 Ways to Finance Your Real Estate Investments
First I want to clarify something. There have been a lot of books which talk about "No Money Down" or "Nothing Down". This does NOT mean you are not putting any money down at the time of purchase. It only means that you are not using any of your own "cash" as part of the purchase. All of my investments have either been done without using any of my [...]
Your Real Estate Investing Retirement Strategy
Diversify Your PortfolioI'm working with a lot of people who are looking at Real Estate Investing as their retirement strategy. They have lost a lot of money in the Stock Market and they don't trust their financial planners anymore. I talk to people who have watched their retirement fund slowly melt away because of bad investments. They got tired [...]
Rentals or Lease Options
Which is the better investment for you?When deciding on your Real Estate Investment strategy you have to take into account how passive or active you want to be. You also have to look at the risk associated with the expected return on your investment.Rentals can take a lot more of your time if you are doing the property management yourself. Rentals [...]
Make Big Profits With Investors
Another Type of Lease Option DealI just signed another deal today where I was able to create a Sandwich Lease Option for myself by bringing in an investor. I used a high ROI to motivate the Investor to become the Seller in the Sandwich Lease Option arrangement. Here is the whole process simplified:1. We Qualify a Motivated Buyer for our Rent to [...]
Preliminary Market Assessment – A New Tool
Eliminate your risks when acquiring Lease Options Probably the hardest part of Lease Options is finding the homes from motivated sellers. That is because the seller usually has many other possibilities before they consider Lease Optioning their home to someone like me. When we first started out we weren’t getting a lot of people calling us [...]
I have $150K just sitting there doing nothing. Take it.
I’m Losing Too Much in the Stock MarketI was speaking with one of my investors the other day and he told me “I have $150K that I pulled out of the stock market and it’s just sitting there doing nothing. Take it and invest it in Real Estate. Just do whatever you want with it. I trust you.”This is a great place to be and this will happen to [...]
What If Your Tenant Buyer Walks Away?
You Tenant Buyer Decides Not to Buy.Another question I get a lot from my students is “what if the Tenant Buyer decided not to buy?” in a Lease Option arrangement.Sometimes your tenant Buyers will decided not to exercise their option and walk away from the deal. Or maybe you have to evict them due to non payment or some other problem. Either [...]
What If Appreciation Doesn’t Happen for Your Lease Option
Lease Option Property Appraised Low One of the questions I get asked a lot from my students is “what if the property is not worth what we thought it would be worth?”When you setup the Lease Option Agreements, you are expecting that your Tenant Buyer will buy your property at the end of 3 years (or even sooner). We work with them to ensure they [...]
