Investments can be analyzed based on 3 main criteria: liquidity, safety, and rate of return. Most investments won’t rank high in all three, instead, there’s some give and take. Investments high in rate of return are usually low in safety, highly liquid investments tend to be less safe, and extremely safe investments tend to be [...]

For most people, Debt is a bad word, a necessary evil they have to live with but strive to eliminate from their lives entirely. In fact, people go so far as to celebrate when they’ve eliminated all their debts. It’s understandable, being debt-free represents freedom in so many people’s eyes; freedom from the risks of [...]

There’s a lot of hype all over the place about 1031 exchanges; I’ve heard them touted on just about every real estate radio show and website I’ve come across. Everyone’s talking about these 1031 exchanges as if they’re some magical cure-all to the capital gains tax. They’re not. The 1031 Exchange For those of you [...]

Let me ask you something, would you give me $600,000 for an investment? Please? Pretty please? Why not? I’ll give you a return in 20 years. Still no? Because you don’t know anything about me or my investment opportunity? Then why are you buying an investment property without researching it first? I talk to people [...]

Welcome back. In yesterday’s article, It’s All About The Benjamins, I went over a commonly overlooked, yet simple concept in real estate investing; and that is, investing for positive cash flow. Very important indeed. But I left the article unfinished; a lot of people don’t want the hassle of searching far and wide for a [...]

Do you have an investment property? Maybe you had a little extra money at one point and a friend recommended you buy a house and rent it out. Well, you need to fire that friend; not really, but read on… An investment property is just that, an investment, so why buy a rental property that’s [...]