Real estate Investing a Three Prong Approach
Creative real estate investing can put money in your pocket. It can also be a lot of fun. Historically home values have always increased even through other rough housing markets. Investing in real estate in the current market is a terrific idea. If you wish to start investing in real estate think about using a three prong approach.
Think long term strategy. Many people want to invest, but in reality only want to look at investment properties. They have no real clue as to what they should do. In fact they have no plan. Like any business you need a plan.
There are several approaches to investing in houses, and one of the main ones is buying and holding for the long term. They rent them out to well qualified tenants. Those renters pay down the landlords mortgage every month year after year.
When you reach retirement how many homes do you have to own free and clear to have a great stream of income. Then your money is working for you, not you working for money. A great agent can help you with your success, by being a great partner on your team. He can help you find properties in great neighborhoods. Properties that people want to rent and that will increase in value over time.
Don’t have any funds to buy rentals then consider re-habbing a home. This is a well used investment approach. I actually became an agent to get the capital to do this type of investing. Finding and fixing properties to flip to a retail buyer is a solid money earner if you do your due diligence.
Flipping is just buying a house on one side and then flipping it over to a buyer on the other side. All that dough in the middle is your hard work. Repairing a run down home and selling it is one way to get more money to invest. If the numbers worked out you could always pull out some of the money with a refinance and turn it into a rental property.
Ok you don’t have the money to invest in a flip. What do you do. You wholesale a property to another investor or retail buyer. Find a great property and get it under contract. Then assign it to someone else for a little higher price.
With this approach your not really in the deal and have no risk, other than losing your fee, if the deal falls through. It is a great technique to build up your investing capital so you can use one of the other techniques. There are many investors who simply do wholesale.
While some people will tell you to stay laser focused on one technique. I say stay laser focused on real estate investing but use at least three techniques to fund your investments and increase your long term wealth. Remember it is not a race and what others do is important. Its what you do on a steady week to week basis that will make the difference.
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