Where to Invest in Real Estate NOW (Inflow, Outflow, Increasing Rates)

by Rick Tobin | Feb 13, 2018 | Buy and Hold, Miscellaneous, Real Estate Investing Strategies

 Interest rates just reached four-year highs in the first week of February – with the national average for 30-year fixed rates hitting 4.32%. This was a jump of 33 basis points over the period of just five weeks since the start of 2018. Parallel to increasing...

Here's What to Do If Your Tenant Abandons the Property…

by William Bronchick, J.D. | Jan 29, 2018 | Buy and Hold, Miscellaneous

Have you ever had a tenant leave in the middle of the night – or the middle of an eviction? Did you ever wonder what to do when the tenant abandons the property?  What to Do When Your Tenant Abandons the Property Basically, when a tenant abandons the property,...

Success Story: $295,000 Profit on a Self-Storage Property

by Tim Soto | Jan 18, 2018 | Buy and Hold, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Investing Strategies

Here’s a quick summary: This self-storage property was a Bank REO in Kern County, CA. I was familiar with the area and knew that this was a great value-add opportunity. The property consisted of 100 units on 3.5 acres and was built in 2006. It was under-performing at...

How Bill Bought a Mango Farm in Panama with His Self-Directed IRA

by Dmitriy Fomichenko | Dec 6, 2017 | Buy and Hold, Creative Real Estate Investing, IRA, 401K, Retirement Funds, Real Estate Investing Strategies

“Become so financially secure that you forget that it’s payday.” ~ Unknown When it comes to investing for retirement, which asset class comes to your mind first? Stock, bond, or mutual fund! Isn’t that right? All the major financial providers have, sort of,...

How I Built My Six-Figure Airbnb Empire (with No Cash, Credit, or Properties)

by Brian Page | Sep 30, 2017 | Apartments, Buy and Hold, Creative Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investing Strategies, Real Estate Success Stories

I want you to close your eyes and imagine having a thriving, successful business, earning your first million dollars – only to lose it all. That happened to me. My name is Brian Page, and I guess you can say I have the ultimate “Rags to Riches to Rags...

The Truth About Inflating Rents and Deflating Dollars

by Rick Tobin | Jul 31, 2017 | Buy and Hold, Real Estate Investing News

Inflation is a hidden form of taxation. Inflation has severely damaged the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since as far back as 1913 when the Federal Reserve was founded after the passage of the Federal Reserve Act by legislators in Washington D.C. Prior to the...