If your strategy is passive income and you implement it by building up your real estate rental portfolio, you ought to run into this dilemma at some point, which you ask yourself, “do I try to grow my portfolio or stabilize it?” The answer is not as straight forward as you might think, and like…
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Don’t Wait to Buy Real Estate
Don’t Wait to Buy Real Estate. Buy Real Estate and Wait. — Will Rogers I came across this quote the other day and found it quite inspirational. Most of us “average joes” are by nature procrastinators, which means we want to play safe, and we want to stand put and observe. It is the human…
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December for Real Estate Investors
After Thanksgiving holidays in the U.S., it is getting into the month of December and it is time to plan how to finish the year strong as a real estate investor. Meet Target for This Year If you set a target for this year, for example, flip 10 houses, or build a rental of 10…
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Cashflow vs. Appreciation
When you invest in real estate, you need to pick a strategy. There are 2 major strategies that have been time-tested, and they are: Cashflow and Appreciation. We will go into the pros and cons on each of these 2 strategies. Cashflow The definition of investing for cashflow is you look at the numbers and…
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A Fresh Grad Guide to MultiFamily Investing
If you are about to get out of college, like most of your friends, your primary goal is to look for a job. You are thinking to yourself, not only you are now graduating from college, but also you are graduating from $1 fast food burgers and moving into hi-end steak house that you can…
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The BRRRR Strategy
BRRRR (pronounced “burr”) is a strategy coined by Brandon Turner at BiggerPockets and it is one of the most popular real estate investment strategies due to its popularity and ease of deployment. The benefit of doing BRRRR is that you will not need to have a lot of initial capital to get started. To make…
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Expense Ratio
When evaluating if a deal is worth proceeding or not, it is important to calculate its Expense Ratio. Ideally, if the current property owner or property manager maintains good records, it is very easy to obtain last 12 months (T-12) records so we have some solids numbers to work with. There are 2 types of…
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Core Four in Real Estate Investing
We first heard about the concept of “Core Four” from David Greene at BiggerPockets. In fact, he wrote a blog post about it which we are linking here, because we want to give credit to where credit is due. We agree this is a valuable lesson for all real estate investors so we will provide…
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BiggerPockets
Real Estate Investing can be seen as a “lonesome battle” at times. Yes, it is true that you probably need to interact with various team members on a regular basis, like the real estate agent, the property manager, or the tenants… etc. But at the end, you are really on your own to make all…
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Real Estate is I.D.E.A.L.
Have you ever heard that real estate is the ideal way to invest? Of course, “ideal” is just the catchy phrase but the 5 key concepts that it represents behind the word is very powerful and legitimate. Let’s dive into it: I – Income D – Depreciation E – Equity A – Appreciation L –…