Category: Tips

CoronaVirus and the DoorInvestor Retreat

Throughout the month of February we deliberately took a step back from blogging, because we felt there are more important things in life for us to spend time on at the moment, rather than investing in more real estate properties (and talking about it), and that is to fight the CoronaVirus. DoorInvestor was not set…

Emergency Plan for your Real Estate Business

The discovery of CoronaVirus is certainly a hot topic of 2020. Given that most of us who runs a real estate business is more or less self-employed in nature (which means we are a critical part of our business), the CoronaVirus made us thinking about an emergency plan to sustain our business (and our family’s…

The Stack

We first heard about the term “The Stack” from Brandon Turner at BiggerPockets.com. After digging into the details of the Stack, we value it more from the perspective of it being a philosophical term than a methodical term. Let’s dig into it again together. The Argument The reason why Brandon Turner presented this concept is…

Seller Financing Loans

In a previous post, we talked about the various types of money loans (read here). One of the types we briefly discussed was the Seller Financing Loans. We would like to spend more time going into more details. What is it? Typically, when a seller sells you a property, no matter how you come up…

Types of Money Loans

Most of us who has experience getting a mortgage when you purchase our primary residence should know that you can get a loan from the bank when you need to finance your property, but as you step into the real estate investment spectrum, what you may not be aware of is there are other types…

15 vs. 30 year Mortgage

There are many different discussions on the Internet, all coming from different angles, about whether it makes more sense to get a 15-year or 30-year Fixed Rate mortgage. We certainly would like to contribute our thoughts into this topic, but more from a real estate investment perspective. 15-Year Mortgage What are the pros and cons…

Running a Real Estate Business from Anywhere

In the realm of achieving Financial Independence (FI), it does not necessarily equate to you being a bum and sit on the couch all day long doing nothing. As a matter of fact, the truth is no matter how you achieved FI, you will still need to be managing something. It can be managing your…

Growth vs. Stabilization

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…

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…

Thanksgiving and Tradition

We often blog about real estate and there is no doubt real estate investing is our focus at DoorInvestor. Though, as we are approaching Thanksgiving (which is tomorrow), such traditional holiday made us think about the traditional methods of investing – and to us the most traditional way of investing is stocks. Just like what…