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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Business Credit for Real Estate
You may have heard of the phrase, “It makes money to make money.” We at DoorInvestor do not necessarily disagree with that philosophy, but like Rich Dad said, you can use OPM (Other People’s Money). Let’s face it, if you are working on your real estate portfolio, or any portfolio as a matter of fact,…
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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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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 –…
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Property Tax Appeal Consulting
Benjamin Franklin said it well, “Our new constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In modern terms, this translates to: We cannot cheat “death,” and we cannot cheat “taxes.” While death can be an interesting topic,…
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Real Estate Syndication
Syndication means crowd-funding in today’s term. The concept behind syndication or crowd-funding is nothing new, in which someone is trying to make a major investment. Due to whatever reason, perhaps the investor does not have enough capital, or the investor does not want to take on all the risk, or somewhere in between, the investor…