I met with a fellow friend and real estate investor the other day to discuss challenges we’re working on with our real estate investments. It was a very productive meeting that actually lasted 3 hours. The topic was not improved tenant screening, creative financing techniques, marketing programs, nor systems for efficiency or guaranteed success. The… Read more »
What type of investor are you? Have you given that some thought? Do you go after growth tracking trends that require the insight of whether its occurring or not or are you into value focusing on discounts to value and income with the ability to understand what exactly value is? Do you actually research your… Read more »
The power of compounding is the secret to wealth with rentals over time. Landlording is a disciplined approach in the game of real estate. It is one where once you dial in your inventory of rentals, lock in your financing, and unlock the secret of management, one can (somewhat) put the rentals on autopilot. I… Read more »
For those considering providing a private money loan, one needs to put some basic protections in the paperwork they create when funding a loan. You see a loan as an asset is different than a direct investment in a piece of real estate. Rather than a set of keys and the right to occupy and/or… Read more »
A few years back I had called on a fellow landlord who was known for selling off properties and providing owner financing too. Now I knew he had problem tenants in a property but also knew the area was appreciating rather rapidly and it was in my main target neighborhood. I wasn’t sure how long… Read more »
I’m often asked by those new and even those (at times) who’ve been trudging along in the investing arena, how wealth is truly created with real estate. I have a basic saying -one that plays apart in my constant drive: “If you aren’t out earning it, your spending it”. The idea of working smartly… Read more »
Originally posted by Tyler McCracken on 11/22/2009 on www.askthelandlord.com PAYING FOR A REAL ESTATE EDUCATION It was the Fall of 2007 when I knew we had reached the pinnacle of the real estate frenzy locally in Charlotte, North Carolina… I was at a local real estate meeting and the focus of the nights talk was… Read more »
Originally posted by Tyler McCracken on 10/11/2009 on www.askthelandlord.com A Way To Wealth With Rentals: A Tale of Landlording That Anybody Can Replicate. I remember the day like it was yesterday -February 14, 1994. That was the first day of my career as a landlord in Charlotte, NC. Roughly a year earlier I had bought… Read more »
