A Spreadsheet Jump Started My Investing (Speadsheet Explained)
Tuesday, March 29
I wrote a post nearly two years ago entitled A Spreadsheet Jump Started My Investing which outlined how creating a spreadsheet with roughly 100 different properties in my target market helped me restart my real estate investing. That post focused more on the big picture benefits derived from th...
The Limits of Analyzing Properties On the Internet (part II)
Friday, May 16
Pictures vs. Reality So it seemed I had come across an overlooked gem of a duplex for a number of reasons discussed in my prior post: The Limits of Analyzing Properties on the Internet Everything seemed to check out: the exterior property picture looked good the street looked g...
The Limits of Analyzing Properties On the Internet
Wednesday, April 30
It Never Hurts to Look While reviewing properties that were going to be available for auction in our target market on Auction.com, I came across a couple homes that looked decent. They were in an area we have generally stayed away from, so I was surprised how good the exteriors looked. I did ...
Buy & Hold Using Traditional Lenders
Thursday, April 24
Is there any other way to finance a buy and hold real estate investment besides using traditional bank financing? There are some other options that come with shorter terms and higher rates or require you to have a more sizable portfolio (>$500,000 loan amount and/or at least 5 underlying p...
Searching for Unicorns (i.e. The Perfect Property)
Thursday, April 10
So you have watched plenty of reality TV shows, read countless articles and surfed across dozens of websites that tell you how easy it is to make money investing in real estate. If all of these people are making all this money, why shouldn't I? Now all I need is the perfect deal to get st...
A Spreadsheet Jump Started My Investing
Friday, April 04
Life changing events: getting married, having kids, putting together a spreadsheet. Maybe the last one does not fall into the category of life changing events but it absolutely helped me get on track to building an income producing real estate portfolio and I will explain why. I started "tryi...