Category: investments
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I didn’t know this and it made me over $100,000 dollars in the first year.
I used to think that I needed a lot of money and a great credit score to buy large apartment deals and commercial property. When I found a property I wanted to buy and started looking at financing I learned the biggest lesson I didn’t know. When a bank is lending money for a multifamily […]
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How to earn PASSIVE INCOME without hassle.
A syndication deal in real estate is a structure where multiple investors pool their money together to purchase and manage a property or portfolio of properties. The investors are known as limited partners, and they provide capital in exchange for a share of the income and potential appreciation of the property. The general partner, who […]
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3 mistakes investors make when calculating Net Operating Income (NOI)
There are several numbers and metrics you should look at when you are investing in a business, but this metric is one of the most important ones for real estate. And yes when you build a portfolio of income producing real estate, it is a business. In real estate, NOI is used exclusively to determine […]
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My new favorite drink and other questions I pondered seeking inspiration
We are now well in to the new year. It is day six of 2023. And one of the things I am struggling with his finalizing my goals I want to accomplish in 2023. I have the word document up on my tabs on my computer and I have been looking at it everyday for […]
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The one formula you need to know to financial freedom.
The one thing that is not talked about enough in the financial world or the investing world is your ability to save. Wherever you are in life in general and financially right now is an accumulation of all the decisions you have made up until this point. If you don’t like where you are, you […]
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Why saving your money in a bank is stupid
When is the last time you looked at your interest payments you have received from a bank on the money you have saved in there? If you are like most people. You probably rarely do. It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of money in the bank or very little in the bank. The […]
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8 Calculations you must learn to do when you invest in real estate
This morning I was thinking about some of the terms and calculations as a real estate investor I needed to learn. You may not use all of these calculations when analyzing a deal, but understanding each of these and when to use them is very important. They are really not in any particular order, except […]
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Back of the napkin underwriting, the 50 percent rule.
It goes like this. “Yeah we were having lunch and we were just talking about some ideas and started writing them out on the back of a napkin. And now we have this multi-million dollar company, brand, or product.” All you need to know is what is the rent roll for a given property. If […]
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The criteria I used to create a million dollar portfolio with single family homes
As a new real estate investor a lot of questions may be running through your head. How do I know which property to invest in? What should I be looking at with each of the properties? And the list can go on and on. To help you get out of your own head and get […]
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Is the 1% rule still applicable in this market?
At 26, when I bought my first income producing rental property I wished I had known a few basic principles to investing in real estate. The only thing I knew was that everyone I had known growing up that owned real estate, which wasn’t anyone in my family, was rich to me. This was the […]
Pennies into Fortunes 