Negotiation Tactics When Buying a Home
In today’s real estate market, you really need to know what you’re doing. Interest rates haven’t been this high in decades, pushing most home buyers to the sidelines. It’s also sidelined sellers since they know fewer people can afford homes with such high interest rates. Often, sellers plan to immediately become buyers once they’ve sold their home since they need a new place to live. In doing so, they’d have to give up their (likely) low interest rate loan when they sell and take on today’s high interest rates when repurchasing. Again, since this is not a desirable outcome for sellers, even fewer people are putting their homes on the market.
That’s all to say that inventory and demand are low, bringing the market to a grinding halt. However, if you’ve been keeping a close eye on your local market this year, the few brave sellers willing to sell their homes have been dropping their list prices quite a lot. So perhaps, if you’re careful, you may actually be in a good position to buy a home now despite today’s high interest rate environment. Read on to find out how!
How To Evaluate Investments
Whenever I talk shop with another investor, I’m often asked how I determine if an investment is a good one. While the answer is very subjective and personal, I evaluate 5 specific things every time I decide to pour money into a new investment. Today, I share what those are with some basic examples.
4 Ways To Invest With Other People's Money
Generally, you need to have money to make money. But wouldn’t it be great if you could simply borrow other people’s money to invest? Well, most of the time, you can’t just borrow money out of thin air. Someone who is willing to lend you money wants to have some assurances that you’re going to make good on your promise of paying them back entirely down the road, either in the form of monthly payments, collateral against your assets that they gain ownership of in the event you default on your loan, or both. But as soon as you start accumulating assets, you can start investing with other people’s money!
In this article, I will share 4 ways you can invest with other people’s money! If you don’t have assets to borrow against yet, learn these strategies anyways so you can learn which assets you’ll need to accumulate that are required for the borrowing strategies that are attractive to you.
Doubling My $125K Investment to $250K in 1 Month
I thought that flipping one of my out-of-state properties for over $100,000 in profits in under 4 months was out of this world! While I wasn’t wrong about its success, I also never expected to beat that accomplishment in such a short period of time. The punch line? I doubled my $125K investment to $250K in just 1 month! In today’s post, I talk about my original plan for the investment, the numbers behind it, and why it was so profitable.
How I Flipped an Out-of-State Home for Over $100K Profit In Less Than 4 Months
Earning a lot of money doesn’t mean you have to have a high-paying 9-to-5 job; it can come from a side hustle like my out-of-state flipping business! In fact, because my flipping business can be so lucrative and take just a few hours a week, I often wonder why I should even keep my 9-to-5. Well, I’ll save the answer to that thought for another day. Today, I will share my experience buying an off-market property and how I ultimately sold it for a massive profit!
When It Makes Financial Sense To Relocate
The Great Resignation (AKA the “Big Quit”) of 2021 is the incredible phenomenon driven primarily by millions of Millennials and Gen Zers who have been quitting their jobs in droves. COVID-19 has forced many employers to offer work-from-home benefits. So, employees have increasingly enjoyed better work-life balance and flexibility to do things on their terms. With employers seeking to reverse that trend by requiring employees to return to the office, employees are opting out by seeking other opportunities that allow them to continue to enjoy their work-from-home privileges permanently. And with millions of workers seeking to stay or become fully remote, why continue to live in a HCOL (high cost of living) city? Maybe it makes financial sense to relocate to a cheaper area and get a bigger bang for your buck. Let’s dive in!
How I Turned My 2nd Flip Into My 1st Airbnb
At the start of 2021, I set out to start an out-of-state flipping business and flip an average of 1 home per quarter (4 for 2021). By May, I had already purchased all 4 of my flips for the year. The 2nd home I purchased, however, didn’t get remodeled on schedule, nor did it attract a sale price I was happy with. So instead of waiting around hoping for a magic sale to happen, I decided to convert my 2nd flip into an Airbnb! In this post, I’ll talk about what went wrong with my 2nd out-of-state flip and the steps I took to convert this property into an Airbnb.
Investing in My 3rd Triple-Net Leaseback Rental Property
Investing in triple-net leaseback rental properties is a very niche area of real estate investing. I’ve done it 3 times in my real estate investing career, and each experience has been different than the other. The 1st one was immensely profitable, the 2nd went terribly bad, and the 3rd you’ll soon find out!
Takeaways From My 1st Out-of-State Flip
At the beginning of the year, I announced all my financial goals for 2021, one of which was to start an out-of-state flipping business. By the end of January, I had already closed on my very first flip in the Dallas metro area! If you follow me on Instagram, you would have learned that I’m already done with the rehab, roughly 2 months later. So now that my property is listed for sale and I’m starting to think about completing my very 1st out-of-state house flip, I thought I’d share my experience, from start to (almost) finish.
My Top 9 Tips For 1st-Time Home Buyers
Having bought my 1st home at age 22 and after taking part in dozens of purchases over the years, I’ve been asked by so many people for tips to buy their 1st home. Depending on where you live, the market can be red hot where multiple offers and bidding wars are normal, leaving many of you wondering how to even compete.
In this article, I will talk about common dangers of being a buyer, how to navigate through those pitfalls, and some of my top techniques that I employ when I’m shopping around for a home. Even if you are an experienced home-buyer, many of the tips and tricks I’ll talk about in this article are applicable to buying any home, not just a primary residence.
7 Traits of Highly Successful People
The past 5 years or so of my life have really kicked my finances into high gear. It’s not just a feeling of success either; it’s real and backed by data. By tracking my net worth over time, I have the data to tell me whether or not my finances are moving in the right direction. And in the past few years alone, I’ve seen my net worth increase by a couple million! That said, it’s important to self-reflect and understand how I’ve come this far in such a short period of time. In this post, I wanted to share the things that have really helped my partner and I become so successful so young.
Risks and Tradeoffs of Real Estate Investing
In my past post, 6 Reasons Why I Invest In Real Estate to Build Wealth, I talked about the many benefits of investing in real estate. However, it’s important to highlight the risks and tradeoffs, too. So what are they, and are you willing to accept those risks anyways?
Why Everyone Should Start A FIRE Journey
Embarking on a FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) journey isn’t just for those who want to retire early; it’s for everyone. While the premise may sound bold, I believe my reasons are pretty compelling. As a reader, I want you to think long and hard about the questions I will pose throughout this post and see where your answers take you.
How the Rich Create Generational Wealth Through Real Estate
Investing in My 2nd Triple-Net Leaseback Rental Property
For those of you who read about my 1st investment in a triple-net leaseback rental property, I talked about how amazing my returns were. In just 2 years, my total return on investment was a whopping 58%! But as the saying goes, past results don’t predict future results, as you will soon find out about my 2nd triple-net leaseback rental property. And, unfortunately for me, my returns turned out to be quite abysmal.
Predictions of 2021’s Economy and Investing Landscape
Between COVID-19, the March 2020 stock market crash to all-time highs for a basket of stay-at-home stocks, no one could’ve predicted what 2020 had in store for us. Let’s have a little fun today by looking into our crystal balls and predict what 2021 has in store for us! At the time of writing, it is December 30, 2020. By the time you’re reading this, some of my predictions may have already come true!
2021 Business and Personal SMART Goals
Happy New Year! To kick off every new year, I like to set goals for all aspects of my life, both personal and professional. To make sure that my goals are clear and reachable, I create Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (S.M.A.R.T) goals. By publicizing my goals, it helps me stay accountable for the things I set out to accomplish for the year. In this post, I’ll talk about my personal finance and business goals. Now, let’s dive in!
Ways to Evaluate Rental Properties
There are many factors to consider when evaluating a prospective rental property. While it largely comes down to a numbers game, there are other factors that are important that math can’t highlight. In this article, we will learn about a few ways to quickly evaluate properties at scale, how I scrutinize a prospective property in greater detail, and list out other important factors that are crucial to building a successful buy-and-hold rental portfolio.
Investing In My 1st Triple-Net Leaseback Rental Property
Most investors have never heard of the terms “triple-net” or “leaseback.” For me, my 1st time investing in this niche area of real estate yielded a 58% return on investment (ROI) in just 2 years! So what are they, and why did I invest in such a deal?
9 Ways To Get Started With Real Estate Investing
Most investors I know park their money in the stock market. It’s arguably one of the best ways to build wealth, and it doesn’t require much cash to get started. Many of those same investors hear about the potential of real estate investing, but most of them don’t know how or where to get started. Luckily, there are many ways to dabble into the world of real estate investing nowadays, and they don’t all require large amounts of capital.