Is Renting Really Just “Throwing Your Money Away”?
If you’ve ever bought a house — or explored the idea of it — you’ve probably heard the phrase, “rent is just throwing your money away.” In fact, there’s a good chance that either your…
5 Books to Help You Get Started with Investing
No matter how long you’ve studied and practiced making good investments, it’s a good idea to keep reading new books to expand your knowledge base. While the books I reference in this article are specifically…
The Moratorium on Evictions: What You Can Do as a Landlord
Since the nationwide moratorium on evictions was established last year, things have been topsy-turvy for a lot of landlords — especially ones who rely on their rental income to support themselves. Recently the Supreme Court…
How to Choose Good Tenants
Real estate is a people business. As long as you are buying, selling or renting properties you will continually meet and interface with a wide variety of people, from bankers and attorneys to realtors —…
How to Deal with Evictions (and Avoid Them in the First Place)
If you are a real estate investor, the odds are that you’ll be renting to tenants at some point. And if you’re renting to tenants, at some point you will need to file an eviction.…
Bubble or “New Norm”? Some Thoughts on the (Near) Future Real Estate Market
Start typing in the Google search bar “Is the real estate market in a bubble right now?” and you’ll quickly see that thousands of other people are asking the same question. No one knows what…
Commercial Vs. Residential Real Estate: What Are the Big Differences?
I was recently talking to a friend who said this about commercial real estate: “It’s not that different from residential. It’s just more numbers and zeroes.” For the most part, I agree. Both commercial and…
Should I Buy or Wait? A Closer Look at the “Post”-Pandemic Market
Image by Harry Strauss from Pixabay If there’s one thing that most people — investors and non-investors alike — agree on, it’s that no one saw the pandemic of 2020 coming. Since then, we’ve seen…
What is a “Good Deal”? Here’s Some Simple Math
Image by Shutterbug75 from Pixabay As a real estate investor you’ll need to be able to do some math to know if you’re making a good investment or not. But don’t worry — you don’t…
BRRRR: The Good and the Bad
Image by Nattanan Kanchanaprat from Pixabay Believe it or not, the popular so-called “BRRRR” method has been around long before people actually started calling it that. It was the method I used in the beginning…