Preparing for a Recession: Importance of Cash Reserves

The chapter discusses the importance of creating and maintaining cash reserves to prepare for an impending recession. It emphasizes the need to have six months of cash reserves, or alternatively, keeping all the cash flow in a separate account. The speaker highlights the importance of having accessible funds and adapting cash flow based on market conditions.

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A recession isn’t off the table for 2024, so you’ll need to know how to prepare for a recession and profit if the economy starts to slide. If your real estate values fall, your tenants stop paying rent, or you lose your job, how will you ensure you keep your properties? Those who can survive the bad times often thrive in the good—so what should you do to prepare?

Today, our expert panel gives four suggestions ANY investor can take to make it through a recession unscathed. All of these suggestions are being put into practice NOW by our panel of experts. They’re not complicated, and acting on even a few of them could save you tens of thousands (or an entire property) if and when a recession finally does hit.

From cutting costs to keeping cash on hand, investing differently, and building a "backup" for buying properties, these tactics will enable you to scoop up the deals that inexperienced investors couldn’t hold onto!

In This Episode We Cover:

How to prepare for a recession (and profit!) in 2024

Emergency reserves and how much you should have in the bank NOW

Quick ways to cut costs so your business can easily survive downturns

Accessing “backup” debt that’ll help you close on deals as banks tighten up credit

Looking outside of real estate for returns and how the experts are diversifying

Why you MUST keep some “liquid” assets on you during a recession

And So Much More!

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