Passive Real Estate Investing

The US housing market continues to grow with rising prices and new construction supported by a strengthening domestic economy. According to new data released by the NAR, the National Association of Realtors, home prices are still rising. However, a rental property is only valuable to you if there is a person willing and able to use the property and pay you rent. If you buy a house standing by itself in the middle of a desert, the prospects of you finding a tenant are very poor. What you want is a hassle-free cash flowing property near lots of well-paid people. Those people want to live near their jobs and the amenities they enjoy. Learn the seven steps for picking a suitable and strong rental market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Real estate becomes an asset when it brings you cash flow. As a real estate investor, you'll be putting other people's money to work for you. When we talk about loopholes of real estate, we're talking about the financial tax and legal advantages of investing in real estate as a passive income earner. It has been successfully utilized by many investors to protect and maximize their real estate investments. Loopholes provide for the defense of your valuable real estate. From a tax perspective, there are real estate loopholes to be opened. Smart investors know how to open those loopholes to their maximum advantage. From the legal side, there are real estate loopholes that need to be closed. When you learn when to open and when to close loopholes, you become a successful and even a sophisticated real estate investor. Bestselling author and Rich Dad advisor Garrett Sutton discusses the loopholes of real estate investing. Garrett has been practicing corporate law for more than 35 years, assisting real estate investors and entrepreneurs in protecting their assets and maximizing their financial goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your property managers are your asset managers. They take care of your property, fill vacancies, maintain the property, take care of the tenants who are your customers, and deal with the law and liability. They need to be understanding of the environment, speaking of the law and liability. Dave is the co-founder of Great Jones, a venture-backed business on a mission to make property management efficient, effective, and delightful for owners regardless of their portfolio size. He has a lot of industry exposure and experience. He was the director of construction for FirstKey Homes, a massive company that has purchased an untold number of homes. He oversaw operations across ten markets. Before that, he was the regional director of another massive company called Waypoint Homes. Dave talks about building his own company and gives his perspective on real estate investing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warren Buffett once said, “Until you can manage your mind, do not expect to manage money.” Warren Buffett is correct. Without the right mindset, it would be difficult to become a successful investor. Getting into the field of property investing, your mindset matters and it plays a very important role in leveling up your life. Paul Thompson used to have a corporate day job but now he's a full-time real estate investor who lives to help others find their way. When Paul realized that the perfect time to start investing was never going to come, he simply switched his mindset and jumped in. Now, he's doing three deals a month and is able to help himself as well as others build wealth and passive income with cashflow. Paul tells his personal story of securing twenty plus deals in his first eighteen months of investing to serve as an inspiration for everybody else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, it can be unfortunate to find how so much focus is given on academic and professional education without having to recognize the importance of financial education. In our lives, not only do we live everyday pursuing our goals, but we also have to live a life full of financial matters. That is why as we have often seen, most still find themselves financially insecure and experiencing negative cash flow. And as we put it here, “Ignorance is expensive.” The good thing is we can always change that.  Marco answers some of your real estate and other financial-related questions, touching on topics like investments, portfolios, financing, multifamily housing, funds, appraisals, and more! You’ll find yourself learning so much more and getting some insider tips on navigating your way to financial freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you could convert a portion of your home equity into immediate cash that you can use for any purpose, and what if there were no monthly payment requirements on that immediate cash? Jim Benavidez invests alongside with you in your home. It’s what’s called a home ownership investment, and because it's an investment and not a loan, there are no monthly payments at any given time on the money they provide you. In fact, there are no payments at all until you sell or refinance the home, and that can be up to 30 years later. Learn more how you can unlock home equity without monthly payments to grow your portfolio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to school, study hard, get a good job. That’s the linear path that a lot of people start on. After getting an engineering degree, Lane Kawaoka started working in the day job as a construction supervisor and bought a house pretty quickly. But he was never home because he was traveling all the time for work, so he started renting his home out. Realizing how much passive cash flow he was able to pull from that got him started into real estate investing as a working professional. He currently has a portfolio of eleven single-family homes in places like Seattle, Birmingham, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Pennsylvania. He's also a partner in a syndication that controls currently over 1,300 apartment and RV units. Lane has made it a mission to help people get off the corrupt Wall Street roller coaster and focus on main street investments with safer, higher returns that benefit the American middle class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10,000 people a day are turning 65. Much more importantly, 4,000 a day are turning 85. Gene Guarino of Residential Assisted Living Academy is focused on investing in the mega trend of senior assisted housing. They find the right location, the best demographics, and they buy or rent a home and convert that into a senior-friendly, senior-safe home with grab bars, smooth floors, wide doors, and the like. Gene explains it's a residential home in the neighborhood which may have six to twelve seniors living in it with no sign in front being used as a group home for the elderly with caregivers 24/7. Gene exposes this exciting opportunity in a growing trend and talks about the real estate angle and the business angle of residential assisted living. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investing in tax lien certificates is an alternative way to include real estate in your portfolio, at least another source of income. When a homeowner falls behind on their property taxes, the county or municipality where the property is located can place a tax lien against the property. A tax lien certificate is issued usually by the tax assessor's office, verifying that there is a lien in place and the amount of taxes owed on that property by the current owner. According to the National Tax Lean Association, an amazing estimated $14 billion in property taxes goes unpaid each year. This is a pretty broad market for investors that most people don't understand. Ted Thomas explains how you can diversify a little and generate some extra cash using these tax lien certificates. Ted is a Florida-based educator, publisher and author of more than 30 books. His home study materials are international best sellers and draw clients from as far as Europe and South America. Find out how you can earn and make more money through an alternative form of passive real estate investing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everybody has heard of Bitcoin, but some people really don't know what cryptocurrency is. Cryptocurrency is essentially a decentralized form of currency, and bitcoin is the market leader. The blockchain technology is the technology behind bitcoin. Blockchain and cryptocurrency expert Mike Freemen says the crypto revolution can bring money into the pockets of people who have never had a bank account and just skip that entire system. It's very liberating and powerful and the reach is virtually unlimited. Mike talks about bitcoin, blockchain and real estate, and says it's just a matter of understanding the uniqueness of what blockchain is and how that's going to apply to investing and real estate and contracts. Mike shares how his knowledge of blockchain technologies coupled with his investing experience allowed him to retire to Chile where he now spends his time advocating for freedom and seeking the next best way to cause more freedom in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices