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How to Develop Greater Financial Independence
House sales are down about 20% statewide this year (2023), and 2022 sales were down about 15% compared to 2021. Additionally, we hit the highest number of real estate agents the market has ever seen about a year ago. This means I’m surrounded by agents complaining about how their incomes have gone down and how Read More
Starting Out With Real Estate Investment
Have you ever considered rental property as an investment? An income producing property can be a great long term investment by providing a little bit of cashflow, monthly equity gains, and hopefully appreciation and tax savings (though there’s no garauntee to those two). At the same time it helps protect you from inflation. You see, a building Read More
Purging Properties – Ditch the Non Performers
Real Estate Investors are generally optimistic, hardworking, entrepreneurial people. They have the belief that they can do anything, can overcome any challenge, and never give up. These are all great traits to have. Although, there’s one problem with this mindset… Sometimes you don’t realize when a deal has gone bad. I recommend reviewing the profit Read More
Investment Property Financing – Latest Requirements
This is a Guest Post by Ryan Huemmer, the lender we use on our own rental properties. As an owner of investment properties, I get no greater joy than helping someone purchase their first investment property. I’ve worked with AnchorBank for almost 8 years and the world of investment property financing has changed dramatically. With Read More
Real Estate Investing – Buy and Hold vs Flip
There are a million different ways to invest in real estate; buy and hold rentals, flipping, development, wholesaling, note buying, tax liens, just to name a few. The buy and hold rentals and fix and flip type investing seems to be the most common for beginning investors though. So, I’m going to focus on the Read More