Comments on: They Just Don’t Get It: Is the Mainstream Media Biased Against Real Estate As An Investment?

By: Lee Ali

Lee Ali — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:29:33 +0000

I dedicated a 38 page chapter on stocks vs. real estate in the areas of performance, leverage, taxes, transparency, effort, volatility and diversification.

It is not that the big media players don’t get it. The truth is that they don’t make much money from real estate investors. They make more money from Wall Street so it is in their best interest to promote Wall Street instead of real estate.

I don’t care. The more they pound real estate the more money I make. The real estate prices may be flat or down compared to 10 years ago but the rents are up.

By: James Blakeley

James Blakeley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:04:04 +0000

Still my income can be increased while others chase the other markets. Invest where you want, because your money should be exhausted from earning, by the time it makes it into my real estate retirement.

By: Neil Uttamsingh

Neil Uttamsingh — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:26:36 +0000

Florence,

I think that you bring up an interesting point here.

It is my observation that the media generally puts a negative spin on real estate investors.
Why, you may ask?
I think this is because the media’s target market (the general population), are afraid of and don’t understand real estate investment. I mean no disrespect, here but we all know that this is the reality.

A confused mind is fearful, and when the general public is confused about real estate investment, they will naturally become fearful of it as an option to invest in.

The media adds fuel to the fire by further portraying real estate investors as opportunistic, heavily funded, greedy people. When the media presents this image to the public, it further emphasizes with the public that real estate investors are for lack of good works usage, mean.

I trust that my rant made sense. (last comment of the night for me!)

Regards,
Neil.
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By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:04:28 +0000

This article came up in two conversations I had today, Flo. It really is amazing how little respect real estate investors get thanks to a handful of bad eggs. Thank you for saying what many of us think about on a regular basis. I believe that real estate investors need to be more outspoken about these kinds of issues so they can arise to the forefront of people’s minds.