Blogs by Richard Warren | February 9, 2009On the surface, real estate is a terrible investment. With rental properties you have to deal with tenants, vacancies, maintenance and repair, insurance, taxes and so on. It is definitely high maintenance when compared to stocks, bonds or other investments. The rate of return isn’t so great either. If you pay $100,000 for a property [...]
Blogs by Richard Warren | November 3, 2008It wasn’t that long ago that people were touting the extraordinary power of leverage. Use as little as possible to control as much as possible. Leverage was used in business and especially in real estate. You were considered an amateur if you put down 20% to buy a property, 5% and even 0% down became [...]
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A New Buzzword: Deleveraging
by Richard Warren | November 3, 2008It wasn’t that long ago that people were touting the extraordinary power of leverage. Use as little as possible to control as much as possible. Leverage was used in business and especially in real estate. You were considered an amateur if you put down 20% to buy a property, 5% and even 0% down became [...]