As a real estate investor, you’ll likely be concerned with how to mitigate risk in the event of a lawsuit. This is where a limited liability corporation, or LLC, may come into play. An LLC will insulate your personal assets from activities that occur at the property. Learn more here.

I’ve done a decent amount of partnering in my career, both within real estate and in other business ventures. My experience has helped me to develop an intuitiveness around potential partners. Here are the five big questions I like to ask myself before considering working with a new partner.

Scaling your business is a topic that will inevitably arise if your business is doing well. While it may seem like a natural progression, it is not for everyone. Before biting off more than you can chew, here’s some helpful advice.

Setting up an LLC isn’t as difficult as you think, but when’s the right time to put your property in an LLC? When should you leave it in your personal name? What’s the point of an LLC at all? As an experienced investor, I’ll address all of these things here.

Learn about the incredible—and sometimes risky—power of the 1031 exchange. When it comes to selling a property, chances are you’re going to have significant taxes to deal with. Thankfully, in the U.S., our government provides the 1031 exchange as a way to defer those taxes to a later time—or poss...

Often real estate investors hang up the towel and move everything into passive holdings ahead of retirement. But if “your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you,” that might not be the best plan. Here are a few less common exit strategies, which I’ve dubbed my “1031 exchange...

Protecting your hard earned real estate assets is a vital element of running your business. Get input from an experienced attorney here.

Real estate agents don’t get paid by the hour, but the faster you work, the more money that’s apt to equal in the long run. That being said, you also don’t want to work so fast that you sacrifice quality, which will only lead to failure over time. Use these helpful productivity tips instead.

I am a buy and hold real estate investor, and I live in one of the most expensive real estate markets on the planet—the San Francisco Bay area. If you haven’t been following the news, San...

Looking to increase your real estate investment profits and grow your portfolio exponentially faster? You might be surprised to learn who is 100% willing to help you do that. Find out here.

Wall Street investors, hedge funds, and giant corporations have infinite resources, as well as Ivy League alumni, to sift through investments for the best deals. How are we supposed to compete? But realistically (and luckily), these behemoths are at an enormous disadvantage when squaring off agai...

In the course of recording a podcast, we’ve gotten quite a few questions from listeners and others who are curious about this topic: lessons learned in the process of failure. The most common question we get is, “What is the #1 lesson you’ve learned as a result of hosting this podcast for these f...