Using Real Estate to Escape the “9 to 5” and Find True Freedom
A few days ago I was out to lunch with a friend of mine and naturally our conversation soon directed itself to the topic of real estate. We had been…
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A Slow, Boring, Incredibly Awesome Strategy for Building Wealth Through Passive Real Estate Investing
I want to apologize. You see, BiggerPockets has a LOT of information. Like, more than you could ever hope to read in your lifetime, and that’s growing every day. Now, while…
A High-Level Overview (Literally) of 30 Unique Real Estate Markets Around the World
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that I tend to get really caught up in the things happening in my real estate market (as if the whole world revolved…
Fund Investing vs. Passive Note Investing – Which Should You Do?
People often ask me when they’re first introduced to note investing, “Which is better, being in a note fund or investing in the actual notes?” My answer is: “I don’t…
Why Educating Your Children About Real Estate Matters
I think it’s important to Pay It Forward. I don’t know why I feel this way, but something tells me that helping people will pay off in spades. I don’t…
How Real Estate Empowered Me to Buy a Lamborghini (And What It Means for YOU!)
I like to write about real estate investing, but I also like to write about goals, self-improvement and being awesome. I’m sitting here, right now, writing this article at my…
Retirement Security: Invest In Texas NOT California
A real estate investor from California has several small rental properties (8), all local. Location quality is suspect, as they’re in… you know… California. Related: Southern California Housing Markets Increasingly Overvalued Opinions…
10 Real Estate Markets Where The “Buy and Hold” Strategy Actually Made Sense
Have you ever heard of John Jacob Astor? A couple hundred years ago, this guy was kind of a big deal. Astor was one of the earliest (and most successful) businessmen in…
6 Ways to Teach Your Children About Building Wealth
I normally talk about apartment building investing but I wanted to talk about another topic that I’ve slowly started to work on with my kids as they get a bit…
An Immigrant’s Impressions on Opportunity and Real Estate Investing in America
When I was just ten years old, I witnessed the fall of communism in Albania. I vividly remember a detail that has stuck with me through the years. One afternoon…
Los Angeles Housing Market Seems to be Slowing
Of all the regional markets in the United States, none have seen the flurry of activity that California has since 2013 began. While still carrying the troublesome status as the…
Building Wealth: 10 Strategies for Successfully Managing Equity
Back in 1989, I purchased my first buy and hold investment property, a nice duplex that now has some large commercial garages, which I built later on, at the back…
Syndication: Is It Even Worth The Trouble?
Most of you know by now that I’ve dedicated myself to learning the art of syndication. I’ve also committed myself to writing about it so that you don’t have to…
