When the Bank Cut Me Off, I Had to Get Creative With Financing: Here’s What I Learned
When I first started out investing in real estate, just as many do, I was taking a more traditional approach. I thought you just needed to work hard, save up…
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Dave Van Horn
I Quit My Day Job, Retired Early & Started a New Venture Using Real Estate: Here’s How
It’s hard to imagine now how hard it was to save up that initial $5,000 to buy my first rental property back in 1989. I bought a duplex, which was…
What’s Your Exit Strategy? A Case for Converting Your Real Estate to Paper Assets
When first starting out in real estate investing, I was pretty much like everyone else. I was looking for Financial Freedom. At that time, I hated my day job working…
Real Estate Insurance 101: How to Best Protect Your Investments
In a recent BiggerPockets article, “Used Wisely, Debt Can Absolutely Produce Wealth: Here’s How,” I discussed the efficient, productive use of debt to build wealth, but I also referenced the fact…
Used Wisely, Debt Can Absolutely Produce Wealth: Here’s How
As someone who has struggled for about half of his life with debt, what it really was, and how to handle it, I guess it’s best to start out by…
8 of the Best Ways to Raise Capital for Your Investments
In our last conversation on raising capital, we were discussing Investor Relations and the importance of staying in communication with investors, before, during and after the fundraising stage. Now, I…
Money Myths and the Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made Raising Capital
In the last article on Raising Capital, I covered: the Types of Money, the Three Main Investment Asset Classes, and I talked briefly about Synergy versus Diversification. The main point…
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…
Working “On” Your Real Estate Business vs. “In” Your Real Estate Business
A few weeks ago, I attended a subgroup meeting of my Philadelphia REIA group, and there was a locally well-known, extremely successful, real estate investor in attendance. He truly is…
How Mortgage Servicing Compares To Property Management
Since many people consider me this note guy, I’m often told that I must like investing in notes more than in real estate. And to be quite honest, nothing could…
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…
Real Estate Notes: Key Concepts to Consider
In a discussion at lunch recently with a young entrepreneur, who was intrigued by the note business, several key concepts came up, and I suddenly realized that many folks, especially…
Are You Following Your Passion?
As my youngest son was heading off to Los Angeles to follow his dream in filmmaking and I was attending the Equity University Networking Conference and the BiggerPockets Meet Up…
