Ten Reasons To Invest in Mortgage Notes
Tuesday, January 28
Ten Reasons To Invest in Mortgage Notes #1 – discounted pricing Both performing and non-performing notes are almost always sold at a discount. What does that mean? It means that if the principal balance of the note is $100k, you may be able to purchase the note for a value between $40k and $90...
Self-Directed Retirement Accounts
Tuesday, January 07
Supercharge your future by investing in mortgage notes with money you already have. What is a self-directed IRA? A self-directed individual retirement account (SDIRA) is a type of IRA that can hold a variety of alternative investments, like rental real estate or notes. Although the account is ad...
Labrador Lending: Our Story
Sunday, October 13
Treating Real Estate as a Business In late 2009, my wife, Emily, and I purchased our first rental property, a condo in Baltimore County, Maryland. In hindsight, we had no idea what we were doing. After we closed, I posted a rental ad on Craigslist and we accepted the first potential tenant who re...
Investing in Land Contracts
Sunday, August 04
In this article, we will cover: the basics of a land contract, the characteristics that make a land contract unique when compared to other purchase agreements, the benefits and risks for both the borrower and the investor, and an example showing how an investor can profit by investing in land con...
Investing is Like Tubing down a River
Saturday, July 06
Last weekend, my wife, our two kids, and I went camping in West Virginia with some friends. We stayed at Big Bend Campground, situated in the Smoke Hole Canyon on the South Branch of the Potomac River. To say the area is beautiful would not do it justice. For those who appreciate mountains, canyo...
What Note Investing Can Do for You
Tuesday, June 25
Why should you consider investing in notes? I’ll give you six reasons to consider, along with two real-life case studies that display the true power of this strategy. #1: Note investing can provide you an investment vehicle not tied to Wall Street’s ups and downs.Now, I’m not as anti-Wall Street ...