Real Estate Investing Articles
I write about how to achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. The central question I explore through my work is: “How can I help busy professionals use real estate to become financially independent and live life on their terms?”
In other words, I want to find ideas, strategies and tactics and explain them in a way that makes them easy to understand and execute. My writing focuses on topics like mindset shifts for real estate investors, how to build and scale your real estate portfolio, strategies to create retirement income through real estate, financial planning using real estate as the principal asset, investing tactics and how to leave a lasting legacy while achieving financial freedom.
Most of all, I write about how to put these ideas into a comprehensive plan of action that takes you from where you are to where you want to be.
How the Hidden Superpowers in Your Biggest Disadvantages Become Your Competitive Edge
The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Success We’ve all heard the mantras: “Your network is your net worth.” “It takes money to make money.” These statements carry an insidious implication that if you don’t already have established networks or significant capital, you might as well give up before you start. I see these limiting beliefs constantly among successful professionals who want to build real estate portfolios. They earn six-figure salaries
The System I Use To Decide Which Properties To Keep Or Trade In My Real Estate Portfolio
Most real estate advice focuses on finding and funding your next acquisition. While that’s important, it’s not what makes the difference in the long run. Instead, the most important strategic decision a savvy investor has to make is which of the investment properties they already own they should keep, reposition, or trade. This creates a fundamental problem in wealth building. Your portfolio is only as strong as its weakest properties.
How to Build a Real Estate Portfolio That Serves Your Life: The Tenant-First Investment Strategy
Most real estate investors have it backwards. They obsess over metrics while building portfolios that bring frustration and slowly consume their lives. They chase the highest projected cash-on-cash returns only to end up with properties they secretly wish they’d never bought. The end result? A collection of underperforming investments that don’t deliver on expected returns but deliver a miserable ownership experience. Just last week, I was reviewing an investment property
The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor Book Review: Simplify Your Portfolio and Win
Finally … a real estate investing book that doesn’t ramble on about 10x and “building empires” (whatever that means)! I had the pleasure to receive a copy of Chad Carson’s new book: The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor before it came out. As soon as I read it, I immediately recognized that it was an important message that needed to be heard. Now, the book is available on Amazon,
The BIG Mistake I See Investors Make When Selecting Out-of-State Real Estate Markets
On one hand, you want to invest in real estate to build a solid portfolio and achieve financial independence. On the other, you are currently located in a market where real estate is too expensive to make the numbers work. What do you do? The obvious and easy solution is to consider investing opportunities in out-of-state markets where prices and rents are much more balanced. But the ease quickly ends
My first podcast interview on Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Last week I had the great pleasure to be a guest on Coach Carson’s Real Estate & Financial Independence podcast. For those of you that may not know him, Chad is the author of Retire Early with Real Estate and The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor, a fellow contributor to the BiggerPockets Blog (where we met), a great friend and above a true stand up guy in the real
The main reason why some investors succeed with real estate investing (and others fall short)
I want to share with you a tale of two investors. Picture two childhood friends who went to and graduated from the same college with a degree in the same field. They possess the same natural talents and intelligence. Further still, they earn the same income and live the same lifestyle which results in the same savings rate and same amount of investment capital. Fast forward a decade or two.
How many properties can a real estate investor self-manage?
Most investors who ask this question are looking for a “Rule of Thumb” type of answer. For instance: Up to X number of properties you can manage yourself, any more and you need professional property management. But, that’s too simplistic an answer. In my experience, I’ve seen individual investors manage 15-20 rental properties on their own with ease as well as investors who lost their mind after managing two problematic