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 to keep great Tenants without squeezing your margins
A little less than a year ago we got the hardest part right. Like leasing Sherlock Holmes-es we pored over lease applications, ran countless credit checks, background checks, prior eviction checks, cross reference checks, written and verbal rental and employment verifications and found a great Tenant. Over the course of the year, our predictions came true. The Tenants paid rent on time, took care of the property like it was
The most amazing real estate deal of all time
Imagine for a moment that you just orchestrated the most amazing real estate deal of all time. This deal is so impressive Scorsese will make a movie about it with Di Caprio playing your part. People who aspire to become successful real estate investors will hold week-long case studies of this deal for years to come. All the elements are present. Through world-class negotiating skills during purchase, you locked
How the oil market crash impacted the Houston real estate market
Every conversation I have with Investing Architect clients or prospective clients these days eventually veers into the impact the oil market crash has had on the real estate market in general and investment opportunities in particular. With all the dramatic media coverage on the topic their expectation is one of a Buyer’s market with increased opportunities both in terms of options (inventory) and better deals (lower prices). When you look
The Fermi Technique: How to analyze investment properties in under 5 minutes
Over the last decade, I have worked with many successful long term real estate investors. They have different personalities, different professions and often employ different strategies. But they all have one critical thing in common: Successful long term real estate investors possess the ability to quickly and accurately “size up” a potential deal. If someone were to call you on the phone to offer you a potential real estate deal,
5 Critical Real Estate Investing Lessons I learned in 2015
Today is the last day of 2015. In a few hours, the bubbly will flow and we get to write a new chapter. That’s why this is the best time to reflect back on the year that was, learn the critical investing lessons it taught us and become better investors in the process. Year in Review Real estate markets across Texas entered 2015 with a lot of momentum from the
Investing Architect explores DFW
Over the years, I’ve been asked by several long time clients about investing in the Dallas Fort-Worth market. At the time, the main reason for their interest was location diversification. While I always thought it a good idea to diversify holdings over markets with different characteristics, I thought there wasn’t a significant difference in location characteristics to achieve any meaningful diversification. Then oil prices dropped in the $40s and calls about investing in DFW
How to compound real estate investing results with a little extra effort
If I could show you a way to compound your real estate investing results by investing a little extra effort over time, would you be interested? I know it sounds too good to be true but lend me your mind for a short while and I’ll explain exactly what I mean. For the past couple of weeks I have been reading Darren Hardy’s fantastic book “The Compound Effect”. Darren is
What to expect when you are investing – Houston 2015 Edition
Consider the following scenario: You are a successful professional and through hard work and living beneath your means you have managed to set aside some capital. Thus far, your career has been fine but you want something more. You wonder what might be possible if you were to invest the capital you have managed to save in real estate. Would it be possible to create enough of an income stream