Tag Archives: Investment Property

It is often said, and with good reason, that real estate is an excellent investment and a good way to build wealth.

One of the main challenges affecting new investors nowadays is actuality maintaining the property. Before buying an investment property you might want to consider whether or not you have the time and ability to be a “hands on landlord.” Handling the management of your investment property personally might sound like a good idea but it is actually a venture that takes a lot of time and effort and in fact many new investors realize quite quickly that dealing with tenants and maintaining properties is actually a full time job. A […]

Buying Investment Property – What is a “Good” deal? Let’s look at a tried and true way to measure rental property investment returns and what we as buyers should be looking for in our purchases. Total investment returns in real estate are really comprised of two pieces: operating positive cash flows and long-term appreciation. In today’s world, even though it probably will come, we cannot count upon and should not consider long term appreciation. That leaves positive operating cash flows as our primary source of investment return. Let’s call this: “earning money […]