What is passive income?
Do you want to understand what passive income is? Do you want to understand perpetual cash flow and why multiple streams of cash flow is far better than a large pond of cash? Today we are all taught to save a large pond of money. This can be your pension which you...
Why Invest in Real Estate
Real estate is the perfect investment in an imperfect market. -Kris Johnson Buying real estate can feel much more intimidating than buying a stock. With a stock you can buy with a few mouse clicks. There are no negotiations, nothing you can do to negotiate the price...
What to look for in a deal
What are the aspects of a good deal? What do I look for? I look for experience of the operating partners. I look for the deal location. I look for the trends in the submarket of the location. I look for major employers. I look for growing demographics. I look at the...
Getting P.A.I.D with Real Estate
Do you want to get P.A.I.D for investing? Of course you do, that is why we invest. My focus is on cash flow (to provide tax free passive income for wealth and early retirement) and on capital appreciation (for increasing wealth). I consider multi-family real estate to...
Are you rich or wealthy?
Do you know the difference between being rich and being wealthy? The trouble with the word rich is, rich is a comparison to something else. How much do you need to feel rich? Someone is always richer than you and you are always going to be richer than someone else....
Hutchins Palms –117% in a year
The Hutchins Palms apartments at 535 West Hutchins Place in San Antonio, Texas is a great case study on a value-add property deal combined with a refinance opportunity. That means, in plain English, buy the asset, increase the value, refinance, return equity to...