We recently defined RV Ratio and how to use it to make sure your prospective rental property investment is sustainable from a cash flow perspective. Of course, RV isn’t the ONLY factor to consider. Here are a few others. Another big consideration to insure the...
We’d chisel it on Mount Rushmore if there was enough space, “Real wealth is created by buying and holding income properties.” What’s that sound? Probably property flippers jingling a few extra dimes in their pockets. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, as a...
When the Federal government bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the DOW soared 300 points and then plunged 300 points the next day. Lehman Brothers, a 158 year old company, filed for bankruptcy and the markets dropped 5% in one day. The inauguration of hope has...
If you are a rental property investor, you’re actually a commodities investor! Think about it. Isn’t a structure built on land simply a collection of various commodities arranged in a particular order by professionals to resemble a house, apartment building, or strip...
While it may be the understatement of the century to say that we at Empowered Investor Network are NOT big stock market fans, the reality is that most investors are likely to leave at least a portion of their portfolio on Wall Street. So what do you do if you’re...
Every once in a while, the financial services industry on Wall Street stirs from its pile of sludge and trots out “proof” that investing in stocks is better than real estate. What is real estate anyway? That term is way too generalized. It would be like someone asking...
Negative cash flow IS your friend. Nobody expects you to take such a contrary statement on faith so let’s look at an example from a Empowered Investor Network (PPIN) seminar to illustrate the point more clearly. Get ready to wrap your brain particles around the idea...
If you’ve been a part of the podcast audience for any length of time, you’ve heard us say a few (hundred) times that you must maximize leverage properly to create wealth in real estate. Right now, it’s Friday afternoon and everyone’s multi-tasking like crazy to get...
Gold would seem to be the hardest fraud of all to pull, either you got it or you don’t, but one enterprising con man managed to pull the wool over investors eyes for millions. Gold investors lost a total of $12.8 million between May 2001 and the summer of 2002 and now...
The no longer quite-so-small town of Austin, Texas has about a million people these days. That’s a staggering number for those used to thinking of it as a cool little place that’s just a little bit different from the rest of Texas. For starters, the geography of...
