Why You Need to Stop Trying to Time the Real Estate Market Crash 

Watch this video on YouTube Many people pick up bad habits or follow the sub-optimal advice of so-called experts in finance.  One misguided notion people tend to embrace is timing the market. You see it a lot for stock investing.  But even in real estate investing,...

Dispelling Myths About Real Estate

There are lots of myths when people talk about housing. It’s part and parcel of the present discourse on this topic. After all, we live in a time of fake news and mass hysteria.  As a result, we see a lot of clickbait and sensationalist headlines talking about the...

Long-Term Market ROI Comparisons

When evaluating market areas for prospective real estate investment, the most common element that people examine is the price history.  This makes sense for many reasons.  In most cases, price data is what we can most easily find about a market.  Price appreciation is...

Learning What an Asset is Worth

One of the primary tenants of value-based investing decisions is the notion of “fair value” or “intrinsic value” of an asset.  This asset can be a company, or it can be an income property … the principals are the same in both cases.  As intelligent investors, the way...

Value Investing for Income Property

The notion of “value investing” was first made popular by Ben Graham, and later by Warren Buffett.  At its core, value investing is about knowing the fundamentals or “intrinsic value” of an asset.  What this ultimately means, is that investors should seek to learn...