Archive for the ‘real estate’ Category

Wholesaling Real Estate

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

I closed my first real estate deal of 2009 today!!!  It netted me $5500 before marketing costs which cost about $720 (more on that later).  So is wholesaling houses an easy way to make money? In theory…Yes.  In reality…well…it depends.  In this case it worked out great. I bought the ...

Investing with Real Estate Options

Friday, February 8th, 2008

After looking into many different real estate investing strategies, I have decided that based on my personality (lazy hands off investor), I wanted to concentrate my efforts on purchasing single family starter homes and lease optioning them to tenant buyers. I felt that this method would give me ...

Mortgage…To Pay Off or Not To Pay Off?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I am currently reading the book Trump University: Wealth Building 101 supposedly edited by "The Donald" himself. I feel like such a sucker reading this book. When I picked it up from the library I got the exact same feeling that I get when I get sucked into visiting tourist ...

My Roadmap to Wealth

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I spent a lot of time this week getting my finances in order, looking at my stock portfolio, and updating my budget. This inspired me to go the extra yard and finally put my long-term financial goals an steps to achieve them, down on paper...er, blog. So here ...

Is Now a Great Time to Invest in Real Estate or What?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Or What. So as I said before, the reason for this blog is show the world how inept I am at creating streams of income that are supposed to catapult me towards financial freedom. Obviously one of the most hyped ways to get rich quick is through real estate investing. ...