Beginning Real Estate Investing - Understanding Leverage

January 7, 2012 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

This is one of a series of articles on beginning real estate investing. One of the fundamental concepts to understand as you are beginning real estate investing is the concept of leverage. Leverage is the ability to move or control something very large with a very small object or force. Leverage as it applies to real estate investing is the ability to control high value properties with small amounts of your own cash.

To understand why this is important, and why leverage is so valuable, an example will help. Let’s assume you are just beginning real estate investing and you have $20,000 cash to invest. The exact amount is really unimportant, so long as you understand the principle involved. To illustrate the power of leverage, let’s assume you are faced with three possible choices of how to invest your $20,000.

Choice one is to purchase a small single family home with a purchase price of $20,000. The market rent for this home is $250 per month, or $3,000 per year. For purposes of this illustration, let’s pretend there are no such things as taxes, Realtor fees, or any other costs involved with purchasing a piece of property. Wouldn’t that be nice? As a you are beginning real estate investing you’ll soon learn otherwise, but for now let’s indulge in a little fantasy.

Choice two is to purchase a duplex for $40,000 by putting our $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $20,000. The market rent for this duplex is $500 per month, or $6,000 per year. The monthly payment on our loan is $200, so positive cash flow is $300 per month, or $3,600 per year. Not too bad, considering we are just beginning real estate investing.

Finally, choice three in beginning real estate investing is to purchase a multi-unit apartment building for $140,000 by putting $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $120,000. The market rent for all the units in the building totals $1,500, and our monthly loan payment is $1100, leaving us a positive cash flow of $400 per month, or $4,800 per year.

Let’s see which of these three situations best demonstrates the power of leverage. To do this we need to make a simple calculation, called Return On Investment (ROI) for each choice. This is a very important calculation to learn as you are beginning real estate investing. ROI is calculated by dividing the amount of return we get back in a year’s time by the amount of cash we have invested.

In choice one, $3,000 return divided by $20,000 gives us a Return On Investment of 15%. Not bad, considering we’re just beginning real estate investing, but let’s see if we can do better. Choice two gives us a return of $3,600 per year for the same $20,000 invested, so our ROI is $3,600 divided by $20,000, or 18%. That’s excellent, but we still have one more choice to look at.

Choice three gave us a return of $4,800 on our investment of $20,000, so our ROI is a whopping 24%! Why so big? Because even though we’re just beginning real estate investing, we were able to “move” or control a much more valuable piece of property with a very small “lever”… in this case, our $20,000. What gave us that leverage? The ability to use Other People’s Money (OPM), but that’s a topic for another article.

Until next time, I’ve written another in-depth article called Beginning Real Estate Investing.

Now, go make more offers!

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Tom Dunn is a successful real estate investor and author of the popular DealFiles Real Estate Investor Stories free newsletter. You are welcome to share this report, unedited and in it’s entirety, with anyone you like. You may not remove this text.? 2007 by Tom Dunn. Website: DealFiles.com e-mail: tom@dealfiles.com

Beginning Real Estate Investing - Understanding Leverage

July 9, 2011 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

This is one of a series of articles on beginning real estate investing. One of the fundamental concepts to understand as you are beginning real estate investing is the concept of leverage. Leverage is the ability to move or control something very large with a very small object or force. Leverage as it applies to real estate investing is the ability to control high value properties with small amounts of your own cash.

To understand why this is important, and why leverage is so valuable, an example will help. Let’s assume you are just beginning real estate investing and you have $20,000 cash to invest. The exact amount is really unimportant, so long as you understand the principle involved. To illustrate the power of leverage, let’s assume you are faced with three possible choices of how to invest your $20,000.

Choice one is to purchase a small single family home with a purchase price of $20,000. The market rent for this home is $250 per month, or $3,000 per year. For purposes of this illustration, let’s pretend there are no such things as taxes, Realtor fees, or any other costs involved with purchasing a piece of property. Wouldn’t that be nice? As a you are beginning real estate investing you’ll soon learn otherwise, but for now let’s indulge in a little fantasy.

Choice two is to purchase a duplex for $40,000 by putting our $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $20,000. The market rent for this duplex is $500 per month, or $6,000 per year. The monthly payment on our loan is $200, so positive cash flow is $300 per month, or $3,600 per year. Not too bad, considering we are just beginning real estate investing.

Finally, choice three in beginning real estate investing is to purchase a multi-unit apartment building for $140,000 by putting $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $120,000. The market rent for all the units in the building totals $1,500, and our monthly loan payment is $1100, leaving us a positive cash flow of $400 per month, or $4,800 per year.

Let’s see which of these three situations best demonstrates the power of leverage. To do this we need to make a simple calculation, called Return On Investment (ROI) for each choice. This is a very important calculation to learn as you are beginning real estate investing. ROI is calculated by dividing the amount of return we get back in a year’s time by the amount of cash we have invested.

In choice one, $3,000 return divided by $20,000 gives us a Return On Investment of 15%. Not bad, considering we’re just beginning real estate investing, but let’s see if we can do better. Choice two gives us a return of $3,600 per year for the same $20,000 invested, so our ROI is $3,600 divided by $20,000, or 18%. That’s excellent, but we still have one more choice to look at.

Choice three gave us a return of $4,800 on our investment of $20,000, so our ROI is a whopping 24%! Why so big? Because even though we’re just beginning real estate investing, we were able to “move” or control a much more valuable piece of property with a very small “lever”… in this case, our $20,000. What gave us that leverage? The ability to use Other People’s Money (OPM), but that’s a topic for another article.

Until next time, I’ve written another in-depth article called Beginning Real Estate Investing.

Now, go make more offers!

Crush The Biggest Obstacle to Your Success in Real Estate… or Anything Else! Download my FREE report HERE!

Tom Dunn is a successful real estate investor and author of the popular DealFiles Real Estate Investor Stories free newsletter. You are welcome to share this report, unedited and in it’s entirety, with anyone you like. You may not remove this text.? 2007 by Tom Dunn. Website: DealFiles.com e-mail: tom@dealfiles.com

Can Real Estate Investing Make You Rich?

April 14, 2011 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

If you are going to get rich, you may have to give up everything you ever learned in school and from your parents and start from scratch. Now that’s not a definite by any means. You may not have to start over. If someone along the line taught you, for instance that it doesn’t actually take money to make money, then you may already be on the right track.

That’s right. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said it exactly like this: ?It doesn’t take money to make money. I often hear people say it takes money to make money. I disagree. We had no money when we started and we were also in debt. It also doesn’t take a formal education.?

He then mentioned Bill Gates as someone who never completed a college education. Which would you rather have, a collection of doctorates or Bill Gates’ money?

What it does take, Kiyosaki says, is determination and a willingness to learn quickly. But you also have to know what to do with your talents and, most importantly, to know which part of the Cash Flow Quadrant to generate your income from.

The Cash Flow Quadrant is an icon taught to him by his best friend’s father, a man to whom he refers in his books as his ?rich dad.? It is an illustration of what his rich dad called the four different types of people in relation to money: Employees, the Self-employed, Businesspeople and Investors. Each quadrant comes with its own outlook on the world. The outlook of those in the B and I quadrants are the ones that help make them rich.

When Kiyosaki says you need to be willing to learn quickly, he doesn’t mean go back to school to improve your job skills. He means you should learn about investing, preferably investing in real estate. The rich dad on whom he based his books was a real estate investor. You can get rich investing in real estate because everything else depends on it. At the beginning of his book Cash Flow Quadrant, he pointed out how so many of Hawaii’s businesses were sitting atop real estate that his rich dad owned.

But he doesn’t just mean you have to learn the nuts and bolts of investing. You do have to learn about those things, at least to the point that you are able to intelligently choose a professional to help you with your investments. But more importantly than that, you have to learn how to think like an investor, and possibly a bit like a business person too.

That is a far cry from thinking like a Self-employed person. According to Kiyosaki, a self-employed person is someone who owns a job, not a business. You don’t own a true business, he said, unless you can leave it for a year and return to find it still making money for you. Businesspeople, he said, know better than to try to do everything themselves. In order to save time and money, they hire people to do the things they can’t do or don’t have time to do. That’s why hiring a qualified real estate professional to guide you in your decisions can be a good investment in and of itself.

However you decide to do it, learning the nuts and bolts of real estate investing yourself or by hiring a qualified person to advise you, it is definitely time for you to move to the I quadrant?that is, if being rich is something you’d like to consider.

Investment Property Specialist - Alex Anderson Connects Real Estate Investors With High-Quality Investment Properties. Get A Free Copy Of, “The Investor’s Rental Guide” at: http://www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Can Real Estate Investing Make You Rich?

June 4, 2010 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

If you are going to get rich, you may have to give up everything you ever learned in school and from your parents and start from scratch. Now that’s not a definite by any means. You may not have to start over. If someone along the line taught you, for instance that it doesn’t actually take money to make money, then you may already be on the right track.

That’s right. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said it exactly like this: ?It doesn’t take money to make money. I often hear people say it takes money to make money. I disagree. We had no money when we started and we were also in debt. It also doesn’t take a formal education.?

He then mentioned Bill Gates as someone who never completed a college education. Which would you rather have, a collection of doctorates or Bill Gates’ money?

What it does take, Kiyosaki says, is determination and a willingness to learn quickly. But you also have to know what to do with your talents and, most importantly, to know which part of the Cash Flow Quadrant to generate your income from.

The Cash Flow Quadrant is an icon taught to him by his best friend’s father, a man to whom he refers in his books as his ?rich dad.? It is an illustration of what his rich dad called the four different types of people in relation to money: Employees, the Self-employed, Businesspeople and Investors. Each quadrant comes with its own outlook on the world. The outlook of those in the B and I quadrants are the ones that help make them rich.

When Kiyosaki says you need to be willing to learn quickly, he doesn’t mean go back to school to improve your job skills. He means you should learn about investing, preferably investing in real estate. The rich dad on whom he based his books was a real estate investor. You can get rich investing in real estate because everything else depends on it. At the beginning of his book Cash Flow Quadrant, he pointed out how so many of Hawaii’s businesses were sitting atop real estate that his rich dad owned.

But he doesn’t just mean you have to learn the nuts and bolts of investing. You do have to learn about those things, at least to the point that you are able to intelligently choose a professional to help you with your investments. But more importantly than that, you have to learn how to think like an investor, and possibly a bit like a business person too.

That is a far cry from thinking like a Self-employed person. According to Kiyosaki, a self-employed person is someone who owns a job, not a business. You don’t own a true business, he said, unless you can leave it for a year and return to find it still making money for you. Businesspeople, he said, know better than to try to do everything themselves. In order to save time and money, they hire people to do the things they can’t do or don’t have time to do. That’s why hiring a qualified real estate professional to guide you in your decisions can be a good investment in and of itself.

However you decide to do it, learning the nuts and bolts of real estate investing yourself or by hiring a qualified person to advise you, it is definitely time for you to move to the I quadrant?that is, if being rich is something you’d like to consider.

Investment Property Specialist - Alex Anderson Connects Real Estate Investors With High-Quality Investment Properties. Get A Free Copy Of, “The Investor’s Rental Guide” at: http://www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Beginning Real Estate Investing - Understanding Leverage

March 9, 2010 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

This is one of a series of articles on beginning real estate investing. One of the fundamental concepts to understand as you are beginning real estate investing is the concept of leverage. Leverage is the ability to move or control something very large with a very small object or force. Leverage as it applies to real estate investing is the ability to control high value properties with small amounts of your own cash.

To understand why this is important, and why leverage is so valuable, an example will help. Let’s assume you are just beginning real estate investing and you have $20,000 cash to invest. The exact amount is really unimportant, so long as you understand the principle involved. To illustrate the power of leverage, let’s assume you are faced with three possible choices of how to invest your $20,000.

Choice one is to purchase a small single family home with a purchase price of $20,000. The market rent for this home is $250 per month, or $3,000 per year. For purposes of this illustration, let’s pretend there are no such things as taxes, Realtor fees, or any other costs involved with purchasing a piece of property. Wouldn’t that be nice? As a you are beginning real estate investing you’ll soon learn otherwise, but for now let’s indulge in a little fantasy.

Choice two is to purchase a duplex for $40,000 by putting our $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $20,000. The market rent for this duplex is $500 per month, or $6,000 per year. The monthly payment on our loan is $200, so positive cash flow is $300 per month, or $3,600 per year. Not too bad, considering we are just beginning real estate investing.

Finally, choice three in beginning real estate investing is to purchase a multi-unit apartment building for $140,000 by putting $20,000 cash down and borrowing the additional $120,000. The market rent for all the units in the building totals $1,500, and our monthly loan payment is $1100, leaving us a positive cash flow of $400 per month, or $4,800 per year.

Let’s see which of these three situations best demonstrates the power of leverage. To do this we need to make a simple calculation, called Return On Investment (ROI) for each choice. This is a very important calculation to learn as you are beginning real estate investing. ROI is calculated by dividing the amount of return we get back in a year’s time by the amount of cash we have invested.

In choice one, $3,000 return divided by $20,000 gives us a Return On Investment of 15%. Not bad, considering we’re just beginning real estate investing, but let’s see if we can do better. Choice two gives us a return of $3,600 per year for the same $20,000 invested, so our ROI is $3,600 divided by $20,000, or 18%. That’s excellent, but we still have one more choice to look at.

Choice three gave us a return of $4,800 on our investment of $20,000, so our ROI is a whopping 24%! Why so big? Because even though we’re just beginning real estate investing, we were able to “move” or control a much more valuable piece of property with a very small “lever”… in this case, our $20,000. What gave us that leverage? The ability to use Other People’s Money (OPM), but that’s a topic for another article.

Until next time, I’ve written another in-depth article called Beginning Real Estate Investing.

Now, go make more offers!

Crush The Biggest Obstacle to Your Success in Real Estate… or Anything Else! Download my FREE report HERE!

Tom Dunn is a successful real estate investor and author of the popular DealFiles Real Estate Investor Stories free newsletter. You are welcome to share this report, unedited and in it’s entirety, with anyone you like. You may not remove this text.? 2007 by Tom Dunn. Website: DealFiles.com e-mail: tom@dealfiles.com

Real Estate Investing - How To Get Ahead

December 28, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

We all want to get ahead. You hear people say it all the time. But what exactly does that mean? It’s kind of a vague statement, but it sounds good. Basically, it means that you want to have more money?maybe get your earnings ahead of your cash depletion. Maybe it means you want to be able to save enough to send your kids to good universities, or be able to take your family on annual vacations. It could mean that you want to squirrel away a retirement fund.

Whatever your particular idea of getting ahead, it does imply some sort of motion?movement from where you are now to where you want to be. That means you must figure out exactly where you are now and where you should be going. Once you start to think about it, though, you may find those places are a little more difficult to determine than you had originally thought. You may find yourself beginning to struggle with just what your particular concept of getting ahead is.

Robert Kiyosaki, who authored the popular Rich Dad series of books, has mapped out a way for you to tell where you are and where you should be, if building wealth is your goal. He also gives you a plan on how to get there.

In his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant,? he introduces readers to a concept that the man he called his ?rich dad? introduced to him years ago. This quadrant is an illustration of where your money is coming from and subsequently how you think about money. Believe it or not, the two things go together.

For instant, if you are in the E quadrant, you are an employee in search of security. Someone in the S quadrant is self-employed and likes to be in control, to do things their way. A B quadrant person is a business person. (This is very different from an S-quadrant person because the B has a system that can work without their direct input, thereby freeing them for other, wealth-building, pursuits.) The I quadrant person is an investor.

According to Kiyosaki, that quadrant not only tells you where you are, but where you should be. If you are on the left side, in either the E or S quadrant, you should be making plans that will move you to the right side?first to the B quadrant then into I.

In order to do that, you need to increase your wealth by taking a job that affords you the money to invest or the time to build a business system. The system will take care of your personal needs, afford you the time to learn about investing, and provide you with the cash to purchase real estate equity. And that, my friend, is something that will make your cash grow like kudzu.

That is how you get ahead. It is a process, and you have to be systematic about it. You can’t just jump into investing without knowing what you’re doing. That is foolhardy and dangerous. You also can’t jump in if you haven’t gotten your basic needs covered. First, make sure that is taken care of. Then expand.

Kiyosaki compares the process to playing Monopoly. If you are going to win at Monopoly, you have to buy land. Then you have to put little green houses on that land, which you can later trade for big red hotels. Then you get paid.

About the Author:

Alex Anderson Helps Regular-People (Just Like You) To Successfully Invest In Real Estate. Enroll In Her Free - Educational “Investment Property Program” At: www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Real Estate Investing Can Make You Rich

December 24, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

If you are going to get rich, you may have to give up everything you ever learned in school and from your parents and start from scratch. Now that’s not a definite by any means. You may not have to start over. If someone along the line taught you, for instance that it doesn’t actually take money to make money, then you may already be on the right track.

That’s right. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said it exactly like this: ?It doesn’t take money to make money. I often hear people say it takes money to make money. I disagree. We had no money when we started and we were also in debt. It also doesn’t take a formal education.?

He then mentioned Bill Gates as someone who never completed a college education. Which would you rather have, a collection of doctorates or Bill Gates’ money?

What it does take, Kiyosaki says, is determination and a willingness to learn quickly. But you also have to know what to do with your talents and, most importantly, to know which part of the Cash Flow Quadrant to generate your income from.

The Cash Flow Quadrant is an icon taught to him by his best friend’s father, a man to whom he refers in his books as his ?rich dad.? It is an illustration of what his rich dad called the four different types of people in relation to money: Employees, the Self-employed, Businesspeople and Investors. Each quadrant comes with its own outlook on the world. The outlook of those in the B and I quadrants are the ones that help make them rich.

When Kiyosaki says you need to be willing to learn quickly, he doesn’t mean go back to school to improve your job skills. He means you should learn about investing, preferably investing in real estate. The rich dad on whom he based his books was a real estate investor. You can get rich investing in real estate because everything else depends on it. At the beginning of his book Cash Flow Quadrant, he pointed out how so many of Hawaii’s businesses were sitting atop real estate that his rich dad owned.

But he doesn’t just mean you have to learn the nuts and bolts of investing. You do have to learn about those things, at least to the point that you are able to intelligently choose a professional to help you with your investments. But more importantly than that, you have to learn how to think like an investor, and possibly a bit like a business person too.

That is a far cry from thinking like a Self-employed person. According to Kiyosaki, a self-employed person is someone who owns a job, not a business. You don’t own a true business, he said, unless you can leave it for a year and return to find it still making money for you. Businesspeople, he said, know better than to try to do everything themselves. In order to save time and money, they hire people to do the things they can’t do or don’t have time to do. That’s why hiring a qualified real estate professional to guide you in your decisions can be a good investment in and of itself.

However you decide to do it, learning the nuts and bolts of real estate investing yourself or by hiring a qualified person to advise you, it is definitely time for you to move to the I quadrant?that is, if being rich is something you’d like to consider.

About the Author:

Investment Property Specialist - Alex Anderson Connects Real Estate Investors With High-Quality Investment Properties. Get A Free Copy Of, “The Investor’s Rental Guide” at: www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Real Estate Investing - How To Get Ahead

September 21, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

We all want to get ahead. You hear people say it all the time. But what exactly does that mean? It’s kind of a vague statement, but it sounds good. Basically, it means that you want to have more money?maybe get your earnings ahead of your cash depletion. Maybe it means you want to be able to save enough to send your kids to good universities, or be able to take your family on annual vacations. It could mean that you want to squirrel away a retirement fund.

Whatever your particular idea of getting ahead, it does imply some sort of motion?movement from where you are now to where you want to be. That means you must figure out exactly where you are now and where you should be going. Once you start to think about it, though, you may find those places are a little more difficult to determine than you had originally thought. You may find yourself beginning to struggle with just what your particular concept of getting ahead is.

Robert Kiyosaki, who authored the popular Rich Dad series of books, has mapped out a way for you to tell where you are and where you should be, if building wealth is your goal. He also gives you a plan on how to get there.

In his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant,? he introduces readers to a concept that the man he called his ?rich dad? introduced to him years ago. This quadrant is an illustration of where your money is coming from and subsequently how you think about money. Believe it or not, the two things go together.

For instant, if you are in the E quadrant, you are an employee in search of security. Someone in the S quadrant is self-employed and likes to be in control, to do things their way. A B quadrant person is a business person. (This is very different from an S-quadrant person because the B has a system that can work without their direct input, thereby freeing them for other, wealth-building, pursuits.) The I quadrant person is an investor.

According to Kiyosaki, that quadrant not only tells you where you are, but where you should be. If you are on the left side, in either the E or S quadrant, you should be making plans that will move you to the right side?first to the B quadrant then into I.

In order to do that, you need to increase your wealth by taking a job that affords you the money to invest or the time to build a business system. The system will take care of your personal needs, afford you the time to learn about investing, and provide you with the cash to purchase real estate equity. And that, my friend, is something that will make your cash grow like kudzu.

That is how you get ahead. It is a process, and you have to be systematic about it. You can’t just jump into investing without knowing what you’re doing. That is foolhardy and dangerous. You also can’t jump in if you haven’t gotten your basic needs covered. First, make sure that is taken care of. Then expand.

Kiyosaki compares the process to playing Monopoly. If you are going to win at Monopoly, you have to buy land. Then you have to put little green houses on that land, which you can later trade for big red hotels. Then you get paid.

About the Author:

Alex Anderson Helps Regular-People (Just Like You) To Successfully Invest In Real Estate. Enroll In Her Free - Educational “Investment Property Program” At: www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Real Estate Investing - How To Get Ahead

September 20, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

We all want to get ahead. You hear people say it all the time. But what exactly does that mean? It’s kind of a vague statement, but it sounds good. Basically, it means that you want to have more money?maybe get your earnings ahead of your cash depletion. Maybe it means you want to be able to save enough to send your kids to good universities, or be able to take your family on annual vacations. It could mean that you want to squirrel away a retirement fund.

Whatever your particular idea of getting ahead, it does imply some sort of motion?movement from where you are now to where you want to be. That means you must figure out exactly where you are now and where you should be going. Once you start to think about it, though, you may find those places are a little more difficult to determine than you had originally thought. You may find yourself beginning to struggle with just what your particular concept of getting ahead is.

Robert Kiyosaki, who authored the popular Rich Dad series of books, has mapped out a way for you to tell where you are and where you should be, if building wealth is your goal. He also gives you a plan on how to get there.

In his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant,? he introduces readers to a concept that the man he called his ?rich dad? introduced to him years ago. This quadrant is an illustration of where your money is coming from and subsequently how you think about money. Believe it or not, the two things go together.

For instant, if you are in the E quadrant, you are an employee in search of security. Someone in the S quadrant is self-employed and likes to be in control, to do things their way. A B quadrant person is a business person. (This is very different from an S-quadrant person because the B has a system that can work without their direct input, thereby freeing them for other, wealth-building, pursuits.) The I quadrant person is an investor.

According to Kiyosaki, that quadrant not only tells you where you are, but where you should be. If you are on the left side, in either the E or S quadrant, you should be making plans that will move you to the right side?first to the B quadrant then into I.

In order to do that, you need to increase your wealth by taking a job that affords you the money to invest or the time to build a business system. The system will take care of your personal needs, afford you the time to learn about investing, and provide you with the cash to purchase real estate equity. And that, my friend, is something that will make your cash grow like kudzu.

That is how you get ahead. It is a process, and you have to be systematic about it. You can’t just jump into investing without knowing what you’re doing. That is foolhardy and dangerous. You also can’t jump in if you haven’t gotten your basic needs covered. First, make sure that is taken care of. Then expand.

Kiyosaki compares the process to playing Monopoly. If you are going to win at Monopoly, you have to buy land. Then you have to put little green houses on that land, which you can later trade for big red hotels. Then you get paid.

About the Author:

Alex Anderson Helps Regular-People (Just Like You) To Successfully Invest In Real Estate. Enroll In Her Free - Educational “Investment Property Program” At: www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com

Real Estate Investing Can Make You Rich

July 29, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

If you are going to get rich, you may have to give up everything you ever learned in school and from your parents and start from scratch. Now that’s not a definite by any means. You may not have to start over. If someone along the line taught you, for instance that it doesn’t actually take money to make money, then you may already be on the right track.

That’s right. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said it exactly like this: ?It doesn’t take money to make money. I often hear people say it takes money to make money. I disagree. We had no money when we started and we were also in debt. It also doesn’t take a formal education.?

He then mentioned Bill Gates as someone who never completed a college education. Which would you rather have, a collection of doctorates or Bill Gates’ money?

What it does take, Kiyosaki says, is determination and a willingness to learn quickly. But you also have to know what to do with your talents and, most importantly, to know which part of the Cash Flow Quadrant to generate your income from.

The Cash Flow Quadrant is an icon taught to him by his best friend’s father, a man to whom he refers in his books as his ?rich dad.? It is an illustration of what his rich dad called the four different types of people in relation to money: Employees, the Self-employed, Businesspeople and Investors. Each quadrant comes with its own outlook on the world. The outlook of those in the B and I quadrants are the ones that help make them rich.

When Kiyosaki says you need to be willing to learn quickly, he doesn’t mean go back to school to improve your job skills. He means you should learn about investing, preferably investing in real estate. The rich dad on whom he based his books was a real estate investor. You can get rich investing in real estate because everything else depends on it. At the beginning of his book Cash Flow Quadrant, he pointed out how so many of Hawaii’s businesses were sitting atop real estate that his rich dad owned.

But he doesn’t just mean you have to learn the nuts and bolts of investing. You do have to learn about those things, at least to the point that you are able to intelligently choose a professional to help you with your investments. But more importantly than that, you have to learn how to think like an investor, and possibly a bit like a business person too.

That is a far cry from thinking like a Self-employed person. According to Kiyosaki, a self-employed person is someone who owns a job, not a business. You don’t own a true business, he said, unless you can leave it for a year and return to find it still making money for you. Businesspeople, he said, know better than to try to do everything themselves. In order to save time and money, they hire people to do the things they can’t do or don’t have time to do. That’s why hiring a qualified real estate professional to guide you in your decisions can be a good investment in and of itself.

However you decide to do it, learning the nuts and bolts of real estate investing yourself or by hiring a qualified person to advise you, it is definitely time for you to move to the I quadrant?that is, if being rich is something you’d like to consider.

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