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
3 Real Estate Investing Myths
November 28, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
People are very entertaining if you just take time to listen to what they say and observe how they act. After all, that’s why reality television shows are so popular. Now you can watch people from the comfort of your living room chair.
The things they do and say are so highly entertaining because people so often react based on emotion. Often, that emotion is fear. Throw in a little laziness and a willingness to believe whatever they hear that justifies their fear and there you have them?the two most wealth-preventing myths about real estate investing that were ever conceived. And those two are the parents of the third.
Those myths are, of course, fear-based. They are also myths that would not exist if it were human nature to educate themselves about a thing before making up their minds about it.
What are those myths?
1.Real estate is a gamble.
2.Real estate is risky.
3.There is no way I can possibly invest in real estate.
Naturally, Myth No. 2 follows logically from Myth No. 1. Assuming, of course, that logic goes into the thinking at all when someone determines these things.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said that there are people out there who honestly believe that real estate investing?or any type of investing at all, really?is all about luck. These types of investors throw their money at anything that looks good to them. But they haven’t taken the time to educate themselves on what is a good investment. So what ?looks good? to them is based on a purely emotional reaction?or worse?a guess.
Real estate investment cannot be accurately compared with, say, Black Jack or Roulette because those games are guessing games. Real estate investment is not a guessing game. Real estate investment involves looking at financial documents and determining from them where you should spend your money. It’s not about guessing?it’s about reading.
And Myth No. 3, well…that’s the biggest myth of all. Anyone at all can invest in real estate, if they are willing to take those first important steps: Make sure you have the capital by increasing your wealth, which is generally done by building a business system, and educate yourself in the process of investing.
There’s the rub. Most people are simply not willing to take those preliminary steps. They think they are wasting time if they attempt to learn something. The extra money they have is burning a hole in their pocket and they can’t wait to throw it away. So that is exactly what they do.
There is risk, of course. Anytime someone sets out to learn a new skill?even investing?they will make a few wrong moves. But that is all part of the process. As time goes on, you will get better at it. So of course, you shouldn’t toss your life savings into the pot. Simply start out small and work your way up, as you would with anything. Kiyosaki compares it to piloting an air plane. It’s not something you would consider doing if you had never been in the cockpit. But with time and lessons and practice, it becomes something you can do with ease and confidence?something you can do safely. But you must invest the time to learn how.
What really is a risk, Kiyosaki said, is neglecting to educate yourself. When you neglect your financial education you are losing more money than you can imagine?not only the money you invest if you choose to leap without looking, but also the money you will never make if you choose not to leap at all.
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
Avoid Rookie Real Estate Investing Mistakes
November 21, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
When Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, bought his first property he was, of course, ecstatic. Finally, he had done it. He had taken that first important step in truly building his wealth that the man he called his ?rich dad? so often touted?investing. He knew it was very important to become an investor and make his money work for him.
The trouble was, the property he purchased was a losing deal for him. He didn’t see this at first, thanks to a smooth-talking real estate agent. But when he took the contract to his rich dad, he learned what a mistake he had made. According to that deal, he would be losing money each month. He thought it would be all right because he had been told that lost money was an investment in the future appreciation of the property.
He also was not aware that there would soon be major construction near the site, which would hamper access for quite some time. Who would want to live there?
What saved Kiyosaki on that deal was having a mentor like his rich dad, who made him go back and renegotiate the deal. The more experienced investor told him that you should never settle for losing money early in the deal, in the hopes that you will make up for it later. That is a bad deal.
Rich dad made him go renegotiate the contract and instead of losing money each month, he would be gaining $80 per month. His rich dad asked him how many of those losing deals he could afford at that rate. You can do the math. He couldn’t even afford the one. But at a gain of $80 per month, Kiyosaki’s reply to that question was, as many as he could get his hands on.
But many newbie investors fail to put themselves in the hands of a mentor, which his a mistake. It is good to have a trusted friend?not an advisor who stands to make a buck off of you, but someone who truly wishes to educate you?to keep them from making dire mistakes.
Another mistake that rookies often make is the very one that Kiyosaki made?they allow themselves to be talked into deals in which they lose money, after getting bogged down in mathematical ?if’s? that look really good on paper. ?If the property appreciates at this rate, then I can make up all the money I lost in the previous year and…and…? That is, IF the unit stays rented. IF the tenants pay you on time. IF you don’t discover a significant flaw with the property. IF the tenants don’t cause a significant flaw with the property…
The list goes on. It’s bad enough if you’re making money on the deal and something like that happens. If you start out losing money, you’re almost guaranteeing your own failure. Yet a smooth-talking professional can make it sound as though they are doing you a favor by taking your money.
And finally, newbies often fail to consider the environment within which they are making their purchase, just as Kiyosaki did. With real estate, unlike with other investments, the local financial ecosystem can seriously affect your investment, and so you have to stay on top of what is happening in the neighborhood and the rest of the city.
The thing is to educate yourself and keep your head at the negotiating table. If you do those two things then your deals will likely be just that?deals. For you.
About the Author:
Investment Property Specialist - Alex Anderson Helps Beginning and Intermediate Real Estate Investors To Build Wealth And Prepare For Retirement By Investing In Real Estate. Enroll In Her Free/Educational “Investment Property Program” At: http://www.GreatInvestmentProperty.com
3 Real Estate Investing Myths
November 20, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
People are very entertaining if you just take time to listen to what they say and observe how they act. After all, that’s why reality television shows are so popular. Now you can watch people from the comfort of your living room chair.
The things they do and say are so highly entertaining because people so often react based on emotion. Often, that emotion is fear. Throw in a little laziness and a willingness to believe whatever they hear that justifies their fear and there you have them?the two most wealth-preventing myths about real estate investing that were ever conceived. And those two are the parents of the third.
Those myths are, of course, fear-based. They are also myths that would not exist if it were human nature to educate themselves about a thing before making up their minds about it.
What are those myths?
1.Real estate is a gamble.
2.Real estate is risky.
3.There is no way I can possibly invest in real estate.
Naturally, Myth No. 2 follows logically from Myth No. 1. Assuming, of course, that logic goes into the thinking at all when someone determines these things.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, said that there are people out there who honestly believe that real estate investing?or any type of investing at all, really?is all about luck. These types of investors throw their money at anything that looks good to them. But they haven’t taken the time to educate themselves on what is a good investment. So what ?looks good? to them is based on a purely emotional reaction?or worse?a guess.
Real estate investment cannot be accurately compared with, say, Black Jack or Roulette because those games are guessing games. Real estate investment is not a guessing game. Real estate investment involves looking at financial documents and determining from them where you should spend your money. It’s not about guessing?it’s about reading.
And Myth No. 3, well…that’s the biggest myth of all. Anyone at all can invest in real estate, if they are willing to take those first important steps: Make sure you have the capital by increasing your wealth, which is generally done by building a business system, and educate yourself in the process of investing.
There’s the rub. Most people are simply not willing to take those preliminary steps. They think they are wasting time if they attempt to learn something. The extra money they have is burning a hole in their pocket and they can’t wait to throw it away. So that is exactly what they do.
There is risk, of course. Anytime someone sets out to learn a new skill?even investing?they will make a few wrong moves. But that is all part of the process. As time goes on, you will get better at it. So of course, you shouldn’t toss your life savings into the pot. Simply start out small and work your way up, as you would with anything. Kiyosaki compares it to piloting an air plane. It’s not something you would consider doing if you had never been in the cockpit. But with time and lessons and practice, it becomes something you can do with ease and confidence?something you can do safely. But you must invest the time to learn how.
What really is a risk, Kiyosaki said, is neglecting to educate yourself. When you neglect your financial education you are losing more money than you can imagine?not only the money you invest if you choose to leap without looking, but also the money you will never make if you choose not to leap at all.
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 ? Which Approach Is Right For You?
November 13, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
In his Rich Dad book series, Robert Kiyosaki trumpets the benefits of investing, especially those of real estate investing. Those include tax benefits, and the ability to have your money go to work for you without your lifting a finger. It sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? The idea that you can turn a dollar into two just by placing it in what can seem like a magical realm can seem very enticing.
In order to actually turn a good idea into money in your bank account, however, you have to know a little something about how the magic works. It is a good idea, for instance, to take apart this term ?real estate.? Just what is real estate, and what are the types of real estate investing that are open to you?
?Real estate? is a term that refers to a piece of land and everything that sits on it, usually meaning structures. In terms of investment, its value is affected by local market conditions more than global conditions. There are several different ways to invest in real estate.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to make money by investing in real estate, either by owning the properties themselves or by owning the mortgages on them, or to do a combination of both. The benefits of this type of investing are high yields and tax considerations. This is also a highly liquid type of investing, which means that it is easily converted to cash.
In a real estate partnership, you are pairing with (who or what?) in order to make money from existing structures or to build new ones. You can even make money off the sheer appreciation of undeveloped land itself. This is a good bet because of high growth potential and tax benefits (shelter).
The rental of vacation property is pretty self-explanatory. Your vacation property is one that is used for recreational purposes and is not your primary residence. (Define primary residence.)
Rental property is another almost self-explanatory concept, as we have all done business with landlords at some point in our lives. However, there may be a difference between residential and business rental property.
You may also invest in raw, or undeveloped, land.
It is a good idea to learn about each type of real estate investment to determine which yields the greatest benefits, determined by your particular needs. Kiyosaki named tax benefits as a good reason to become a real estate investor. After all, money you keep in your pocket is just as good as money earned.
If you are particularly interested in pursuing real estate investment because of tax benefits, you may even wish to become a real estate professional, as the IRS allows people who spend at least 750 hours a year to have nearly unlimited tax deductions. If you are not considered a professional, and your salary is high, that can actually cost you deductions on your real estate. You must have the time to participate in your real estate activities yourself, even if you have hired another real estate professional, to qualify for all tax benefits.
About the Author:
Alex Anderson Connects Investors With Minnesota Investment Property and Florida Investment Properties in Appreciating Markets.
Real Estate Investing - Earn Money Without Working For It
October 7, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
There seem to be two types of people in the world?office slaves who very nearly treat work as a religion and who are in danger of neglecting the very families for whom they work so hard to provide; and people who have adopted more of a slacker mentality, convincing themselves that money isn’t important because they don’t want to be slaves to the workaday world.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad book series, has money and he doesn’t agree. ?Anyone who says money isn’t important obviously has not been without it long,? he says in his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant.?
He knows because he has been in both situations. For several weeks in 1985, he and his wife were so destitute, they were actually forced to live in their car, after which they moved into a friend’s basement for nearly a year. They took only odd jobs, because wealth, not job security, was what they were after.
Four years later, they were millionaires.
While money is important, it isn’t important in and of itself, and that is why Kiyosaki and his wife didn’t rush out to look for the ?good? jobs they both could have gotten. It’s important because it provides for your basic needs and, if you have enough of it, it can give you time to be with your loved ones and do the things in life that truly make you happy.
One thing a job will never give you is extra time with loved ones. In fact, it will take away as much of that precious time as you allow it to.
Everyone sees the Catch 22, worrying that if they spend the time working to make enough money to do the things they want to do, they won’t have time to do those things. That is true. Working is not the answer. Making your money work, preferably in a solid investment like real estate, is the answer.
Kiyosaki seen been at that crossroads himself. ?Money is important, but I did not want to spend my life working for it,? he says in his Rich Dad series. Luckily he had the benefit of that rich dad’s knowledge of how the financial world works to see him through.
He knew that there was a way to be a responsible provider for his family without spending most of his waking life working. He knew the secret was become an investor.
When you become an investor, you are simply getting your money from a different place. What you want to do is take the money you get from your job, and put it into the I quadrant. That means that you now have money working for you. Your money is making money and you didn’t have to lift a finger for those extra dollars.
That is how you can have your cake and eat it too?because the money you make no longer represents hours of your life spent away in pursuit of a living, you can take those hours and reinvest them in spending actual time with your family, in pursuing hobbies, hanging out with friends. In short, you can reinvest them in your life.
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Real Estate Investing - The Tax Benefits…
October 3, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
How many times have you heard people grumble about taxes? Eventually, they get tired of simply complaining about how much money in taxes they have to pay and move on to how much money on taxes the rich DON’T have to pay. It can be frustrating, can’t it, knowing that people with less money get fewer breaks than people with loads of money? It’s frustrating because it isn’t fair. And if you happen to be one of the people on the low-income/high tax-percentage side, then you may experience some resentment.
Well, the fact is, no amount of grumbling and complaining is going to make the powers that be suddenly make things fair for you. This is because of the Golden Rule: ?He who has the gold, makes the rules.? Chances are, they are going to make the rules in their favor. They’re going to keep all the good tax breaks to themselves. They are going to tell you there just isn’t enough money to go around, even as you watch so many people drive around in so many expensive cars and eat in so many posh restaurants. Even politicians who promise tax breaks to the downtrodden masses?even the ones who are sincere in their desire to help the average working stiff?are limited in their ability to affect the system.
That’s why you are going to have to take action. Don’t be one of the downtrodden masses. If you want more money, you are going to have to go get it yourself. And yes, you too can get more money in the form of tax breaks.
In his Rich Dad book series, Robert Kiyosaki advocates figuring out what the rich do to be rich, and do that. Except that you don’t have to figure it out. He didn’t even have to figure it out, because he had a rich ?dad? to tell him the secret of the rich: investing. Especially in real estate.
?One of the reasons I chose to work predominantly in the B and I quadrants are the tax advantages,? he says in his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant.? The cash flow quadrant, after which he named the book, is his rich dad’s diagram of the four different kinds of people, with respect to where they get their money and their philosophy about procuring money which, oddly enough, match up. In other words, people who are Employees have one set of values while the people who are Self-employed have another.
Kiyosaki prefers to belong to the Business and Investment quadrants because that, he says, is where the money is.
You know the saying, ?If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.? That is good advice, especially if the guys you want to beat are the rich. It’s actually great news that they are getting so many tax breaks. That means that, when you become one of them, you will get those same tax breaks, IF you know how.
Here’s how. You become one of them by using investments to make your money multiply. You can do that while remaining also in the E and S quadrants, if you are well-paid, but Kiyosaki advises that you join the B quadrant, by building a business system that will essentially work on its own without much input from you. Then you can either keep it or sell it, but you must invest.
Investing, preferably in real estate?condos, rental property, land and the like?is your ticket to financial freedom.
About the Author:
Alex Anderson Connects Investors With Appreciating Minnesota Investment Properties and Investment Properties Orlando.
Real Estate Investing - The Tax Benefits…
September 24, 2009 by Kenny Santos
Filed under Real Estate Investing
How many times have you heard people grumble about taxes? Eventually, they get tired of simply complaining about how much money in taxes they have to pay and move on to how much money on taxes the rich DON’T have to pay. It can be frustrating, can’t it, knowing that people with less money get fewer breaks than people with loads of money? It’s frustrating because it isn’t fair. And if you happen to be one of the people on the low-income/high tax-percentage side, then you may experience some resentment.
Well, the fact is, no amount of grumbling and complaining is going to make the powers that be suddenly make things fair for you. This is because of the Golden Rule: ?He who has the gold, makes the rules.? Chances are, they are going to make the rules in their favor. They’re going to keep all the good tax breaks to themselves. They are going to tell you there just isn’t enough money to go around, even as you watch so many people drive around in so many expensive cars and eat in so many posh restaurants. Even politicians who promise tax breaks to the downtrodden masses?even the ones who are sincere in their desire to help the average working stiff?are limited in their ability to affect the system.
That’s why you are going to have to take action. Don’t be one of the downtrodden masses. If you want more money, you are going to have to go get it yourself. And yes, you too can get more money in the form of tax breaks.
In his Rich Dad book series, Robert Kiyosaki advocates figuring out what the rich do to be rich, and do that. Except that you don’t have to figure it out. He didn’t even have to figure it out, because he had a rich ?dad? to tell him the secret of the rich: investing. Especially in real estate.
?One of the reasons I chose to work predominantly in the B and I quadrants are the tax advantages,? he says in his book ?Cash Flow Quadrant.? The cash flow quadrant, after which he named the book, is his rich dad’s diagram of the four different kinds of people, with respect to where they get their money and their philosophy about procuring money which, oddly enough, match up. In other words, people who are Employees have one set of values while the people who are Self-employed have another.
Kiyosaki prefers to belong to the Business and Investment quadrants because that, he says, is where the money is.
You know the saying, ?If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.? That is good advice, especially if the guys you want to beat are the rich. It’s actually great news that they are getting so many tax breaks. That means that, when you become one of them, you will get those same tax breaks, IF you know how.
Here’s how. You become one of them by using investments to make your money multiply. You can do that while remaining also in the E and S quadrants, if you are well-paid, but Kiyosaki advises that you join the B quadrant, by building a business system that will essentially work on its own without much input from you. Then you can either keep it or sell it, but you must invest.
Investing, preferably in real estate?condos, rental property, land and the like?is your ticket to financial freedom.
About the Author:
Alex Anderson Connects Investors With Appreciating Minnesota Investment Properties and Investment Properties Orlando.
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

