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Limited Investment Strategies Offer Unique Value and Inherent Risk

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

As people evaluate real estate as an alternative investment strategy, there are today, more ways to creatively purchase investment homes than ever before.  One of these strategies has been popular with customers at our company and certainly many others.  We call this the “Limited Investment” strategy.  Limited investment typically means someone is investing less than [...]

Real Estate as Hedge Against Inflation

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I recently sketched out a quick graph of how real estate as an investment behaves over the long term. This is from an income property only perspective.  Think of it as your real estate version of the dividend stock. There are many ways to analyze real estate as a hedge against inflation but I only [...]

Filtering Real Estate Investment Search

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Finding the right investment home is often a daunting task.  Where would one start?  Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com?  While these big real estate portals are garnering tons of attention and traffic, many people are using Google search to find smaller companies selling FSBO.  I should know, I started one of them; Investor Nation.
While some of [...]

3 Tools that Simplify Neighborhood Analysis

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

When trying to find the perfect neighborhood to invest in, there are many variables to consider; schools, crime, resale value, access to amenities, and more.   I thought I’d put together a list of 3 tools we use at Investor Nation to help people find the right neighborhoods.  The best part?  They’re free:
1.  Overall neighborhood [...]

Educate Yourself From the La-Z-Boy: Real Estate on TV

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

At Investor Nation, real estate is not only our source of employment, it is our unbridled passion.  In fact, certain psychotherapists describe the affection we exhibit towards real estate as obsessive.  How does this affect our daily lives?  Well, after a long day of helping people achieve their real estate investing goals & dreams by [...]