Real Estate as a Business

[Joshua Chen]

What is the difference between doing real estate as a business and just individually investing in real estate?

[J Scott]

Technically, there's no difference.  The difference is going to be in your mindset, how you approach tasks, how diligently you structure the pieces around your investing, etc.

When someone talks about "treating investing as a business," they generally just mean to approach investing with the goal of expanding, scaling, optimizing and overall just making things more efficient.  They will ultimately increase profits, reduces headaches and let you focus on the bigger ticket items of real estate (finding deal and finding money) as opposed to dealing with all the little day-to-day issues (which you can let others in your business handle).