Thanksgiving: Why Do You Invest in Real Estate?

[Jonathan Cope]

I am enjoying a quiet day, today.

Lots of cooking and cleaning happened earlier but most of today has been work.

During a break for lunch, I began to wonder whether I invest in real estate today for the same reasons that I did when I began in 2000?

I suspect some of this thinking is spurred on by Thanksgiving contemplation and beginning work on my BP blog (see link below).

When I started investing in real estate I had a dream of wealth and the certainty that property evokes.

Starting out with only student debt to my name, building wealth has always been important to me.

Today that dream is still intact but added to it is a passion for serving others.

Helping others make a home and providing for my family at the same time has largely replaced my more vague ambition for wealth.

I enjoy being a provider of the roof over the head of my tenant.

Being my tenant's keeper.

It offers purpose, and one that feels wholesome.

Why do you invest in real estate?

Happy Thanksgiving,

Jonathan

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