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Rentals - Hands on Real Estate Investing

Success is as much about passing on deals as on taking them.

Friday, March 02

I am not a gambler, and I sucked at stock trading, but I learned that success is as much about "folding" or "passing" or "cutting losses" as it is about the winning parts. In Real Estate investing, this translates into, "looking at many deals, taking only a few."Cherry picking - the act of accept...

Real Estate Investments can be a Job, a Business and an Investment too

Saturday, February 24

As I was reading a book with a forward by Robert Kiyosaki this morning, and looking at his "Cashflow Quadrant" diagram, it hit me how my own involvement with Rental properties is ALL of the quadrants!There has been an ongoing discussion and debate about real estate investing, being a "passive" in...