The Rent Guarantee That Wasn't
Tuesday, June 10
Income property investors should not allow themselves to become too enamored of a rent guarantee offered by a property developer. As Jason Hartman reminds us, housing is a volatile market and one thing that isn’t guaranteed is that the developer will stay in business. For that particular prom...
Real Estate Sucks Less Than the Rest
Monday, June 09
One thing you will never hear Jason Hartman say is that real estate is a perfect investment. Why should it be? We’re an imperfect species on an imperfect planet. The question to ask is what asset performs better? The answer, apparent to any clear-minded individual who is being honest, is real...
Jason Hartman: "Thou Shalt Hold Thy Tenants Accountable"
Friday, June 06
Over the years Jason Hartman has heard ex-income property investors lament the fact that they got out of the business because bad tenants either tore up the place or found it impossible to pay the rent on time, if at all. As a nearly three decade veteran of landlording, he finds this excu...
Don't Play the Sucker Bet of Conventional Wisdom
Thursday, June 05
Several years ago, Jason Hartman created the 10 Commandments of Successful Investing, and he saw that it was good. Unfortunately, successful investing in these tumultuous times called for even more commandments. Jason sat down, scratched his head, and came up with a set of rules to follow tha...
Rent/Buy? That is the Question...
Wednesday, June 04
The quandary of whether to rent or buy has been with us for a while, possibly ever since the first Neanderthal received his real estate license and began peddling cave space. While the pendulum has swung back and forth over the years, and a “definitive” answer has never quite remained that wa...
Pros and Cons of Section 8 Housing
Wednesday, June 04
The Section 8 housing program has been with us since The Great Depression. While it has been a godsend for millions of low income tenants over the decades, providing rent payment assistance for the needy, many landlords have avoided it for fear of damage to their investment property. In s...