All Forum Posts by: Mark Franklin

Being a brand new real estate investor, I would probably invest it in the stock market, borrow against it to do a single family home in the market where I live, and learn a whole lot from all my mistakes. Repeat and scale up over time.

I believe cities will always be attractive to younger, single people. Young, single people are typically renters, and the age at which people are getting married is increasing, so the need to "settle down" is being delayed. Also I saw an article not too long ago that claimed many millenials who are buying houses, are doing so for their pets, and not necessarily for starting a family. So properties in the city with a small fenced yard could have a lot of potential.