All Forum Posts by: John Arendsen

@Mitchell L., Well, so enlighten me. What do you mean by "various methods"?

@Elliot Lamson, That's a real good idea and one that I've been doing some serious thinking about. We already own a few in some North San Diego Beach communities that we're thinking about doing that with. Do you have direct hands on experience with this type of investing?

@Hugh Ayles, I'd love to do some fix and flips, however, the San Diego or California market is pretty well played out. Starting to look more like fix and flops nowadays. But thanks for your comment.

@Hugh Ayles, Not sure what BRRRR means but I'm liking what you're saying about the overall distribution with the exception of putting more than about 10% in the stock market. Especially right now.

It was easy money back in '09 when the market tanked by more than 50 t0 75%. If you could fog a mirror and had money in the market you made bank. But that ride is over. Now ti's a little different story. 

The market has peaked by comparison and new potential bubbles or at least corrections are looming. Just my 3 cents worth adjusted for inflation. LOL!

@Richard Dunlop, @Account Closed, Wow! these are some really great ideas. However, I live in California and don't know anything about the Michigan RE market other than it's very depressed as you have indicated. 

Additionally, I wouldn't feel comfortable about investing in an area that I couldn't readily manage myself on a day to day basis and I don't know anyone in that area that I would trust to partner with at this time.

If you had a million dollars and it was the only million you had sitting in a money market account drawing less than 1% per year how would you invest it?

Phew! There's some very interesting investment philosophies being tossed about here. Interesting.

Ali Boone, I can't for the life of me understand why you think San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties are not good areas for generating passive income. 

I've been living in San Diego for the past 35 years and have done very well generating good ROI on the investments I'm currently holding. I'm just looking for other passive income opportunities i.e. NNN assets, etc.

Howard Abell, I'm all about 10 to 30 percent returns but where do you find that in RE?

If you had a million dollars sitting in a money market account collecting less than 1% per year what would or could you do to leverage that capital without incurring excessive risk?