If you know your market you can do much better owning the asset, collecting a 15% or higher return.The beauty of this is at some point that asset will be paid off or even halfway paid down and you can sell and generate a large influx of cash to further invest or put towards something else.I own publically traded REITS as well and love them but they cannot match the returns I generate myself by owning and controlling the asset myself.

Sounds good on paper, but may be hard to match up with the realities on the ground, as Bill has indicated.

In that case it's important to have a network of fellow agents that you can work out a referral agreement with.Regarding research it should be pretty easy to determine what the market is like in a local area to see if it matches what you want to work in.

Few can match my intensity and dedication to a task.

he favors the lower ones and I favor the higher ones and there's no comp that's an exact match to settle the debate.  

I like loans that closely match or almost match the length of the primary term of the lease.

Shop for the best terms (30 fixed vs arm 20/5 et al) and get a Loan Pre-Approval letter to ensure your numbers match the underwriters.Best Wishes.

We leverage jeonse in a different way though that is very unusual for investors in Korea.Generally speaking, we find good value properties in high potential areas with good fundamentals, negotiate down as low as possible, sign a contract with the settlement date stretched as far as possible, and market for a jeonse tenant to come into the property at a date matching our settlement date so we limit how much money we need out of pocket to close on the property.For example, we recently closed on a property in Hongdae, which is one of the if not the #1 hot spot in Korea for the past couple years.

We plan to buy enough houses so she can be a stay at home mom, then enough to match my income then we can do this "full time" on our time!

Be sure the applicant has a voucher in hand and the number of bedrooms approved match the number of bedrooms in your property.