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Building a Safe Portfolio: Balancing Risk and Reward in Real Estate Investment
Looking to make a high ROI investment? We're here to talk about an aspect of real estate investment that makes many newcomers quiver in their boots - balancing risk and reward. But don't worry! With some solid knowledge and strategies, you can learn to juggle this...
How to Find an Investor-Friendly Agent
Somewhere Between a Facilitator and a Mentor This article is, I admit, a bit inherently biased -- I've built my businesses around providing the most I possibly can to other investor clients, and what follows is basically a list of the highlights an investor-friendly...
St. Louis So Far: 2016
Keeping Pace with Predictions St. Louis's real estate market has performed more or less as predicted, and what's interesting about that is that there were so many predictions for our local market for 2016. The city was mentioned in many articles about 2016's hottest...
How to House Hack St. Louis
You may have already read Brandon Turner’s great blog post about How to "Hack" Your Housing and Get Paid to Live for Free, and I’m not going to try and reinvent the wheel here. What I am going to do is show you how this idea works in my market, St. Louis city and the...
I Have a 4-Family Under Contract – Now What?
Investing in real estate might seem simple: Collect your investing funds, find a property, buy it, collect rent income. But anyone who’s done it knows there are many, many more steps involved along the way. After seeing a client be surprised by just how many steps...
How to Run Numbers for Investment Properties
There are a few key numbers to look at when analyzing an investment property. If there was only one, well that'd of course be price. Being more technical, however, requires a few more than one, and what you use will depend on your strategy. My investing focus is buy...
The Mogul Mindset: How to Meet Your Goals
There are moments when everyone questions what they're doing for a living and why. Maybe that question is what started your interest in real estate investing. Maybe that question is the exact reason you're here reading this. Everyone gets burned out, but the...