Create Your Real Estate Empire with these Three Basic Ideas

by Tommy Alphin

Creative real estate investing can put money in your pocket. It can also be a lot of fun. Historically home values have always increased even through other rough housing markets. Investing in real estate in the current market is a terrific idea. If you wish to start investing in real estate think about using a three prong approach.

Planning is the key to any investment strategy. You can look at properties all you want but until you have a plan and act on it you won’t get very far. You must think long term, short term and middle term. These three approaches can help you invest profitably.

There are several approaches to investing in houses, and one of the main ones is buying and holding for the long term. They rent them out to well qualified tenants. Those renters pay down the landlords mortgage every month year after year.

When you reach retirement how many homes do you have to own free and clear to have a great stream of income. Then your money is working for you, not you working for money. A great agent can help you with your success, by being a great partner on your team. He can help you find properties in great neighborhoods. Properties that people want to rent and that will increase in value over time.

Re-habbing properties is another great property investment approach. I didn’t learn this until I was older after I had become a real estate agent. We bought run down properties and repaired them ourselves. Once we got them into great shape we sold them off again, using the profits to fund another deal.

Flipping is just buying a house on one side and then flipping it over to a buyer on the other side. All that dough in the middle is your hard work. Repairing a run down home and selling it is one way to get more money to invest. If the numbers worked out you could always pull out some of the money with a refinance and turn it into a rental property.

Do you need to earn money to invest? Many of us do and a great technique for doing that is wholesaling. Basically you find a great deal and get it under contract. You can then assign the contract to an investor or retail buyer. When they close they pay your fee. The idea is simple really.

With this approach your not really in the deal and have no risk, other than losing your fee, if the deal falls through. It is a great technique to build up your investing capital so you can use one of the other techniques. There are many investors who simply do wholesale.

If you think long term and short term and use these three approaches you can do quite well for yourself. Your equity and holdings should grow steadily over the long term. Be steady and consistent and you will win with these investment techniques when others do not.

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