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What’s The Preferred Return In Real Estate Investing?
Preferred Return A new member in our Passive Investors Circle asked a question that many investors also want to know….the return on investment. More specifically, she asked about something that she’d heard discussed on a podcast, the preferred return or “pref”. Her question was: When a syndicator purchases an apartment complex, how can they determine
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Want Lower Taxes? Here’s How Passive Income Is Taxed
How Is Passive Income Taxed? If you’re an avid reader of the Debt Free Dr site, then you know how much I stress the importance of creating multiple streams of passive income. Related article: Passive vs Nonpassive Income: Which is best? If you want to work until you physically can’t work anymore, then you don’t
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How to Invest in Agriculture: 5 Ways to Profit Without Farming
How to Invest in Agriculture: Five Easy Ways to Profit ($$$) Without Farming [Editor’s Note: Today’s article in a guest post from Michael Dinich who blogs over at Your Money Geek. He’s worked in the personal finance industry since 1999, where he helped families plan for retirement, reduce taxes, eliminate unnecessary expenses, and plan their estates.]
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Mobile Home Park Investing For Passive Investors
Mobile Home Park Investing For Passive Investors A couple of months ago I decided to listen to a podcast called the Millionaire Mindcast Podcast. I must admit that it really opened my mind to how millionaires think about investing and money. Paul Moore of Wellings Capital was an interviewee who had a fantastic story and
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7 Steps – How To Become Financially Independent
How To Become Financially Independent (FI) Recently while listening to a podcast, I was reminded about something I’d heard of several years ago when I first started practicing, Parkinson’s Law. It was developed by English writer Cyril Northcote Parkinson and states that, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” For
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6 Things You Didn’t Know About Paying Off Debt
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Paying Off Debt [Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Sam is the co-owner of How To FIRE, a blog that discusses financial independence and early retirement. She uses her BS in Finance and MBA to help others get control of their finances through budgeting, saving, investing, side hustles
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What Is A Good Cap Rate And Why It Matters
What Is A Good Cap Rate? When I first started passively investing in real estate a few years ago as a periodontist, I began with zero real estate experience. This is similar to the many doctors turned real estate investors I speak with weekly. As someone that loves to read, this didn’t bother me too
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The Magic Of Thinking Big Summary -12 Lessons Learned
The Magic Of Thinking Big Summary Occasionally I like to take a break from writing about finance and passive real estate investing and grab a book from my shelf that I think would benefit you. Well, today is your lucky day. Author David J. Schwartz wrote The Magic Of Thinking Big, which has played a
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How To Build Wealth With Real Estate – 5 Ways
How To Build Wealth With Real Estate – 5 Ways I recently had an interesting call with a new member of the Passive Investors Circle. He wanted to start investing in real estate but ultimately admitted that fear was holding him back. Once I dug in to learn a bit more of his situation, he
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The Ultimate Guide To A Real Estate Syndication Structure
Real Estate Syndication Structure It’s amazing how many doctors and other high-income professional members of our Passive Investors Circle that have never heard of real estate syndications. I hadn’t either until a few years ago. Today it seems that more doctors are in search of building passive income streams and syndications are a great way
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Why Alternative Investments Are Not Just for the Wealthy
We hear a lot these days about alternative investments. Wall Street firms regularly tout their expertise in these investments and try to convince us we need them in our portfolio. In the beginning, alternative investments were only available to what most would consider the wealthy. The SEC set the definition of the wealthy with their
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The Geometry Of Wealth – How Money Figures In A Joyful Life
The Geometry Of Wealth I love to read. It’s also my #1 prescription for anyone that suffers with insomnia. I typically average 5-7 books a month and usually get a list of book ideas from either the books I read (they reference other books) or from other people. When I met with Dr. Cherry Chen
