Category: Real Estate

  • How To Use Your 401k To Invest In Real Estate

    How To Use Your 401k To Invest In Real Estate

    “I wish I could enjoy some of my retirement assets BEFORE I reach retirement age. You never know if I’ll still be healthy enough to enjoy it by then.” This was a comment from a new Passive Investors Circle member BEFORE she learned about self directed retirement accounts. Here’s another one: “Jeff, I’m only a…

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  • Forced Appreciation: How Passive Investors Can Use It

    Forced Appreciation: How Passive Investors Can Use It

    “OUCH! Ok dad, I’ll clean  up my room if you’ll stop twisting my arm!” When my kids were much younger, I could get away with a little “force” to get them to do what I wanted them to do. Twisting an arm, finger or ear would usually do the trick. Now as teenagers, it’s much…

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  • Pros and Cons of Creating an LLC For Rental Property

    Pros and Cons of Creating an LLC For Rental Property

    [Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Lyle Solomon is a licensed attorney in California. He has been affiliated with the law firms in California, Nevada, and Arizona since 1991. As the principal attorney of Oak View Law Group, he gives advice and writes articles to help people solve their debt problems.] Do…

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  • 5 Reasons You Should Consider Raw Land Investing

    5 Reasons You Should Consider Raw Land Investing

    If I were to ask you what it means to invest in real estate, how would you answer? If you’re an average real estate investor, you may state it has to do with buying a single family home or apartment. Or if you invest passively (like me), you might say it involves pooling your money…

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  • How To Make Money Work For You So You Can Stop Working

    How To Make Money Work For You So You Can Stop Working

    Growing up, I’d frequently hear successful people say, “If you want to get rich, you have to make your money work for YOU.” When I first heard this advice in high school, I didn’t have a clue what it meant. “The rich don’t work for money. They make their money work for them.” – Robert…

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  • 3 Valuable Rich Dad Poor Dad Lessons You Should Know

    3 Valuable Rich Dad Poor Dad Lessons You Should Know

    3 Valuable Rich Dad Poor Dad Lessons You Should Know “Cash flow tells the story of how a person handles money.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki When I was trying to get through dental school and later a surgical residency, the term “financial independence” never crossed my path. Man, I wish it had instead of “periodontitis”…

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  • How To Syndicate A Real Estate Deal As A Busy Professional

    How To Syndicate A Real Estate Deal As A Busy Professional

    A new Passive Investors Circle member recently asked, “Jeff, how can I purchase an apartment building and bring in others to invest?” After asking him a few questions about his background, I learned: he was a pulmonologist in the Midwest has been practicing for 16 years was married with three kids only debt – home…

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  • How To Make Passive Income With Vacation Rental Property

    How To Make Passive Income With Vacation Rental Property

    One of the BIGGEST lessons Robert Kiyosaki’s book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” taught me was: “The Rich Don’t Work For Money” – Robert Kiyosaki To take it a step further, billionaire Warren Buffet once said, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” Now if the rich don’t work for money and…

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  • Understanding Cap Rate vs Cash on Cash Return

    Understanding Cap Rate vs Cash on Cash Return

    One of the issues first year dental students face is becoming familiar with all of the “dental lingo” involved. It took me a while to get comfortable with terms such as: mesial/distal apicoectomy probing depth (PD) loss of attachment (LOA) exostosis This is no different when first starting to learn about real estate investing. Occasionally…

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  • Maximizing Passive Income through Self Storage Investment

    Maximizing Passive Income through Self Storage Investment

    Who would have thought that a pandemic causing a world to shut down would cause some businesses to fail and others to thrive such as the self storage industry. That’s right, self storage. It seems that when American households couldn’t work and free money was sent to them via the government, their boredom was relieved…

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  • Doctor Real Estate Investing: 4 Ways To FI

    Doctor Real Estate Investing: 4 Ways To FI

    Who would have thought that a global pandemic in 2020 sending thousands of people to hospitals throughout the U.S. would cause many doctors to lose their jobs and earning potential? Doesn’t make sense, right? You’d think the demand would now be higher but it seems that many hospitals have lost so much money that hiring…

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  • Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor – What’s The Difference?

    Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor – What’s The Difference?

    For the first 10 years of my career as a periodontist, I socked money away in the only investment opportunities I was familiar with….the stock market. This was due to my limited financial knowledge. At that time, the majority of our investments were in good ‘ole boring Vanguard index mutual funds (i.e. VTSAX Vanguard Total…

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