One of the many things I love about real estate investing is the fact that there are several ways to make money. We refer to these as exit strategies. Knowing your exit strategy is a key factor in your real estate investment plan. These different exit strategies allows for a variety of different goals to be accomplished. If I am looking to build a reliable income stream for my retirement I can do an exit strategy of buy and hold. If I am looking for large yearly income I can […]

The Real Estate Price Index is another set of numbers that real estate investors can use to guide their investment decisions. It is important to understand that these numbers are averages that are taken over a certain time period for larger cities. It is also important to know that as an investor I need to do more in depth research into not only different areas of a city, but also neighborhoods. We know that  there can be a fairly large difference in prices for similar properties in different parts of […]

Today we discussed several areas of insight for us as real estate investors. We seem to get insight from many sources that can conflict with each other on that insight. One index that is factual is the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. This has been a constant for many years. One of its producers was quoted in an article stating that the real estate markets have changed. U.S. housing market has many variables now: NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The housing market is a “crapshoot” now, according to one of America’s leading real […]