Kelly Madden

Kelly is a 14-year Air Force spouse, real estate agent, real estate investor, and virtual assistant. After starting out as an intern with ADPI in 2019 and later acting as ADPI’s blog coordinator in Jan 2020, Kelly is thrilled and honored to take on the role of ADPI’s new Community Manager as of November 2020. She looks forward to building our community and supporting our members throughout their real estate investing journey.
Investing Strategies

Retirement Accounts vs Real Estate Investing

Written by: Rent to Retirement We’ve all heard the fable: would you rather have $1,000,000 today or have a penny double every day for 30 days?  What if we changed the question to would you rather contribute $200 per month for 30 years to a retirement account or $200 per

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Investing Strategies

How to Become an LP

Have you ever run into roadblocks or barriers to entry when considering investing in real estate? Does your busy life or work schedule limit your ability to invest in flipping houses or other active investing strategies that seem to take a lot of time? If so, have you considered “passive”

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Investing Strategies

Personal Finances: The Foundation for REI

  By Rent To Retirement | April 5, 2022  Real estate investing has tremendous upside and remains one of the most advantageous wealth building strategies.  Beyond purchasing a property and allowing it grow in value over time, you can see passive income, tax benefits, and protection against inflation, just to name a few.

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Single Family

5 Surprising Ways to Increase the Equity in Your Home

How to Increase the Equity in Your Home Whether you’re a first-time homebuyer or an experienced investor, the decision to purchase a home should include questions about equity. If you’re planning on completing updates to the property, it’s important to know which upgrades are going to increase the value in

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Investing Strategies

How to Grow Your Thrift Savings Plan

If you are a military member or federal civilian, you may be wondering how you can grow your Thrift Savings Plan retirement system. This is a lucrative retirement plan that involves simple index funds so that it is easy to understand and access for federal and military employees. However, knowing

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Uncategorized

Your Permanent Change of Station Checklist

Permanently changing your duty station, or PCS, is not a small change and can be extremely complicated and stressful if you do not plan ahead and use the resources available to you.  Planning ahead is the key to a successful PCS, and you should especially consider starting as soon as

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VA Loan

A Guide to Using VA Loans For Investment Properties

Did you know that you can use VA loans to do just about anything you like? If you have been in military service, you know that you can get a VA loan. You can use this money for investment properties and make your life better in different ways. VA loans

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