#Real Estate
How to Avoid Common House Hacking Mistakes
What is House Hacking? House hacking is a tried and true real estate investment strategy that is a great option for anyone starting in real estate investing. Generally, it is when an owner lives in a unit or bedroom of an investment property and has renters in the other units or bedrooms. The best part…
4 min readJumping Into Multifamily Investing
How to Get Started in Multifamily Investing? Meet John and Jessica: I met them at a local real estate investment association (REIA). John and Jessica are a young married couple that hustled their way into multifamily investing. They started by spending a considerable amount of time learning about multifamily investments. They then developed a strategy…
12 min read8 Things to Do Before Talking to a Turn-Key Provider
Firstly, What is Turn-Key Investing? How to Talk to a Turn-Key Provider? Different real estate professionals will describe turn-key investments differently. We have four stipulations for turn-key providers: A property is purchased and rehabbed Tenants are in place A projected cash flow statement is prepared A team is put together (lender, escrow company, title company,…
5 min readA Spouse’s Response To Real Estate
“Happiness is only real when shared.” -Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild You Want to What? Do You want to Start Real Estate Business with Your Spouse? I never imagined I would be writing a post for a blog. Honestly, I don’t know if anyone out there will want to hear what I have to say.
8 min read3 Efficiencies to Save Serious Time & Cash
Building Efficiencies Why are real estate investors called investors in the first place? What’s the difference between folks like us who buy low and sell high and John Smith who buys a nice home for his family and sells for appreciation 30 years down the road? On the surface, the concept is the same. Most…
7 min readSyndication Strikeout
Fast Foundations Syndication Strikeout: I decided to actively pursue passive income (ironic, right?) in September 2018, when the ADPI Founding Five released the Military Real Estate Investing Academy, Rapid Deploy, and #StartTheSpark programs. As a 2011 minted Robert Kyosaki/Rich Dad Poor Dad truther, I KNEW that this was what I wanted to do, but the…
13 min readHow to Stop Sucking at Life (and Real Estate)
How to Stop Sucking at Life? Everyone Sucks Your day is finally here. You’ve made it to the Big Show. Coach taps you to close the game out in the bottom of the 9th inning with the bases loaded. The pressure is palpable as your team is only up by one run. Here’s the problem,…
8 min readFinding Purpose in Transition from Military Service
How to Find Your Purpose? One of the most difficult times any veteran can go through is the transition back to civilian life. Speaking for myself, my transition was very much a bittersweet experience. Personally, I loved combat and outside of the military, I never felt comfortable expressing my love for war outside of my…
13 min readWhy Multifamily Investing?
Options in Multifamily Investing There are a lot of good strategies that work well for military families. VA house-hacking is on the top of most people’s lists – and was on mine too. For some people, hacking into a few investments is enough; but many active duty members are driven with a big, burning “why”…
7 min readAutomobile University
Automobile University – The way I learn The number one question is always, “where do you find the time?” I have almost completely stopped listening to music in the car. I treat my commute every day as if it was a college course. Listening to the news or some other dramatic time-wasting content does not…
4 min readWhat Is Real Estate Wholesaling?
Real Estate Wholesaling Real estate wholesaling is simply when one party (a wholesaler/buyer) puts a property under contract with the seller, then markets the home to other potential buyers for a higher price. The Wholesaler will assign the contract to the new buyer. The wholesaler will make their profit from what is referred to as…
7 min readHow I Built a $1.2M Portfolio While Active Duty With the Help of VA Loans
*UPDATE: AS OF JANUARY 2020 THERE IS NO VA LOAN LIMIT FOR FIRST-TIER VA LOANS – ADDITIONAL (2ND, 3RD, ETC) VA LOANS WILL STILL FOLLOW COUNTY LOAN LIMITS* I proudly served 22 exciting years in the Air Force as a calibration technician and laboratory auditor. It provided some of the best experiences in my life.
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