Aloha, friends. I recently had the pleasure of spending a couple days in Hawaii's favorite destination -- Las Vegas! -- with some of the brightest real estate investment minds around. This was a gathering of the founders and coaches of the FortuneBuilders Mastery real estate investment education program. I'm talking about people like Than Merrill and Paul Esajian, who you may have seen on the … [Read more...]
Why Real Estate Beats Stocks for Investors – Part 2
In yesterday's Part 1 of this two-part post, we talked about the incredible amount of 'noise' hitting us constantly in today's tech-forward information-overload world. More so than ever, we need to tease out the logic from the mere (unsolicited) advice. This is a time for reason, and sometimes being reasonable means breaking away from the masses. The Showdown: Investing in Real Estate vs. … [Read more...]
Why Real Estate Beats Stocks for Investors – Part 1
The Setup If you're wondering what to do with your money, you're not alone. There are many choices today for people with money to invest and it can be difficult to make true apples to apples comparisons. The barrage of marketing and social media noise about this company versus that combines with our own intuition, family responsibilities and concern about the future to often lead to either … [Read more...]
Top 3 Ways to Lose Your Shirt Investing in Real Estate
So you want to invest in real estate -- maybe a little or maybe a lot -- but you're not sure of how to get started. Maybe you have no plan at all or those late-night infomercials didn't quite deliver on the step-by-step promises they were pitching. Getting into flipping houses or any other real estate investment strategy isn't one to take lightly. Recent history is full of people with dollar … [Read more...]