Sunday, May 25, 2008

 

Real Estate Investing is a Business - Don't Forget That!

With all the infomercials on telecasting and all the get rich electronic mails you see in your electronic mail box, it's easy to get swept up in the exhilaration of existent estate investment. There is money to be made in existent estate, but you have got got to cognize what you're doing, have the cash militia to endure the bad times, and you always need to retrieve that in order to be successful, you must handle existent estate investing like the business it truly is.

One of the first things beginning investors often make is to get looking at places that are in need of significant repairs in order to go profitable, whether as a rental or as a turnaround time property. One of the cardinal things they overlook is that they generally won't recognize as much net income as they originally expected, which can be disappointing, but it doesn't have got got to be devastating.

For instance, if you believe, based on your extended research and knowledge of your area's existent estate market, that you can do $10,000-$50,000 on a fixer-upper, don't be surprised if you have to settle down for one-half that amount in order to get the quick turnaround time you'll need to make quick profits. The property will often have got to be discounted some in order to obtain a fast sale. But remember, a $5,000 net income still travels you in the right direction, and as a friend of mine once said, "There's no such as thing as a BAD profit."

Businesses of any sort last and turn by making a profit, and the same is true for YOUR existent estate investing business. Take your profit, whatever its size, and set it back to work, generating more income for your business. Don't get greedy. Most of the time, the lone "stockholders" you'll have got got volition be your partner and/or one or two stopping point associates, so you don't have to generate huge net income just to maintain your shareholders satisfied.

Many novices are lured into existent estate investment by the promise of quick, easy money, but it's NOT a get rich quick field. That's the bad news.

The good intelligence is that the huge bulk of people who mark up for existent estate investing seminars, some ninety percent, according to recent statistics, give up the thought within three calendar months of taking the training. That agency that your competition is much less than you might have got thought.

Don't allow yourself go one of those negative statistics. Learn all you can about existent estate investing, keep a cash modesty for the thin times, and never lose sight of the fact that you are going into a BUSINESS when you go a existent estate investor. It doesn't have got to be your exclusive income. In fact, it's probably better if it isn't your exclusive income at first. However, you'll never accomplish the success you want if you don't handle existent estate investing as a business, from the very first day!

Copyright © Jeanette J. Fisher


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