I came up with the following rules of successful real-estate investing over my many years of successes and failures. These are the same rules I follow today and share with our clients at Norada Real Estate Investments.
1. Educate Yourself
Knowledge is the new currency. Without it you are doomed to follow other people?s guidance without knowing if it?s bad or good. Data will also help take you from being a ?good? Investor to changing into a great financier, and that data will help provide a passive stream of earnings for you or your folks.
2. Set Investment Goals
A goal is different from a wish; you may wish to be rich, but that doesn?t mean you?ve ever taken steps to make your wish become reality.
Setting clear and specific investment goals becomes your map and action plan to becoming independent in a money sense. You are statistically far more certain to achieve financial independence by writing down express and detailed goals than not doing anything at all.
Your ambitions can include the amount of properties you want to obtain each year, the once a year cash-flow they generate, the kind of property, and the site of each. You may also want to set parameters on the rates of return needed.
3. Never Speculate
Always invest with a long-term point of view in mind. Never speculate on quick short term gains in appreciation, even in a heated market experiencing double-digit gains. You never can say when a market will peak and it?s often 6 to 9 months later when you find. Don?t chase after appreciation. Only invest in cautious value plays where the numbers sound right from the beginning.
4. Invest for Cash flow
With few rare exceptions, always buy investment property with a positive cash-flow. The higher, the better. Your cash-on-cash return is related to the before-tax cash-flow from your property.
Cash flow is the ?glue? That keeps your investment together. Your equity will grow over time (through appreciation and loan amortization), while the cash-flow covers the operating costs and debt service on your property.
5. Be Market Agnostic
The U. S. is a really enormous country made of loads of local property markets. Each market goes up and down independently of each other due to several local factors. As such, you should recognize that there are times when it is sensible to speculate in a particular market, and instances when it does not. Only invest in markets when it is sensible to do so , not because you live there or you purchased property there before. There?s an element of timing and you don?t desire to buck the trend.
6. Take a Top-Down Approach
Always start by picking the best markets that align with your investment goals. Most speculators start by analyzing properties with little to no regard of its location. This may be a major mistake if you don?t consider the investment given the market and neighborhood it?s in.
The best way is to first choose your town or town primarily based on the health of its housing market and local economy (unemployment, job growth, population growth, and so on.). From there you would narrow things down to the best districts (conveniences, colleges, crime, renter demand, and so on.). Finally, you would go looking for the best deals inside those neighborhoods.
7. Diversify Across Markets
Focus upon one market at a time, amassing from 3 to 5 income properties per market. Once you?ve added those 3 to 5 properties to your portfolio, you would diversify into another provident market that's geographically different than the prior one. Sometimes that implies targeting another state.
One of the base reasons for diversification within the same asset sector (real-estate), is to have your assets spread right across different business centers. Each real estate market is ?local? And each housing market moves independently from each other. Expanding across multiple states helps in cutting your ?risk? Should one market decline for any valid reason (increased unemployment, increased taxes, etc.).
8. Use Professional Property Management
Never manage your own properties unless you run your own managing company. Property management is a thankless job that needs a solid appreciation of tenant-landlord laws, good marketing talents, and strong social abilities to cope with tenant complaints and excuses. Your time has value and may be spent on your folks, your career, and attempting to find more property.
9. Keep Control
Be a direct financier in real estate. Never own real-estate through funds, partnerships, or other paper-based investments where you own shares or other securities of an entity you don?t control. You want to be in control of your real estate investments. Don?t leave it up to corporations. Or fund managers.
10. Leverage Your Investing Capital
Property is the sole investment where you can borrow other people?s money (OPM) to buy and control income-producing property. This allows you to leverage your investment capital into more property than purchasing using ?all cash? Leverage magnifies your overall rate-of-return and accelerates your profit creation.
So long as you have positive cashflow and your renters are paying down your mortgage for you, it'd be foolish not to borrow as much as possible to buy more income property.
1. Educate Yourself
Knowledge is the new currency. Without it you are doomed to follow other people?s guidance without knowing if it?s bad or good. Data will also help take you from being a ?good? Investor to changing into a great financier, and that data will help provide a passive stream of earnings for you or your folks.
2. Set Investment Goals
A goal is different from a wish; you may wish to be rich, but that doesn?t mean you?ve ever taken steps to make your wish become reality.
Setting clear and specific investment goals becomes your map and action plan to becoming independent in a money sense. You are statistically far more certain to achieve financial independence by writing down express and detailed goals than not doing anything at all.
Your ambitions can include the amount of properties you want to obtain each year, the once a year cash-flow they generate, the kind of property, and the site of each. You may also want to set parameters on the rates of return needed.
3. Never Speculate
Always invest with a long-term point of view in mind. Never speculate on quick short term gains in appreciation, even in a heated market experiencing double-digit gains. You never can say when a market will peak and it?s often 6 to 9 months later when you find. Don?t chase after appreciation. Only invest in cautious value plays where the numbers sound right from the beginning.
4. Invest for Cash flow
With few rare exceptions, always buy investment property with a positive cash-flow. The higher, the better. Your cash-on-cash return is related to the before-tax cash-flow from your property.
Cash flow is the ?glue? That keeps your investment together. Your equity will grow over time (through appreciation and loan amortization), while the cash-flow covers the operating costs and debt service on your property.
5. Be Market Agnostic
The U. S. is a really enormous country made of loads of local property markets. Each market goes up and down independently of each other due to several local factors. As such, you should recognize that there are times when it is sensible to speculate in a particular market, and instances when it does not. Only invest in markets when it is sensible to do so , not because you live there or you purchased property there before. There?s an element of timing and you don?t desire to buck the trend.
6. Take a Top-Down Approach
Always start by picking the best markets that align with your investment goals. Most speculators start by analyzing properties with little to no regard of its location. This may be a major mistake if you don?t consider the investment given the market and neighborhood it?s in.
The best way is to first choose your town or town primarily based on the health of its housing market and local economy (unemployment, job growth, population growth, and so on.). From there you would narrow things down to the best districts (conveniences, colleges, crime, renter demand, and so on.). Finally, you would go looking for the best deals inside those neighborhoods.
7. Diversify Across Markets
Focus upon one market at a time, amassing from 3 to 5 income properties per market. Once you?ve added those 3 to 5 properties to your portfolio, you would diversify into another provident market that's geographically different than the prior one. Sometimes that implies targeting another state.
One of the base reasons for diversification within the same asset sector (real-estate), is to have your assets spread right across different business centers. Each real estate market is ?local? And each housing market moves independently from each other. Expanding across multiple states helps in cutting your ?risk? Should one market decline for any valid reason (increased unemployment, increased taxes, etc.).
8. Use Professional Property Management
Never manage your own properties unless you run your own managing company. Property management is a thankless job that needs a solid appreciation of tenant-landlord laws, good marketing talents, and strong social abilities to cope with tenant complaints and excuses. Your time has value and may be spent on your folks, your career, and attempting to find more property.
9. Keep Control
Be a direct financier in real estate. Never own real-estate through funds, partnerships, or other paper-based investments where you own shares or other securities of an entity you don?t control. You want to be in control of your real estate investments. Don?t leave it up to corporations. Or fund managers.
10. Leverage Your Investing Capital
Property is the sole investment where you can borrow other people?s money (OPM) to buy and control income-producing property. This allows you to leverage your investment capital into more property than purchasing using ?all cash? Leverage magnifies your overall rate-of-return and accelerates your profit creation.
So long as you have positive cashflow and your renters are paying down your mortgage for you, it'd be foolish not to borrow as much as possible to buy more income property.
About the Author:
Marco Santarelli is an investor, author and founder of Norada Real Estate Investments -- a nationwide real estate investment firm providing turnkey investment property in emerging markets around the U. S.. "10 Rules of Successful Real Estate Investing" was originally published on our Real Estate Investing Blog.
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