BIG MONEY! FLEXIBLE HOURS! BE YOUR OWN BOSS! Sounds like a late night infomerical pitch, right? Well, not exactly. You’d have to throw in “NO MONEY, NO BRAINS, NO TALENT and NO EFFORT NEEDED! Your shoes don’t even have to match! For just three easy payments, we’ll show you how YOU can become the next …
12/5/10: Best Of Replay – Career Opportunities in Real Estate Read More »
“Live Where You Want to Live, but Invest Where the Numbers Make Sense” – Robert Helms Not everyone lives in prime real estate investment areas. So if you decide to “live where you want to live but invest where the numbers make sense”, then travel is going to be a regular part of your life …
11/7/10: Travel Tips for Real Estate Road Warriors Read More »
Sometimes real estate is hard. You want a rent check, but get a reality check instead. However, the best lessons often come from studying problems, so next time, you can avoid them – or least solve them faster. So once a year at Halloween, we set aside an episode to look back over the year …
10/31/10: Halloween Horror Stories – Getting the Lessons When Things Go Wrong Read More »
When your real estate investments are properly managed, money flows in each month like clock work. But when the monthly flow is accompanied by pain, it could be a sign of Property Management Stupidity or PMS. When PMS sets in, it can severely cramp cash flow and may be accompanied by heavy bleeding. Investors suffering …
10/17/10: Avoiding PMS – The Single Most Important Element for Healthy Cash Flow Read More »
Real estate investing is art, science, vocation and lifestyle all wrapped up in one. It has its own language, community and culture. Who you surround yourself with will determine the attitudes, habits, beliefs and skills you will develop. With so much money to be made, many aspiring investors are willing to pay large sums to …
Protecting your money in today’s highly uncertain economy is surely very challenging. Remember when real estate equity and bank accounts were considered among the SAFEST places to keep your savings? Today, real estate equity has disappeared – and for many people even getting access to whatever equity they still have is next to impossible. Boy, …
8/22/10: What is Your Risk Paradigm? A Life or Debt Decision Read More »
What’s a reasonable return on investment in today’s market? As you might expect, the answer is, “It depends!” Every investor must accept risk in order to attain reward. Even doing nothing is a risk with its own reward. The obvious goal is to achieve maximum reward with minimum risk. Duh. But what are the risks …
6/13/10: Determining ROI – Balancing Risk and Reward Read More »
The world has changed! The internet has made it smaller, the economy has become much more global, and there are unprecedented opportunities to integrate real estate investing into an international lifestyle. But if you’re living in your home town, working at a day job and dreaming of going global, where do you start? We invited …
5/16/10: Live, Work, Play – Designing Your Lifestyle as a Real Estate Investor Read More »
Home ownership is the American Dream. Or is it? For many, home ownership has turned out to be a nightmare. So we decided to examine the pros and cons of owning the roof over your head. In the house for today’s show: • Your Host, Robert Helms • Co-House and Chief Housekeeper, Russell Gray • …
4/18/10: Does It Still Make Sense to Own Your Own Home? Read More »
As the economic tide rises and falls, every investor needs to re-evaluate his or her holdings and ask, “Should I stay or should I go?” This is especially true if you were late to the last party and are now wondering where the exit is. But is there a new party about to start – …
3/21/10: The Investor’s Dilemma: Hang on for the Long Term – Or Cut, Run and Redeploy Read More »