Investing In Real Estate - Is It All That It’s Hyped Up To Be?

First of all, I am going to start out by saying yes, investing in real estate may be the fastest way to get rich. There is no cap on the amount of money that can be earned in real estate. Most jobs have a salary or an hourly wage that you earn for performing your duties of that position. It takes a long time to increase your pay. In real estate, you are in control. Your motivation is a direct correlation to the size of your paychecks. If you are willing to work non-stop, constantly educating yourself and performing deals you are going to make a lot of money.

Here are a few reasons to invest in real estate:

1. Where else can u make a full year’s income in less than three months? When I was nineteen years old, I was working 30 hours per week for ten dollars per hour while going to college. This same year I started putting my knowledge into action and began investing in real estate with many of the “no money down” techniques I had been studying. I’m sure you can guess what happened. That year I went on to make more than four times my yearly income.

I am now only twenty three years old and this is still true. In one month’s time I am able to purchase and renovate a house. By the time I close and receive my paycheck it is typically a two to three month process. On average I earn a profit of thirty thousand dollars on each flip. I also do more than one at a time. Now, even doing only one at a time I would be able to make an average of thirty thousand dollars every three months. Not bad right? How many people are currently putting in forty hour work weeks to earn a salary of thirty to forty thousand dollars for the entire year?

2. Secure your future retirement through buy and hold strategies. Investing for the long term is a popular saying and the best way to do so is to buy and hold real estate. On average, statistics show that the market value of properties double every ten years. I am currently in my early twenties and I own a few multi-family rental properties. I intend to own at least ten more within the next five years. This is aside from flipping houses every day for a living. This is going to create a nice payday twenty or thirty years down the road.

These properties will be owned free and clear and the value will have gone up drastically. This is a pretty simple way to make yourself a millionaire when you retire. If the properties are rented out for enough money to cover the mortgage, then your tenants have paid off your loans! Of course being a landlord can be tedious, but isn’t it worth it?

3. You are working for yourself, not reporting to a boss. For many people this may be the single most important benefit to being a full time investor. You are free to live your life as you want to. Take a lunch break for as long as you want. If you don’t want to get up for work on Monday you don’t have to. You will have the opportunity to spend time doing what is most important, enjoying your life. Personally, I enjoy being able to create my own work schedule, however, at the same time I work twice as hard knowing that it’s for my own benefit.

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About the Author:
Brian Ducharme is a full time real estate investor. He started investing in real estate at the young age of eighteen years old and has currently been investing in real estate for five years. He is an experienced investor within all aspects of real estate including rehabs, short sales, "subject-to", and wholesales. For more information you can view his website at http://www.learntofliprealestate.com/ and you can receive a free miniature investing e-course just for visiting!