Don’t start building your real estate empire without understanding the three biggest risks to real estate investing.

Real estate investing isn’t for everyone but for those ready for the challenge, it can provide solid returns and a great diversifier for investments in stocks and bonds.

It’s not a stress-free investment though and for every real estate empire built, I’d bet that at least two investors have seen their savings vanish.

I was almost one of those many that real estate chewed up and left for broke. Ok, so it was a little worse than that. A few short years of real estate investing and I felt chewed up, digested and…something other than spit out.

But I’ve since rebuilt my real estate portfolio, having learned from the mistakes of the past. I won’t say that my new strategy of real estate investing has led to a fast fortune but it does look like I’ll be able to create some real long-term wealth.

It’s why I wanted to share my experience after reading Jackie’s article on crowdfunding real estate. Besides direct investment in properties, part of my new real estate strategy has been to use the new crowdfunding resource to diversify my portfolio and take some of the headache out of rentals. » Read more

A couple of weeks back in my rental property update I talked about how I’d decided to go the Section 8 route for it. This post will talk about how that went for me.

For those not familiar (and I wasn’t really either) Section 8 is a portion of US housing law that allows for government-provided rental assistance to the low income families who qualify and are accepted by the program. » Read more

In late February, I put in an offer on a second rental property here in the valley. My below-asking offer was accepted, and things started moving fast.

We had a super quick close (less than 10 days later) and so I was able to get started on my list right away. Here’s what’s happened since then. » Read more