Monday, February 01, 2010

Basic Principles in Real Estate Investing

Rental of houses, particularly single family rental, is the simplest way to start getting involved in property investment. The generation of monthly cash flow arising from real estate investing is equivalent to playing chess. In the first set of opening moves, the game is won or lost. But for the new beginner or investor, this somehow creates a problem because they still do not have the appropriate experience or knowledge on how to move on and come out with a new start.


Buying Right


A famous builder, Howard Johnson, had a saying: "bought right is half sold." This proverb refers to the price .... However, another dimension of value is also of survival. If you do not yet know when a property is bought at the right price, it means that a room to make mistakes for the difference between selling price and cost are present. This happens when you do the work yourself and when you do it well. The term "work" here means remodeling, financing, leasing, etc. If you have more margin of real estate will be indulgent with your errors. But if you do not have the basic experience and know-how about where to start, then "positioning" should be used. This means: "location, location, location." And the physical location is just one of the aspects of positioning. Apart from positioning, which also feature the use and perception.


Positioning refers to the prescription of property value. In the event that you find a property that is in a good position from the beginning, which means it has already been professionally renovated and has a tenant in place, errors will be extremely minimized. Naybody can go ahead and buy a property. But not a lot of people really understand how to sell a particular property. And when you know how to sell, the next question is who would you sell it for?


Sharks' Teeth


Let me use an analogy here. As everyone knows, a shark has several rows of teeth. It really does not mean much when it loses a tooth or two, because there are several others who could still perform his job properly. This principle is much the same with real estate investment. Many of the commercial and residential landlords unknowingly make a mistake by thinking that their job is over when they have a tenant living on their property. They focus so much on direct sales and get a cash event that they do not realize that having a cash flow is the real name of the game. When a landlord focuses on cash events, it's like to put its resources into one basket. Most successful investors do otherwise by focusing on cash flow, which is why they can get others to pay for their daily living expenses. And the others, I'm talking about here are the tenants. Cash flow will let you switch your focus on the cash situation like flipping eventually. If your need for cash to be taken care of, you need not worry when a flip property would have to take another three months just to close.


In case you're asking about vacancies, it is not idle in itself, which will hurt your real estate financing, but the length of the advertisement. Make sure there is always another tenant waiting to rent your property. The new tenant will serve the purpose of replacing the monthly cash flow that you otherwise would have lost had you not found a tenant who will rent your property.


Moving pivot


A hub is a device that can multiply the mechanical force to an object. The same principle of "mechanical advantage" applies when you get the right financing for your property investments. By simply moving the price / conditions (heart), in other words, income for every dollar saved at the rate equal to twelve dollars a year in profits. This is a very critical issue for all who are new to investing.

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