Month of January , 2008

Real Estate Investing for Retirement

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Posted by Alex Anderson on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:43 in

Many Americans aren’t going to have enough money to retire. That is just a un happy reality of these times. Instead of resisting this reality (and the unfairness of it all) the best action someone who hopes to have a healthy retirement can do is simply make sure that they are not the average US Citizen. We must take actions to make sure that they will have enough income to enjoy their life and be able to pay their bills, including their increasing medical bills.

One of the best method to get around being one of those people who end up bagging groceries in their so-called retirement, based on the opinion of Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, is to buy investment property.

Buying MN investment property is an excellent method for people to prepare for retirement because it provides something called “passive income”. After someone has done the preliminary work, passive income keeps coming in without a lot of effort. A typical worker gets compensated only for the time he works in a day. A real estate investor, after creating his/her system, makes money for keeping it running. And keeping it running, if she been very clever about it, involves paying his/her employees to manage the properties for them.

The best thing about making passive income (such as from investments) is, the more time the real estate investor keeps them, the more money they should make for him/her, with less and less effort on the real estate investor's part. It's the nearest thing to the “Holy Grail” of the realm of money.  read more »

Real Estate Outlook 2008

Posted by Tim Weber on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 16:28
Realty Times' real estate outlook heading into 2008 - with some added visuals from http://www.southoctracker.com real estate blog. It's only a two minute video, but has some pretty decent information on 2008 Real Estate.