Strategies
Building a small portfolio over ten years
What a realistic accumulation actually looks like, with the pace and the constraints stated rather than assumed away.
Strategies
BRRRR, short-term rentals, syndications — with the downside stated.
Strategies
What we would tell someone starting today
The things that turned out to matter, from three people who have made most of the available mistakes.
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Wholesaling, and what it actually involves
Contracting a property and assigning the contract for a fee is a real business with a marketing engine at its centre and a growing set of legal constraints.
Strategies
The first deal: a realistic sequence
Not a formula for wealth, just the order of operations that most successful first purchases have followed.
Strategies
Buying land, and why it is harder than it looks
No tenants, no maintenance, no repairs — and no income, no depreciation and financing that barely exists.
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REITs and the case for not owning buildings
Public real estate offers the exposure without the operations, and the comparison with direct ownership is more even than either side admits.
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Flipping: a business, not an investment
Buying to renovate and resell generates income rather than assets, and the tax treatment and risk profile follow from that distinction.
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Buy and hold, and the case for boring
The least discussed strategy is also the one that has produced most of the wealth in this asset class, largely by not doing very much.
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Syndications: what a limited partner is actually buying
Passive real estate through a sponsor, where the returns depend more on the sponsor than on the property, and the illiquidity is total.
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House hacking, honestly assessed
Living in the property you rent out is the most accessible entry point in real estate, and it involves trade-offs nobody mentions in the enthusiastic version.
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Short-term rentals: the returns, and the regulatory risk
Higher gross revenue, considerably higher costs and effort, and a rule set that can change with one council vote.
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The BRRRR method, and where it breaks
Buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat is a real strategy with real mechanics, and the versions taught online skip the parts that fail.