Real Estate Investing: No Lawyers, No Debt, No Plungers

Real Estate investing is not nearly as legallyEstate Investing are available through CEFs
complicated, financially burdensome, or time(Closed End Funds) and REITs (Real Estate
consuming as you might think. In fact, it is easyInvestment Trusts), and both can be purchased in
to add raw land, shopping centers, apartmentthe same manner as any common stock. And for
complexes, and private homes to your portfoliome, this has always been their (CEFs and REITs)
without Brokers, Bankers, Attorneys, and asingle most attractive feature! You can own a
Rolodex full of maintenance professionals' phonepiece of the action without the big commitment
numbers. Even better, you can blend your Realof time and resources. You can take advantage
Estate investments into your security portfolio forof changes in the Real Estate Market Cycle in
ease of management, income monitoring,precisely the same manner as you can deal with
diversification analysis, etc. Without having megathe volatility and fluctuations in the Stock and
millions to work with, or a line of credit that goesFixed Income Markets.Real Estate CEFs and
around the block, you can have positions inREITs are obviously safer investments than
various forms of Real Estate (Commercial,outright purchases of Shopping Centers and
Industrial, Residential) at the same time, and focusApartment Complexes. They are also somewhat
either on Growth Opportunities, Incomeless risky than owning the common stock of
Production, or a combination of the two.If youindividual Real Estate companies. The size of the
thought that Real Estate was out of yournumbers may be less exciting, but the net income
investment reach because of limited funds, orand capital gains potential are comparable and the
minimal personal experience, you were sellingturnover rate much more impressive.
yourself short. All of the basic types of Real