| Real estate investing has been made out in | | | | the properties, they do more damage than good |
| the media to seem like it's the best thing | | | | and usually end up disappearing after getting |
| since sliced bread. This in no small part due | | | | paid an initial amount. Lots of real estate |
| to late night cable television infomercials | | | | investors are burned this way. |
| espousing the high deals of no money down or | | | | |
| next to nothing down real estate investing. | | | | You still have to take many years to learn |
| They make it look like anybody can do these | | | | how to assess the value of properties in a |
| commercial real estate investing deals | | | | town or neighborhood. You also need the |
| easily. You will be shown, how by just | | | | street experience in negotiations so that you |
| writing things down on the back of napkins, | | | | don't lose out the profits that you |
| you have the makings of a real estate | | | | originally thought you had. The main point |
| fortune. Things will reach boiling point when | | | | here is real estate investing, whether |
| supposedly real interviews are held with | | | | commercial or residential, is best thought of |
| people who have succeeded wildly after using | | | | as a business. It needs your dedication and |
| the promoter's commercial real estate | | | | constant education. Moreover, if you are |
| investing system. | | | | working full time and you invest in real |
| | | | estates, you will be losing your free time to |
| It is a fact that real estate fortunes can be | | | | collecting rentals and doing rehabs. You will |
| made. More often however, the person who's | | | | need to cover the mortgage out of your own |
| making it is the guru owner of the real | | | | pocket if the property does not sell, or when |
| estate course! Truth be told, real estate | | | | tenants are not able to pay up on time. You |
| investing is a lot harder than what you are | | | | want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, not |
| led to believe. Every buy, sell or renting of | | | | leaking out your time and salary to patching |
| real estate involves dealing with people | | | | up hiccups in your real estate investments. |
| directly. Unlike stock transactions, there | | | | If you enjoy cookouts and trips to the |
| are no organized exchanges to keep things | | | | beaches, you might want to consider the stock |
| standardized. Furthermore, the courts are | | | | market rather than real estate investment. |
| more sympathetic and protective toward | | | | Both are part-time businesses, but which one |
| delinquent family tenants. Another common | | | | leaves you with more free time and less |
| problem is many real estate rehabbers take on | | | | income fluctuation? |
| drifters to do odd jobs. Instead of fixing up | | | | |