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Cash Flow vs Wealth

If you are following this blog, you should know by now that capturing a $30K equity on a single family property in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton area is fairly straightforward, if you are working with the right people and … Continue reading

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Comparing the Financing Options

In the blog post on leverage, we talk about using financing in general. In this article we compare three different methods and discuss the power of each. To remind our readers, we discuss the specifics of owning and operating residential … Continue reading

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Unrealized vs Realized Gain

Followers of this blog know that we mostly discuss practical matters involving owning and operating residential real estate in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton areas in north Texas. While content in this blog could be relevant anywhere, when we get … Continue reading

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Flipping vs Renting – The Math

This blog is about owning and operating rental properties in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton metroplex. If you are new to this blog, read “Get a Mentor” and “Getting Started” and you can follow the posts from there. Often the … Continue reading

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Understanding Real Estate Finance

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In the blog post on benefits of owning real estate, I touch upon how single family rental real estate is a self-hedged investment. How, it tells you when to buy and when to sell. For those on the sidelines timing … Continue reading

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How much to offer?

One question that gets asked a lot is how much to offer for a foreclosure? How much to bid? At asking? Above asking? Far below asking? So in this article, I’m going to discuss this in detail. In these blogs … Continue reading

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Refinancing Into a Long Term Mortgage

This post is one in a series of articles discussing owning and operating single family rental houses in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton area. We talk about buying foreclosures or HUD homes, fixing them up and then renting to qualified … Continue reading

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The Rental Business: Pricing Your Rental

The next topic in this series on the business of owning and operating rental homes is pricing the rental. We have discussed how to purchase and prepare the property and bring it to market in earlier blogs. If you are … Continue reading

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The Advantages of Investing in Single Family Rental Homes

We have talked a lot in these posts about how to invest in single family rental homes in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton area. I ask my readers to get a mentor first if they have not done it. I’d … Continue reading

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The Power of Leverage

I talk about real estate investing with many people every day. If they are new, invariably they ask me, “How much money do I need?” So in this post, we’ll talk about that. If you Googled your way right to … Continue reading

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