Category: Real Estate Investing

Private Lending: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

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How to lend money, without the money leaving your hands.  This method is also called the 2% Rule. The Banking system allows anybody to borrow against their own money.  When you borrow against your money, the banks can only charge you 2% more than what your money is making.  If your CD is making 1% … Continued

Landlords, let the tenant pay your mortgage

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So most investors who are buying to hold Single Family Rental Property have basically 3 price points: 1.  The Really Low End 2.  The Cash Flow Property 3.  The  Buy and Hold Long Term Here in the Kansas City Market and I am willing to guess in most markets these three price points will break … Continued

Rehab Chronicles of 2910 W 73rd St in Prairie Village

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In 2008 or so we met a new neighbor at our Lake Condo who was the person in charge of foreclosures and keeping failing loans going for as long as possible.  For most or 2009 she was getting to know us and we were getting to know her and she kept mentioning one house that … Continued

Funding Your Deals and Health Insurance

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We often talk about using your Self Directed IRA for funding your deals or borrowing from someone else’s Self Directed IRA.  But you can also have a Health Savings Account that can pay many of the health insurance costs with great tax benefits and in between times, you could flip a house or two a … Continued

CESA – a New Tool For Your Real Estate Investor Tool Box

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Last week I attended the northland monthly meeting of Mid-America Association of Real Estate Investors and came away with a new tool in my tool box for finding potential private money for my real estate investments:  Education Savings Plans I can talk to people who could be a potential private lender, but they may not … Continued