I’ve wanted to invest in real estate for about as long as I’ve understood the concepts of investing.\u00a0 For a long time it was lots of reading and no action.\u00a0 In the last few years, that’s finally changed.\u00a0 I’ve managed to acquire a few rental properties.\u00a0 I’m actually up to eight rental houses right now.\u00a0 Not exactly Donald Trump, but I seem to do alright at acquiring the properties.\u00a0 It’s the managing of them that’s a problem.\u00a0 At the moment I’ve got 3 vacant houses and 1 non-paying tenant that needs to be evicted.\u00a0 Not exactly a good ratio of occupied to unoccupied properties.\u00a0 Thank God for the full time job keeping everything afloat.\u00a0 But if I want to get to financial independence through real estate investing I’m going to have to turn this around.\u00a0 So, this is my journal of my quest to become a better property manager and my experiences as an investor.\u00a0 The short term goal is to do something everyday to work towards getting the houses rented and to document that process here.\u00a0 We’ll see where things go after that.\u00a0 It seems a long way off at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve wanted to invest in real estate for about as long as I’ve understood the concepts of investing.\u00a0 For a long time it was lots of reading and no action.\u00a0 In the last few years, that’s finally changed.\u00a0 I’ve managed … Continue reading