23 | Successful Apartment Ownership Means Protecting What You Own

Since a professional team is so important to your success as a real estate investor and, more specifically as an apartment owner, I would like to take the opportunity to discuss how to find and use these team members in a little more detail.
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20 | Successful Apartment Ownership Means Having Good Legal Representation

In a past set of articles, I introduced the idea of having a team around you to help build your apartment empire. Since the team is so important to your success as a real estate investor and, more specifically as an apartment owner, I would like to take the opportunity to discuss how to find and use these team members in a little more detail.
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30 | The Philosophy of Monthly Income from Real Estate – Part Two

In a previous article, I asked you to consider a slight change of philosophy, or a paradigm shift if you will, when it comes to types of income. What’s the best kind of income? I think it is the kind that you don’t have to work for and that comes in, whether you’re doing anything or not. That is what monthly residual income is and is what it can be for you when you invest in the right sorts of things, such as apartments.
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29 | The Philosophy of Monthly Income from Real Estate – Part One

Success is often gauged by one’s income. That’s just the way of the world, regardless of how much you agree with it, and it is important to understand that there are several forms of income. Most traditional careers or means of earning a living focus on one particular income stream, that being the type where you trade time or effort for compensation.

Look at a traditional job. You spend a certain amount of time and effort and you get a paycheck as a result. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. Employers (at least some, anyway) work to help their employees create a better tomorrow through building of retirement accounts. These represent a sort of asset that is cashed in later in life to replace a previous income source.
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29 | Real Estate Asset Protection

For a majority of us, real estate is our most valuable asset. It might be your dream house for which you used all your savings or a farmhouse that you bought in the countryside, as a weekend getaway. No one would like to see such assets come under the threat of creditors and lawsuits.
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