Want to start saving up to purchase your first investment property? Follow these tips and be on your way toward financial freedom!

Finding the right lender to secure your investment loans can seem daunting. But understanding what makes a great lender is the first start. In this article, we will outline what you should look for when shopping around for a lender and how you can best prepare yourself for obtaining a loan.

Rising interest rates, stricter lending criteria and a pending (if not already) recession, the US continues to struggle with its monetary policies. What do you do as an investor as securing funding for your first or next property becomes harder to come by? In this article, we cover the influences of current lending trends as well as providing alternative sources for securing financing for your next deal.

This week’s article is excerpted from a recent Club Conversations event where Jennifer de Jesus shared her experiences working with two investors who made mistakes and what you can learn. She shares one story of an unfocused flipper with unrealistic expectations and what happened on a project using a hard-money loan. The second story is about investors who were purchasing value-add properties, but didn’t have enough cash reserves to cover unexpected situations that impacted their cash flow. From these two stories, you can learn a lot about best practices when investing in real estate whether you’re flipping or buy-and-hold value-add properties.

The first in a three-part series where we guide you through the thought process of building the right team to make your real estate investment efforts successful. In this first part, we’ll talk about your strategy. What are the things that you may have taken for granted about investing in real estate that you could revisit to freshen how you look at your real estate investing strategy.

We recently had a chat with Joel Block, CPA, CSP, and fund manager about the pros and cons of passive investing, active investing and how investors can navigate today’s turbulent real estate market.