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Financial Freedom of Religion We just got back from The Feast of Tabernacles. And if you aren’t familiar with what that is, it’s a biblical holiday where Yahweh commands the children of Israel to dwell in tents for 7 days to remind them of the time they spent in the wilderness. (If you want to check it out in the scriptures, you can find this in Leviticus 23:33-44.) In other words, each...
Buy-and-hold up, wait a minute Buying and holding good cash flowing properties long term is one of the goals of real estate investing. But do you know how to evaluate a deal to see if it does cash flow? If you don’t, that’s okay. Because today I’m going to show how we run the numbers on a deal to decide if a house has a good enough cashflow to be a rental. To determine the...
Are you handy? Do you have construction skills? If you do, that’s great. But just because you do, does that mean you should work on your rentals yourself? For me, the answer to that question is ‘yes’ … most of the time. Now that may come to you as a shock, especially since I just wrote you last month in a column titled “Should you do it yourself” where I left you with the conclusion that it’s...
The best way to maintain your assets Let me ask you a question. Is a rental house an asset, or a liability? I ask this question a lot and most of the time people say a rental house is an asset. When I ask them why, they kind of shrug and say that they just assume that it is. Well, for us to decide one way or the other, we need to know the difference between an asset and a...
We don’t do short term rentals “Mr. Insurance man, we don’t do short term rentals.” This was an actual conversation I was having this week when we got approached by an insurance company looking for a rental for one of their clients. The client’s situation was they had had an accident that had destroyed their home. And when I say destroyed, it was a total loss. They were...