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Short term real estate investing can be highly rewarding. It can also be the reason you simply can’t retire. Don’t make the combination of time and success the enemy of your retirement plan.
There’s a principle when it comes to real estate investing as it relates to what to buy, and in what market to buy it. Property types and markets are a huge part of the real estate investing equation.
Begin to think of ‘streams’ the way you think of ‘portfolios’. That is, one stream is completely separate and independent, and different in nature than the other streams.
One of THE biggest factors we find in disappointing retirement incomes is how the real estate investor paid more attention to cash flow in the ‘now’, as opposed to after tax cash flow in retirement.