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Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 18 Location: Florida |
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Why Real Estate Remains A Great Investment |
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1. Income. Real estate investing offers you the chance to earn both active and passive income. Unlike your job, where you trade your hours and effort for cash, many real estate investments allow you to leverage capital. Your money makes you more money. Your earnings can actively involve your time and energy (such as managing rental properties) or you can trust others to manage your holdings (REIT’s and some limited partnership structures). Your choice should reflect your goals and lifestyle preferences.
2. Tax Benefits. The benefits of owning property can have to do with the write-offs against the rental income. Your costs in marketing your property, cleaning and maintaining it, insuring it, screening tenants, etc. can be deductible. Other deductions typically include insurance payments, taxes, depreciation and interest expenses on any mortgages used to secure the property. While you can’t write off the principal payments on your mortgage, these payments can be figured into your depreciation calculations and benefit you thereby.
3. Asset Appreciation. Another great feature of real property is asset appreciation. That is, the underlying asset that is actively generating income and tax savings for you is also increasing in value and building your net worth. This should work two ways: the principal portion of your payments is reducing your debt and the marketplace is raising the value of the property. For example, market values of homes in my town increased by 9% last year. Some markets routinely see double-digit increases. On average, Houston real estate appreciates by 3-5% annually.
4. Stability. Investing in real assets can shield you from some of the fluctuations that exist in the stock and bond markets. While real estate does have cycles (just like any other asset class), demand for single-family housing - whether for rental or purchase - is fairly consistent. Relative to other investments, its fluctuations aren't as broad. While it may not hit the high highs of tech stocks, for example, it typically doesn't bottom out as dramatically either. This feature can be tremendous in a well-balanced portfolio.
5. Involvement. This is the fun part. Investing in real estate offers you a chance to “kick the tires” more than virtually any other investment. This can make it a lot of fun. But, it’s not just fun; it’s protection. No one will be closer to the performance of your money than you. And that’s a good thing.
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