Real Estate Investing: How To Minimize Risk
How risky is real estate investing really?
Investing in real estate is often promoted as a super low or zero risk business or investment. All with many great benefits. Yet, many would be investors get stuck on the sidelines, worrying about risk. It paralyzes them into inaction.
So, what are the real risks? How can you eliminate and minimize them?
What’s The Real Risk?
The truth is that there is no such thing as a 110% risk free investment. They don’t exist. Just like there is no guarantee you won’t slip and fall getting out of the bed in the morning, or a plane won’t crash through your roof and get you in bed in a freak accident if you don’t get out of bed each day.
In real estate there is a risk that property values will fluctuate, that malicious tenants and employees will try to sue you, that scammers will sue you for your website features, that tenants won’t pay, or even there could be an earthquake, wildfire or global pandemic virus that prevents you from collecting rents.
However, small the chances, these are potential risks. The most important question that investors should be asking is whether the risks outweigh the rewards or vice versa? Or even more critical, does failing to invest in real estate bring even more risk than doing it?
What if you don’t invest in real estate? What if the money under your mattress gets stolen or is devalued due to inflation? What if your own home catches fire and burns down? What if your bank goes bankrupt or leaks your information and you lose all the money in your checking and savings accounts? These may actually be more serious risks than investing in real estate.
What if none of those things happen, but you one day simply can’t work anymore or are laid off, and don’t have enough money for you and your family for 30 years of retirement? All because you didn’t invest in real estate.
When you dig in. what’s really scary is NOT doing it.
Ways To Reduce Risk When Investing In Real Estate
It seems far less risky to take action and invest in real estate. Yet, it would be foolish to completely ignore the potential risks either. Fortunately, there are several ways to minimize these risks, and boost your upside potential.
The top risks of investing in real estate seem to fall into these buckets:
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Falling values of properties you are holding onto
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In ability to collect consistent rents on properties you are holding long term
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Malicious business and personal injury lawsuits
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Exposure to losing any money you have tied up in properties
Here’s how to crush that risk…
Get Insurance
Insurance can help defend and against direct loss and damages to properties, as well as potential lawsuits.
Use Financial Leverage
If you don’t have any of your own money tied up in a property, then you can’t lose it. If you pay all cash for a property and sit on it, you are a target for lawsuits. So, what if you were able to use other people’s money to fund 100% of your investments? You’d have nothing to lose and everything to gain. That’s exactly what Best Transaction Funding does for you.
Secure Your Profits & Exit In Advance
The smartest, wealthiest and most successful investors don’t put out a penny unless they know they have a dollar coming in. They don’t buy inventory unless it is already presold. You can do the same thing with real estate through wholesaling and reverse wholesaling too. Find the end buyers, use transactional funding to finance the deal, and you are in, out and paid right away. You know you are going to profit before you buy a property, or spend an hour looking for one.
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