What route do I go with real estate investing?

Super super hard to make money on those type investments right now. Easier when rates were 3%. Now there just isn’t enough juice for the squeeze. Might clear a couple few hundred bucks a month maybe, but then one plumbing or HVAC call wipes that out.

Ask the question -
How much money goes in when purchasing the asset

What is the estimated positive cash flow while holding the investment

What amount comes back to you when it’s sold.

And sure there are some tax advantages to all of this but those fade out if your AGI gets to a certain point.

You realize that we are down around 5-6% right? Now go back and tell me where we were at this point in the last administration. Everybody on here is up since the new administration has taken over, like it or not. If you were smart and bought April 7 and have been buying since the war started like myself, you are way up and will be even more so when this conflict is over. I am not a Trump guy but this is not the Poli board. Let's try and keep things in perspective.

Are you a Cash Buyer? If so what is your budget? A downpayment on a beach condo can buy you a DSLD home or LSU condo. A condo near LSU start in the 100's, a condo at the beach 2br or are probably closer to 700k and up in the Alabama/Florida area. A 3 Br wiil cost you north of a Mill in most area's in the Florida Panhandle. I would buys something cash in this market bc prices are discounted and will likely go up when interest rates go down.

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What route do I go with real estate investing?

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Good luck.

For every multimillionaire from real estate investing there’s a broke dick wishing he’d never tried it.

I’m neither of those because the only real estate I have is what I personally use/need.

Good luck on your journey.

I buy properties in places I want to spend time in my retirement. I have properties in the Mountains and something warmer as well. I rent them out. When I travel there, I write off my flight, car rental and what ever else my accountant ask for, I think even some meals. When our place is rented we even write off our hotel/Airbb.
When we travel elsewhere, we can do the same under our LLC since we are looking for new properties when we do. I have different LLC's for each property.
I can put my money in property as a tax shelter as well. I keep about 2 times as much in other investments but keep a third in rentals. To each there own but properties have probably been my most stable investments.

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What is the estimated positive cash flow while holding the investment

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I think people get in trouble with real estate when they buy a property to rent, and they start pocketing profits and spending it on personal needs right from the start, or put it towards another purchase of a property which exposes them to biting off more than they can chew. I don't think any profits should go anywhere except back into the property, whether it be savings for repairs, insurance and taxes, and paying down the mortgage. People should not start taking out profits until its paid off and you have a chunk in the bank for unforeseen circumstances..

You need to do wayyyyyy more research before you invest in any real estate.

This is now arguably the worst time to invest in RE, especially if you don't know what you are doing.

We do pretty well; we have about 25 doors, two commercial properties, and two vacation properties overseas. But it takes up a ton of time, and I have seen a lot of people lose their arse on RE investing.

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Yup. I have no desire to buy shite I don’t use when it comes to property.

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that is a dumb ignorant mindset.

I can tell you have zero business sense.

Do you use all the stocks you buy?
If I make money lending to a HML does that mean I have to use his loans also?
If i tradein soybean meal futures that means i have to consume that? or orange juice? cocoa? LOL

Smart people use multiple types of investments.

Stock market, real estate market, commodity market, lending market, etc.

Build large shop buildings. Not sure what the demand is in your area, but the rent on these is at a premium where I’m at. Our tenants run businesses out of ours like a tint shop and a cabinet maker, etc. very low maintenance as compared to our house rentals. Just a thought…

Have you considered a company like Fundrise? (Fundrise.com). I have several rental properties but am a senior citizen and did not want to accumulate more, so I have begun (2 years ago) putting montly investments into Fundrise flagship real estate fund and their private credit fund, about 50/50. Overall up about 14% in the two years. Can put in next to nothing twice a month or however you wish, but not readily liquid--have to wait until the end of a quarter to sell.

They also offer priviate credit opporutnities beginning at 50K and mandatory (not liquid) 5 year holding periods that return about 11-14% for bigger investors. I'm not in those because of age and lack of liquidity.

They also are the ones who just listed VCX on NYSE and allowed current investors to buy pre-listing. I bought at 18+ and sold at arouind 190 in a week after listing. Still trading around 120. I should have sold when it spiked at 540 but got greedy and held on too long.