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Should You Keep or Sell Your House? Use This Tool to Find Out in Minutes
Should you sell your house or keep it as a rental property in 2024? What you do with your home today could create a million-dollar swing in your port…
Public Housing As a “Solution” Only Makes Affordable Housing Worse
Think of public housing, and a familiar picture comes to mind: hulking, run-down brick tenement buildings, graffiti-strewn malfunctioning elevators, …
8 Reasons Why REITs Are More Rewarding Than Rentals
I wrote an article explaining why I am investing in real estate investment trusts (REITs) instead of rental properties. In short, REITs are still dis…
Building Your Real Estate Investing Team Like an NFL Coach: The Key Traits for Success
You need the right mix of talent, clear goals, and strong communication to build a winning team.
How to Calculate Rent On Any Property
Knowing how to price your rental property has been an issue since the dawn of time (or whenever the first rental was). Before the internet and modern…
House of Mirrors
House-hunting in any US city will cause one simple question to bulldoze all the others: How can so many people afford to buy these houses? If you typ…
Rental Demand Could “Catch Up” in These Oversupplied, Struggling Markets
America is experiencing a strange housing supply problem. On one hand, we don’t have enough housing supply nationally; on the other, we have too much…
The Right Way to Do “Value-Add” Real Estate in 2024
What’s the best way to build wealth in 2024? For many, it’s “value-add” real estate investing. You might know what this is, but you may have never he…
Buying Her First Rental (on a Teacher’s Wage) by Looking Beyond Her Backyard
Do you want to buy your first rental property but can’t find affordable real estate in your area? You’re not alone! As a science teacher living in Ne…
Six Dumb Misconceptions About The Economy (that the Politicians Want You To Believe)
Well, it looks like we’re here in another US election year already. As Advanced Mustachians, we already know that the ongoing battle of Harris …
The Problem With Cash for Retirement Planning—And How Real Estate Solves It
the traditional retirement model just doesn’t work well. To put it bluntly, the math sucks. I can do better—and so can you.
6 Creative Ways to Cover Your Kids’ College Costs with Real Estate
When you start them early enough, your investments can perform shocking feats of strength. They can even keep pace with the runaway cost of college t…
8 Reasons Suburban Housing Should Be Your Go-To Investment
Suburban migration didn’t end with the pandemic. If anything, we’ve seen a long-term shift in American priorities concerning housing, which has led t…
Cash Flow or Equity: Which One Should Beginners Invest for? (Rookie Reply)
Investing for cash flow or equity is an age-old debate, but what’s the best approach for a new investor? Should you focus on making a monthly profit …
4 Ways to Make Passive Income from Real Estate (Don’t Quit Your 9-5!)
Real estate investing is one of the best vehicles for building wealth, reaching financial independence, and saving for retirement, but you don’t need…
BiggerNews: “Boomtowns” Are Declining…It’s Time to Take Advantage
Real estate “boomtowns” present a massive opportunity to investors in 2024. A few years ago, buyers were fighting tooth and nail to purchase properti…
4 States With the Strongest Economies and Investing Potential
**UPDATE: We recorded this episode on October 1st, as North Carolina was beginning to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and before H…
The Slippery Slope of BRRRR—Is It Still the Best Way to Run Your Landlording Business?
The BRRRR strategy (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat) is based on finding discounted properties, fixing them up, renting them out, refinancing, an…
A Case Study In Selling Your Car And Using Ebikes And Carshare Instead
A friend of mine recently made a move that I’ve been telling him to do for the past four years – he finally sold his car and is going car…
How to Start, Manage, and Scale an Airbnb Business in 2024 (Step-by-Step)
Do you want to break into the short-term rental space? It’s not as simple as picking a popular market, buying a rental property, and listing it onlin…