I didn't read that book but watched a seminar via YT from the author
I didn't read that book but watched a seminar via YT from the author. It talked about real estate investment and I found it eye opening from how/where profits came about. The example I remember (I have no idea if these are feasible numbers, just pulling numbers out of thin air for an example) goes something like this: 1. Buy 50 unit apartment complex for $10mln. Get investors to pay $4mln, loans for $6mln. Cash flow is $600k/year from avg of $1000/mo. 2. Slowly invest in the property, refurbish units by maybe adding in-unit laundry for example. Keep property well maintained. 3. After some time (3 years?), get property re-assessed and now its worth $15mln. Refinance the property to $15mln, pay off $4mln to investors, take $1mln from loan for renovation recovery/profit, tax free, pay off previous loan. The eye opening part for me was that the goal is to not build and sit on the equity like a residential house but use the equity and increased property value to refinance and the extra money from the loan becomes essentially tax free profit. …
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