Comments on: 5 Ways to Make (or lose) Money With Investment Properties – Part 2 – Leverage http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/5-ways-to-make-or-lose-money-with-investment-properties-part-2-leverage/ Investing and Personal Finance Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:45:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/5-ways-to-make-or-lose-money-with-investment-properties-part-2-leverage/comment-page-1/#comment-43777 Dave Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:14:58 +0000 http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/5-ways-to-make-or-lose-money-with-investment-properties-part-2-leverage/#comment-43777 My strategy behind investment properties is to hope for a return in property valuation but guarantee a return by paying down your loan with streams of rental income. A triplex is a great example of you living in one apartment and having the other two apartments pay down your mortgage. This is only way I would buy a home with interest rates so low and property valuations so high right now. Interest rates only have up to go in the long run and the extra income will help make them affordable. My strategy behind investment properties is to hope for a return in property valuation but guarantee a return by paying down your loan with streams of rental income. A triplex is a great example of you living in one apartment and having the other two apartments pay down your mortgage.

This is only way I would buy a home with interest rates so low and property valuations so high right now. Interest rates only have up to go in the long run and the extra income will help make them affordable.

]]> By: <![CDATA[5 Ways to Make (or lose) Money With Investment Properties - Part 1 - Cash Flow « Financial Security Quest]]> http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/5-ways-to-make-or-lose-money-with-investment-properties-part-2-leverage/comment-page-1/#comment-1637 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:49:10 +0000 http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/5-ways-to-make-or-lose-money-with-investment-properties-part-2-leverage/#comment-1637 [...] Given just the cash-flow returns, it would be easy to question why anyone would get into real estate when you can get GICs paying 5% these days and can expect a long-term pre-inflation return of 10% on stocks. In the next post in this series, I’ll discuss leverage. [...] [...] Given just the cash-flow returns, it would be easy to question why anyone would get into real estate when you can get GICs paying 5% these days and can expect a long-term pre-inflation return of 10% on stocks. In the next post in this series, I’ll discuss leverage. [...]

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