by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Airbnb & Short-Term Rentals, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
People with no imagination love to tell you that it takes money to make money. If that were true, explain to me how plumbers earn $50-150/hour. It doesn’t take money to make money — it takes initiative, effort, and sometimes a little creativity. Which is not to say...
by Jim Cirigliano | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Property Management, Spark Blog |
Forget those ads you see on YouTube or TikTok with some tech bro promoting a shady new platform or program to “corner the real estate market.” Suppress the gag reflex and stay with me. Online scammers aside, have you noticed how a handful of technological advancements...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Apr 29, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
Dream of becoming a millionaire from real estate? The good news is that the strategy to become a millionaire in real estate is actually pretty simple. The bad news: simple doesn’t mean easy. It still requires plenty of work and money invested to get there —...
by Guest Author | Last updated Dec 11, 2023 | Passive Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog |
In decades past, when investors wanted to add real estate to their portfolios, they’d buy shares in public real estate investment trusts (REITs). But do publicly-traded REITs actually offer any diversification benefit? How correlated are their returns to stocks? Strap...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Dec 11, 2023 | Passive Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
Like the idea of steady investing every month in real estate, but don’t know how to do it? Many investors (myself included) use dollar cost averaging to invest in stocks. It’s easy, because you can buy shares in an ETF for $50-100. That’s a lot harder to do with...