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Building Wealth Through Real Estate Investments

Wealth building through real estate investments begins with one house at a time. Often, when you hear people talk about real estate investing they are talking big numbers. You hear about the millions to be made in the market, especially now when everyone is buying. You hear stories about the people who own 50 or more single family homes or bought a package of 10 investment properties. You hear about the people who syndicate large apartment deals or buy a smaller apartment complex of their own. What gets lost in the hype is that the vast majority of these investors began with just one house.

My story, like many successful real estate investors, begins with one small house in Texas. It took me awhile to buy this house. I made lots of offers before one was accepted, and I walked away from a few deals for a variety of reasons, most of which had more to do with fear than with the numbers. Finally, one of my mentors looked me in the eye and said, “buy this house or I will buy it myself.” So, I bought a house that no one else would buy, held my breath (and my stomach because the butterflies were giving me a stomach ache) and signed on the proverbial dotted line.

Every successful investor has a story like this. Most of us are just like you, scared of making a wrong choice, but are determined to change our financial future. Finding a mentor you can trust, and following their advice, makes that first purchase easier and more successful.

Our first rental investment property in Texas was a diamond in the rough. Once cut and polished, we captured $36,000 in equity and a cash flow after all costs of $429.00/month – this from a house that no one wanted to buy! I remember my mentor telling me, “Someone lives in every house on this street and someone will live here too. The question is, will you be the one who profits from it?”

The next house came shortly after with an equity capture of $21,000 and $324.00/month cash flow after all expenses. The third house represents an equity capture of $27,000 and $290/month in cash flow. All of these properties have an ROI of 43% per year or more.

A picture is forming, right? For most of us, it is not one big deal that takes us from a J-O-B to retirement. It is taking the first step and following the correct road map that leads you to the retirement of your dreams. I quit my J-O-B in January of 2010, in order to focus full time on my real estate related investments, and I am having a blast! I am working again, by choice, and I can follow my passion wherever it leads because I have created passive income through real estate investments.

Just these 3 investments represent $84,000 in unrealized capital gains. I have done a lot more since buying these first 3 houses. I have bought and sold several single family homes, and I currently have 5 in my investment portfolio. I have also invested in two apartment buildings with a total of 540 doors. But remember, I started with just one house.

Every month my renters increase my equity in these properties by paying down my mortgage. In addition, they provide passive income for my family. Although real estate values may rise and fall, my renters will not move out. They will continue to pay rent each month because they like where they live. I will not sell the properties until I can realize the capital gains I need to move to the next step of my 5 year retirement plan.

My properties are the best product at the best price in the neighborhood, so they rent quickly. My renters are happy to find such a nice home. The neighbors are delighted to have the blight in the neighborhood transformed into a beautifully updated home, increasing the value of every home in the neighborhood. The vendors who participated in the deal (from appraisers to roofers) are happy to have work, especially back in the recession. The social value in our model of real estate investing is priceless.

We are perfectly positioned to sell our single family investment properties and roll that money (tax free through a 1031 exchange) into more multifamily investments that generate a solid return and require minimal oversight as a passive investor.

We have taught our 3 children (ages 21, 23 and 24) the business, it has changed the trajectory of their lives and inspired them to be entrepreneurial in other ways. Once you learn how to run a successful business, you see opportunity everywhere.

We are well on our way to living the lifestyle we desire. Where are you?

Find a real estate mentor you can trust, one who has successfully invested in real estate through both the up and down markets. Develop your own personal road map from the J-O-B to the retirement of your dreams. Take the first step along your personal road to success by buying one property. Then buy another, and another, and another. Wealth building through real estate investments begins with one house at a time! Read More

Are You Interested in Building Wealth Through Real Estate?

You’ve come to the right place! Imagine this: five years from now, you’re no longer going into the office five days a week, coming home when it’s already dark out with your back aching, no time to do anything except eat and go straight to bed, only to repeat it all the next day. Instead, you can wake up in a sunny resort. Maybe in Bali, maybe somewhere in the Caribbean, wherever you want to go. You sleep in, you head down to the beach, you have all the time in the world to enjoy yourself, catching up on all the hobbies you used to put aside for work, having dinner with friends. You’re not stressed about work; you don’t worry about money.

With Lifestyles Unlimited, this could be you. Since 1990, we’ve garnered over 540,000 members across the US, many of them are now millionaires. We help people retire early and live the lifestyle they’ve wanted by building wealth and passive income with real estate. If you sign up, you can become one of them.

Benefits of Investing in Rental Properties

We offer education and mentoring to help regular people, just like you, become millionaires by investing in rental properties. If you decide that’s the route for you, here’s what you could be getting:

How We Can Help About Building Wealth With Real Estate

We know this might sound too good to be true, but it is true. We’re not some get rich quick scheme, what Lifestyles Unlimited does actually works. Rental properties has been a legitimate way of building wealth and creating passive income through real estate investing since the founding of our country, and we can teach you how to do it too. We offer multiple ways to access education and mentoring to help you achieve your goals. There are regular events, an annual real estate wealth expo and free workshops to attend, and a website full of resources including podcasts, articles, and videos. But if you’re really ready to make this step and buy your life back from corporate America, a membership is the way to go. A Lifestyles Unlimited membership gives you access to our Financial Freedom Program, case study nights, special events, panels, guest speaker events, Q&A, classes on various topics, and much, much more. We make creating wealth through real estate investing easy.

Our Credentials

Lifestyles Unlimited has a proven track record of effective investment strategies that have worked for tens of thousands of people. We’ve been doing this for over 30 years now. We were founded by Del Walmsley, who managed to quit his job only two and a half years after investing in rental property and made himself a multi-millionaire. Since then, he’s been chairman of the Houston Apartment Association and National Apartment Association Independent Real Estate Owners Council and won awards including the Houston Apartment Association and the National Apartment Association Independent Real Estate Owners Investor of Year Awards, and Educator of the Year. For the past 15 years, his students have won local, state, and national Investor of the Year awards every year.

They’re known as the winningest group of real estate investors in the country, and you could become one of them. If you want to learn how you could be building wealth and passive income with rental properties, attend one of Lifestyle Unlimited’s free workshops or go straight to signing up for a membership.

Why Real Estate is the Best Way to Build Wealth

With countless people dreaming about leaving corporate life and their 9 to 5, many are looking at the ways that investments can allow them to retire early. There are lots of options out there, so what should you be investing in to maximize your return? We have the answer. Real estate investing is the best way to build wealth and create the lifestyle you’re looking for, and these are the reasons why.

It’s passive income

Investing in rental properties can make you a lot of money, with minimum effort. Once you’ve found a good tenant, you’re pretty much set as you collect rent money. There is of course some management and upkeep required, but this doesn’t compare to working a full-time job, and it can always be outsourced to agencies and service companies. This allows for multiple investments, and you can even invest in rental property while you’re still working if you’re not ready to quit. In short, you could be making a lot of money doing next to nothing.

There is limitless earning potential

There’s no cap on the amount of money you can make with rental property. Depending on how much you have to invest, the properties you buy, and how many you decide to invest in, you could be making as much or as little as you want. The earning potential is limitless, especially as you grow your wealth and are able to invest in even more properties. Many people have become multi-millionaires through real estate investing.

There are tax benefits

Owning a rental property gives you lots of tax benefits in the US, allowing you to deduct many of the costs associated with your rental property. This means it won’t be as expensive to own rental real estate as you might think. Things you can deduct include mortgage interest, repairs, deprecation, improvements, insurance, and even your home office. And who doesn’t want to pay less in taxes?

You get a high return on your investment

When you take out a mortgage for a rental property, you only have to use a small portion of your own money, you can make a good investment even if you don’t have a lot of funds to spare. The rent payments pay off the interest and principal on the loan. Real estate is a great way to build wealth because you can get a lot of returns from a small investment. It’s a high-performing investment that will pay now and even more in the long run.

It’s easy to exit the investment

Investing your hard-earned money can be daunting, especially when there’s no clear exit plan. What do you do if things go wrong, or you need your funds back? With real estate, this isn’t a problem. If something unexpected happens, or you just decide to scale down your investments there’s a clear path to refinancing or selling your property whenever you want. You’re likely to sell it for more than you bought it as well. You’re basically free to leave, or just pull your investment out in a refinance whenever you want.
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