REIC Investors Share Their Experience: John and Diane

No Comments“One of the fantastic benefits of the Strait Path system is the mitigated risk. With one of our investment properties, the buyer-tenants we had were unable to continue with the purchase of the home.

The down payment they had made toward the house was enough for us to cover just a couple of mort- gage payments, if it came to that. Luckily, we were able to find new tenants within the month, so we only had to cover one mortgage payment with that reserve down payment. The new buyer-tenants were able to invest even more to build immediate equity.

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They have been fantastic and are making improvements to the home while working toward ownership. They are planning to attend classes to prepare them for successful home ownership. This system really reduces risk for everyone — including tenants.”

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The Five Profit Centers on the Strait Path

The interesting thing about Strait Path real estate is that even though profitability is one of six factors considered for every deal, the Strait Path system is still far more profitable than other forms of investing. In other words, the Strait Path system is still the best even when profitability is an investor’s sole or primary focus.

This is because the system offers five profit centers, whereas others offer only one or two. The five profit centers include 1) discount equity, 2) cash flow, 3) down payment, 4) appreciation, and 5) tax benefits.

1. Discount Equity Discount equity is the difference between the market value and the purchase price of a home. Our finding system helps us secure properties with 15 percent equity or more. Depending upon the size of the home and its discount purchase price, you may make more on one purchase than you make all year in your current job. For example, if a home is worth $275,000 and you can purchase it at a 15 percent discount for $233,750, you’ll make $41,250 on the purchase alone.

2. Cash Flow Cash flow is the monthly amount you receive from your tenants less your monthly mortgage payment. In short, it’s the difference between your mortgage payment and what your tenant pays you each month.

$200/mo cash flow

3. Down Payment The technical term for this is “option consideration,” which is a fee paid by tenants to secure their opportunity to purchase the home within a specified period of time. This is nonrefundable, and we receive on average $5,000 down per house.

$5,000 down payment

4. Appreciation Appreciation is the rise in value of a property over time due to increased demand. What’s notable about Strait Path real estate is that we don’t rely on appreciation to turn a profit, though we do account for it when it occurs.

10% additional profit

5. Tax Benefits Tax law allows homeowners to deduct mortgage interest from their taxes. This is a huge advantage in Strait Path real estate, since the goal is to purchase as many homes as possible

With a fixer-upper, investors receive the first profit center and, if they’re lucky, the fourth. But they have no cash flow, they do not get a down payment, and capital gains taxes often wipe out any earnings. With rentals, investors enjoy tax benefits and sometimes benefit from property appreciation. They receive no down payment, however, and they’re lucky if they get a good deal up front and receive a positive cash flow. Once again, the Strait Path system offers investors all five income streams.

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Change of mindset

Jun 24 | by CGrahamMindsetREIC Insider

If you live in constant need of creating security, no matter how exciting or rewarding your life gets, it will only be a matter of time before you seek a new adventure. Now, that doesn’t mean that new adventures are bad. By all means, learn new things, get more degrees, travel to new places, progress!

Human beings are programmed to progress. We are encouraged to be ambitious, to reach for the stars! But the difference is the state of mind you are in. When you live in this constant state of fear and insecurity, nothing is ever enough and the more you get, sometimes the emptier you are.

When you are making a million dollars, that state of fear will tell you that a million dollars is not enough and you have to keep going. It becomes this unhealthy addiction of acquiring more and more and often leads to a life of criminal activity.

Change your mindset, replace fear and insecurity with the desire for progression and ambition then your life will be more about enjoying what you are experiencing rather than hoarding the results of your “successes.”

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Profitability

“It’s not how much money you make, but how much you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” —Robert Kiyosaki, author, Who Took My Money?

For most investors, profitability is the primary, and in some cases sole, factor used to decide whether or not to invest in something. They fly from deal to deal with no system in place.

Like an eager puppy that runs to whoever will pet it, they rush into any deal as long as they’re convinced that it will make them money. Unfortunately for them, their profits are as fleeting as their focus. They make good money on one deal, average money on another, and lose money on the next. They’re reduced to calculating returns based on averages over time, rather than the performance of each individual deal.

Also, investors who elevate profit above all other factors are those who tend to spend money as fast as they make it. They have to keep making it in order to support their extravagant lifestyle, which creates a self- reinforcing cycle. They become addicted to money and lose the ability to put it in its proper perspective as a tool and a byproduct, rather than an end in itself.

In Strait Path real estate, we’re not just looking to make money — we seek sustainable, consistent, and predictable profits. We don’t want the highest returns — we want the best returns when considered in light of every other investment factor.

Without a holistic approach, perspectives on profit become misguided. No amount of money is worth exposure to high risk and/or creating a win-lose transaction. The more time and effort you have to spend on a deal, the less it should be worth to you. The more you must depend on appreciation, the less appealing the opportunity becomes.http://byfiles.storage.live.com/y1phyngmW81QCSrIv9Jfply5Wtcn9GvIb5Tu7NO4NGcSKBi9htatNApYdMy0-eHtxfbmgMSTiecJn8

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Strait Path to Real Estate Wealth Reviews

This powerful, practical book shows you how to get started and achieve financial independence as a real estate investor, and faster than you ever thought possible.”

-Brian Tracy, Author of The Way to Wealth

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Delayed Gratification

Jun 16 | by NKrohnMeet the teamMindset

When I started working for REIC, I read one of the earlier draft’s of Kris Krohn’s latest book. At the time I was not married yet, but had been dating my current husband for almost four years. So, in all of my relationship wisdom, carried this philosophy around with me:

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So, obviously, with that mentality, I over-treated myself on occasion and became a practitioner of retail therapy. I was doing pretty good for myself after college. I landed a really good job right out of school (especially for the job market and especially for Utah county) and was spending a little too much—not more than I made, but almost!

Anyways, as I read through the book draft, one thing stuck out to me. Spend less now and make the sacrifice to not spend for a few years in order to create room for building wealth! So save, invest and skip out on the stuff that you don’t need.

This isn’t a new idea, but reading that concept in the context that it was in (a book talking about making money, legitimately) struck a chord. To me that meant, stop eating out, stop compulsive shopping, stop buying things that I “need” (cause let’s face it, girls “need” everything for everything). And me, being in love with fashion, should know and accept that fashion comes in cycles and that if I miss a season, I’ll see quite a few of the same styles in a few seasons or in the thrift store.

For those of you who read the blog, know that I love getting my news updates and editorials from MSNBC. They had a great article called “How to Escape a Shopping Addiction” with 10 steps Gotta have your steps. For those of you who have shopping addictions, be it in retail, electronics, big masculine toys, this might be a fun read. Enjoy!

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Different methods of investing

Jun 14 | by CGrahamREIC InsiderReal Estate

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I put more than $15,000 and hundreds of hours of work into my first property. I eventually sold it, making a $54,000 profit. My second property required $6,000 of repairs and about sixty hours of work, and I made over $100,000 upon selling. I never set foot on nor did I put a penny into my third property, which I sold for a $20,000 profit. Which deal yielded me the greatest return?

Even though my second deal made me $100,000, it still required a lot of time and money. My third property was the winner because it only took a few hours of my time and no money.

Profit is just one aspect to consider when you’re seeking the best way to invest. Granted, it’s a vital factor, yet far too many people consider it to be the most important, which leads to faulty decisions. There are actually six elements of successful investing, all of which must be considered with every deal, every system, and every strategy in order to make wise investment decisions.

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Chapter 3 from the Strait Path to Real Estate wealth

Jun 11 | by CGrahamUncategorized

When I began creating the Strait Path system, I wasn’t just looking for what would make me the most money.

I wanted a system that would create the greatest profits after considering these other core factors. Everything else being equal, I prefer to make $20,000 in a few hours of my time versus making $40,000 with a hundred hours of my time. I don’t care how lucrative a potential opportunity is — if it’s highly risky, I stay away from it.

A strategy that may make me tons of money in a hot market could very well tank when the market turns.

What sets the Strait Path system apart from almost every other form of real estate investing is one key word: sustainability. Strategies and systems that focus on profit alone may make money in the short-term, but they are unsustainable.

This applies to every system that does not consider each of the six key elements equally and holistically. These inconsistent, unreliable forms of real estate include the following: rentals; fix-and-flip; lease options; speculative building; equity leveraging; distress sales, including short sales and foreclosures; land development, residential development, and commercial development; and multi-unit investing.

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Truth in Status Updates

Those of you who have facebook accounts will update your facebook status. Some might say, “just had the best yoga session ever!” some might say “seriously!? There is snow outside and it’s May??” But last night, one of my friends wrote:

“SAVE MONEY… SAVE MONEY… forrrr… retirement…lol… im getting old & is scared of the futre”

This friend of mine is not even 30 yet! But unfortunately, this thinking is not uncommon. A lot of us have asked this question with quite a bit of serious concern. What would you say to her to help her get out of her scarcity mode??

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What Am I Creating?

Jun 7 | by NKrohnREIC Insider

This is a training that Kris Krohn shared for our weekly Monday morning training:

Kris shared a story about his grandmother and how she shared the journey she and her children took to come to America.

She shared with Kris what it was like during WWII. She had met a wonderful man, and had gotten pregnant by him before he left for war. This was a huge embarrassment as she became larger and larger.

She thought her fiancé was dead because she didn’t hear from. She married a man to be legitimate, and he went to war. Her fiancé returned and she broke the news which was hard. Eventually both men died in the war, and she ended up with two children and no husband. She went into hiding as the Russian soldiers entered her village. Her father disappeared and she came up to see him shot by the Russians. She also was shot twice but managed to survive. She ended up in a death camp, escaped, was raped by the Russian soldiers, and finally was reunited with her children.

This was the beginning of Kris’ father’s life. All he knew was a war-wracked Germany. At 32, Kris’ father came to American to find a new life. He found Kris’ mother; they had 9 children; he purchased land and built a home for them. He would say “I never had a father growing up” – Kris realizes the impact he has on his children.Kris’ father knew what he didn’t want, but hasn’t gotten beyond that.

What is your next frontier in your life? Are we creating the results we want in our life?

Exercise on where we are, what we want to change, and what we want.

The longest list is what we are focusing on – let’s focus on the things we want to create. Are we o.k. with where we are? Are we up to the challenge to creating what we want? It is our birthright to grow what we want. We don’t realize the light that we are missing. Our subconscious takes in a lot more than we have.

If we can’t imagine what we want, we will never achieve it. We must think things into reality. Thoughts become things.

What is the link between what we do here, and what is manifest in the rest of our life?

If you came up with something new, this is the inception of Creation – you are manifesting something new in your life. The next step is to put it into action. This is a manifestation of the divinity within you. Defining what you want is creation. The more distances we cross spiritually, intellectually, physically, etc. the happier we will be as conscious creators.

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