span specific, for example do you want class="cap">W hy is to be earning $100,000/year in it so important to know your job, own two properties that what your real estate investing are giving you $500/month in goals are? In order to figure out positive income, and have $20,000 what type of property you are in RRSPs)?
looking for you will need to know
2. What can you do in the next what exactly you want to get from 12 months to achieve each of the real estate investing. Are you above items (once again, be looking for monthly positive specific and try and make the cashflow, long term appreciation items measurable)?
and equity building, or a
3. What can you do in the next combination? Are you interested six months to move towards your in investing for the long term or 12 month goals?
the short term? How much time do
4. What must you achieve this you have and what is your risk month to move towards your 6 and tolerance? 12 month goals?
Before you can determine your
5. Review these goals property type, it's necessary to regularly. We used to do it assess your current financial monthly, but now we just do it state and understand what you are quarterly. Find what works for trying to achieve and what is you, and stick with it.
possible.
Think about the impact these
Your Five Year Plan - Goal goals will have on your real Setting
estate investing. How do you know
This is a technique we use what type of property to look for over and over. Sit down right now if you haven't established the and write down:
goals you wish to achieve from
1. Where you want to be real estate investing? Some financially in five years (be initial considerations before you
begin a property search: in the building with your rental
* Will you live in one of the unit or being an absentee rental units or will you be an landlord.
absentee landlord?
Living in the building
* Do you have any savings to
Perhaps you just want to get use for the purchase (or can you your foot in the door in a nice use your RRSP's as part of the neighbourhood and this is the first time Home Buyer's best way to afford it, or the Plan)?
property you want to purchase
* What size of mortgage can needs some work and you want to you qualify for?
live in it while you renovate it.
* What is your risk Whatever the reason you want to tolerance?
live in your rental property, be
* How much spare time do you prepared to take the good with have to devote to the the bad. The benefits that come property?
to mind are (especially over a
* Do you have any scenario where you are currently construction/renovation knowledge a renter):
(or know somebody that does)?
* Cashflow from your home
* Will you manage the property (tenant pays for some or all of yourself, or will you hire a your mortgage)
property manager?
* Affording a better location
* Can you afford to supplement with the rental income than you the property monthly if could otherwise qualify for and necessary?
carry
Think carefully about your
* Appreciation on your home, answers, as each one has an and
impact on your choice of
* Tax benefits of repairs you property. For now, let's focus on do (be sure to speak to your the very first decision: Living accountant as not everything is
eligible).
* Tax benefits (although you
There are downsides to living will have to pay income tax on in your rental property the rental income - again speak though:
with your accountant)
* Potential for late night
* Appreciation, and
disturbances
* If you choose to hire a
* Feeling unsafe in your own (good) property manager, you home (but there are things you barely have to think about your can do to carefully screen your property.
tenants - we'll discuss in a
Of course, if things go wrong later edition)
you may not know about it because
* Stress of having to deal you aren't there. Problems that with immediate problems (both could have resolved themselves large and small) because you are easily early on can multiply and located there, and
create very dramatic issues. As
* It's easier to "justify" well, if you choose to hire a spending more than you can afford property manager there are a on renovations because it is whole host of other issues that "your home" and you want to make can arise if your property it nice.
manager turns out to be a dud (in
Absentee Landlord
a few months we will tell you
If the down sides sound a about the property manager that little too much to handle then stole from us, and tell you how being an absentee landlord might you can take steps to protect be the answer. You may still yourself from the same benefit from:
thing).
* Cashflow
Bottom line is there are
* Leverage other people's positives and negatives to both money (tenant pays down the situations. We lived in one of property's mortgage)
our properties (a tri-plex) for
almost two years. We had two real estate investing goals? Now police visits, loads of stress that you have some things to over a tenant we tried to evict, think about, it's time to start and we spent more money on figuring out what types of renovations than we would have if property investments will meet we were not living there. your However, all of that was worth it goals.< home? How does that fit with your /fieldset>
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