Opportunity Zones and the “Core Four”

Mike Hardy’s Terrific Tax Loophole … And Philosophy for a Balanced Life When Mike Hardy began to learn about Opportunity Zones, a relatively new innovation in the tax code, he thought they were too good to be true.  Adopted in 2017 to help drive investment to areas in decline, this little-known temporary initiative allowed states…

Real Estate Investing Lessons Learned on the Court with LeBron

Brian Grimes Turns Existing Structures into Affordable Housing — and Massive Profits Brian Grimes went to Columbia University, but he traces his success in real estate — culminating in the founding of 24/7 Cash Flow University and the YouTube channel Brian Loves Cash Flow — back to the time he spent on the basketball court with…

Helping People Keep Their Homes: The Positive Community Impact of Note Investing for Fun and Profit

The Positive Community Impact of Note Investing for Fun and Profit Tanya Brown is sensitive about investors wanting to get into real estate notes for the wrong reasons. Often they are “fix-and-flip” investors, coming to her for her expertise because they see real estate notes as a great way to get the properties cheap through…

Keeping Investors from Dying: A Former Test Pilot Now Offers Lifetime Real Estate Mentorship

Axel Meierhofer, founder of idealwealthgrower.com and host of the Ideal Wealth Grower Podcast, began coaching real estate investors for an unusual reason — he has a passion for making sure people in his care don’t die. Not that he has a particularly deadly approach to real estate investing. It’s just that as a mentor and a…

Profit First — David Richter’s Part-Time CFOs Help Real Estate Firms Correct the Profit Equation

For David Richter, founder of Simple CFO and author of Profit First for Real Estate Investors, it started with conversations he had at real estate networking events. The investors he met were bringing in boatloads of money … and yet they always seemed to find themselves on the verge of going broke.  “I’d go to…

How to Report the Fair Market Value of Non-Traditional Assets In Your Self-Directed Retirement Account

Maggie Polisano, Co-Founder, CamaPlan Self-Directed IRA LLC Every year, the IRS requires that you report an educated estimate of the value of all the assets in your tax-advantaged retirement accounts — IRA, 401(k), HSA and ESA. The report should reflect values as of December 31 of the tax year. This valuation of assets is especially…

40 Rental Units Before his 40th Birthday

Imagine setting out to buy your first rental real estate unit … and having the opportunity to buy thirteen. What would you do? Would you freeze like a deer in headlights? Run in the opposite direction? Or lean in and find a way to make it work? Luke Andrews, author of Amazon bestseller 10 Mistakes…

A Global Portfolio — The Joys of Owning Real Estate Overseas

You’ve heard of a diversified portfolio. Your financial advisor may have even encouraged you to invest in foreign stocks — usually Europe and China.  But how many people have shopped for real estate in Uzbekistan? How many Americans could even find Uzbekistan on the map? But that’s exactly what Ladislas Maurice, known professionally as “The…

This “Cookbook” Contains the Recipe for a $2 Million Retirement

Every cookbook contains recipes. But how many cookbooks contain the recipe for retirement with one-to-two million more dollars in the bank? That’s exactly what The Cash Flow Cookbook is designed to do. For the author, Gordon Stein, it started with a few simple, profound discoveries. “I kind of stumbled into the idea of Cash Flow…

What It Really Takes to Borrow Money and Build an Empire

Not everybody is ready to talk to Fred Shatzoff, a veteran of the New Jersey real estate lending industry since 1989. He’s not mean. He tries to let them down easily. But not everyone knows what it takes to qualify for a six-figure loan, and Shatzoff, formerly a residential mortgage broker and now a commercial…