Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Wealth of Common Sense....................

.............is a superb blog for those interested in investing.  While Ben's focus is on financial instruments and their markets, us real estate investors can find his thoughts useful as well.  Two excerpts:

"You always have to think in terms of total return when thinking about income investments, not just the dividend or bond yield." (Which means to me:  don't forget you have to sell the property and pay the income taxman before you really know how well the investment performed.  More often than not, the return of the investment is just as important as the return on investment)

"As an investor you should be saying no to way more investment opportunities then you say yes to. Just because something’s available doesn’t mean it’s necessary." (If only it was more clear to which we should say NO, then life would be much simpler.)

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