Hello Aluxers, we’re thrilled to have you back to another amazing Sunday Motivational video,
especially today when we’ll be breaking down why real estate is and has been the go-to investment for building wealth.
By the end of this one you should have a clear understanding of how wealth is built through real-estate
and why the rich always have some part of their portfolio invested in land and buildings.
Keeping the intro short, here are 15 reasons why Real-estate is the best investment to make you rich.
Historically, the real estate market has outperformed goal in terms of store of value and returns.
Expectations being the events post-2007, but even then smart investors have picked up properties with a discount.
Real estate is one of the safest investments one can make because the value of properties very rarely goes down, and even then it’s only for short period of time.
You can rest assured that the value of your property doesn’t get devalued as more buildings rise up,
unlike fiat currencies like the US dollar, which drops in value every time new money gets printed.
These 3 drive the demand for housing up constantly, thus increasing the value of a property owned.
The trending markets are seeing even more rapid growth
Not only does real-estate maintain its value in time, but it grows your value for you, due to the constant increase in demand.
On top of natural appreciation, there are options that you can use to drive the value of the property up by yourself.
All are tools that can force the value of a property to go up.
This is the main reason why the entire house-flipping market exists.
People find properties that are in poor shape, maybe undervalued, force appreciation on them, and sell for profit.
Now only real-estate in a solid asset, but you can actively build it up to be worth more if you choose to.
Governments really like real-estate investors and they treat them differently when it comes to taxation.
Why? We provide housing for the general population & increase value by developing land.
This is why real-estate investors are called DEVELOPERS.
Here are just some of the tax deductibles you receive as a real estate investor:
No matter where you live in the world, you’ll find that governments treat real-estate investors better than small business owners or the rest of the citizens.
This is probably our favorite point and if you’ve been an Aluxer for some time you’re already familiar with cash flow
and earning passive income from properties; which is why we’d like to put it in a different perspective:
Own an apartment in Manhattan or Paris, that’s rented out and as of making this video you can live for the rest of your life from that single rental fee.
We personally know people who’ve done this and relocated fulltime to Asia.
People need central housing, and there are no new apartments built in the center of cities
even when they do, they’re ultra-expensive and out of the reach of the average person
specifically, because these projects are reserved for other real-estate investors.
There will always be demand for quality real-estate and people are willing to pay the high-rents
because the alternative is to waste up to 2 hours every day in transit from the edge of the city.
Real-estate is the modern-day version of an oil rig in your back yard working 24/7 to make money for you.
Here’s a fundamental lesson for you from one of the greatest investors of all time: Warren Buffett:
If this interests you, we made a dedicated video on the best books on real-estate investing which you can check out by clicking in the top right corner.
Believe it or not, experienced real-estate investors love market cycles,
they love it when the market goes down, when property prices drop. Why?
Because they can buy more for cheap.
While everybody is freaking out, while the economy is struggling, that’s when the investors come out to buy and they buy as much as they can.
If somebody offered you to sell you a brand new ferrari that you know is worth $300,000 for only $100,000,
knowing that all you have to do, is keep the car in the garage for a couple of years - maybe drive it now and then -
and you could sell it for twice that amount if you wanted to… wouldn't you make the deal?
Real estate enjoys similar market cycles to the stock market and as of making this video right now, we’re about to enter a downturn for the market.
Those of you who have the funds, get your wallets ready!
A big issue most people have is that real-estate is not accessible, that it’s too expensive.
Yes it’s expensive if you look at real-estate in Manhattan or Paris like we mentioned earlier,
but move a bit to the edge and prices begin to drop considerably.
You can buy a 1 bedroom apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia for $20,000.
You can buy a 3 bedroom apartment in Spain for 40,000 Euros,
Zillow is filled with $60,000 dollar homes up for sale.
And here’s a brutal truth for you:
On the other side of the spectrum, you have mansions, castles, residential complexes, shopping malls and office buildings.
There are options for everyone, you just have to look!
Anywhere in the developed world you have access to banks.
Banks provide credit if you’re employed and prove that you have the means to pay back the money.
It’s never been easier and cheaper than it is today to have access to capital.
Many governments are offering preferred interest rates when it comes to buying a home.
Learn about these programs and take advantage of them.
In some cases there’s as little as 5% money down on a credited investment backed by the state and everybody has access to these types of crediting programs.
For most people refinancing seems limited to getting another credit to cover a previous credit.
Real estate investors do that as well, when interest rates drop, they go to a different bank take out a credit,
and pay for the previous one and now pay less than they used to, keeping more of the rental money in their pocket.
But refinancing can do more for you if you’re smart.
Let us explain it through an example.
You search the market and find an undervalued property worth $100,000 that you’re able to buy for $80,000.
The thing is, you only have $20,000 so you borrow the remaining $60,000 from a bank.
Instead of going for a quick sale, you invest $5000 more into fixing up the place and getting a quality tenant to rent it.
You now go to a different bank and ask them to refinance your house.
They look at the property, at the rental income it’s generating.
And they offer you up to $130,000 in financing.
You pay the $60,000 to the previous bank and are left with 70,000 dollars cash on hand.
To buy 2 or 3 more properties.
This is the simplified method of building wealth through BRRR: Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance and it’s how most beginner real-estate investors get their portfolio started.
But let’s say you don’t want to do all these financial acrobatics and instead want to settle just for ownership.
All you have to do is to make sure the income coming from the rental property is greater than the mortgage + supportive expenses.
Here’s how the math breaks down.
You put down $20,000 for a $100,000 property, with the remaining $80,000 mortgages for 30 years.
utilities, insurance, repairs, management & vacancy let’s bundle them up to $650, totaling $1000.
This property has a cash flow of $200.
For the next 30 years, it will put $200 every month in your pocket
while the tenant will be paying your mortgage and other expenses, effectively buying you a property & maintaining it.
Where else can you get such a low effort investment?
Now you know why!
A valuable book that probably very little of you have read is Building Wealth One House at a Time by John Schaub.
Lucky for you, it’s available on audible, so if you go to alux.com/freebook
and this is the first time you’re signing up, you can get it for free as an audiobook.
Get the audiobook, listen to it & take notes!
Many investors believe in seeing and touching their investments.
Some people look at crypto & stocks as imaginary money.
For those people, real-estate is by far the preferred choice.
You simply can’t go wrong with owning land and properties.
In case of emergency, you could use it personally as a residence or office.
The fact that it can not be stolen, hacked and more is also a plus.
Traditional investors prefer tangible assets with a steady return over high-risk high reward alternatives.
Insurance companies are all over the world.
Every property, every piece of land can - and maybe should - be insured.
There’s an entire infrastructure around the insurance of real-estate properties
with insurance brokers competing against each other for the best rates with the highest coverage.
With your property insured, you’re sleeping well at night as your tenant is covering that cost as well.
The main reasons why you should insure every property you own are:
natural disasters happen, be protected.
Theft and Break Ins happen, be protected.
people will try to sue you for any reason whatsoever, be protected.
This is another big one for those of you looking to build: LEGACY WEALTH
Real-estate is easily transferable to the next in line, the infrastructure is there.
In most countries and states, there is NO TAX on inherited property.
Let’s do the math shall we?
If you do your job well, buy some properties, leave it to your kids, they don’t screw it up
and instead manage to acquire the same number of properties as you did,
but the time the 3rd generation comes around, the rental income coming in from properties should be more than enough to cover their living costs.
This is the reason why The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence to this dayAll they have to do is not screw it up
] they own property and land, the diversify by investing in businesses and the fortune keeps growing.
When people think of real-estate, they picture an apartment or a duplex, rented out to a single family.
There’s more to this story.
There’s a plethora of options when investing in real-estate.
like an apartment
like a townhouse
this one’s pretty self-explanatory
like airbnbs
you’ve most likely stayed in one before
like owning the space where the bakery next door is
like owning a shopping mall
companies moving their employees in
owning the space where plastic cups are being made.
And these are just the most common ones
Although similar, they behave differently, have different needs and different price-points.
The last reason on our list is quick access to cash if you needed it.
Although it’s not as easy to liquidate as your stocks, due to the high demand there’s always someone looking to buy.
On average it takes the average person between 60 to 90 days to sell a house.
Although that sounds like a lot, it really isn’t when you think about it.
Not to mention that if the cash need is urgent, you could take out a mortgage or refinance the place.
All of these reasons should get you thinking.
We actually recommend you check local real-estate websites
and find out just how much money an entry-level property like an apartment or duplex goes for in your area.
Then make a plan for the next couple of years to be able to get yourself there, one property at a time.
Just out of curiosity:
Let us know in the comments.
Who knows maybe your city is ripe for investment and the aluxers will jump at the opportunity.
Since you’ve been watching these videos until the end for so long, you deserve a bonus:
The truth is most people don’t start with real-estate right away.
Even the real-estate gurus like Grant Cardone, Robert Kiyosaki and more recently every real-estate youtuber,
they have a main hustle that pays for their real estate investments.
Grant Cardone made his money selling courses on how to sell,
Robert made his money selling books and the likes of Graham Stephan earn more from YouTube than they ever did in real-estate.
Even for us -as a full disclaimer-
if we didn’t have our investments and media companies we wouldn’t have been able to grow our real-estate portfolio as quickly as we did.
Find yourself a source of money, where you can exponentially grow your income.
The more you work, the more money you’re able to bring in,
then instead of spending it, use that money to invest in real estate.
Secure your fortune this way.
That’s how you become wealthy!
Your goal in the next 5 years should be to dramatically increase your income so that real-estate investments are quite accessible.
If owning properties is on your GOAL list and you’re still watching this video,
please write GOAL next to the answer of today’s question in the comments down below!