The Unique Real Estate Blog

When I started investing in land, I knew that the more amenities the location had to offer, the more potential the investment had. What I didn’t know, however, was which amenities were better than others. My experiment and research has led me to believe that Lake View Land offers a unique investment opportunity. Great Water Front Land can be found for “ok” prices. Good Ocean-Front Land is extremely hard to find at good prices. However, Lake View Land is extremely affordable, even when compared to Ocean View Land. So how to spot the good locations from the bad?

Ranching in the American West has a long and storied history. Most of today’s ranches can be traced back to the days of homesteading. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders were required to complete five years of continuous residence, or pay $1.25 per acre after 6 months, in order to receive deeded ownership of the land. The Homestead Act led to the distribution of 270 million acres of public land before being abolished in 1986.

You’ve bought a few properties, and tied up most of your available cash and credit. If you want to continue acquiring properties, what do you do? You simply must find an alternate source of funds, and the best one I know of is private money for real estate investing. The first step is to create your ‘elevator speech’ for private money prospects.

Investing in real estate can be a hard investment to break into properly without a fair amount of research into the market itself. That being said, the time spend educating yourself on the current and past trends in real estate will surely be time well spent. Real estate has consistently shown itself to be one of the most stable and profitable of ventures available to the average investor. Initially there is a lot of guesswork involved with the process of investing in real estate. These include such things as where to invest, should you flip or be a landlord, and how to go about the financing that will undoubtedly ensue?