Ultimate Guides

Learn what you need to know to find success in real estate investing! Here, the Real Estate Financial Planner™ team has collected all our Ultimate Guides so you can explore everything from investment strategies to financing to rental properties. Dive into the topics that have been holding you back so you can make informed choices, take action, and make your real estate investment goal into a reality.

The Ultimate Guide to Buy-and-Hold Investing

Do you dream of financial independence? Early retirement? A comfortable college fund for your kids when they grow up? If you’re willing to be patient, you can build wealth with real estate through buy-and-hold investing. Keep reading to learn more about this strategy from the experts behind the Real Estate Financial Planner™. What Is Buy-and-Hold Investing? A buy-and-hold investor is in it for the long-term gains, not a short-term boost. Instead of acquiring property and trying to sell it for profit within a few years, buy-and-hold investors typically hold on to their investment properties for five to 10 years. While … Read more

How to Invest $100K – Detailed Financial Plans

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The Ultimate Guide to Private Mortgage Insurance

Nomad™ No Points Comparing 3 Different PMI Options What is Private Mortgage Insurance? How to avoid it as a buy-and-hold real estate investor, Nomad™ or house hacker or use it to your advantage. In this class you’ll learn: What is Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)? And, how to avoid it. Some of the more common PMI providers and why you may care… What primarily affects your PMI rate? What are additional adjustments? How to calculate PMI The range of monthly PMI amounts 3 strategies to pay PMI FHA and the PMI equivalent of MIP The duration of MIP for FHA loans … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Credit Repair for Real Estate Investors

As a real estate investor, your credit can be an important factor in how well your investment performs. How much of a difference does your credit score make? That’s what I will cover below. Why Your Credit Score Matters There are real estate investing strategies that you can do with little or no money and no or bad credit, but (as you might imagine) they do limit the number and types of deals you can do. We won’t be discussing the no and bad credit strategies here specifically. Instead, we will focus on how to improve your credit so you … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Rental Property Financing

If you’re looking for information on rental property financing then you’e found the ultimate guide including several recordings of real estate seminars that go over various aspects of rental property financing, spreadsheets and additional tools. Class Recording: Financing 101 In this special real estate seminar you will learn all about financing properties including rental properties and primary residence financing. Why discuss financing your primary residence on a website dedicated to discussing topics related to investment property? Certain strategies (like the Nomad™ investing strategy) has you buy a property as your primary residence, live there for a year (or more) and … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Lines of Credit

If you’re interested in learning how to use lines of credit and home equity lines of credit in your real estate investing business then welcome to The Ultimate Guide to Lines of Credit. Class Recording: Lines of Credit Magic for Real Estate Investors On September 25, 2019 Daryl Stolte taught a special real estate seminar on how to use lines of credit (LOCs) and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) in your real estate investing business to our local real estate investor group. Watch the video to get a thorough understanding of the different ways we can use LOCs and … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Owner Financing

Owner Financing

If you’re looking to learn more about owner financing then you’ve found The Ultimate Guide to Owner Financing where you will learn about creative financing strategies with an emphasis on getting the seller of the property (the owner) to act like the bank and allow you to make payments to them to finance your purchase. Owner financing is just one type of Creative Financing. Class Recording:Owner Financing On July 20, 2016 I taught a special real estate investing seminar on how to use owner financing which you can watch below. Owner Financing: What is it? Seller acts like the bank … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to 1031 Exchanges

Check out our ultimate guide to 1031 exchanges including 1031 exchange basics, 1031 exchange rules, 1031 exchange timelines and much more. We will discuss 1031 exchanges for rental properties and even the challenges associated with trying to 1031 exchanges your primary residence. Class Recording: 1031 Exchanges The following two real estate seminars on 1031 exchanges are based on the same power point presentation. One was first presented on May 31, 2017 and the second was taught on June 12, 2019 to our local real estate investor group. Here’s the most recent version of the class. And if you want to … Read more