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How The Korn Team can help you start a wealth building strategy by Investing in Real Estate

Founder of Keller Williams Real Esate, Gary Keller has finished the book series for all Real Estate Agents and Investors. His newest book "HOLD" shares how real estate is one of the best sources for wealth building in America. If you are wanting to seriously build your wealth as fast as possible with the highest amount of security, contacts The Korn Team to find out how we can turn your investment portfolio into a retirement program or even pay for college for your grandchildren, nieces & nephews and/or your children.

The book HOLD will distinguish the myths and exciting truths of investing in real estate. In this book we will show you how real estate is the right wealth building vehicle for you. The great thing about his book is many have taken this road to wealth building (which you can read their stories in the book "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" by Gary Keller) and our real estate team can help you learn from their success's...and avoid their mistakes! Lastly, this book will share with you the strategies to get started.

Myths and Truths of investing in Real Estate:

• MYTH: You have to have money to make money

• MYTH: Real Estate is a get-rich-quick scheme

• MYTH: It's not the right time

• MYTH: It's too complicated

• MYTH: I don't have time

• MYTH: It's too much work fixing leaky faucets, running toilets

• MYTH: Tenants just wreck the property

The Truths about Real Estate Investing? (the most "Able" investment)

• TRUTH: Accessible

• TRUTH: Appreciable

• TRUTH: Leverage-able

• TRUTH: Rentable

• TRUTH: Improvable

• TRUTH: Deductible, Depreciable, Deferrable

• TRUTH: Stable

• TRUTH: Livable

Other Advantages of Real Estate Investments

• Cash Flow - passive income

• Long-term debt at fixed rates

• don't have to sell to generate cash

• Assume older loans

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Why is building wealth with real estate right for you?

If you are looking for financial security, retirement plans, pay for college for kids, travel fund, giving to others in need or if you want to leave a legacy to your friends, family and those who know you....real estate can be one of the best sources of wealth building in America...even in the roughest economies we have had. In fact, real estate might be the safest investment in any of the past economies we have ever seen.

Did you know:

• 58% of people have not determined their retirement needs?

• 15% of people are earning $50,000-plus in retirement?

• 17.5% of people 65 or older are delaying retirement?

• The median household income is only $50,000 per year

What does all this mean? If someone needs $80,000 a year today to maintain a lifestyle, and that person plans to retire in 15 years, and we know inflation will continue to increase on an average of 3% per year....that person would need $120,000 a year when they retire.

Other scary statistics about retirement plans:

• 87% of Americans rely on Social Security for some source of retirement

• 53% of Americans rely on income from assets for retirement

• 42% of Americans rely on public or private pensions for retirement

• 26% of Americans rely on earnings for retirement

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Here are some strategies that are shared in the book "HOLD" written by Gary Keller

The Power of Leverage

Leverage is using other people's money (banks, mortgage companies, and owner financiers) to make money. Leverage multiplies your profit.

The Power of Leverage in real estate investments: Equity Build up

1. At the time a property is purchased you are at Market Value - little equity, little investment (20% down) and a lot of debt.

2. After some time, your Equity begins to grow. Your investment is still the same at time of purchase, and your debt is going down.

3. The equity begins to build while the debt is going down

4. eventually, when you have paid off the mortgage, your market value has gone up, your debt is gone, and all you have left is equity in a property that is worth more than it was when you bought it, and your investment never changed.

Contact The Korn Team if you would like to see the graphic of what this looks like. Remember, it is about doing it RIGHT!

• Buy is RIGHT!

• Pay it down

• pay it off

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Some strategies to get started are to buy and HOLD turning your properties into rental properties.

The power of cash-flow growth

When you buy property to rent, in the beginning you have a fixed amount of vacancy, expenses & debt service (your mortgage payment). However, as the debt service balance goes down, and appreciation grows the market value of the property your cash flow grows.

Contact the Korn Team if you would like to see the graphic of what this looks like. Remember, it is about doing it right!

• Buy is RIGHT!

• Pay it down

• pay it off

How the best, most successful real estate investors succeed in building wealth is to convert their income into assets now, and let the asset produce income.

You see, your income you make doesn't make you more money. When you use your income to purchase assets that create income, you have now leveraged your income into more income.

The strategies discussed in the wealth building series books, "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor", "FLIP" and now "HOLD" all written by Gary Keller and the experience of The Korn Team selling over 80-100 properties every year for over the past 20+ years will help you do it smart and invest in real estate right.

HOLD shows you the ultimate wealth-building strategies of Find, Analyze, Buy, Manage & Grow your investments.

HOLD is a long-term real estate investment strategy to which every real estate investor should aspire. The Korn Team can help you understand the information discussed in this book to ensure you buy it right, and put the right strategy in place to pay it down and pay it off.

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Some of the strategies discussed in the book HOLD by Gary Keller on how to get started to maximizing your wealth building strategy through real estate are:

• Use your 401(k) to purchase rental property

• Refinance to invest

• Ask grandparents to buy rental properties for grandchildren

• Examine and reduce your expenses

• Live on a budget below your means

Some Financing strategies include:

• Purchase properties with a 15-year mortgage

• Accelerate your debt pay down - regardless of your mortgage length (paying extra when you can)

• Use interest-only loans for cash flow

• Take advantage of self-directed IRA's and buy real estate rentals

What types of properties work best according to the book HOLD?

• Investment in single-family homes

• Buy "fixer-uppers" and make improvements

• Sell one property and buy two others

• Buy your retirement home now - have your tenant pay it off

• Exchange out-of-state investments for properties in a stronger growth area

• Use lease purchases - increase cash flow

• Buy foreclosures and short sales for instant equity

Let The Korn Team help you get started and take action. We have 13 questions you should answer before you get started on your real estate wealth building plan.

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