Saving Money Through Real Estate Investing

The much-hyped concept these days, which is making its rounds in global economic platforms, is how to save money through investing in real estate. Investors all across the globe are trying to come up with innovative ways and means on how to make money fast.  Many authors have also penned several books on how to grow money through investing in real estate, charting out innovative approaches.  Unlike other investment tools, however, real estate investment gives you the freedom to make or save money easily.

Recent media reports revealed that many senior citizens are now heavily relying on long-term investment plans in order to ensure a safe and hassle free retirement.  If you want to create wealth, then buying and holding is the best option for you.  Saving money through investment requires a proper assessment of market scenarios and subsequent risk management.  But, with clever moves and the right investment tactics, you can really augment your income at a much faster rate than by simply saving money.  Media reports focusing on business tactics worldwide are unanimous on this issue. Most first-time investors fail to understand how to use credit as a money-augmenting tool in an investment.  So the investing tips outlined below may come handy, if you are contemplating with the idea of saving money by making investments.

• Lowering your tax bills – Investments in real estate allow for various tax-breaks and thus lower your tax bills and increase revenue.  Petitioning for a decrease in property taxes, for example, will boost your monthly cash flow significantly, and it’s a relatively simple process.  It has become a popular mode of saving by taking advantage of tax savings opportunities to drive revenue.
• Smart asset management – Managing your real estate assets properly also goes a long way in saving money and creating wealth.  It means that if you take good care of your property through regularly scheduled preventative maintenance and capital investments, in time, it will save you from spending considerable amounts later on in extensive repairs when the condition of your house gets totally out of control.  It is more like a stitch in time saves nine.
• Property improvements – Another factor that adds to your bank balance is leveraging the market value of your property, through equity loans, to do additional improvements that boost value and allow for increased rents.  Adding water-efficient toilets and faucets can save a considerable amount of money over the course of a year.
• Increasing cash flow through augmenting monthly rental income – Another easy and popular way of creating wealth is to increase your “other monthly income” for your properties, which could result in producing thousands of dollars every year.  Installing coin-operated washers and dryers or charging for storage space are a few easy ways to generate additional income.

To avoid making bad investments, do careful due diligence.  You should also try and learn from other peoples’ mistakes.  Talk to other investors with similar properties.  Find out what they are doing and how they are saving money.  If you don’t know any other investors, connect with local investors in your area through the forums in BiggerPockets.com or go through the directory of real estate investing clubs and associations listings to make contact with other investors.  Grow your network and you’ll broaden your knowledge.

Investing in real estate in order to make and save money is not difficult if you are willing to do the research and the required work.  In simple words, saving is all about managing your wealth rather than wondering where it went.  So, next time when you think of saving money, look at optimizing what you have first and then consider investing money wisely in different ways to boost the value of your investments and grow richer.

Bill Manassero is the founder/top dog at “The Old Dawg’s REI Network,” a blog, newsletter, and podcast for seniors and retirees, that teaches the art of real estate investing. His personal real estate investing goal, which will be chronicled at olddawgsreinetwork.com, is to own/control 1,000 units/doors in the next 6 years. Prior to that, Bill and his family lived in Haiti for 11 years as missionaries serving orphaned, abandoned and at-risk children.