This is the first of a series of 9 posts that go in depth into various scenarios and options relating to preparing for retirement and determining what returns are needed to reach a financial goal in the future.
Being investors, we generally maintain a collection of properties that would be good investment opportunities for people looking to lend out their money, secured to real estate, and receive a return far higher than banks offer on their deposit accounts. Conversations with those people generally go something like this "I have a property that I could borrow against. You have money you're interested in lending against my property. What kind of rate would you want on such a loan?""As high as I can get."That's an understandable desire, what investor doesn't want to get as high a return on their investment as they can get?This response, however, might be an indication that they don't know what they need... so what follows is a potential scenario that gets at this qu... Read more...