What Bubble? Why there is never a bad time to buy real estate.

There is no real estate bubble. Yes I said it, you heard me. Well if you didn’t hear me let me repeat it. There is no real estate bubble.

Forget about the reports and studies from the experts and analyst that you seen or heard on that nationally syndicated TV or radio show.

Forget about the endless stories on the news and in the paper about how the sub prime mortgage market is destroying the economy and the real estate industry. All smoke and mirrors.

In order to capitalize you must change the way you look at the real estate market. The reports that you see and hear are directed toward the consumer market, the end user, it is information for the retail purchaser. (Real estate for personal use)

You must stop thinking like and accepting information for consumers, you must start thinking like an investor. (Supplier of real estate for the end user)

As an investor you are looking for cash flow and capital gains and as long as the investment allows you to achieve either goal then the market conditions do not matter.

An investor knows how to make money in any market.

To the investor there is no such thing as a bad market. The market is not good or bad, it just moves up, down or flat. And there are strategies that can be use in every market (there is no one strategy that can be used in every market condition). So there are no bad markets just wrong strategies for the market you are in.

If you are not making money with your real estate investments, don’t blame the market. (This is something that you cannot change) Start to look at the strategy you are using and make sure it is appropriate for that particular market.

Talk to other investors to find out what strategies they are using. I guarantee you someone is making money on there investments in your market.

If your strategy is not right for that market, either adjust your strategy or get out of the investment. It is always better to cut your loses and kill the alligator then to keep feeding it hoping it will become a cash cow.

Keep in mind the real estate market is very diverse; you can have two areas in the same city in which you would have to use different strategies. If you operate in your local market you may start to think that your market conditions are the same market conditions everywhere.
Nothing could be further from the truth at press time, Philly PA is seeing a surge in 2-3 family home sales, Flint MI is flat on single fams, and in New York city the borough of Queens has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country yet in mid tow
Manhattan you can not put up a luxury condo quick enough.

Study markets outside of your own see if you can capitalize off of the growth of another area or just so you can learn the different market cycles.

Learn which strategies work for different markets, or if you want to specialize in one strategy find out the markets that it will work in.

Whatever you do you must train yourself to think like an investor and not a consumer. Don’t believe the hype. You must be informed so make sure your information on real estate comes from a reliable source that caters to investors.

And remember it is never a bad time to buy real estate, so don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.