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    Rags to Rental Property
    Rags to Rental Property
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    Rags to Rental Property

    By Kirk T. McGary

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    Tired of living from paycheck to paycheck? Tired of working lots of hours but seeming to not be getting ahead? Tired of missing out on family activities, buying new toys, and having some fun in life? Then change! Read this book. It will guide you to more financial freedom and more time to choose the things you want to do.

    The Rags to Rental Property takes you through the process of understanding the benefits of owning rental properties. Then step-by-step, it will teach you how to find, assess, and purchase properties. Yes, even you can do this.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFulton Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 7, 2021
    ISBN9781638601074
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      Rags to Rental Property - Kirk T. McGary

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      Rags to Rental Property

      Kirk T. McGary

      Copyright © 2021 Kirk T. McGary

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      Fulton Books, Inc.

      Meadville, PA

      Published by Fulton Books 2021

      ISBN 978-1-63860-106-7 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-63860-297-2 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-63860-107-4 (digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      Quality of Life

      Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

      What Are the Types of Real Estate?

      Finding the Right Property to Buy

      Where to Find the Right Property

      Money to Do the Deal

      Lending/Borrowing Terms

      Real Estate and Taxes

      Decision Tools

      Making the Offer

      Assemble Your Team

      Rags to Rental Property—a Summary

      To my wife Blenda, children, and grandchildren, who make life worth living.

      Chapter 1

      Quality of Life

      Bill used to stop by my office every month to pay his rent on the home he was renting from us. He would give his rent to the receptionist then make his way into my office to say hi. He would then proceed to give me his monthly speech: When I retire, I’m going to sell everything I have, buy a motor home, and travel all over the country, seeing the sights with my wife. It’ll be great!

      That day finally came, and Bill, still renting from us after all those years, stopped into my office to tell me he had officially retired and he had purchased a new motor home. He proceeded to tell me that he and his wife were leaving the next week for a mini test trip to Yellowstone Park in the new motor home.

      The following month, Bill’s wife stopped in the office to pay rent. I saw her and asked her how the Yellowstone trip went and how Bill was doing. The tears flowed. She related that a couple of days after they returned from Yellowstone, Bill had a heart attack and passed away.

      I felt their pain. They had worked and saved for decades to fulfill their dreams, and now it was over—albeit with unfulfilled dreams.

      Do not drive down Bill’s road! Get your act together now. Do not wait until the market improves or say, I need to save up more money for a down payment, or any other lame excuse. You can do it, like me and thousands of other real estate investors.

      Money solves many problems and creates many opportunities. If you work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, you can probably earn quite a bit of money. But you will have limited time to use it, and ultimately, your health will start to fail if you continue living at that frantic pace for an extended period. In other words, there are three aspects to having a great quality of life: health, time, and money.

      Health. Several years ago, we were having an extended family reunion in our backyard. The younger kids were screaming in the swimming pool and playing games, the seniors were huddled under the pavilion swapping stories of the good ole days, and the rest of us thirty-to-sixty-year-olds were sliding down a 150-foot-long waterslide we had set up on the side of the hill, which ended in a giant pool of water in the apple orchard.

      With the smell of hamburgers and hot dogs in the air, this was the perfect day—food, fun, and family.

      And then the unthinkable happened.

      As I was walking by the pavilion toward the swimming pool, I had this pain and pulsating feeling going down my left arm, from my heart to the tip of my middle finger. Could this be real? Was I actually having a heart attack? But I was only in my fifties then!

      After a day in the hospital and an angiogram, echocardiogram, and numerous other tests; I, it was determined, had not had a heart attack. Instead, the fast-paced lifestyle of the previous twenty years of my being a CEO was catching up with me.

      As I started to modify my work schedule, travel schedule, etc., I fully realized that without health to enjoy life, simply having lots of money was not going to provide a great quality of life; health is critical.

      Time. A colleague of mine has been a doctor for many years. As a surgeon, he earns quite a lot of money. One day, he asked me how I could take so much time off work to travel and participate in so many non-work-related activities like boating, gardening, traveling, doing service, attending college games, etc. He then proceeded to tell me that he was on call every other weekend, and if he was not in the operating room, he was not earning any money.

      What good is lots of money if you cannot spend it doing the things you want to do because there is no time? Is all your time tied to your job? Is all your income tied to your job? Is all your life completely tied to your job? If so, it’s time you take control of your time.

      Money. If you had lots of money, how would you use it? Would you buy lots of toys, save it all for a rainy day, pay off your mortgage, or buy tickets to the Lakers game? The options are limitless, so it is important to determine your goals, needs, and wants. Once you have a money road map, then it becomes easier to plan and take action.

      Real estate investing is an amazing vehicle for you to accomplish your goals. Did you know that as of 2019, about 90 percent of millionaires had become millionaires by investing in real estate, and 10 percent of billionaires?

      You can do it! Yes, even average, you can do it. Let’s take the journey.

      Chapter 2

      Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

      So here we go—ten great reasons to invest in real estate.

      Passive Income vs. Active Income

      Perhaps one of the best things about earning income from rental property is that you earn money whether you go to work or not. At the first of each month, the rent money comes in, and then you can use it to pay the mortgage, save for another down payment for your next rental property, or perhaps start to pay off some old nagging bills. And there is no cap on how many rentals you can buy. The more you purchase, the more you make, especially in the long-term.

      Monthly Cash Flow

      Most rental properties these days will rent for more than the cost of the monthly mortgage if you finance the property. Thus, the excess monies you collect can be used for various things. First, I would save at least two months’ worth of rent for a rainy day. Rainy-day items can include the tenant being late on rent or the need to replace the water heater. After you have saved two months’ worth of rent (which you can probably do within six to twelve months), then the monies can be used for other purposes. Do not waste this money; use it

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