Real Estate Investments

If you’re considering starting a new career as a real estate agent, you’re probably wondering, “How much do real estate agents make?”

However, before you begin ordering business cards, you first need to consider a couple of factors.

For instance, being a real estate agent is a commission-based job, which means there is potential to make serious earned income. On the other hand, your success is a function of your efforts. In other words, you can’t show up and expect to get paid for doing nothing.

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Investing in farmland is similar to investing in real estate – you purchase property that (hopefully) appreciates in value and can collect rental income on a regular basis.

However, both real estate and farmland are more challenging to invest in compared to stocks and bonds, and that is where FarmTogether comes into play, the company we will review below.

FarmTogether is an online investment platform that makes it easier for investors to add farmland to their portfolios. They make it easy in a few ways, which we’ll dive into in this article. First, I wanted to highlight in more detail why farmland, in general, has the potential to be a good investment.

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If you are in the market to sell your home, a good real estate agent is an invaluable asset.

Agents help their clients navigate the market and find potential buyers, and in return for their time and expertise, they charge commission fees. But what exactly is covered in agent commission fees? And what can homeowners expect to receive in exchange for these costs?

Read on to gain a full understanding of what real estate commission is, how much it costs, who pays for it, and alternative routes sellers can take if they are looking to save money.

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Outside of buying physical real estate, there are generally two ways to invest in real estate:

1. Invest in publicly-traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) through a traditional brokerage account, like Charles Schwab or Vanguard
2. Invest through a real estate crowdfunding platform, like Fundrise, and get access to private market real estate deals

Below, we’ll focus on highlighting the pros and cons of the second option.

Specifically focusing on one of the leaders in the real estate crowdfunding game: Fundrise.

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One of the more popular Google searches today has to do with achieving financial freedom. Since real estate investing is often part of achieving financial freedom, it’s not uncommon for people to search for the best real estate books. I’ll give you my list in this post. 

When I turned 40, we reached a debt-free status, which felt great for about….two weeks. As a periodontist, my life has been centered around setting and accomplishing goals.

After getting accepted into dental school then a residency, the next goal was starting a practice then eventually paying off student loan debt and our home.

So when I hit 40, I asked myself, “Hey self, what’s next?” At that time, we had only ONE income source coming in, and that was from the practice.

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