By Vena Jones-Cox 

Ask any really successful real estate entrepreneur what resource has made them the most money, and if they’re answering truthfully, they’re going to say, “The people I’ve met.” In fact, if you’re not making it a priority to spend time creating, growing, and nurturing your network of colleagues and financial friends, you’re…

By Vena Jones-Cox

Lordy, people, there are SO many ways to put together real estate deals. SURELY there’s one out there that you’ll like/understand/benefit from. If you don’t like full-on wholesaling—maybe because ugly houses repel you, or some of the areas that work well aren’t neighborhoods in which you want to spend time, or you…

with Vena Jones-Cox

On our July 9th episode of Real Life Real Estate Investing, we opened the lines for one of our favorite formats—Q&A Day. Vena tackled your real-world questions about buying, selling, renting, financing, managing, and more. If you missed it live, don’t worry—the answers are just a click away. Listen to the recording…

By Amanda Neely, CFP®, President of Wealth Wisdom Financial

A real estate investor—we’ll call her Maria—spent 20 years building a $3 million portfolio. She did everything right on paper: maximized depreciation, tracked every expense, and executed 1031 exchanges like a pro. But when sudden health issues forced her to sell everything, she got slammed with…

By Vena Jones-Cox

You got into this business for freedom, right? Money freedom , yes. But also time freedom, and life-on-your-terms freedom. But here’s a truth a lot of us don’t realize early enough—and it handicaps us: Independence isn’t…Independent At every stage of this country’s history, it’s been groups of people, acting together, that have…

By David Richter

“What in the world? Where is all of my money?! I just had over $100,000 in my bank account yesterday, and now I’m down to $1.50.” If I had a nickel for every time I heard a real estate investor say something to that effect, I’d have several dollars and could buy…