Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Set Yourself Up with Passive Income for Retirement


Set Yourself Up with Passive Income For Retirement!

Many Americans aren’t going to end up with money to retire on. These days, it’s a sad fact. Instead of complaining about that reality (and the injustice of it all) the best action someone who wants to retire can do is simply make sure they aren’t the average American. They need to take steps to make sure they will have the income to enjoy their retirement and be able to pay their bills, including their ever-increasing medical-bills.
The most effective way to avoid being one of these Americans who wind up working at some remedial job through their retirement, based on the opinion of Robert Kiyosoki, author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series, is to invest in real estate.
Buying investment property is an excellent way for people to prepare for our retirement because it supplies a great benefit called “passive income”. After someone has done the preliminary work, passive income keeps coming in without a lot of effort. A typical worker gets paid only for the time he puts in.
real estateA real estate investor, after developing her system, makes money for keeping it running. And keeping it running, if she been very clever about it, will involve paying his employees to do the job of checking up on them every now and then.
A best thing about passive income (such as from investment properties) is, the more time the investor keeps them, the more ROI they should make for him/her, with less and less effort on the investor’s part. It’s the nearest thing to magic we will ever find in the world of finances.
It sounds attractive, but one should never simply take the plunge without looking first. Although it is all very learnable, there’s quite a bit to learn when you are thinking about real estate investing – things like comprehending economics and the laws related to real estate.
The most important concept to understand, however, is one’s own personal limitations. The person who knows where to locate the information she wants is much better off than the person who remembers tons of facts and formulas around in his/her memory.
In the book “Cash Flow Quadrant,” Robert Kiyosaki teaches newbie investors to raise their income as well as their knowledge. Mr. Kiyosaki writes of creating a business system that will set up and left alone, freeing up the owner to move on to the next deal instead of spending all his/her time babysitting his/her business. The next step is to continue that real estate education and start to look around for specialists to employ and property to acquire.
Robert Kiyosaki also refers to this change as moving from one part of the cash-flow-quadrant to the next. He emphasizes that, the 1st step someone needs to take toward transforming his or her life is changing the thinking process. If a person changes the way he thinks about money, then he will wind up in a much better position to change his relationship with it.
The way people think determines the actions they take throughout the day, and those actions determine the level of their success. The main value of studying books like Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series – brings you closer to a new paradigm about things. When investors see how easily it is to establish new skills and acquire better knowledge, they are virtually impossible to stop.
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Monday, March 9, 2015

Thinking of Becoming a Vacation Home Owner?

Thinking of Becoming A Vacation Home Owner?

The Dollars And Sense Of Buying A Vacation Home


VACATION HOME SALE
With Old Man Winter on a rampage this year, it’s no wonder Tad Reeve, 56, and his wife Maria, 47, of St. Paul, Minn., recently headed to Captiva Island, Fla. for some fun in the sun. But this trip involved more than strolling on the beach looking for sand dollars. The couple was also looking at the possibility of buying a vacation home.

“Winters in St. Paul are tough. We always liked the idea of having a place of our own to escape to each year,” Tad says.

The hardy Reeves are hardly alone. Americans bought 717,000 vacation homes in 2013, according to the National Association of Realtors; that’s the most recent data available.
“In the last several years, I’ve seen a 25 percent increase in the number of clients looking to buy vacation homes, ” says Steve Goddard, a Realtor with ReMax Estate Properties in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Goddard attributes the trend, in part, to a stronger housing market and historically low interest rates.

If you’re considering taking the plunge, take time to figure out what a vacation home purchase would really cost you. Otherwise, you may find that owning one is no holiday.
Expect Stricter Mortgage Requirements

More than 60 percent of vacation-home buyers carry a mortgage (current national average rate: 3.5 percent on a 30-year fixed-rate loan). If you plan to get one, be prepared for more scrutiny from lenders than on primary residences.
“These loans tend to have higher credit requirements because people are taking on large amounts of additional debt,” says David Gorman, Regional Sales Executive for Bank of America. “Traditionally, they are more likely to pay the mortgage on their primary homes if they run into financial issues.”

Those higher credit requirements come primarily in the form of higher down payments. Expect to put down at least 10 percent on a vacation home (compared to a 5 percent minimum, or even no down payment, for a primary residence). You may want to put down 20 percent or more, if you can, to avoid paying private mortgage insurance (PMI), which usually runs between 1/2 and 1 percent of the loan amount on an annual basis.

You’ll qualify for the best mortgage rate if your credit score is over 700. Otherwise, you could pay a rate that’s about one percent or more higher.
Know the Cost of Insurance

You’ll, of course, need homeowner’s insurance and you may have to buy flood or earthquake insurance (that costs $650 and $800 per year, on average, respectively).
According to the Insurance Information Institute, if you plan to use your vacation home exclusively for yourself, insuring it may be as simple as extending the policy you already have on your primary residence.
If you’ll be renting it out, though, you’ll need to buy a separate rental dwelling policy; that costs about 25 percent more than your primary home’s policy. Most rental dwelling policies reimburse for the loss of rental income if you can’t rent your place out while it’s being repaired due to damage from a covered loss.

Property Management 

Since owning a vacation home means you won’t be there all the time, you may need to hire someone to take care of it during your absences — or when you’re in between guests, if you rent it out.

For townhouses or condominiums, you homeowner’s association dues will handle outside maintenance. No such luck for single-family homes. Regardless, the inside is your responsibility.

If you’ll hire a property management company, figure on spending about $75 a month, not including the cost of repairs. This firm can also help you find renters if you want; expect to pay upwards of 30 percent or more on the daily rent you take in.
Understand Tax Implications

Be sure you’re familiar with the vacation home tax rules, too, before making a purchase. The property will still qualify for the mortgage interest deduction, assuming the combined mortgages on both your homes don’t exceed $1.1 million. And property taxes are fully deductible.

Things get trickier, taxwise, when you use the vacation home as a rental property. “If you rent out your vacation home for more than 14 days a year, you will have to report rental income,” says Jared Callister, a tax attorney in Fresno, Calif. “But you will also be able to deduct rental expenses, like repairs and depreciation.”

What you can deduct depends on how much you use the place personally versus renting it out. Also, most states expect you to pay sales taxes on rental income.

Some cities and counties impose such taxes, too; they may go by other names, such as lodging, accommodations, hotel, bed, tourist or transient occupancy taxes. Be sure to find out whether you’d owe them so you’re not hit with a nasty surprise after you become a vacation-home owner.

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Sunday, March 8, 2015

How Much Do You Need To Make To Buy A Home In Your City

Map: The salary you need to buy a home in 27 U.S. cities

This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site. 
Here’s definitive proof that San Francisco’s real estate market is insane. HSH.com, a mortgage research site, has estimated how much salary you need to earn to afford the principal, interest, taxes and insurance payments on a median-priced home in 27 metro areas. 

The figures draw on the National Association of Realtors’ fourth-quarter data for median-home prices and HSH.com’s fourth-quarter average interest rate for 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages. You can read more about the methodology and see the site's data here
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