How to Become a Private Real Estate Investor
Understanding Off-Market Real Estate Opportunities
You don't have to become a landlord, flip houses, or quit your career to participate in real estate. But you do need to understand how private real estate investing works, where opportunities come from, how returns may be generated, and, most importantly, what can go wrong.
That's the book. Real stories from the courthouse steps and the crack house and the ridge, the anatomy of a deal, how investors get paid, how to protect the downside, and the ten questions to ask before you ever write a check.
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The outline
Becoming the investor
- You don't have to swing the hammer
- Make your money work
- Character before capital
Finding the opportunity
- Why off-market?
- Relationships find deals
- The courthouse steps
Understanding the deal
- Buy right: the anatomy of a deal
- How private investors get paid
- Protect the downside
Becoming a smarter private investor
- When things go wrong
- 10 questions before you invest
- Build your private investor plan
The Invested Life
- More than money
- Why I built the DanCan Private Investor Network
The opening page
"Real people. Real properties. Real opportunities."
And the closing line: "Don't invest with me because you read my book. If what you've read makes sense to you, let's have a conversation."
Chapter 11 already exists as the free Top 10 Questions guide. The rest is being written from the stories Dan has told on The Invested Life.
Questions before promises.
Understand it before you invest in it.
Start with the ten questions every prospective private investor should be able to answer. Then, if it makes sense, let's have a conversation.
No pressure. No sales pitch. Education first.