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( well, Luna's partial to cookie investing but) 3:)
I think reasons 1 & 2 more agents don't invest is because many agents can't do the math to figure out if a deal makes sense, and many agents are not operating profitably enough to have $$ to invest.

60% of agents do not make a profit in real estate.

20% of agents make a profit and have figured a few things out and earn enough to simply stay in business.

10% of agents make a profit of sufficient size to save some for the future.

10% of agents make a profit of sufficient size that were they to go out of business tomorrow, someone would notice.

Which agent would you be asking about?

Hi Tom, great job on our Podcast last month!

Most are too busy to make a living.  Does your bank lend money to 1099 commission earners?

Most agents to not have the mindset or the skills to be successful investors.

Does not compute.

most of them are in fear

Currently not in the frame of mind to deal with tenants!

UH?

It may not fit their financial goals.  Real estate is great, but it is not the end all be all.

I am.

Liquidated now when the market peaked.

I'm neither an agent nor a real estate investor.  I do own my own homd though.

I would never choose to invest in real estate due to 1) I think there are much better long term investments w/ higher return, 2) real estate can (and has been much more volatile...and I prefer to have liquid assets...so I can get to them when I want to/need to, 3) real estate investing is not passive and takes a lot of work to do it right...and I'd rather invest that time into something that I'm better at and will have higher return...so that I have more savings to reinvest. 4) I don't want the headache.  And, yes, I have seen lots of it from customers.

To each his or her own.  I leverage my strengths (and my MBA).

Same goes for all professions its for the ones it beckons & they who answer

I've often voiced my opinion that this is the only business where "insider trading" is legal.  We are pretty diversified, but have a few rentals that we picked up for cash and fixed up.  Definitely wouldn't want all my eggs in one basket, but I do enjoy the rental property.

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I have invested in real estate for over 50 years.

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at one point, I owned 23 units.... I was... and now I've sold off everything except the home I live in and one single family that I use ONLY for family....

Not my choice of investment... not liquid enough.

Real estate is one of the best investments out there!

I don't want to compete with my clients.

Tom Cafarella - it's just not my passion - as yet!

On the fix/flip side we make more money on commissions in the time and financial investment it takes to do those.  On the rental side, we have had rentals and we sold them last year.  We will buy more in the future, but not now. -Kasey

I'm a big beliver in diversification in investments and yes, am a real estate agent-investor.

I am and thankful that I have been able to do so

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I can say i list, i sell, i buy, i fix and i sell. I like renovating 1 a house a time right now. There was a time i did 4 and 5 but that is too stressfull. I can make more doing 1 then when i was doing 4. 

To be honest Tom Cafarella, my wife is dead set against it.

Wayne Martin nailed this one!