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Marden Real Estate was named after my daughter Marisa and my son Brayden. Building this website was something I always wanted to do since I enjoy real estate investing. You could say I was literally born in a family that believed in the power of real estate.
I am not independently wealthy. Far from it. I have a 9-5 job and battling the "rat race" like most others. Real estate is my passion which makes it a perfect hobby. I have 4 real estate investments: Edmonton (Canada), Saskatchewan (Canada), Clermont (Florida-USA) and one more in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I am in the process of selling some of these investments and looking to reinvest in other growth areas. I hope you find some of my insights helpful. I will be posting most of my progress weekly as I narrow down the right investment (see my current project link). I am also curious to find out the new location for Amazon's new headquarters. The impact it has had on Seattle's real estate market has been significant. If that can be duplicated in another market a lot of real estate investors will do very well. Amazon plans on announcing the city in 2018. Can't wait!
Owner and Website Creator
Jason Dukhi MBA, CPA
I am not independently wealthy. Far from it. I have a 9-5 job and battling the "rat race" like most others. Real estate is my passion which makes it a perfect hobby. I have 4 real estate investments: Edmonton (Canada), Saskatchewan (Canada), Clermont (Florida-USA) and one more in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I am in the process of selling some of these investments and looking to reinvest in other growth areas. I hope you find some of my insights helpful. I will be posting most of my progress weekly as I narrow down the right investment (see my current project link). I am also curious to find out the new location for Amazon's new headquarters. The impact it has had on Seattle's real estate market has been significant. If that can be duplicated in another market a lot of real estate investors will do very well. Amazon plans on announcing the city in 2018. Can't wait!
Owner and Website Creator
Jason Dukhi MBA, CPA
The Power of Knowledge
I wanted to share the wisdom and knowledge that I have learned over the years from experience, education and, yes by my very own mistakes. What I am about to share with you is widely known but I have taken the best I have learned over the years and tried to put it into an easy to understand systematic approach to invest in real estate. I do this not because I want to sell an idea or think my pragmatic approach is revolutionary but more because I hope you can take at least one thought or one idea that you can use in your own personal journey. I am not wealthy but I think I have done well with my real estate investments. I hope you can too!
I wanted to share the wisdom and knowledge that I have learned over the years from experience, education and, yes by my very own mistakes. What I am about to share with you is widely known but I have taken the best I have learned over the years and tried to put it into an easy to understand systematic approach to invest in real estate. I do this not because I want to sell an idea or think my pragmatic approach is revolutionary but more because I hope you can take at least one thought or one idea that you can use in your own personal journey. I am not wealthy but I think I have done well with my real estate investments. I hope you can too!
The Power of Real Estate
I will not get into the long-standing debate of whether investing in stocks or real estate is the best way to grow your money. I think that is personal decision. Some people are very knowledgeable about stocks and they feel comfortable with growing their wealth in that arena. Keep doing it, if you are passionate and knowledgeable in that area you should harness and leverage your passion and expertise.
Stocks vs Real Estate
I personally like real estate because it’s tangible, and in some ways, you have control over your investment where as in stocks you give control up to the management of the organization. Let me ask you this, do you think you are investing in a product or service or the leadership team of an organization? I can list you hundreds of organizations that have a meaningful product and service that ultimately fail. Competition gets stiffer, price wars happen, industry consolidation, changing consumer preferences all serve as obstacles that faces leadership teams around the world. Very few evolve to meet these challenges. Out of the fortune 500 companies, only 12% remain from a list that existed 60 years ago.
How can you increase your value over night?
Unless you have insider information, increasing the value of one particular stock you hold in your portfolio is outside of your control. You could buy more stock, but assuming you are not Warren Buffet, this does not do much to the share price. Simply put, if you invested another $10,000 into one stock your value doesn’t go up. In fact, after brokerage fees you might even be down. If your stock is valued at $10 per share and you invest in 100 more shares, all things being equal, your stock will still be valued at $10 per share.
Assume you instead invested $10,000 into new countertops in a house, painted the house, updated the bathrooms, added new fixtures, all these things would help grow the value of your home or increase the rent you could command for your home.
Worried that you are over-paying for an investment property, well if you put in an offer contingent on obtaining financing, you are protected. Why, because your financial institution will use a 3rd party to appraise your home. Simply put, if you paid more for your house than what it is worth your bank will tell you and you can simply pull out of the deal. You simply don’t have that luxury when buying stocks. Why, because the banks will probably not loan you money at the same rates as real estate? Even the banks know real estate investment is a safer investment.
I will not get into the long-standing debate of whether investing in stocks or real estate is the best way to grow your money. I think that is personal decision. Some people are very knowledgeable about stocks and they feel comfortable with growing their wealth in that arena. Keep doing it, if you are passionate and knowledgeable in that area you should harness and leverage your passion and expertise.
Stocks vs Real Estate
I personally like real estate because it’s tangible, and in some ways, you have control over your investment where as in stocks you give control up to the management of the organization. Let me ask you this, do you think you are investing in a product or service or the leadership team of an organization? I can list you hundreds of organizations that have a meaningful product and service that ultimately fail. Competition gets stiffer, price wars happen, industry consolidation, changing consumer preferences all serve as obstacles that faces leadership teams around the world. Very few evolve to meet these challenges. Out of the fortune 500 companies, only 12% remain from a list that existed 60 years ago.
How can you increase your value over night?
Unless you have insider information, increasing the value of one particular stock you hold in your portfolio is outside of your control. You could buy more stock, but assuming you are not Warren Buffet, this does not do much to the share price. Simply put, if you invested another $10,000 into one stock your value doesn’t go up. In fact, after brokerage fees you might even be down. If your stock is valued at $10 per share and you invest in 100 more shares, all things being equal, your stock will still be valued at $10 per share.
Assume you instead invested $10,000 into new countertops in a house, painted the house, updated the bathrooms, added new fixtures, all these things would help grow the value of your home or increase the rent you could command for your home.
Worried that you are over-paying for an investment property, well if you put in an offer contingent on obtaining financing, you are protected. Why, because your financial institution will use a 3rd party to appraise your home. Simply put, if you paid more for your house than what it is worth your bank will tell you and you can simply pull out of the deal. You simply don’t have that luxury when buying stocks. Why, because the banks will probably not loan you money at the same rates as real estate? Even the banks know real estate investment is a safer investment.
