Look into many personal finance magazines lately and you’ll find a plethora of articles by a certain St. Louis author about safely protecting your wealth through residential real estate. And hitting newsstands now is the December issue of Success, where this long-time real estate investor turned bestselling author and now up-and-coming speaker writes in the Wealth column about her favorite investment for the past 20 years, residential real estate.
With so many distressed properties flooding the market, it’s been the standard of late in the real estate industry, and in a significant part of most infomercial guru strategies, to teach bargain shopping and flipping for a quick profit.
But … these methods are not the advice of this long-time real estate investor.
An owner of over 26 residential units, among which no property houses over 4 families, she teaches in the Success article to find real estate that cash flows from day one and then advises holding on for the long term. Seek out properties in safe communities with growing popularity, infrastructure investment and proximity to jobs, universities and employers.
Bestselling Personal Finance author Marian Snow (http://www.MarianSnow.com) also penned the number-one nationwide bestselling book, Stop Sitting on Your Assets, and has since enjoyed a steadily increasing demand for her speaking appearances. In just the last six months, her engagements have spanned from San Diego, Las Vegas and Seattle across the country to Orlando and Virginia Beach.
Snow, a veteran of the lending industry and a scientist by education, has been strategically investing in residential real estate in this manner for years, first in Chicago and now in St. Louis and Kansas City.
She states, “In this tumultuous time, most Americans need an alternative to the stock market. And residential real estate — done the right way — is that alternative.”
The topics most requested for her speaking engagements remain “The Amazing Retirement Machine: Locating Hot Properties Now that Transform into ATMs for Your Retirement” and “How to Own Real Estate Using Your IRA.”