Opportunity for non-profits in Los Angeles to acquire vacant or abandoned commercial properties in Los Angeles County. Reach out to me for more information! www.lyonideas.com/call FIRST TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: APRIL 24 The application to become eligible as a Qualifying Acquisition Entity (QAE) will open on this date as well. APPLICATIONS DUE: MAY 20 The CAF program…
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Y’all. It happened. I just bought my first apartment building! It was my goal last year to start investing in commercial real estate (5+ units). I ended up doing a few more single family and duplex projects in 2020 instead. I really, really wanted to invest locally, in Los Angeles — a city I love — but…
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Just Closed! I started buying investment properties a few years ago when I was still an educator… and before I even owned a home myself! For me it was important to invest my savings in assets that produced actual *income* (not just gambling that stock prices would go up). This is part of my path…
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Renting out your house or investment property can be an excellent source of passive income. Once you start earning income is when your home finally becomes an asset! However, you want to make sure your investment is well-protected, and that you’re not fixing toilets all the time. One way to do this is to work…
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Over the past couple years I became interested in housing, and how to re-think the traditional “get a J.O.B., buy a house, work til you die to pay off the mortgage” narrative for my life. Maybe many of us are questioning that too, given the current state of the world? As an educator, I also…
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I had a great conversation with Julie Holly from Three Keys Investments where I shared some of the bumps in the road in my first year of real estate investing. I met Julie at the Rod Khleif Multi-Family event in Los Angeles in early 2020, and we hit it off immediately when we found out…
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The last year brought with it a big change for me – I closed a chapter of 10+ years as an educator working in schools and non-profits in order to begin working in real estate and affordable housing construction. In that time I became a licensed real estate agent, and earned a certificate in Construction…
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