Adrian has pointed us to a brilliant set of 4 videos explaining how people who get into Real Estate investing on their journey to wealth can end up confused and asking: "Where's the money gone?"
See the first video inset into his webpage at:
http://7million7years.com/2008/12/14/a-journey-with-george/
Personally I think it's worth taking the time to watch all of them in sequence, but if you're in a hurry, go straight to the third one, and take it from there.
Video 1 - The 'Great Financial Freedom' Myth that keeps millions broke
http://www.onesherpa.com/personal-finances/the-great-financial-free...
Video 2 - Are You Making These ”Money Burning” Financial Mistakes?
http://www.onesherpa.com/personal-finances/are-you-making-these-mon...
Video 3 - How George set himself free of money worries
http://www.onesherpa.com/personal-finances/how-george-set-himself-f...
Video 4 - Wheres the money gone ?
http://www.onesherpa.com/products/wtmg-christmas-special
Sadly, after watching all the videos, they don't give you a blueprint which tells you how to do Real Estate investing correctly. Nevertheless, it is useful because they do highlight the problems you may be unaware of before you get started. For most people only come to feel: "Hey there's something's wrong here!" once they're in the middle of Real estate investing.
They point out that although you seem to be rich, (for you have a car, a house, and houses to rent), because your expenditure connected to all these things is so high, you're not increasing the number of dollars you actually get to see. And actually the finance house owns 80% of your stuff anyway, so your own equity in the whole operation is rather small.
So video 2 says: "Have you gone too quickly?" Have you taken on so much debt, that generates so much expenditure in itself, that if you then add in the bills associated with the upkeep of the properties, then it's inevitable that there are very few dollars left over to actually put in your wallet.
I get the impression that the onesherpa website, and its proponent Andee Sellman in the videos, have encountered people in this fix, and are willing to give advice on how to get out of this hole.
Think you can teach yourself? Then they'll sell you a game ("Where's the money gone?") so you can come to understand where you're going wrong. With a special half-price Christmas price for the next 7 days only, on just 100 copies of the game - just $200 and it's yours! Click the link for video 4 to read more.
If that's Aussie dollars, then AUS$200 equals US$132 (or UK£89).

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