As the editor of a free real estate investing newsletter, it’s no wonder that I receive a lot of requests from both beginner and experienced real estate investors on where to go on the web for free information on real estate investing. While researching on the internet, visiting real estate forums, and reading articles written by experts can be a great use of your time, I’ve gotten tons of value over the years subscribing to a number of free real estate investing newsletters.
There’s a lot of junk out there though, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Here’s the first key for me: finding just a couple sources that bring you solid information you can trust. Here’s the second key for me: kill the interruption addiction of email by using time-blocking and maybe even email filtering so that you read and study the emailed materials you receive only at specific times you’ve set aside.
Before you do ANYTHING ELSE, it’s important that you create a special folder to store the landslide of free information on real estate investing and real estate investing tips you’re about to receive. Open a new folder in your email program and title it: ‘!Real Estate Investing Newsletters’.
(Special tip: Make sure to put ‘!’ before the ‘R’ so it’s at the top of your folder list—where it belongs!)
This way, once all the free information on real estate investing begins to flow into your email inbox you can sort it and access it later and more importantly find it when you need to apply it! If you use Gmail or Outlook you can even set up ‘filters’ or ‘rules’ in your email program so that when messages come in from specific senders you can count on your email program accessing that message, labeling it or putting it into a folder for easy retrieval, and then archiving it out of your sight. That way, you’re not interrupted when it comes in, and can read it – and the many messages from the same sender you receive and those from similar senders you’ve tagged in your email program– later at a time you have set aside for your studying and staying abreast of the market.
If you’re anything like the millions of people each day trying to find these answers you’ve likely searched – in frustration– quite some time to find powerful strategies to help you and your family get to the next level financially…and I understand if you’re unhappy with the ‘solutions’ that you’ve discovered thus far.
If so, you’re part of a large and growing group of people who are looking for answers to very common financial challenges. They say…“I’m looking to retire faster, easier, and with more income…”“I’m looking to take control of my financial future…”“I’m looking to save money for a new home or child’s future education…”“I’m looking to leverage my existing assets to create more passive income…”“I’m looking to get better returns on my investments by investing in real estate…”“I’m looking to build wealth for my family, as hands-off as possible…”
Do you, too, ask these questions of yourself? The truth is…How we spend our time directly affects our quality of living. I want to encourage you to do something extremely important: invest time to read the best free real estate investing newsletters out there. You CAN find free information on real estate investing! Here’s how you find the best free real estate investing newsletters to subscribe to, so that your valuable time isn’t wasted, and you can get the information you need. Go to your favorite search engine right now and search for “free real estate investing newsletter”. You’ll find quite a few results! As of writing this article, there were 134,000,000 results just from Google alone.
Here’s a few tips to help you sift through a lot of the stuff that won’t help you, is too difficult, is too costly in what they recommend, or is too commercialized (i.e. they’re only trying to sell you). Look for free real estate investing newsletters that:
1. Key in on specific techniques or areas of real estate you’re most interested in (i.e. commercial real estate, beginning real estate investing, foreclosure real estate investing, etc)
2. Give case studies of specific successes and how you can duplicate them (look for their archives, or their blog where archived email alerts, newsletters or lessons sent out to subscribers often end up later)
3. Connect you not only with the provider of the newsletter but also other readers (networking is a powerful tool in real estate investing)
4. Is produced by someone that sells something but doesn’t require you to buy it (if you live in a capitalist system you understand that you often get the most value from something that is free when the people providing it have something they sell for you to look at in exchange)
5. Offer differing perspectives and articles from different experts and students both (while I’ve learned a lot from free real estate investing newsletters produced by one-man bands, there’s often a limit to what one person can teach you!)
6. Are connected to a website with additional resources or offline resources besides the newsletterOnce you subscribe to a few free real estate investing newsletters, you’ll find out pretty quickly which ones are for you, and which ones aren’t. I sincerely believe that the more you read the best free real estate investing newsletters out there, and the more you apply what you learn from this great source of free information on real estate investing, the more you’ll begin to see the answers to your financial questions and realize the accomplishment of your investment goals. And the more you and your family will be prepared to create the life and the lifestyle you deserve with this wonderful vehicle we call real estate investment.
