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This article is for trust deed investing newbies. It's the actual mechanics of investing in first trust deeds. If you are already an experienced trust deed investor, you can skip this article and ...
Short-term trust deeds are NOT the answer to successful trust deed investing. In real life, you want just the opposite, loans with a much longer term.
Don't be rubbling your hands in glee if you see a trust deed investment with a high interest rate. The best first trust deed investments have a low yield.
Let me be very clear. You can easily lose money in first trust deeds, especially if you make stupid decisions during a bad recession.
Please don't get freaked out when I constantly talk about surviving real estate market crashes and dealing with foreclosures in this blog. Assuming you are investing in reasonable, lower-yielding, ...
The year was 2009. Commercial real estate had just fallen by 45%. Banks were failing by the hundreds, and the unemployment rate was sky high. Investors and borrowers were terrified. If there was ever ...
If investing in first trust deeds was as easy as picking a few high-yielding first mortgages, everyone would be rich. Succeeding in first trust deeds is unfortunately not that easy.