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Bias, patience, hype and perspective, the habits that separate steady investors from busy ones.
Investor Mindset
BiggerPockets is the largest real estate investing community online, but its value as a resource depends entirely on knowing what it does well and where its limitations lie. Here's my honest take.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
Investor Mindset
The most successful real estate investors I know aren't the flashiest, they're the most consistent. Here's why boring works, and how to embrace it.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
Investor Mindset
A financial planner's honest letter to his daughter, and any young person starting out, about credit cards, debt, and the habits that either build wealth or quietly undermine it.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
Investor Mindset
The question "is this a good time to buy a rental property?" shows up in every market cycle. Here's the framework I use to answer it, and why the answer almost never depends on what the market is doing.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
Investor Mindset
The investors who consistently succeed in real estate share one trait: they stopped trying to time the market and started focusing on their own decision framework. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
Investor Mindset
Confirmation bias is one of the most expensive mistakes real estate investors make. Here's how it shows up, and how to structure your analysis to counteract it.
Rich Arzaga, CFP®, CCIM
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