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Originally Posted by fuzebox
Will a lot of what you said seems to apply more to real estate as an active involvement business, but not as a long term passive investment...
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not sure i follow, exactly.
If you talking about long term real-estate as far as rentals? it can be "passive" from a time standpoint, you could hire a handy man and/or prop manager to deal with everything so you don't have to be hands on. But you still have all the other risks, vacancy rate, cost for repairs, uncollected rent, etc etc... And now you have more costs because you have to pay someone to do that work, so your "deal" has to be that much better so it can at least pay for the mortgage muchless make you a profit.
Please explain what you thinking about as long term passive investment when it comes to real-estate. I don't know what else would be "long term" unless you were renting it. Building, fliping, etc.. are all short term. You wouldn't buy something and let it sit and do nothing with it for many years then sell it. The only long term passive real-estate investment I can think of is buying your own home.