Kevin Guz
Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment
An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment
An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
With So Many Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate Investing, Where Do You Start? Very early on, starting out as a part-time real estate investor, I recognized the enormous challenges in the vast ocean of real estate but also the numerous opportunities that exist. It can become overwhelming, and almost ...
I Want to Invest in Real Estate, But Now What?
“OK, I know I want to invest in real estate—but now what?” That’s a question that every real estate investor—whether full-time, part-time or just thinking about it—has asked himself or herself at some point. And that leads to a whole bunch of other questions, including: What do you do? Where ...
I Want to Invest in Real Estate, But Now What?
“OK, I know I want to invest in real estate—but now what?” That’s a question that every real estate investor—whether full-time, part-time or just thinking about it—has asked himself or herself at some point. And that leads to a whole bunch of other questions, including: What do you do? Where ...
Bad Deals Come From Bad Decisions, and We All Make Them
If you have never experienced a bad deal, consider yourself very, very lucky. But luck can hold out only so long, and unfortunately most of us do fall victim to a bad deal—the result of our bad decisions. I have experienced this myself, and I painfully share my insights with ...
How to Tell a Good Rental Investment from a Bad One
When you look at a residential property, how can you tell if it will be a source of recurring income and make a worthwhile investment for you? There are some techniques that can help you do that, but when I was first starting out as a part-time real estate investor—as ...
Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own Terms
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments
Should you focus your attention on big deals or smaller ones? This is a question that applies not only to part-time real estate investors, but full-time investors as well. Let’s take a look at how you can determine which one is best for your circumstances. To provide some perspective, I’d ...
The Habits of Highly Successful Investors: Responders versus Reactors
There are definite habits and traits that separate part-time and beginning real estate investors who are successful from those who are not. There are so many, in fact, that we won’t be able to cover them all in one blog post. But I want to start that discussion now, focusing ...
Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business
Here it is, mid-March of 2016, and right around the corner is next month’s NFL draft. You have owners, coaches and managers working diligently and strategically to pick their team members for the upcoming fall football season. The level of intensity and effort and diligence that they use is no ...
Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business
Here it is, mid-March of 2016, and right around the corner is next month’s NFL draft. You have owners, coaches and managers working diligently and strategically to pick their team members for the upcoming fall football season. The level of intensity and effort and diligence that they use is ...
Are You Making Good Offers But Not Getting the Deals?
An often-heard concern from beginning or part-time real estate investors is: “I am making great offers, so why am I not getting the deals?” In answering that, let me start with a quote from the late motivational speaker Zig Ziglar that I find to be so true and that has ...
Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments
Should you focus your attention on big deals or smaller ones? This is a question that applies not only to part-time real estate investors, but full-time investors as well. Let’s take a look at how you can determine which one is best for your circumstances. To provide some perspective, I’d ...
Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby, So Treat it Like One
As you hear so often—and you’ve heard it from me, too—in order to be successful in real estate investing, you have to treat it as a business. But what exactly does that mean? From my experience as a real estate investor and a HomeVestors franchisee in Dallas, I’ll share some ...
Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby
As you hear so often—and you’ve heard it from me, too—in order to be successful in real estate investing, you have to treat it as a business. But what exactly does that mean? From my experience as a real estate investor and a HomeVestors franchisee in Dallas, I’ll share some ...
What’s So Exciting About Investing in Residential Real Estate? Let Me Tell You!
What is it about investing in residential real estate that is so exciting to so many people? I think most people, whether they are interested in real estate or not, would probably agree there is a tremendous amount of energy, enthusiasm, even hype, right now around residential real estate ...
Are You Stuck? Try ‘Wholetailing’ to Jumpstart Your Investing in 2016
Here it is the first weekend in February already, and if you are a new or part-time investor, you may been hit with the realization that, “Hey, I have already lost a month of this year.” And those months will continue to fly by, as we all know they do ...
Do You Want to be Rich or Do You Want to be Wealthy?
There is a profound difference between being rich and being wealthy, and there are differences—plural—with regard to part-time real estate investing. And it is not merely a semantic difference. So let me ask you: Do you want to be rich or do you want to be wealthy? Well, I’ll tell ...
Locking Down Real Estate Investment Success in 2016
One of my favorite parts of real estate investing involves the planning. How, at the beginning of a new year, can you “lock down” what it will take to ensure you meet your goals for the year? At the same time, I should acknowledge that most people consider this—planning around ...
Real Estate Investing in 2016: Not Easy, But Definitely Worth It.
I have spent a lot of time over the past several weeks reflecting on my business in 2015, as many of the rest of you probably have, regardless of your profession, or whether you’re an investor or not. The end of the year is always a great time for me ...
7 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Buying Your First Rental Property
When I was still in the corporate world and just beginning my career as a part-time real estate investor, I started by purchasing a single rental property. It was a very simple, low-risk approach. Like many would-be investors, I was fearful of taking that first step – buying that first ...
Real Estate Investing in 2016: Simple, Straightforward Keys for Success
As each year draws to a close—even as early as October or November—my focus turns more and more to evaluating my performance that year as a full-time real estate investor and planning how to improve the next year. It’s always enlightening to look back at the goals you started with ...
Don’t Go It Alone As a Part-Time Real Estate Investor
Many people get excited about the opportunity to get out on their own and do their own thing as a part-time real estate investor in addition to their full-time career. There’s something very attractive about the idea of being on your own, even on a part-time basis, and that may ...
