The focus for investors in the real estate market needs to be on cash flow, as opposed to building net worth. The best way to move ahead in the real estate market is to design a strategy that will ensure that each property in which you invest generates positive cash flow once the mortgage is paid and the insurance is paid on all of your structures.
In recent years, investors in the real estate market are more focused on the number of deals that are being made and not on what the properties that they purchase can do for them in the long run. For anyone jest getting started in the real estate market, working with a strategy that puts money from rent in your pockets each and every month will realistically replace your monthly income in quite a short amount of time. When you use such criteria for buying investment properties, you will find that it becomes easier to handle real estate agents once they gain the understanding that you will purchase any properties that fit your criteria.
The Importance of Strategy
The best personal investment strategy is to ensure that you always get a specific amount of money back from every deal, either immediately or by remortgaging the property. This will provide you with unlimited growth because each deal adds to your money income as well as to your capital. Any investor coming into the real estate market should use similar criteria and maintain it strictly. Many investors who attempt dealings outside of such a strategy often end up with feelings of regret because it would be so simple for them to be making considerably more money.
Real estate investors who purchased twenty or thirty properties within the past couple of years work to establish a positive cash flow, as opposed to hoping that the next real estate deal will bring forth a large lump sum to fill their pockets without worrying about the shortfalls of rental properties. Many, many deals are available, so there is no excuse not to purchase within your investment criteria.

Hi Sean,
I like the strategy on ensuring that you get money back on each and every deal. I’d want to know exactly how much money I want or need to get out of the deal before I buy the property. I think that would have to be part of your purchasing criteria.
Thanks for underlining the importance of having an investment criteria.
Great points here Sean, finding properties that meet your investment criteria does take time, which alot of people are ‘to busy’ to do.
Just so you know, there is a typo in the second paragraph