5 Ways to Invest in Real Estate
If you’ve ever had a landlord, you probably don’t dream of being one: Fielding calls about oversize bugs and overflowing toilets doesn ’t seem like the most glamorous job. But done right, real estate investment can be lucrative, if not flashy. It can help diversify your existing investment portfolio and be an additional income stream . And it doesn’t always require showing up at a tenant’s every beck and call. The trouble is that many new investors don’t know where or how to invest in real estate. So here are five options, ranging from high maintenance to low. 1. Invest in rental properties Tiffany Alexy didn’t intend to become a real estate investor when she bought her first rental property at age 21. Then a college senior in Raleigh, North Carolina, she planned to attend grad school locally and figured buying would be better than renting. “I went on Craigslist and found a four-bedroom, four-bathroom condo that was set up student-housing style. I bought it, lived in one bedroom a...