One of the coaches for our local Mastermind coaching groups, wrote the following article on the value of depreciating your properties.  Depreciation gives you HUGE tax advantages which is a large income stream that not everyone considers when they’re contemplating becoming a landlord.

As I said in Steps for Starting a Career in Real Estate Investing, an important part of creating any business is to emulate someone not only doing what you want to do, but doing it successfully.  Do you have someone to follow who does what you want to do and does it successfully?

So you’re thinking about investing in real estate.  The first question I, and everyone else you run into, will ask is, “why do you want to invest in real estate?”