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My thoughts on the 2021 real estate market:
First, interest rates are at their historical all time lows, ever. Typically, this would bode REALLY well for a real estate investor like myself....
But, SECOND…that comes at a cost. Because interest rates have become so inexpensive, it’s driven up the price of real estate because - now - people can afford to spend just a little more than before, and there’s more demand to lock in a mortgage.
Third, speaking of demand - there’s a LOT of it. So much so, that it’s caused inventory to drop to its all time lowest level…also, in history.
That means, fourth - when you combine low interest rates, with low inventory, with high demand…you get a market that’s EXTREMELY difficult to find the type of deals that I’m looking to buy.
WHY I'M NOT BUYING REAL ESTATE:
For the last 10 years, I’ve invested nearly EVERYTHING I save into Real Estate, and for the longest time - that made up almost the ENTIRELY of my investment portfolio.
Even though it was VERY PROFITABLE…it’s NOT SMART to hold 90% of your net worth in real estate, in one city. It’s just too big of a risk that something COULD happen, without at least having SOMETHING ELSE to hedge that position. Something like this never really clicked when I was younger, because I was all about going after whatever made the most money…but, at a certain point, it becomes more important to PRESERVE your wealth, then CONTINUE growing it as fast as possible…and by diversifying AWAY from Real Estate, it’s given me a LOT more peace of mind that - no matter what happens - I’ll be good.
Next, another recent revelation that I’ve come to understand over the last year - is that value of my time. I’ve gotten to a point where I don’t have enough time in the day to get everything done. Even something like “hopping on a 30 minute call” has turned into a “I need o schedule this a few days in advance” because otherwise, everything else is booked up and I have to pull away from something else just to make the time. If I didn’t prioritize EVERYTHING this way, NOTHING would get done, and things would fall through the cracks…so, I now have a value for my time, and I ration it very precisely.
Because of that, I’m not able to spend the time I used to to be able to find the right deal, and manage the work myself.
For me, and - I think for MOST people - Real Estate is a PHENOMENAL TOOL for wealth CREATION. There’s no other investment that offers the opportunity to potentially DOUBLE your money, YEAR AFTER YEAR, through sourcing the right deals, fixing them up, and renting them out.
However, at a certain point - I need to take a step back, and realize that I’ve been TOO oriented around real estate, from a diversification standpoint, and it MAKES SENSE to take a more hands off, passive approach so that I have more time to focus on other endeavors.
My investments right now are all about lower risk, lower return, more diversification, and a safer allocation that allows it to continue to grow - but, at a slower, more consistent rate. It’s less stress, less work, less for me to think about, the more I can streamline my entire life - the better I can work on other things. .
For business or one-on-one real estate investing/real estate agent consulting inquiries, you can reach me at GrahamStephanBusiness @gmail.com
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What's up, graham, it's guys here, so you probably clicked on the video, because you saw the title and wanted to see if it was clickbait. After all, for nearly my entire adult life, i've been known as the real estate guy. It's what i did right after high school, it's how i invested almost all of my money and it's even how i started here on youtube by making real estate videos. So on the surface.

It doesn't make a lot of sense as to why the real estate guy is not buying real estate. Now i'm sure there might be some assumptions out there that i must think the real estate market is about to come crashing down or that maybe i know something that i'm choosing not to share with everybody. But i think if you just hear me out you'll understand my point of view and how this makes sense and dare i say it maybe you'll even agree with me, because this was not a spur-of-the-moment decision and i'm going to outline everything for you right here. But real quick, if there's one thing that i have not stopped doing, it's smashing the like button for the youtube algorithm.

I know this might sound trivial to even mention it, but it does help my channel out a lot. It's really easy to do and it takes you just a split second, if you're logged in in fact, i'm gon na even smash it with you right now, i'm going to my video and uh done. So. Thank you guys.

So much and we'll begin right here. First, it's no surprise that i owe pretty much everything i have right now to you guessed it real estate. When i was 18 years old, i got my real estate license right after high school and i began working as real estate agent. I saved up as much money as i could, and after a few years i then began investing my money in real estate during one of the lowest points in the market.

This was back in 2011 and 2012 when every other home on the market was a bank owned foreclosure. When very few people thought the market was going to fully recover and, coincidentally, when prices were at their rock bottom, but i sunk everything i had into buying and fixing up rental properties so that i could have a consistent, predictable income every single month. It was so much fun i loved being able to put my own personal touch on each place. I got so much personal satisfaction, taking a spot that nobody wanted and turning it into a place that someone would be happy living in and the challenge of finding a good deal was just too much for me to resist so over time.

My strategy evolved into a process of spending months, scouring the market trying to find the right home trying to find something priced under market value or a hidden diamond in the rough that i could then fix up and subsequently rent out now, usually once the property was Fixed up and rented out, it became a fairly passive investment, but there was a lot of work involved prior to that that took up a lot of time. For example, it would usually take me anywhere from six to 12 months, looking through the market, just to find one deal that actually makes sense to buy during that process. There's a lot of offers that go out a lot of them don't go through, but the one deal that goes through at the very end usually makes all the time spent on the others completely worth it. But then, after i buy the property, it's another 3 to 16 weeks worth of renovations.
Depending on how big the project is, i tried to be as actively involved in the process as i could, but that usually meant that i was going to the job site one to two times per day. I was going to and from home depot, and i was constantly haggling with contractors who would over bid and under deliver. So it was a lot to manage between that and working full-time as a real estate agent just to pay for it all. However, over the last 10 years i could absolutely unequivocally say that buying all that real estate and spending all that time doing it was 100 worth it.

During that time, i've bought and held on to eight properties they're all rented out with tenants who love living there and that income has provided me with a foundation that i could then build from. So what changed now? Well, a few things happened, but first we should look at the current climate of the real estate market. First, interest rates are at their all-time historic lows now. Typically, this would bode really well for real estate.

Investors, like myself and i'll, be honest. It has i've been able to refinance my loans to a lower interest rate to save more money. I was able to get a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 2.875 percent and at those levels long term, it's pretty much like banks are giving you free money to go and buy real estate with, but second that comes at a cost because interest rates have become so inexpensive. It's driven up the cost of real estate, because now people could afford to buy just a little bit more than they could before, and that demand is causing people to want to get mortgages now.

Third speaking of demand, there's a lot of it so much so that it's caused inventory to drop to its lowest level again in history. That means fourth, when you combine low interest rates with low inventory and high demand, you get a market, that's extremely difficult to find. The types of deals that i like to buy, i want to buy something under market value that needs work in an area that demands a premium for rents, and i want to do all of that, while getting the best bang for the buck. For my renovations, the homes that i like to buy are the ones that i am so sure of that i never have to worry about not finding a tenant or not being equity positive.

The moment i close on a deal even if that means i pass up a dozen decent deals. I've always been the type who's just patient to find that one really good one that stands out above the rest, and that, of course, brings up my first problem. One good deals are very difficult to come by. The reality is that it's not impossible to find something that makes sense to buy in today's market, but it's certainly a lot more difficult today than it was a year ago.
It takes a lot more patience. A lot more searching and a much higher cost to find something that really works, not to mention that might include buying out of state depending on where you live. I've made a few videos over the last two years. Talking about the growth of cities like phoenix, arizona, dallas, texas and atlanta georgia, and how much those cities have appreciated, and i believe today, what it often takes to get a good deal is to expand your search radius beyond just your backyard.

Now two. This is something i really haven't talked much about here in the channel, but that would be the importance of diversification. For the last 10 years, i've invested nearly everything that i've saved into real estate and for the longest time that's made up almost the entirety of my portfolio. Now sure i've also been consistently investing in the s p 500.

But for the most part, that's only been a sliver compared to what i've been throwing into real estate. For me, it just made sense to buy real estate, so i could have direct control over my money. I could force appreciation by fixing it up. I could get nearly guaranteed cash flow by renting it out and best of all, i could depreciate that house against my taxes by nearly all accounts.

I could get a higher return from my leveraged real estate investments than i could from the stock market. So my thought was may as well go for it, but after a while, as i started, earning more money and those properties started going up in value, i realized i am way too heavy into real estate relative to the rest of my portfolio, even though it was Very profitable, i don't think it's that smart to hold 90 percent of your net worth in real estate in one city. I think it's just too big of a risk that something else could happen without having a hedge against that investment. Something like this, never really clicked.

When i was younger because i just went for whatever would make me the most amount of money, but i think at a certain point, it becomes more important to try to preserve your wealth and try to grow it as fast as possible. And by diversifying away from real estate, it's given me a lot of peace of mind that, just in the event, something were to happen i'll be totally okay. Now three another revelation that i've come to understand over the last year is the value of time. Listen in my early 20s, my time was worth whatever i could get for it, like my thought, was that in the evenings, if i wasn't doing anything, i may as well help out another agent of my office for ten dollars an hour, whereas otherwise i would be Making nothing so in that context, i'd much rather earn ten dollars an hour than stay at home and watch tv.

The same thinking also applies when i was renovating all those properties. My thought was that if i spent my early mornings and late evenings managing a renovation at the very least, it would save me money from not hiring a manager. So by that metric i would just take whatever i could possibly get for my off time. I did credit card churning focus groups, renovations, work for other agents, literally whatever i could get, but now i've gotten to a point where i just don't have enough time in the day to get everything done.
Even something like hopping on a 30 minute phone call has turned into a. I need to schedule this a few days in advance, because otherwise everything else is booked up and i would have to pull away from something else just to make the time. If i didn't prioritize everything this way, then nothing would get done and things would fall through the cracks. So now i have a value for my time and i really have to ration it carefully because of that, i'm not able to spend the time like i used to to find the right real estate deal and manage some of the work myself for me and i Think for most people, real estate is a phenomenal tool for wealth creation.

There's pretty much, no other investment out there. That allows you to consistently double your money year after year by buying the right property and then fixing it up. Besides, of course, tesla call options and sure it's not easy work, and it definitely takes a lot of time up front, but when done right, you could potentially build your wealth faster than nearly anything else again. Besides tesla call options.

However, i think at a certain point. I had to take a step back and realize that i was too oriented towards real estate and from a diversification standpoint, it makes sense to take a more hands-off approach and focus on other endeavors. This year, for example, i've invested three million dollars into the stock market. I've made three angel investments, including yada bank link down below in the description for anyone who wants to try that out and i'm in the process of continuing to grow this channel and several other startups, alongside with it.

For now, the roi i get from using my time elsewhere just makes a lot of sense, especially because i love continually learning new things expanding on what i'm doing and following where my heart goes and right. Now, that's pointing me in the direction of running my own business. I've mentioned before that. I have a coffee company in the works that i can't talk about quite yet, but just give me a month and you'll hear all about it and i have another project.

I'm working on on the side that trust me, you guys will hear about it non-stop soon and those are all things that i never would have had the opportunity to pursue in the first place if it were not for real estate, but given how much i'm juggling Right now, going and buying new property needs to be put on the side and even though i've happily labeled myself to be the real estate guy at my core, my real passion is just being an entrepreneur. I love all aspects: business, investing saving money and personal finance and real estate just happened to fall in one of those many faucets. This certainly is not meant to take away from the decade of experience i put in with real estate, but that has allowed me to shift my pursuits, so i keep growing as a person today. My investments are really just all about a low time.
Commitment, low risk, a low return, more diversification and the allocation that will continue to allow it to grow, but at a slower, more consistent rate, it's less stress, less work, the less i have to think about and the more i could just streamline my entire life. I say this not to discourage you from buying real estate, but instead to explain the importance of using real estate as a foundation to grow and build from everything. I'm doing today is made possible because of real estate, but, as my time has become more limited and as i want to continue growing and expanding and diversifying into other things combined with the market. That makes it very difficult to find a good deal.

I've chosen to hold off from buying any more real estate for right now now, i'm sure at some point i'm going to get back into it, but until then i'm enjoying the hands-off approach of investing and i'm looking forward to all the new challenges that come along With growing a business alongside that, i think it's totally fine, sacrificing some profit up front. If that means that now i have more time left over to focus on other ventures that could do better long term, like of course asking you to smash the like button for the youtube algorithm. So with that said, you guys thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it as always make sure to destroy the subscribe button, and the notification bell also feel free to add me on instagram, i post it pretty much daily.

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25 thoughts on “Why i stopped buying real estate”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars samuel cornelison says:

    Has Graham made a video on blockchain? Would love to hear his thoughts on the BLOK ETF

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    Compared with the investment scheme of property preservation, I prefer cryptocurrencies with higher benefits

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  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ayoade busari says:

    Many life's has been transformed, many debts has been paid off through investment with Miss Anna , its never too late to get started, never depend on a single source of income.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hanks Flowell says:

    I appreciate this video
    This is exactly what I need as motivation

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alexey Ilyushov says:

    In the beginning of this video You said: “what’s up Graham! It’s guys here”. 🤣😆🤣

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mango 4ttwo says:

    How does being able to buy a little bit less *higher prices means u buy less( mean u can buy more house?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars letsreciew says:

    Hello great videos you’re amazing. I need advice, if someone has $2000 ready to make more money from this money what would you recommend me to do to see my money grow $100 or more. Also i already invest in the stock market and have a couple ETF and a few of the best techs. Just bringing that up to take it off the table as a response. Thank you in advance for getting back to me lol!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sharkdog_blade_co Instagram says:

    Stocks and knives baby! Btw I make it to the end of ALL your videos homie

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Seth says:

    Thanks for reminding me to smash the like button, I almost forgot! smashes that like button

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Christopher Colin says:

    Dam this sucks I can't invest at the best time to invest in real estate because I'm 16

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steve Roussos says:

    Graham,do you believe that real estate has a future if the great reset agenda passes?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Wolf says:

    Suggestion two.. speak at1.25 not 2.75.. 2.75 great but irratating..

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Wolf says:

    To walk away to new endeavors.. why don't u first put your first endeavor on autopilot… teach someone to grow empire one vs walking away

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars songrada1 says:

    graham tell the truth, you dumped money in real estate and it was not worth it. The real money came from YouTube. There is no point of investment in Real estate as the return is too little.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brave Heart says:

    The guy was born smart money making idea machines …. just by YouTube videos he making tons $$$

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brave Heart says:

    Just blah blah blah … as usual nothing important. Thanks for wasting my time

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kristy Limon says:

    There are so many ads!!! Your videos have become almost unwatchable!!!!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeremiah says:

    Graham saying it's hard to find deals yet I'm buying more deals now than the past years. That's the difference from a real estate agent/investor to an actual investor. Seems like he still working in his business to much a not on it. I have people for every aspect in the business so I can work on the business. I honestly thought he had more properties than he said.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GIboy1990 says:

    Howd you like your own video on YouTube if it wasn't even uploaded yet? Very suspect Graham.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Birkes says:

    Dude thanks for reminding me to smash the like button I always forget lol

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PixieDust says:

    “What’s up Graham it’s guys here….”.Ok I’m ready to watch the rest of the video….. love your content Graham.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Devin Vennard says:

    What he meant to say, is he's in a relationship, the largest thief of a mans time and wealth.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mari Cruze says:

    Please check out Noelle Randall youtube channel before you make a rash decision; and can you please do an interview with her?

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