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When you start a sold comparable study for investment real estate, it’s often difficult to discover enough similar properties inside a narrow range of cap rates. You’ll generally find, for instance, that some properties have sold with cap rates of 5.0 to 7.0 percent and others have sold with cap rates of 10 or 12 percent (or lower or higher).

Many naive real estate investors associated with get-rich-quick real estate schemes have lost money on their real estate investments because the get-rich gurus failed to warn them that risk magnifies with the returns on highly leveraged real estate.

When you invest in real estate, you’ll work with appraisers who will typically rely on three techniques to value income-producing properties. It would be helpful as a real estate investor for you to understand these property valuation techniques.

When you invest in real estate, you’ll work with appraisers, often solicit their opinions, and of course, rely on their appraisals for your loan.

This is the follow up to our last post, Starter’s Guide for Real Estate Investing Beginners, Pt.1, where you can the first three of six real estate investment tips for beginner real estate investors.

This article will acquaint anyone just getting started in real estate investing with some basic elements about investing in rental properties. It’s not rocket science, but it does cover six real estate investing tips beginners can use to launch their real estate investing career and hit the ground running.