Recently it has come to my attention that the world today has had a paradigm shift that for the most part occurred almost overnight and almost unnoticed. And while a lot of values have been deemed outdated and replaced by more modern, millennial friendly ones, the idea of those values being lost makes one wonder where the world is headed. Minds continue to shape and opened up to new ideas and beliefs that were once considered unrealistic to bare. People are oblivious to these changes in values; stuck in a trance from the hypnosis of the social media world and the lack of wanting to gain true knowledge, or even asking the right questions. Are we really in control of our own choices? or have we become programmed? Do the little bits of social media posts that pop up in our day to day lives guide us towards a larger consumer scheme being put together by the corporate world? These are just some of the thoughts that float around a dark room late at night. Even though these maybe questions with no answers, like a bottomless pit, one can't help but ask them.

New Kids on the Block

We turn our attention to the state of the world today, and how the life of the young generation has become a hamster wheel, going nowhere fast; staying put. However, desperation stems from uncertainty. And with the future being in oblivion, many young adults have ventured into the entrepreneurial world in hopes of betting on themselves to shape their own future. This is one example of the paradigm shift. Where the older generation found satisfaction in hard work for stability and proper pay, the new generation prefer the thrill of the uncertain, while being in control of their own work and reaping all the rewards. I mean then again, what can one do when faced with the worst period, generation period, ever period? In my opinion the worst economic time, barring the great depression. And so fresh graduates are like post-apocalyptic survivors, left rummaging for loot (jobs) or taking their destiny in their own hands in a game of "survival of the fittest". One thing I find extremely peculiar is the lack of remorse for the possibility of failure, as if to say "none of what is currently happening is our faults, so if we do fail, blame no one but the elder generation, they got us here." And every success story is like a middle finger to the same people. It is actually amusing and motivating.

Back to the Topic at Hand

Anyway, I feel I've drifted off topic, the point trying to be made is what are the best fit options for ones looking to survive in a world of perish. In my personal opinion, you must lead with what drives you. If your going to bet on yourself, and bet big at that, it must be something that should come easy to you. But given the bevy of option one can start with ranging from anything to a pop-up shop to investing a handful of money into BITCOIN, its easy for one to get lost and overwhelmed. But if you are still unclear on what to do and where to invest I will go with what is most simple. And as only we do so well, the topic at hand comes back full circle to the eternal entity of real estate. If you have money and want to make money your best bet is real estate. Warren Buffet once said "If I had an opportunity to buy a couple thousand single family homes, I would load up on them...buying a home right now is the best opportunity in your lifetime." Thats actually true. Real estate investment, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building cash flow and wealth. Let me put it this way, imagine in front of you right now is a blank canvas, and with your paint brush, you can paint whatever you want on this canvas, and when you're finished, this canvas will hold value. That is the concept of real estate investment. Property is a blank canvas, and you choose what you want to do with it. You can develop it, rent it out, refurbish and flip, pump and dump, finance, re-finance, re-finance again, anything you can think of is applicable.

Anyone Can Do It...

I know what your thinking and it is the most common stigma when it comes to real estate. if you don't have much, you cant do much, right? Wrong. That isn't necessarily true. To start out in real estate you don't need have to have million dollar plus in starting capital. Does it help? When does having a million dollars PLUS not help? I mean, come on... But to start, some investment opportunity start from as low as 25,000$ and work themselves upwards. If flipping a property for example, you would need around 25,000$ to secure a loan for a 100,000$ in order to purchase a property for investment. This property, were assuming, needs fixing and repair, which would probably cost anywhere between 30,000-50,000$. With that being said, in a good market, the same house after repair should see a sale transaction of 250,000$. After paying back the bank loan and covering your costs, you would realize a profit of almost 100,000$, from a 25,000$ initial investment (profit is based on repairs costing 50,000$). The method of investment may vary, like I said, from flipping, to purchasing and holding for value to increase, to simply renting out the property for a monthly cash flow income. That last one means you get paid monthly rent straight to your pocket while your at home fast asleep. And if you don't make money while you sleep, then you're just going to work until you're dead. That's another Warren Buffet quote for you.

"If I had an opportunity to buy a couple thousand single family homes, I would load up on them...buying a home right now is the best opportunity in your lifetime."

...So Why Don't You

Look, I know I have gotten to a point where I bore most of you with the constant talk of real estate this and real estate that. I keep hearing "Do you ever stop talking about Real Estate?" And truth is I don't, I really don't. The reason why I ramble on and on about it because real estate isn't something you do, it is something that will do everything for you. You may get into it early on in your life or 20 years down the road. You can do it wherever you want, whenever you want. Travel and invest in your favorite cities, or in your own back yard. You can do it in a corner office on the 34th floor overlooking New York city or you can do it sitting on your couch in your living room on a Wednesday. Its simple. its varied; even in its most dire times, its promising.

The beauty of real estate is everyone is always looking to give you money to invest, whether its the banks or the Government, or people looking to make money for themselves. Lots of people want to flip their money because after a while it starts to collect dust sitting there under their beds. And if you go to put in the Bank, you know what the bank will do with it? The same exact thing that you should be doing with it, putting it into real estate. Open up any Banks accounting books and see how much they hold in property, they're doing that with YOUR money all because your too afraid to do it for yourself. How much return do you get when you open up a bank account? Whatever it is, its probably nothing compared to the returns Banks get from the properties they invest in. So the notion that your scared to invest so you put it in the banks as a "safety" measure is ludicrous. In a sense your giving the bank your money for them to go invest with it and reap all the rewards while you get pennies on the dollar. The worst part is when these investments go bad and the Banks loses all your money they have no means nor the intention of paying you back. I know, I know something like that might sound a bit too crazy and far fetched to happen right? But it wasn't that far fetched when it happened in 2008 in the United States when the world's biggest investment banks came crashing down.

Proper footing is what is needed.

Stability is key.

And in this unstable post-apocalyptic world of today,where everyone is left to scramble for proper shelter and a proper footing, what better place to start then in the one thing that shelters you best? and that is real estate.