That begs the question, what stock and what real estate are we talking about here?

How long is the investment period for?

Go to Google and there’s not one data report on commercial real estate vs stocks. But I’m here to tell you that if you take one of the best stocks, an Apple or a Google, and compare it to a good piece of property like an apartment building, there are 3 main reasons you should go with the real estate OVER the stock.

#1 Control

You have more control in real estate than you do with stocks. When you buy a stock, you don’t control what happens to the business—you just hope it goes well.

#2 Leverage

You can spend $30 to get $100 in real estate, but to get $100 in stock you need to spend $100.

#3 Cash Flow

Stocks don’t give you a monthly check!

No matter how you look at it, the bottom line is that commercial real estate gives you more control, leverage, and cash flow than stocks give you.

That’s why I don’t invest in stocks, I invest in real estate. But you have to make the choice for yourself. It’s the red pill or the blue pill.

Do you want something with more control, more leverage, and more cash flow, or do you want something that has a higher potential to moon but also a higher potential to crash? I hope you got your answer to commercial real estate vs stock market. So invest in it and make money in real estate.

Learn more about what we do here at Cardone Capital and register HERE to find out how you can potentially invest with me in cash flow positive real estate!

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Well, what then is the quickest way to TRIPLE your money?

In all seriousness, you need an investment that protects your capital, gives you cash flow, tax advantages, and appreciation.

Why put your money in a bank and let it earn half of 1% when you can put it in something like Cardone Capital where your money is in real assets?

If you want a 3X return on your money, get involved with valuable multi-family properties that produce income every month.

I’ve spent the past twenty-five years working my tail off, taking my extra money and investing it into real estate.

I missed many things so I could earn extra money so I could invest in real estate and create a passive income stream. The goal was that my passive income would overtake and make more than my earned income.

Understanding the math of real estate and how to get your investment to multiply is fundamental.

One of the many factors to look at is what your IRR is.

An IRR is a metric used to estimate the profitability of a potential investment. This is then used to evaluate the attractiveness of a project or investment.

In real estate, specifically multi-family real estate that I invest in, I’m always looking for a huge IRR. In fact, an IRR of fifteen percent and higher (much higher sometimes) is absolutely possible.

But if the thought if doing all this real estate stuff is overwhelming to you, you’re not alone. It’s intimidating to do a real estate deal by yourself, that’s why so many people are joining me at Cardone Capital—you can get a 3X return passively without trying to figure this stuff out on your own!

Most of those who have registered with CardoneCapital.com or call my weekly Real Estate show say, “I don’t have time to find deals, call brokers, negotiate purchase and sale agreements, hire lawyers, and manage tenants.” So, if that is you and you are interested, check out what we are doing here.

The offices of Cardone Capital where our goal is to 3X your money

We only invest in apartments we are willing to hold for a period of 10 years or longer with the goal to 2X – 3X our investment.

Our deal size is $30 million to $200 million involving 200 to 1,000 units. We use debt on every deal whereby I arrange all debt based on my connections and reputation. I negotiate all the terms of purchase, sale, and debt, and am fully responsible, leaving investors with no exposure to the debt obligation. We typically use 50% to 75% debt leverage with a hold time that is discretionary, meaning we are not forced to sell in a bad market.

So, if you love real estate be sure to register at CardoneCapital.com. We will take investors on a first to register basis. Register HERE

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Think… in the last recession, I’m talking 2008 here, we woke up to find that the American people lost $10.2 TRILLION in wealth…

Wiped out from our economy…  That’s a fact according to Business Insider.

Besides the initial fallout and scrambling to stay afloat, eventually people started to think about how to protect themselves from next time – the next recession.

So what have people done to protect themselves and their retirement accounts and savings? What have people done to grow their wealth?

Not much it turns out…

To add insult to injury, saving and not spending money goes against human nature.  According to a NBC News sponsored study, we are programmed to make BAD choices when it comes to money and investments.

We spend too much money on instant gratification purchases and un-needed things that make sure to not leave enough for saving for retirement or investing.  In fact, the more cash-strapped and tight your budget is, the more you psychologically want instant gratification. The same NBC study shows people making under $30,000 spend more money on going out to eat and on lottery tickets than they do saving or on life essentials.

So let’s say you’re not one of those people and you’ve saved your money and have a stock portfolio.

Think you’re ahead of the game?

You’re not…

According to The Motley Fool the average investor has earned total returns of just 2.5% over the past 20 years. The S&P has done better with an average return of 9.5%

How about cryptocurrency investors? They are now face seeing 90% of their profits and principal wiped out in just 12 months.  In 24 hours the market plunged $15 BILLION and is at the lowest level of the year according to CoinDesk.

So how are these investments going to make you recession-proof?

How are you NOT going to crumble?

My investments have made an average of 15-20% or more for me.  They also do something that Wall Street can’t – they produce monthly CASH FLOW for me and will appreciate over time.

Real estate investing is the way that many of the wealthiest people on this planet have created indestructible, generational wealth.

And not just any real estate. Not houses, where your money is trapped in a lie called equity. No, the true creators of wealth, learned to buy property that generates income, is scalable and appreciates over time. Multifamily apartment complexes with units in the hundreds are a unique opportunity that exist in real estate.

But you need to know how to find the deals, how to get the deals and what to do with them.

I’ve spent 25 years perfecting how I approach my real estate investments. You can take advantage of what I’ve learned through my courses and programs and tackle it on your own. OR you can invest with me through Cardone Capital.

Many retirement funds can be self-directed now, so I urge you to do your due diligence, learn what is going to create wealth for you consistently, and for sure. The first rule of investing is NOT TO LOSE MONEY.

Don’t gamble or speculate on your future. That’s exactly what you’re doing when you play the stock market.

Get your portfolio invested in something that will pay you monthly and appreciate given enough time – REAL ESTATE.

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I started and bought one house. I learned from that one house that that was not investing. That was just me investing in a piece of real estate on a budget. When you invest in real estate, it has got to have a lot of doors and a lot of windows. The more doors and windows, by the way, the better. Of course, that holds true only up to a point. You have to be careful with any investment because you could have too many units in one place and that would put to high of risk on your investment.

People need to be involved in real estate. Start investing your extra money in real estate. Invest in real estate that produces income. I’m not talking shopping centers here. We’re buying apartments. We’re buying something indestructible, something people will have to live in.

For example, someone moves from Houston to Miami, Miami to Oakland Park, to Orlando. The first thing they do is not buy a house. The first thing they do is they rent a place to live.

So if you’re interested in real estate, there are four ways to buy real estate.

1. You can do it yourself.

If you attempt to buy multifamily real estate on your own, you need to know the market, know the deals, have your financing in place, know who is managing it. You do not want to invest in anything smaller than 16 units. 32 units would be your ideal first deal. Why? Because anything smaller than that won’t weather any kind of market downturn, won’t give you the scale to appreciate, leverage debt, won’t be large enough to have a management company to take care of the day to day and vacancies or produce positive monthly cash flow. How much time do you think you need to do it yourself? A lot, it’s a full-time job.

2. Wall Street.

This is the simplest, easiest way to do it. And the dumbest! You can buy stocks in companies like Equity Residential. Which is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in apartments. You aren’t actually buying property or realizing any of the tax benefits that go along with it. You don’t get the benefits of real estate. You’re getting stocks. That is an investment in a stock that is not an investment in real estate. Your returns on a stock are dictated by the market. Not something I would recommend at all.

3. Syndication.

You could call somebody up and say, “Hey, I want to syndicate into your deal.” What a syndicator means is they basically, let’s say they’re going to buy a deal that takes $5,000,000. They raised all $5,000,000, okay? They raised all $5,000,000 from people like yourself. It’s called other people’s money. And then they go buy a piece of real estate and they make money on the fees of running that piece of real estate.  I can pretty much guarantee your money’s going to go away. These people are buying a deal. They won’t buy with their own money. Here’s another way to look at it. It’s like the first time I got on the plane, I said, to the captain, do you feel good about the trip? If he’s willing to get on the plane, I’m willing to get on it.

Basically, you give the syndicator your money. They go buy real estate that you didn’t have the courage or intelligence to by yourself. They run it, they manage it, and they charge you for that.

4. The Anomaly. Investing with someone.

There’s a fourth way to do it. This is what I do. I backfill a deal so we can control the property, own the property. We do the deal, and then I allow accredited investors to come into the deal.

I basically buy property. We look at property every day. We buy it, we own it, we closed on it, we get the financing on it, and then we allow accredited investors to come back into the deal. We have a fund that can do that. If you’re an accredited investor and you want to invest with us, we know what we’re doing. We have the time, we have the money, we’re buying the property. I’m putting my own money in a deal saying I’ll buy this deal whether we raise the money or not. I don’t care because I know that the property that I’m buying will be worth more money 30 years from now than it is today.

I do what I can to make real estate investing made simple.

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