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Sean Ryan, Founder & CEO of Greystone Residential S ean Ryan has spent more than a decade as a pioneer within the sin-
gle-family residential industry and has facilitated the acquisition, investment, renovation, management and develop- ment of thousands of homes in multiple states across the U.S. It was his first-hand knowledge of the many challenges new property investors face that gave rise to Greystone and its end-to-end service platform. Before becoming CEO and founder of one of the biggest names in the build- to-rent industry, Ryan was a new inves- tor experiencing what he describes as a “seemingly endless” amount of obstacles with no one to help or guide him along the way. Unlike many of his indus- try peers, investing is not the “family business.” In fact, Ryan comes from a humble background which included a period of homelessness as a child. It was his desire to succeed that carried him over each hurdle he faced. Ryan purchased his first properties in his early 20s at the beginning of what he would later learn was a historic housing crisis. Even though he had purchased the properties at a great price, he was unable to sell them for a profit. There was never a “Plan B” for Ryan, and rather than accepting a loss, he chose to forgo having a car, cell phone and enough food to eat. His resilience eventually paid off, and he was able to sell the houses for double his initial investment. It is lessons and experiences like this that have motivated Ryan to make smart real estate investing as easy and accessible as possible to everyone. He firmly believes that property has the potential to be the safest investment option out there, but the many unknowns act as barriers that pro- hibit most from ever even getting started.
4 Reasons Real Estate is a Great Investment
understand or have control over stocks and mutual funds, they find investing in real estate to be one of the safest and most immediately understandable investments. FAMILIARITY AND CONTROL This asset class offers a daily famil- iarity and control that most investors simply don’t have with stocks and mutu- al funds. Invested wisely, real estate provides the investor with immediate, positive cash flow and long-term home price appreciation. And while the asset continues to perform, the positive cash flow provides a good safety net against intermediate market corrections. LEVERAGE One of the greatest attributes of investing in real estate is that it is one of the last opportunities for people to safely and securely make a substantially leveraged investment. A qualified buyer will be able to put anything between 3.5 percent and 25 percent down and gain enormous lever- age. And with every mortgage payment, they are using the monthly rentals to pay down their debt and simultaneously build equity. •
A Gallup survey published in July 2016 showed that 35 percent of U.S. nationals favored real estate as the best source of long-term income, while 22 percent favored stocks, 17 percent preferred gold and other commodities and the balance chose to park their money in savings or fixed instruments. But while the Gallup survey told us that real estate came out on top, it didn’t tell us why. So why is real estate a top investment option? There is no universal answer, but here are four factors that impact the status of property ownership as an investment. DIVERSIFICATION Diversification is a widely held principle related to investing that, simply put, means that the best strate- gy involves spreading your investment dollars across a variety of different asset classes so that if one fails, others will be less exposed to the factors that caused
that failure and will protect the portfo- lio. Talk to any investment advisor, and diversification as a principle will always come up as a tool that any investor— large or small—should implement. Investors’ typical attempts to diversify have been to spread their assets across stocks, mutual funds and ETFs, bonds and commodities so as to lower their exposure to one single asset class. How- ever, these assets are highly correlat- ed in their movements, lowering the effectiveness of diversifying across these classes. Real estate has a lower correla- tion with other asset classes like stocks and bonds, making it a popular choice among investors looking to diversify. SAFETY In today’s low-interest-rate environ- ment, it is difficult to use conventional methods to save your way to financial independence, and while many do not
He has worked tirelessly to design a platform that allows experienced inves- tors to add institutional-grade property to their portfolios, but is built around
supporting clients from across the coun- try and around the world who are just getting started on their own journeys building wealth in U.S. real estate. •
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