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T he Think Realty team met Steve Streetman at our Baltimore event in 2019 where he educated the audience on buying real estate with cryptocurrency. Since then, he has written dozens of informational articles for our readers. A wonderful teacher and writer, we are fortunate to share Steve’s wealth of knowledge with you. Here, he shares why he is passionate about real estate: Meet Steve Streetman Contributor Corner The
are so many ways to improve your returns on your investment. My two favorites are lever - age and cost segregation. Yes, you can buy real estate using mostly other people’s money and make a return on their funds. And cost segrega - tion transforms the whole taxation approach. You get to keep much more of what you make. There are times that I probably make investing too complicated. But there are so many ave - nues to structure deals or add income streams or force appreciation; it is hard to resist adding just one more thing to the mix. I love invest - ing in real estate, even when it’s messy or I hit setbacks (and boy have I hit setbacks over my career). I get to work on interesting problems that improve people’s lives and work with great partners doing it. I’m sure I’ll be investing for the rest of my life.”
When I was first looking into real estate investing, it looked pretty good to me. Real estate was a hard asset that could both appre - ciate and provide cashflow. What’s not to like? But even a little time spent ‘under the hood’ opened a world of additional advantages and interests that has just blown me away. Real estate ties directly to our lives: where we live, where we work, where we shop, where we play. By investing in real estate, we can direct - ly make lives better. If I invest in the stock of a company, it’s just buy and pray. But if I buy an apartment complex, I can improve the property, improve the management, improve the mar - keting, reposition the asset, or even redevelop into something completely different. There are so many facets to real estate investing and so many opportunities to solve problems. I real - ly enjoy figuring out how to solve problems, sometimes in new or creative ways (like using cryptocurrency in real estate deals). And there
—STEVE STREETMAN
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