Honoring Active Military
By Providing Solid Housing
to Soldiers
By Linda Pliagas , Publisher , Accredited Investor & California Real Estate Agent
Investors : You ’ ve been drafted ! Get serious about your future ; stay on budget ; it ’ s time to start investing more . Uncle Sam needs YOU to house America ’ s military .
In the past 20 years of our active investing efforts , my husband and I have participated in virtually every type of real estate transaction , including : singlefamily rental housing , Section 8 properties , private pay multifamily housing , and vacationhome investing .
Our most recent strategy , military housing , was discovered only a few years ago . After living in the area for a few years , we purchased our first rental near a military base for the purpose of providing military housing . The base is only 30 minutes away .
It ’ s been the best real estate investment strategy to date .
For one thing , we always have a steady pool of potential tenants . Our property manager specializes in military housing . He advertisers all his management company ’ s vacancies directly at the base . For that reason , we are never vacant on a rental property for long .
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Also , military tenants take exceptional care of the properties they live in . The discipline they have in their profession seems to carry over in an orderly lifestyle . Or , at least that is what I ’ ve noticed in the tidy way the units are left behind when vacated .
We started by purchasing one property to buy and hold . Next , we purchased two and rehabbed them . Those two properties were sold for the goal of purchasing additional longterm rentals .
" Also , military tenants take exceptional care of the properties they live in . The discipline they have in their profession seems to carry over in an orderly lifestyle ."
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