Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa Real Estate Investor Magazine - April 2017 | Page 7

EDITORIAL VIEW
Abandon Traditional
Thinking and Grow
Your Knowledge
M
uch like economies, investors tend to
go through cycles of good times and
bad. Sometimes they get stuck and end
up doing nothing at all. The reality is that not
all properties are a good investment and not all
investments suit every investor. Many investors
get the wrong investments because they aren’t
equipped with the right knowledge or they live in
fear. This is why, at REIM, we constantly strive
to source the right information to include between
the pages of each edition so our readers can learn
and grow.
One guy who has built up a highly successful
portfolio over the years is property entrepreneur
Pieter Feenstra. He has a grip on the market and
is innovating in the student space. We interviewed
him for our Master Investor profile piece and
think you will have a lot to learn from him.
To improve your financial education and invest
counter-cyclically compared to the masses, it’s
probably a good idea to pay attention to what is
going on in the world economy. Is the stock market
growing, are real estate prices or interest rates
going up or down, and what are the new economic
policies being implemented? Governments are
getting themselves into more and more debt: what
impact does this have on your investments? More
importantly what are the opportunities created
from these decisions? Many investors have been
investing offshore to circumvent new and pending
legislation very successfully, as well as investing
when the rand is low. Find out inside about the
many successful opportunities in offshore cash
f low properties, such as in the cash f lowing
HMOs.
Keeping track of topline news, rather than
heavily taking in and consuming daily news
(which is not that great right now), while
monitoring property trends can help you improve
your decision-making. South Africa has massive
shifts in growth and declines and it is important
to decide when to act or not. We think you should
be earning passively but actively managing your
activities and your strategies all the time ‒ to align
them with the markets and make them shock proof
to recessions and downturns in the market. This
is what the savvy investor prepares for and why
control of mindset and staying positive is critical
to the successful investor’s armoury. Just ask
Dr. Christo Wiese, who lost $453 million
overnight in June 2016 when he invested into the
United Kingdom just before the Brexit vote.
You also need to seek out and pay attention to
what smart investors are saying and doing. Stop
looking for easy, get-rich-quick property f lips
and instead, learn from people who are investing
with a long-term cash f low returns with automatic
capital growth built in.
Network and work with those who are willing
to put in the time and effort to contribute to your
growth. The SA Property Network (SAPIN) is an
awesome place to grow your knowledge, network,
net worth and business. Make sure you become
part of the Real Estate Investor property family
today. Simply visit www.reimag.co.za, click on
our Events Page and sign up for our next SAPIN
event.
Successful investing!
NEALE PETERSEN
FOUNDER & PUBLISHER
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
www.reimag.co.za
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