by Christina Mendoza

Created on: September 19, 2010

Out of all the investment opportunities available to you in 2010, acquiring real estate is an option that deserves serious consideration.  Property ownership has long been a method employed by savvy investors to preserve and increase the value of their money.  Current conditions in the housing and lending markets make investing in properties more attractive than ever, with mortgage rates the lowest they’ve been in 50 years, and home prices dropping to about half of the peak seen several years ago.  The return on a real estate investment purchased in the near future is likely to be far more substantial than the profits available from competing types of investments.  

~ Investment Options

There are many different strategies investors can choose from in their attempts to make their money grow.  Buying stocks or bonds, earning interest on savings accounts or certificates of deposit (CDs), and obtaining valuable commodities such as gold are all possible methods of investing one’s money.  As one of the many choices, real estate investment – whether it is as basic as owning one’s residence rather than renting, or as advanced as acquiring millions of dollars’ worth of rental properties – has a long history of being one of the safest and most lucrative investment techniques.

While the incredibly low interest rates banks are offering right now are great news if you’re a borrower, they also mean dismally low returns for investing your money in savings accounts or CDs, to the point that you might not even keep pace with inflation.  Although investing in the stock market has historically created the highest average investment profits, the recent performance of stocks has been unpredictable, reflecting the turmoil in the American economy as even big corporations once presumed stable have gone bankrupt.  Buying US Saving Bonds has been considered a “safe” way of investing your money in the past, offering a return that is typically a little higher than general interest rates but lower than buying stocks, but with the huge increases in government debt and plans for more spending, buyers may be leery.  As for investing in gold, the time was right some years back, but the current high prices leave much less room for profit.

~ Buy Low, Sell High

One of the easiest ways of making a significant profit on your real estate investment is to seek out the real bargains selling for

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