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Dear Joni MacFarlane, May 5, 2011albertaventure.com

Hi Eric,
Thanks for your comment! It's true that it does take time to build up your network … but the best thing a new real estate investor can do is start going to their local real estate investing club meetings. That way you can immediately start talking to people who have been around the block a time or two. That will short cut the time it takes to build a good solid network!!
Thanks again,
Julie

Your blog entries are very well written and shows how qualified you are (or appear to be) with property matters in the Philippines. However, you are not the first one with a convincing expertise discussion to write a book about this. A certain Dinna Revilla wrote “Riches in Foreclosures” which sadly, ended in estafa (fraud) cases against her. Are you aware of Jade

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Don't borrow to invest…you will find the interest paid will offset your gain on the investment, and worse still, if the investment loses money, you will still have the loan.

I will give you some good advice…pay attention.

You are young and that makes a big difference..Save up your money until you have $1,000, and take it to the bank and buy a no-load balanced mutual fund, Figure an amount per month that you can afford to invest and tell the bank to take this amount once a month to buy more shares of this fund,
Then start reading about investments, markets, market psychology, how changing interest rates affect markets, how current events affect markets, and anything you can learn about investing will help you understand.

This amount you invest every month won't be noticed by you (not having it to spend) after a few months…..Increase this amount when you can..if you get a raise, put the take home increase into your fund. As you learn about investing and understand your risk tolerance, branch out ito more diversification, Like a good equity fund, maybe a resource fund, but start with a balanced fund.

Over the years you will get rich following this advice, but don't start spending your fund on cars or trips…otherwise you will have to start all over again.