Justin Donald breaks down two real estate investing approaches: buying property outright for potentially higher returns but more work, or investing through syndications for lower returns but passive income. The choice comes down to whether you want to maximize money or time.
I really look at investing in kind of like two different genres. You kind of have two different sides of the fence. You got side number one is where you buy deeded property. You're on the hook for everything. You're managing that asset. You can hire out a property management team to do it. You're going to take less of profit when you do that. So you can either, you know, really work hard to maximize the profits or you can go the syndication route. You invest in other people's deals, you invest in other people's funds. You're going to take a reduced return because you don't own, or you own a, you know, a percentage, a small percentage of it, but it's institutionally run. It's, you know, managed third party or in-house. You're paying people, you're paying professionals, not people that are learning the job on the job. These are people that are actually good already with a proven track record. And so I think you're really weighing and balancing, are you maximizing the return or are you maximizing your time?
