Charles NoonanPresident, Landbank University · Real Estate Developer & Instructor

Real Estate Investing: $70K Investment Made $1200 a Month! #shorts

1 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short first-person anecdote by Charles Noonan describing using $70,000 from his retirement (thrift savings) to buy property. The investment produced $1,200/month in income, an asserted ~17% return on investment compared with retirement-account returns, and the property later valued at $134,000 (about double his invested capital).

Questions this video answers

$70,000

$1,200 per month

Approximately 17% (stated as 'automatically 17 return on investment')

$134,000

Thrift Savings / retirement account

Chapters

Some auctions. Yes. Actually, from my retirement account because I was still at the post office at the time, so I borrowed it from my we call it thrift savings. So I took it from my thrift savings. And you spent all that money. You spent 70,000 to make 1200amonth. Yeah. Think about the return on investment. Right. If I have $70,000 sitting in the bank, how much interest will I make? You know, even in the retirement account, maybe 8%, but it was automatically 17 return on investment by investing in the property. And then the money doubled. Remember, the Property is worth 134,000. Right. So it makes.