Jonathan CroninREI Accelerator, Rei Accelerator · Multifamily Real Estate Investor & Coaching Leader

The #1 Mistake New Investors Make in 2025 🚨 This ‘Cheap’ Deal Will Destroy You!

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (by Jonathan Cronin) offers guidance for new real estate investors. The provided transcript excerpt warns that buyers should prioritize property location over a low purchase price—distressed/foreclosure deals in poor locations can still be poor investments—and advises realistic number-crunching in the current market.

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I think the other thing, too, that what we've been looking at and seeing is, you know, not everything that glitters is gold, meaning, you know, where the property's located at is important, as we've always, you know, all three discussed and talked about. Just because there's some properties we've seen that, yeah, it's, you know, distressed in foreclosure, whatever the case may be. But the location is really subpar. And so even though you're getting it at a great price, it's subpar, you know. So, I mean, again, you got to look at the numbers realistically. I think, especially in this environment, the location matters.