A short YouTube transcript of a conversation (Richard Canfield and another speaker) arguing that many business owners fail to treat their real estate investments as businesses. They discuss common patterns where employees and business owners misunderstand real estate investing and emphasize reviewing four main business areas starting with accounting and finances.
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Sometimes we have business owners. They have great cash flow. They're really good at putting money aside. Their business is going well. And business owners are right in their business. They're focused on. They're in or on it, but they're involved in activities that center around their business as kind of their baby. And then because they have capital that's building up, then they start investing money in real estate. But they look at this as this passive thing where it's not a business and not treated like a business because their business is their business. So the employee person buying real estate doesn't know about business, and then the business owner who knows about business doesn't treat their real estate like a business. Does this sound like something you.
Yeah, absolutely. You're exactly right. It's both scenarios are right on, without a doubt. And so what I actually do is when I. When I start working with someone is we actually take a look at the four main business areas. And so we always start with accounting finances. And I meet the business owner, where they're at. That can be anything, as simple as your payments and your rents coming into the right bank accounts.