Ryan CadwellManaging Partner @ Resolute RDM | CCIM® | CPM®

Number One Advice for New Investors! #propertymanagement #realestateinvesting

6 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise advisory video, the speaker cautions new real‑estate investors against purchasing properties at inflated prices. He stresses that buying the wrong property forces investors to spend additional cash and time to correct the mistake. The core message is that many beginners fail to run the numbers and determine their required return, leading them to overpay. He explains the difference between a property’s intrinsic investment value and its market or user‑price, noting that owner‑occupants (e.g., companies occupying office buildings) often pay more than what an investor should pay to achieve a target return. Understanding this gap and calculating the necessary return before buying is presented as the number‑one piece of advice for new investors.

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Never buy wrong. If you buy wrong, the only way, the only thing to fix that is more cash and time. I always say, if you don't know, if you don't know who's on the menu, it's probably you. What I mean by that is a lot of new investors, including myself when I was a new investor, if you're just playing flat out market rate and you don't realize, and you haven't ran your numbers to know what your required return is, most likely, most likely in most markets, You're overpaying because there's investment value and then there's market values. And depending on the property you're buying, you know, if you got a user, you got owner occupant or user depending on which property type, but if you got, there's user pricing so that if a, you know, if a office, if an office building can be, how can, can be owned by a company there, they might pay more than what an investor should who's trying to get a specific return.