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So You Want to be a Landlord? Part II: How Do You Actually Make Money?

Posted March 13, 2008 - 15:31 by Catherine Shaffer

Making Extra Cash, Real Estate and Housing

The truth is that rents sometimes do not cover the monthly costs of owning the rental home, so how is it that these real estate gurus make their money? A lot of people think that it must involve unfair tactics, such as buying investment property at below-market rates from gullible elderly people, but there can't possibly be enough gullible elderly people to keep the whole industry going.

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