St. Louis is most famous for the Gateway Arch built in the 1960s. Alternately looked down on as a Rust Belt city and part of flyover country, it doesn’t generate much attention except when its crime rate or other problems hit the news. However, the St. Louis real estate market holds significant potential. Let’s look at the top reasons to come back to the St. Louis real estate market as an investor in 2020.

The St. Louis housing market isn’t limited to the roughly 300,000 people who live in St. Louis, making this the second largest city in Missouri. Instead, the Saint Louis housing market includes almost three million people. That makes St. Louis the 20th largest metro area in the United States.

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Financing turnkey rental properties is the most difficult question to solve for a buyer with no experience in the real estate market. We all know that in a real estate investment “cash-is-king.” But, if an investor does not have that much cash in hand, finance is definitely required to meet the purchase price of an investment property.

There are many options available to finance turnkey rental properties. Among them non-recourse loans, hard money loans, and private loans are mostly popular. In conventional mortgage, the down payment is smallest and the rate of interest is also lower. In case of Non-Recourse Loan the investor puts an asset forward. In this article, our focus would be to discuss the various means of financing a turnkey rental property.

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I wanted to write about the importance of real estate education through books. This article presents the 10 best books on real estate investing that will get you started in 2020. If you read all these books, you will imbibe a lot of information and learn from the case studies of top investors who’ve achieved great success in real estate investing.

Are you a real estate investor?  Are you planning to invest?  Real estate investing is an ever-evolving industry.  Real estate is said to be one of the best investments that an individual can make. But why do so many people fail at it?  You need adequate real estate education in order to help you out along the way.

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