The Wise Investor
Real Estate's Long Term Investment Strategy can be compared to the Chinese Bamboo Plant.
North American investors are often obsessed with the next day, week, month, or quarter's results - in contrast to their Oriental counterparts, and many successful real estate investors, who draw their real estate investment lessons from the example of the Chinese Bamboo plant.
Consider the Chinese Bamboo. The seed is planted. It is watered. It is fertilized. But in the first year nothing happens. The second year it is watered and fertilized again, but still nothing happens. The same process is repeated during the third and fourth year; and still nothing happens. Yet, during the fifth year, in a period lasting no more than six weeks, the bamboo grows from seed to over 90 feet!
Did the bamboo grow 90 feet in six weeks, or 90 feet in five years? This is a good question.
The answer is five years, because at any time during that five year interval, had fertilizing and watering not been done as required, the plant would have died.
As with the bamboo plant, income producing real estate investments over the long term, will pay you big dividends. But you must be patient and make sure your investment is managed and cared for over time and, in the end it will take care of you with growing rental income and appreciation.
History has proven over and over, that in the long term, Real Estate is a solid investment. Real Estate is a true hedge against inflation plus it produces strong steady rental cash flow and exceptional profits.
With the continuing increase in population, the old saying that you should invest in real estate and wait, not wait to invest in real restate, has never been so true.
