Starting in real-estate investing

By Randell Tiongson on April 14th, 2014

A lot of people would want to invest in real estate and yet many are wondering the right way to do so. Carl Dy, an experienced real-estate investor and one of the leading resources on real-estate investing gives you a few tips that will make you understand how to build your wealth through the use of properties.

4 STEPS TO GET STARTED IN REAL ESTATE by Carl Dy

One of the paths to take to becoming wealthy is to make your money work as hard as you do. There is one thing that both the rich and the poor have equal amounts of. That is time, we all have 24 hours a day, and how much money you make (and save) in that daily 24 hour cycle will determine how early you are able to reach your financial goal.

With that in mind, they key strategy is to make sure you maximize your 24-hour cycle and create as much income stream as you can. You can categorize your income stream in 2 main categories: Man at Work, and Money at Work.

Man at work obviously refers to what you do with your physical self. Your talents, skills and creativity in being a solution to a problem allow you to charge a certain fee. This can be in the form of your salary or business profits.

Money at work refers to your money kept in a product that gives you a certain amount in return or simply put, what we call investments. This can be your investment in bank products, in equities, in a business, in bonds and in real property. The speed at which money is given back to you is what we call rate of return.

Property has been known to be a classic and proven product that gives a good return on your investment. Ask your elders about the price of the land in which you live now and compare it to how it was priced before. It would have most likely gone up double, triple or 10 times the original price depending on how far back in time you compare the prices to.

How do you get started in investing in real estate? Here are 4 major steps that you should go through, to get yourself familiarized before you make your first purchase:

1. STUDY
2. DEVELOP A STRATEGY
3. SIMULATE YOUR PURCHASE
4. CHECK YOUR FINANCES

Want to learn more about these 4 steps ? Catch property investor Carl Dy at ICON 2014 this May 17 at SMX Pasay City as he talks more about the 4 steps in getting started in real estate. For more information on iCON 2014, visit http://brandspeakasia.com/randell-tiongsons-icon/

Last episode of Money Talks

By Randell Tiongson on April 10th, 2014

It is with a heavy heart to announce that my radio show at 106.7 Energy FM, MONEY TALKS will be airing its last episode this Saturday, April 12, 2014. The station is under-going reformatting and our personal finance program has been cancelled because of it.

The program has been running less than a year but we are happy that in our own way, many Filipinos here and abroad have been helped by to show to be one step closer to financial peace. We wish to thank Ms. Becca Sy for giving us the opportunity to put Money Talks on air and we will forever be grateful for this opportunity. We also wish to thank the whole team of Energy FM and it was indeed a pleasure being part of this station.

For our final episode, we would have two great guest with two different stories — but both of them are insightful and inspiring.

Marvin Fausto is formerly the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the country’s largest bank with the country’s largest funds. Marvin is an advocate of investment education and is a sought after speaker in the field of investments. He is an accomplished fund manager winning several awards in the past and a favorite resource expert in the field of investing. He is married to Rose Fres Fausto, an author and columnist and together they have raised financial smart children and they are now advocates of family finance & investing. Marvin Fausto is featured in iCon 2014 on May 17, 2014 at the SMX.

Jekoy Valle started with very humble beginnings. He was a youth who has lost all hope and was unsure of a future. He was blessed to be a scholar of Real Life Foundation and due to the grant and because of hard work and determination, he is now in the corporate world as a recruitment officer. Jekoy is also a very popular event host today and is on his way to more success!