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If you get a to-do list from people in their forties, fifties or older among the first things you’ll get is that several people want they had gotten started in real estate and investing in real estate quite some time ago.

One of the reasons for the delay in entering this particular investment arena is that there’s a lack of knowledge coming into the market. People who have been heavily interested in real estate have been doing for years and year which is good because that’s about the amount of time it takes to understand all the little rules and niceties that are involved in investing in real estate.

With this article you can start a journey to quench your thirst for knowledge regarding the simple basics of real estate investing.

First the very basics. There are two types of real estate investing, commercials and residential. Residential real estate is concerned with flipping houses. That’s, buying a shabby home, throwing some money into it or doing a lot of renovations yourself and then selling it at a higher price. The profits on this are astonishing and you get to live in a nice house for some time period, but the downside here is that there’s much more risk involved and the time investment from your end is also significant.

Commercial real estate is primarily about buying properties like your local corner store property and renting out the spaces to tenants like the local corner store. This is regarded as more big time real estate as it’s easier to buy multiple commercial properties and collect the rent like dividends off of the stock market. Alternatively you can see the commercial property down the road and make significant profits that way.

Both types of real estate hold inherent risks and have different types of rewards. The type of real estate you are going to be concerned in is dictated by what your financial situation is, what work experience you’ve, what kind of free time you are looking at or even how much money you’ve in the bank.