 So I got this question the other day from one of my subscribers Asking how can I get involved or invest in real estate with as little as a thousand dollars? Well, I'm here to tell you there's ways that you can do it The first way is REITs. These are real estate investment trusts, and I'm gonna show you Here on my screen The top REITs for February coming up. So it's the end of January right now the top REITs real estate investment trust for February of 2021 Bpyu ticker symbol BDN and ticker symbol CSGP so now how this works is real estate investment trusts are publicly traded companies that allow Individual investors to buy shares in real estate or their portfolios and receive a yield like a dividend payout So you can earn anywhere between Six and ten percent on average. I've heard some as high as 12 percent But real estate investment trusts are great because these are publicly traded. These are big companies. These are trusted institutions. They're regulated Yes, like anything there is a risk, but these trusts typically invest in commercial real estate They do do multifamily single family homes as well Typically, it's a commercial thing Now the second thing that you can use your thousand dollars for is the private funds now private funds. I Personally invest with fund the rise. It's a Real estate investment trust as well. They focus a lot on Large apartment buildings apartment complexes. They focus a lot on commercial now was great about fund rise And I'll click on how it works. And this is not an endorsement to fund rise There are other companies out here. There's street wise. There's a there's a couple private private equity companies Now they also manage debt so you can you can in their program You can invest as little as a as five hundred dollars to open up an account And it shows that you're out, you know, I actually have a video on my channel I'll put a link up here right now to that video kind of goes over my investment strategies with fund rise and how How it works and you know exactly how this comes with company is structured What's great about fund rise and other private equity real estate investment trust is they pay it usually a quarterly Dividend excuse me a quarterly dividend Anywhere between 8 and 12 percent per quarter. So let's say you invested your thousand dollars in an equity investment That thousand dollars every quarter is going to earn between 80 and 120 dollars and that's every single quarter So imagine you're not doing it. You're not the boots on the ground You're not the person going to the job site. You're not managing anything. You're literally taking your funds You're putting those funds into Something like a fund rise or a real estate investment trust that money then becomes working for you What's cool about dividend earning real estate investment trust is one you could take that quarterly pay out So you could receive that as a profit now you are that is taxable income if you take it But another strategy is to take that dividend Let's say that same thousand dollars. You can take that 80 to a hundred and dollar $120 investment or dividend that was paid out to you and you can do what's called a dividend reinvestment So now let's say it's the hundred and twenty you'll now have the one thousand plus the one twenty Back into your real estate investment trust So now your eight to twelve percent is going to be earning a higher dividend because you now have more capital invested If you do the dividend reinvestment, of course, that's not taxable income because you're continuing to roll that back into it Third way that you can take as little as a thousand dollars and get involved in real estate investing in real estate Is to set up what I would call like your private not private your your own personal management company So if you start going to some of your real estate meet-ups some of your local investor meet-ups there's a lot of Facebook groups that you'll meet other investors and then you'd be offering your services as a Potential investor with them you could be offering them the service of you managing the project Have you managing the contractors or even better the investor that's looking for someone to be their management company on a rental portfolio, right? So imagine you're just going to set up basic marketing materials Whether it be a brochure or just even a business card and you get out there and start networking and working with the investment community There's a lot of investors that do not want to manage the day-to-day operations of their real estate portfolio You now would provide that service to them The fourth way to invest as little as a thousand dollars in real estate is going to be tax liens Now every state is different last I checked I believe 26 states within the United States allow a Private investor to buy a tax lien what a tax lien basically is Every person who owns a piece of real estate has annual property taxes when those taxes don't get paid The state state or municipality that that property is in will put a tax lien against it But the key here is is the the municipality that puts the lien against it They don't really want the lien. They don't want to they don't want to take possession of the property They want the money so they allow us as investors to go to an auction It's usually once a year depends from state to state how they operate You typically have to register for these in advance and it's usually months in advance that you have to register But you can buy these tax liens I don't want to say pennies on the dollar because that's not the right phrase But it's going to be for fractions of the value and then you'll be able to and assign a Interest rate of which the person who owns that property who's delinquent on their taxes will now make payments Check this out up to four years now that depends from state to state I'm not offering, you know legal advice on this You have to do your own research in your own municipality to make sure what is allowed and not allowed But I know in certain states the interest that you can charge on that lien that you purchase Anywhere between 12 and 30% I've seen guys earn as much as 26% Owning this tax lien with those payments concurring for up to up to four years So it's great It's a great way to do it and then the fifth way that you can get involved Invested in real estate with as little as a thousand dollars is to become what's called a wholesaler or a bird dog So now you can take Your money invest in signage or marketing materials, whatever it may be and maybe you don't even have to maybe you start doing What we call driving for dollars you're now looking for a distressed property You do your own research to come up and find out who the owner of that property is you reach out to the owner You find out their situation you figure out what pain levels they might be experiencing It might be a deceased relative this person who now manages their estate Really just wants to get rid of it They don't have money to invest in it and they're looking for someone just like you To help them alleviate that pain of holding on to this real estate What you can then in turn do is use those funds as a earnest money deposit, right? EMD or earnest money deposit to now write a purchase and sale agreement with the owner You as the buyer you can actually set a term Let's say between today and 30 days that you will close or today and 60 days that you can close as far as closing on the property But here's the trick You've now met all of these other investors because you've been trying these other strategies With how you can get involved with real estate for as little as a thousand dollars You've now met these investors. So now you have this this Contract on a house. You've used your money. You've sent your earnest money to the title company You're now ready to purchase the house in whatever time frame you and the seller agreed to you can now shop this deal To an investor to an investor like myself. So let's give you a quick example The lapidated property the current owner agrees to sell it to you for $100,000 right hundred thousand dollars you now come to an investor and you now show them the property you let them know you have it under contract and You are going to sell it to this investor for a hundred and ten thousand that investor is going to go do his or her Do diligence they're going to research that after Whatever renovation is needed to bring this property back into a a sellable condition would probably say probably sell for 200 on the retail So now that investor is going to pay you the one in a sense pay you the 110 Your agreement with the original seller. You're going to pay them out the hundred thousand You've now turned your thousand dollar earnest money deposit into a ten thousand dollar return The investor that you're wholesaling this property to is happy because depending on their renovation They can see upwards. Let's say upwards of a ninety thousand dollar profit. Of course not a whole ninety, but Think about it in this ways that Not having the money is not really the problem not having the tools The education the different options of what you can do in real estate with just as little as a thousand dollars Is what you need to start looking at so guys. I really appreciate it Do me a favor this content has provided you some value man. Give me a thumbs up Subscribe below to the channel. I'll be posting more content very similar to this check out my entire YouTube channel follow me on Facebook Follow me on Instagram Chris Birch 202 and I'll talk to you guys soon