To Be A Great Real Estate Investor, Invest In YOU!
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Smart real estate investing isn't just an investment strategy, it's a way of life. Many investors get into real estate investing and don't fully understand that they are going to have to take a hands-on approach to growing and maintaining their investments. No matter how "hands off" you were told an investment was - all real estate investing is "hands on" in one way or another - ALL of it. The word "investment" makes many believe that after they buy a property you can sit back and relax.
If you’re going to succeed in real estate investment, before you can consider any tips, you need to focus on YOU as a person. Your business is built on you and not the tactics you learn. Real estate investors think of tactics as: "condo conversions", or "flips", or "lease/options", or "multi-unit apartments", or "self-storage".... the list goes on forever.
It’s easy to get excited about learning a new real estate investing strategy. Unfortunately, a new “clause to put in the offer” isn’t going to be the overnight success you want it to be. Long-term success is not built on the foundation of your properties, it's built on you.
To get good at investing you need to master what many people consider “boring things” like our habits. Your habits create and maintain discipline to follow up and follow through with critical activities (like analyzing properties and writing offers and placing advertising and calling people back!).
According to some of the biggest business performance coaches, like Tony Schwartz and Peter Drucker, the human mind's greatest power is to focus on one single task at a time. And yet, in today’s modern multi-screen era, our biggest obstacle we are all facing is distraction and interruption. Your devices send you multiple notifications an hour, and they are all vying for your attention. To ensure you do your work well, focus your time in uninterrupted blocks on your most critical activities. Most issues can wait 90 minutes until you complete an important task.
The next big tip is to use rituals to your advantage. We are creatures of habit. You must ritualize your time and activities. A study by the British Institute of Psychiatry states that multitasking lowers your IQ more than cannabis consumption! Your body has a natural rhythm that requires short rest periods between periods of focused work. Use that rhythm to your advantage. Try the Pomodoro Technique (which is also available as an app!). The Pomodoro Technique works as follows:
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Identify a task: Choose a specific task you want to work on.
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Set a timer: Set a timer for 25 minutes.
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Work without distractions: Focus solely on the task until the timer goes off.
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Take a short break: After 25 minutes, take a 5-minute break.
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Repeat: repeat steps 1-4 three more times.
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Take a longer break: After four Pomodoros, take a longer break of 15-30 minutes.
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Start again: Repeat the cycle from step 1.
So, the question becomes what are you doing to work on yourself? How can you be smart with real estate investing? Why not take time right now to write out the 3 things you know you should be doing to move you towards your goals. And then ... do them!
Whether you’re a novice or a sophisticated and experienced investor, the real estate industry presents a golden opportunity to invest your money and grow that investment if one takes the time to research the many vehicles available.
If you are thinking of becoming a real estate investor yourself, or you are already an investor and would like to leverage your current investment(s) into more properties, or you are looking to sell one or more of your investment properties, give me a call at 905-683-7800. You can also email me at brian@briankondo.com.
I’ll be more than happy to answer any and all of your questions and help you with all your real estate investment needs.
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Brian Kondo
Sales Representative / Team Leader
The Brian Kondo Real Estate Team
Re/Max Hallmark First Group Realty Ltd.
905-683-7800 office
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