Best Long-term Investment in Today's Market?

The stock market is very unstable at this timeroller coaster stock market ride. I figured out how
going up and down while interest rates are so lowto do it and it really works. I have done it before
you want to be a borrower and not a lender.and I know many now retired senior citizens that
Would you like some suggestions on how can youhave done it in the past.
get the most out of low interest rates while beingThe problem today with most 50+-year-old baby
assured your principal will not disappear while youboomers is that they never got started in build a
are trying to make some money? Of course,retirement fund. So now, instead of having the
there is always the danger of borrowing thenormal 30 years to build a retirement fund, they
money and then spending it just because it isneed to be there in 10-15 years. It might take
there.one year of financial hell to come up with some
So, would you also like to know what is the bestcash. (That means no money for anything except
way to borrow money at today's low ratesaccumulating cash) But after that, it can be a
without spending it? Buy real estate. Not any realsweet painless ride to wealth. The best part is the
estate but real estate that will hold its value, evenpossibility of failure is less than 10%, if my steps
if single family houses go down. It is apartmentare followed
buildings. Because apartment rents are still goingFirst: The money is not touched for 10 years.
up, the value of apartment buildings have the bestThat is why a trust fund, IRA or a self directed
chance of appreciating while everything else goesretirement plan is a great place to put this.
down.Second: I have taken my 30 years of real estate
Low interest rates mean that you can have aexperience to develop exactly which properties
positive cash flow at real estate purchase priceswill give the biggest appreciation and cash flow
you would have lost your shirt on, even twoand also be the best risks. Interestingly, almost
years ago. Rates are currently 4.5% to 6.5%everyone I talk to picks the wrong locations to
interest rates when we used to pay 9% forbuy until they hear the whole list of criteria.
apartment loans just a few years ago.Now that I have told you the lazy man's way to
Apartments have become a better investmentriches, let me tell you the downside. You have to
for two main reasons. First, carrying costshave the correct timing on your purchase. In Dec
(interest costs) have been going down. Second,2001, everything was in place to do these two
income has been going up, substantially. Can thingsprograms, in Los Angeles County. Unfortunately,
be better than this? YES IT CAN.by July 2002, the numbers didn't work any more.
I have developed two programs. One is to takeThey did still work in Florida, for example, but not
people with a small net worth and build an estatein Los Angeles. What happens is that prices go up
or self directed IRA (tax free retirement plan)after the rates go down. The seller sees how
that is worth up to $800,000 in 15 years and thatgood a deal the buyer can get and raises the
generates an income of $60,000 per year withasking prices. So! Your timing to start these
both still going up after that.programs is very important. Do not be
For those that can put together $100,000 to startdiscouraged, though. If the numbers do not work
I have developed a second program where thetoday, it will work sometime tomorrow. The
numbers come in at $1,300,000 net worth, with asystem is sound, and since we are talking
$100,000 annual net profit and in only 10 years.long-term wealth accumulation, a little patience can
Unbelievable? And, with low risk as well! Thisgo a long way.
comes out to be a 25% annual return with no