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My Conversation with Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor, and Podcast Host - Paul Moore

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Host John Chapman of the John Chapman Show talks with Paul Moore, Real Estate Investor, Entrepreneur, and Podcast Host of How to Lose Money, who runs a real estate company called Wellings Capital. Paul opens up about his background in real estate, valuable tips on investing and risk tolerance. He also offers a compare and contrast on stocks, bonds, and real estate and how they can be used to in a proper financial plan. 

 

Episode Highlights:

  • Paul Moore shares his professional background.  
  • What is the difference between investing and speculating?
  • What made Paul’s early success in his own words, ‘one of the worst versions of himself’?
  • How much debt did Paul experience in the past and how did he get out of it? 
  • What is his life like as a real estate investor? 
  • How does he go about finding ‘recession-proof properties’?
  • Why doesn’t high risk always equal high returns? 
  • What are some of the pros and cons of stocks, bonds, and real estate and how can they be used in a proper financial plan?
  • What are some of the timeframe expectations for investing? 
  • When should you switch gears in your investments? 

 

3 Key Points:

  1. Investors need to ask three questions: What is the upside? What is the downside? Can I live with that downside?
  2. From what Paul Moore has learned, the 2008 recession only lasted 15 weeks, which was the fourth quarter and a few weeks. 
  3. In the last 7-8 years, apartment foreclosures have been virtually zero. 

 

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “Investing is when your principle is generally safe and you have a chance to make a return, and speculating is when your principal is not at all safe and you’ve got a chance to make a return.” – Paul Moore
  • “If you keep playing double or nothing with all of your capital, you’ll end up with nothing at some point and you’ll have nothing left to double.” – Paul Moore
  • “Paul Samuelson, the first Nobel Prize winner in economics from the U.S., said “Investing, true investing, should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow.” – Paul Moore

 

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