When you invest in something, you want to know that it’s worth your while. Regarding real estate, we live in a culture that romanticizes the idea of flipping. Turn to any home improvement channel and you’ll find shows all about sprucing up and reselling homes. On the screen, it looks easy. The idea of making tens of thousands of dollars on a flip just seems like a no-brainer.

For the vast majority of people in the world, work is a means to gain money — and thus, security in life. From food to shelter and transportation to other essentials, we just need to work to make money, almost without exception.

We're in Tulsa, OK for this week's Turnkey Transformation, where we have a 36-year-old home that gets quite the makeover. As you can tell from the before picture, we had a lot of landscaping to do with overgrown grass and tree removal to expose the true beauty of this home.

If you look around online, you’ll find numerous articles on why you should invest in real estate young — as young as your twenties. Does that sound out-of-reach to your present or past self? It very well might. However, investing in real estate, like any avenue for passive income, is most effective when it is given time to grow and produce fruit.

Project managers are an often overlooked and under-appreciated group of people. If you’re unfamiliar with project management, you may not even realize what they do, or how important they are to the success of businesses in every sector! What do they do, exactly?

This week's Transformation Tuesday is a 58 year old house in Memphis, TN. See how this outdated single family home gets some repairs done on the interior and exterior. We'll take a look at how our team was able to complete this renovation in just 69 days and $37,000! Being almost 60 years old, this house really needed some good TLC to make it more modern and to bring in more light throughout the home. A new paint job, cabinetry and other general touches really turned this house into a beautiful single-family home any investor or resident would dream of.

So you took the plunge. You’re officially a real estate investor! First of all, congratulations. You’ve begun your journey towards financial security — and freedom — for life. If you’re like most new investors, you likely feel nervous along with excited. After all, you just made a massive financial commitment. What if it doesn’t work out? What if you do something wrong? You don’t want to ruin your investment!

As a real estate investor, you are acutely aware of the ebb and flow of the real estate market whether you realize it or not. While you may not study the market specifically, you do understand sentiments and trajectory.  Most of us have a sense for when a market is moving in the right direction and when it isn’t — though we don’t always know the words to describe it or what the real factors are in determining the health of a market.

This week's Transformation Tuesday is a 44 year old house in Oklahoma City, OK. See how this outdated single family home gets some repairs done on the interior and exterior. We'll take a look at how our team was able to complete this renovation in just 51 days and $52,000! If you can remember our Transformation Tuesday from last week, you might recall the very "colorful" choices made by the previous residents. This property while a bit more updated- also had some interesting picks for colors of the interior as well.

If you were to be asked on the street what you thought the best long-term investment was, what would you answer?