Leverage is all about using "other people's money" to leverage your own investment.  Other than big-time leverage deals on Wall Street, the common individual has few opportunities to leverage. But real estate is one of those areas.  It is one of a very few areas where you can borrow money from a banker to cover the majority of the total cost of an investment.  The leverage part is that if the value of the property goes up over time, you gain from the increase in value of the entire property; not just the increase in the value of your down payment.

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Jeffrey M Johnston

President & CEO

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