Our Fundamental Laws of Real Estate Investing

September 4, 2017

West Group has a series of 50 real estate investment principles that are derived from successful value investors in the equity markets. We call these the Thrifty Fifty. Most of these principles are well known, open and in plain sight. We have applied these principles to real estate investing as we believe the value-oriented, buy and hold model consistently provides the highest risk-adjusted, after-tax return for investors.

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