BBQ Capital | Kansas City Real Estate Investing

Ad Astra Realty is going to start growing and sponsoring a bicycling team in Kansas City.  This bicycling “club” will be be evolving.  But the emphasis of this club is going to be fun.

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Some initial thoughts.

• Our office is in Olathe with a large parking lot and Freddy T’s bar just a stone’s throw away.  And The Other Place is just up the trail. Great place to start and finish a ride, wouldn’t you say?
• The Indian Creek Trail is less than a quarter mile away.
• We can be on the Mill Creek Streamway in 8-10 minutes and ride up to the Kansas River and back.
• And the Tomahawk Creek Trailway is only about 8-10 minutes the other way.
• This isn’t a club for “hammer heads”.  Sure, I like to really go sometimes.  And we may do that.  But that’s not all we’ll do.
• This is as much a social club as a bicycle riding club.  Come for either or both.  If you just love cycling, c’mon out.

I like to ride the trails and the roads.  Sometimes I’ll throw the nobby tires back on and go ride the single tracks in Lawrence.  I like to BikeMS.  I’m hoping to go on the Bike Across Kansas ride this year.  Biking saved my health.  It helped me drop 38 pounds and get in the best shape I’ve been since I was in my teens.  And, for me, it’s just a lot of fun.

Heck, it allows me to still have beer and bbq without having to count every calorie to stay in good health. So, “I’m in.”

Let me know if you’d like to be updated about the rides.  Just leave me a comment and I’ll start announcing the rides.

Ad Astra Realty is now open in Kansas.  We were approved for business on December 30, 2014.  Now we have submitted our Missouri license paperwork and are awaiting word on that.  So we’re official in Kansas!

That makes me smile.

Looking for a way to diversify your income?  Think real estate for retirement.

I am a big believer that everyone should have a little real estate mixed in to their retirement.  For most of my clients that means somewhere between 2-4 rental properties.

MY AVERAGE CLIENT PROFILE
2-4 rental properties
$75,000 – $150,000 per year in income
Early 40’s

A couple things that stand out about the real estate investors that I work with.  Many, many, many of them are from California.  Most don’t start until they are in to their 40s.  Part of that is because many people don’t move in to higher incomes and/or have sufficient savings for real estate investing until that point.  Plus, let’s face it, you don’t (or, at least I didn’t) start thinking about retirement in your twenties and early thirties.

But to you twenty-somethings out there, why not build real estate in to your retirement with your first home?  Buy a duplex, and rent half out.  Or a smaller first home in a good neighborhood for renting?  We can talk strategies for you on the whole thing if you give me a call.

Unless you are willing to own many, many properties and do your own full time property management you probably are not going to retire just by owning rental properties.  But real estate is a very important asset to your retirement.  Let’s meet. I’ll explain why.  913-568-1579.

I want to take a moment to wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas.

To me, Christmas isn’t a time of getting and giving.  It’s not a time of strife and argument.  It’s not a time of drinking and carousing.  It’s a time of renewed hope.  A time when God sent to us a second chance.

It’s saddening to look around at our country right now.  With so much we seem to be doing so little.  I’m 49 years old.  I have vague memories of the late 60’s and early 70’s.  And it feels like we are heading back there.  A country divided.

My Christmas hope is that we can all stop for a moment, catch our breath and think about what could be.  How our lives, and those of the ones we love, can be better.  And don’t forget to make an opportunity to reach out to someone you may not know, or only know superficially.  Offer them hope.  It’s good for them.  And I think you’ll find it’s good for your soul, too.