Using real estate as an example, Mark Ford shares his advice on how to make a smart investment plan.

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The same is true of every other asset class - government securities, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, natural resource stocks, penny stocks, private placement deals, commodities, currencies, real estate, etc. Trying to do much better than general market averages is foolish. Let's look at real estate as an illustration.   SPONSORED Folks Could Jump-Start Their Portfolio With This Obscure Small Cap Play If you're searching for a virtual no-brainer in today's topsy-turvy stock market, we've discovered a little-known small cap stock that could take off like a rocket in the months ahead. It involves a frontier technology that Forbes calls "the holy grail" and The Washington Post dubs "the mother of invention." For details, click here.   Over a period of maybe 20 years, I invested in six or eight deals with E.P., a trusted friend, who built high-end residential communities. The investments I made were as a partner in a limited liability company (LLC). I was a limited partner, which means I invested a sum of money in exchange for a percentage of the deal. E.P. and his partner were general partners. They put the deal together, built the development, sold it and got a nice piece of the profits even if they didn't put in any money. As limited partners, we put up a good chunk of the capital needed to get the project going. We got most of the benefits we would have gotten from developing real estate ourselves, but with two advantages: We didn't have to run the business. Our risk was limited to the money we put in. The downside was that we had to pay E.P. and his partner fees for everything they did. Overall, I did reasonably well for that sort of investment strategy. If I had to guess, I'd say my annual return on investment (ROI) amounted to about 12%. But the individual results varied widely. On one deal, I doubled my money in less than two years. On another, I made a 60% return in three years. One deal went broke, and I got nothing back. The results of the rest were somewhere in between. In all of them, the management group was the same, the deals were structured pretty much the same and the developments were all in South Florida. So why were my results so varied? It was because of factors that I had never considered. Click Here to Continue Reading → FACEBOOK   Do you own gold? Somebody recently decided to buy a lot of it... And I think I know why. Click here for details on a brand-new way to invest in gold.   You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Manward Digest. To unsubscribe from Manward Digest, click here. Need help with your account? Click here. Have a question or comment for the editor? Click here. Please do not reply to this email as it goes to an unmonitored inbox. 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