| Trying to grow your investment for your retirement | | | | the project is lower than expected an investor |
| is not as easy to do as we would like. Investing in | | | | receives less return. This is a more complicated |
| property is often a sound idea for the younger | | | | method and more details need to be disclosed to the |
| generations who have time to grow their capital, but | | | | investor. When investing on a percentage return basis |
| many older folk heading towards retirement prefer | | | | feasibility studies need to be studied before investing |
| to look for something that can be a passive income | | | | and during the investment period. |
| and not need the hands-on involvement that a | | | | 2. You can have a fixed return on investment. This is |
| number of other property investments do. | | | | a simpler structure and at the outset the time period |
| The beauty of lending your money as a Private | | | | for the investment of funds will be set. As an |
| Lender is that you can often lend smaller amounts | | | | investor, look at both options and see which type of |
| into several ventures and therefore reduce your risk. | | | | lending you would prefer. It is possible to put up two |
| As a Private Lender you have several options of | | | | parcels of money with some in each type of |
| lending and there are often choices to the length of | | | | investment so that you have the chance of the |
| time of the investment, the amount of interest you | | | | higher return if the property is exceedingly profitable. |
| will be paid and the period of payment of the | | | | One of the benefits of Joint Venture investing is that |
| interest on your investment. | | | | you can share your funds around and therefore |
| If you consider becoming involved in a Joint Venture | | | | minimize your risk factor. Another advantage is that |
| in Property Development it is quite possible for you | | | | by breaking your funds up into smaller parcels you |
| to have a return on your investment of between | | | | can have various end dates that will allow funds to |
| 20% and 100%. | | | | come back to you at different periods of time. |
| There are two ways to receive your return on | | | | Investing on percentage return has given some |
| investment. | | | | investors brilliant returns over time but of course |
| | | | there is more risk involved. Either way, whether you |
| 1. You can either accept a return on profit which | | | | are doing percentage return or set percentage rate, |
| means that if the development makes a substantial | | | | both should return more than if your money was |
| profit you will receive your share, but if the return on | | | | sitting in a bank account or in managed funds. |