The Real Estate Investing Journey

Mar 4:26
He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.

Mar 4:27
Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Mar 4:28
All by itself the soil produces grain-first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.

Mar 4:29
As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."

This is very appropriate to real estate investing. A little action - a lot of waiting.


From Seed Time And Harvest:

SOWING, RESTING AND REAPING

• 1. We can sow the seeds.
• 2. We then must rest.
• 3. Growth is a process.
• 4. Ripening precedes harvest.
• 5. We reap at the appropriate time.

We don’t know how the seed sprouts and grows. For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the grain in the head. What is the mystery? How does this happen? God gives the increase!

You must have patience to invest in real estate, impatience and wanting riches too early will cause you to make wrong decisions. If you will look at buying houses as seeds that will produce crops for you for the rest of your life, then you will have a proper perspective. The returns are low in the beginning, but you are building to larger returns in your future.

This goes for any other business venture as well. There is a time of toil and careful attention, then after time the business starts to operate on it's own and needs less attention.

Although we are new to blogging here at TREIJ, we can see how a majority of new bloggers get discouraged and quit due to lack of traffic. BlogAdviser states that a new blog needs to persevere through at least the first 6 months to a year with little to no blog traffic. You need to focus on creating content and almost ignore the results, put your head down and charge on.

You do your little bit of work *first* then relax and let God do the supernatural work behind the scenes.