I have lost a lot of money investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts. Before you get started, you should know the dangers of REIT investing. In this video, I will share 5 must knows before buying real estate investing trusts! This is what I wish I knew before investing in REITs. These tips should help you select the best REITs to buy and avoid painful losses. You can access my entire REIT Portfolio by taking a 2-week free trial to my REIT newsletter, High Yield Landlord: https://seekingalpha.com/affiliate_li...

Not all my REIT investments are successful! A good example is my investment in CBL & Associates Properties (CBL), which went bankrupt during the pandemic. This REIT bankruptcy cost me over 90%. I take a look at what went wrong and what you can learn from my mistake so that you can avoid such losses. In short, I underestimated the leverage of the REIT because I underappreciated the impact of capex spending on the flexibility of its balance sheet. However investors commonly also make other mistakes when investing in REITs. Just to name a few: they fail to identify conflicts of interest, they pay too much attention to the dividend yield, and they ignore foreign REITs.

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