Diversify Your Portfolio by Renting Arkansas

The following real estate tips contain all the information you need to know about about how to diversify your portfolio by renting. Read on for simple yet effective ideas on how to rent instead of buy in Arkansas.

Local Companies

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
501-614-4600
1819 N. Filmore Street
Little Rock, AR
Tri Lakes Realty
(501) 625-7355
1321 Central Ave Ste A3
Hot Springs, AR
Dietz James G Real Estate
(501) 758-6703
15 Creekwood Cv
North Little Rock, AR
Albanese Real Estate and Investments
(501) 623-4484
3310 Central Ave
Hot Springs, AR
United Country Real Estate
(870) 449-5145
Highway 62
Yellville, AR
Storthz Lewis A Rl Est
(501) 663-4528
7417 Rockwood Rd
Little Rock, AR
Pickler Lynda Real Estate
(870) 535-3223
1801 S Olive St
Pine Bluff, AR
Shirley Real Estate
(501) 723-4443
Shirley, AR
Hernandez Bacilio
(870) 215-0100
1207 W Kingshighway
Paragould, AR
White Jim Realty
(479) 474-0234
Van Buren, AR

Apartments for Rent

At the most basic level of financial investment, there are two maxims that can often be mutually exclusive. The first is to hedge your bets by diversifying your portfolio and spreading out your risk. The second is to invest in where you live; more specifically, if you are going to be paying a large percentage of your income towards your home, then it makes a lot of sense to be making payments towards something that you will someday own and may also, if all goes according to plan, appreciate in value.

The problem with all this great advice is that it can be difficult to diversify your portfolio when all your money is going towards a mortgage. This rings especially true during a turbulent market when people's adjustable mortgage rates are increasing and forecasted appreciation is suspect; it is making more and more sense, from an investment perspective, to rent an apartment rather than buy a house.

This strategy is buttressed by a study done by three Federal Reserve economists, who looked at the long-term relationship between home prices and rents. They found that from 1960 through 1995 annual rents averaged from 5 to 5.25 percent of home prices. Then the figure started falling dramatically after 1995, reaching 3.5 percent at the end of 2006. In other words, rents are unusually low relative to home prices, and to get back to normal, apartment rents would have to soar or prices to plummet.

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Featured Local Company

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

501-614-4600
1819 N. Filmore Street
Little Rock, AR

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Arkansas Association of Realtors Annual Convention
Dates: 9/8/2009 - 9/10/2009
Location: TBD
Little Rock, AR
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