These 2 landmines kill more investors than

Posted on January 19, 2026
In Investment Strategy

Become a Real Estate Trader

Investors buy & hold. It’s patience that is key, tending to the farm. Money is made over the long term. This works, I’ve done plenty of this myself. However, it is MUCH easier to invest when you have generated a pile of cash to invest!!

Flipping Houses – Real Estate Trader

I’m not a stock trader, but I do invest in stocks. I buy carefully selected companies & sit on them as a place to keep speculative cash. It has done well. This is not a volume strategy. It is a passive strategy, mostly.

I have friends who trade stocks and they are in & out of positions quickly – usually the same day. Win more than you lose. It is a volume game. This is an active strategy.

Once I began looking at my house flips like a Real Estate Trader, I began doing MANY deals. Many deals generated cash quickly. This cash also offset the bad deals I’ve done. Win more than you lose.

These Two Landmines Kill More Investors than Anything Else

A Bad Deal
NO Deals

Doing a bad deal can put a would be real estate investor out of the business. The best insurance against a bad deal is MANY deals. Having deals working to cover the occasional loss keeps you in the game.

Doing NO Deals comes from making NO offers. MAKING OFFERS and negotiating deals is the only way to do MANY deals.

Be a Real Estate Trader: Make Many Offers & Make MANY deals.

You might notice this theme repeating often: MAKE OFFERS.

Making Offers is one thing I notice investors forget, refuse, or are afraid to do. Making an offer requires you choose & state a position: the price & terms you’re willing to pay. Those who fail procrastinate at this step.

So in summary, the key to longevity in real estate?? MAKE OFFERS. (I write this as much to myself as I am to you, & to my team here at Diamond Equity)

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