"Before you begin to look for your good investment, have a good understanding of your goals, timeframe, risk tolerance, and expertise. These three aspects make up the first step to finding a good investment."

"Good investment properties require looking at a property and seeing something different than 90% of the investors who would normally look at that property."

"...good investments make sense before financing. Financing is a great tool to improve returns, but creative financing can be very risky. Save the most aggressive investors, real estate deals should be profitable before financing because of the uncertainty of the real estate market"

Quotes from Michael Cook's post: Touchdown in Greensboro:  What Makes a Good Investment?

About the author:

Partnering with his wife, Michael Cook is a commercial real estate investor who complicates his life as an MBA student at The S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Michael is relatively new as a weblogger, and, here and at his home weblog, his plan is to share with us his journey as an entrepreneurial commercial real estate investor.

from-Greg Swann on Bloodhound Blog

Michael won the Carnival of Real Estate Investing this week.