{"id":2063,"date":"2016-01-26T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:22:34","slug":"common-mistakes-made-by-first-time-property-investors-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/26\/common-mistakes-made-by-first-time-property-investors-3\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVING IN OR DITHERING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>3. DIVING IN OR DITHERING<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Two of the most common traits of budding real estate investors who never make it beyond their first property (or sometimes never even make it to their first!), are either acting too impulsively or being overly cautious and never acting at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>The first is being in too much of a hurry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They think they have to have it all yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThe second are procrastinators and their own worst enemy.<\/em>They attend one seminar and buy into the first crazy scheme they\u2019re sold without thinking it through and when it doesn\u2019t make them rich overnight, they lose heart and throw in the <em>towel, saying property just isn\u2019t for them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They attend every seminar, read all the books and watch all the DVD\u2019s, only to end up overloaded with information and unable to act. We call this paralysis by analysis.<\/p>\n<p>While the former can sometimes learn from their mistakes and make a success of their investment endeavours, the latter will never overcome their fears.<\/p>\n<p>The best you can do is find a happy medium \u2013 sure, learn as much as possible to make you comfortable with your investment decisions, but don\u2019t think you can ever know it all before you begin.<\/p>\n<p>You will always have something else to learn and the best way to gain knowledge is to immerse yourself in the game itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3. DIVING IN OR DITHERING Two of the most common traits of budding real estate investors who never make it beyond their first property (or sometimes never even make it to their first!), are either acting too impulsively or being overly cautious and never acting at all. The first is being in too much of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2016\/01\/26\/common-mistakes-made-by-first-time-property-investors-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIVING IN OR DITHERING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}