The fact that many Americans refuse to face is that there is a distinct possibility that your Social Security retirement might simply disappear before you need it, or, if it’s still around, will be unrecognizable from the stalwart pension plan it was intended to be all those years ago. Right now, the Social Security program is operating at a deficit of more than $14 trillion dollars. That means that the money needed to make payments is not there and, the dirty little truth, is that no one has a very good plan for figuring out to fund the thing any time soon. For the time being, money comes from raiding other areas of the budget.

What does all this have to do with your role as a real estate agent? Since we’re not in the habit of terrorizing the elderly just for the fun of it, we actually have a point to all this and it comes down is the cold, hard truth that Americans who have been planning on having a nice Social Security check better wise up and start seriously thinking about how to begin creating cash flow that will last into their retirement years. As a real estate agent familiar with the concepts upon which AIPIS was founded, you are the answer to their problem, if you can only get them to listen. The tough part about introducing a new idea is just that – it’s new and many people have a tendency to resist “new”.

So it is with income property investments. While far from being a new idea, this historically superior method of investing has been overpowered in the media and public consciousness by a well funded Wall Street money machine. Unfortunately, the money flows to the brokers and inside traders and not so much to the average Joe Schmoe trying to save for retirement.

Start the conversation with prospective investors by steering the discussion around to Social Security and get a feel for how savvy they are about the program’s current dire predicament. If they think it’s all peaches and cream, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Hopefully, they have at least an inkling of the peril that awaits those who place their faith in government largess.

Believe it when we say the government ain’t got nothing on the private sector, and adding income property investments as a major part of any portfolio could help survive the coming Social Security crash.

The AIPIS Team

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