Warren Buffett: Real Estate Taught Me How To Invest
Posted by Jay Gulick on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 3:23 PM
By Jay Gulick / February 25, 2014
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In his annual letter to shareholders, billionaire and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett talks about how two small non-stock investments in real estate from years ago were keys to teaching him about investing. Buffett says in the letter that in 1986, he purchased a $280,000 400-acre farm about 50 miles north of Omaha, Neb. From 1973 to 1981, the Midwest saw an explosion in farm prices, but then the bubble burst and prices declined up to 50 percent or more. That's when Buffett decided to buy. Read more.
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