A Legitimate High Yield Investment With Low Risk?

Investors today want to know: "Where can I find a legitimate high yield investment with low risk for my money?"

Many people have seen their retirement savings wither in the current global financial calamity. And, as a result, we are seeing an exodus of investors out of the stock markets and into the safest money investments they can find to shelter what's left of their lifetime savings until the economy stabilizes.

We're seeing many investors now moving their money into investments such as Certificates of Deposit and U.S. Treasury Securities whose returns likely won't keep up with the rate of inflation because of their very low yields. But, people are settling for these low returns versus the risk of losing more in the stock markets or elsewhere. They're scared and many don't know where else to turn.

The truth is that investors today don't have to settle for these sub-inflation or break-even investments. They can still find legitimate high yield investment opportunities with very low risk to principal if they just knew where to look.

So, here's the problem: most people don't know where to look to find legitimate high yield investment opportunities. They are so 'shell-shocked' from their portfolio and stock market declines that they're scared, cynical and skeptical when presented with opportunities that claim to be "high yield investments". And, they turn a deaf ear to investments that they might have welcomed in better times.

But who can blame them? We're seeing a resurgance of Ponzi schemes and other scams, identify theft, etc.

Fact #1: You can still find legitimate high yield investment opportunities today with low risk to your principal.

Fact #2: Many of the richest people in the world today, made their fortunes when the economies hit rock bottom. These investors chose to look for opportunities when the masses focused on despair. They recognized how stock markets and economies are cyclical by nature and they looked to the future.

So, let's see if we can't look to the future and spot a legitimate high yield investment opportunity staring at us right now:

Two realities that are public knowledge in America today are:

1) There is a limited amount of undeveloped, raw land available in the U.S.

2) The U.S. population is projected to grow +29% between 2000-2030.

In other words: "We're making more people, but we can't make any more land."

What does this information tell us?

i) We will have approximately 82,000,0000 more people living in the United States by the year 2030. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau.)

ii) These new people will need new homes, new schools, new shopping, new businesses and new communities to support them.

So, what legitimate high yield investment opportunites does this present?

Let's talk about "Raw Land Development". Ever heard of it? If not, you should seriously consider learning about it right now.

This situation, of limited supply (limited amount of raw land) and growing demand (population growth) is a fundamental economic illustration of what happens when demand for a product is greater than its supply. By definition, the product becomes more valuable. Yes?

Well, the products, in this situation, would be the new homes, new schools, new shopping, new businesses and new communities needed to support the growing demand created by population growth.

This poses a tremendous opportunity for what legitimate high yield investment? How about "Raw Land Development", the essential 'building blocks' of new community construction.

In December of 2004, the highly acclaimed Washington DC think-tank, Brookings Institution commissioned a research study conducted by Virginia Tech University. This study was titled "Toward a New Metropolis: The Opportunity To Rebuild America."

According to the study, to accomodate the projected population growth, America's future raw land development and construction needs require approximately 209 BILLION square feet of new land development between 2000 - 2030.

Estimated cost? $25 TRILLION. And, the bulk of this massive raw land development and construction expansion will be spent in 10 major metropolitan regions, which the Brookings study calls " Megapolitans". Plus, the study tells us exactly where these 10 Megapolitans are located.

By the way, this is happening right now!

How can investors profit from this legitimate high yield investment opportunity?

1st) By educating themselves asap about Raw Land Development

2nd) By researching the Brookings Institution study findings.

3rd) By investing in the companies that will be driving this new raw land development growth.

Raw Land Development Investment Benefits:

A) Legitimate High Yield Investment:

A proven investment option is to invest as a 'silent investor partner' with a professional raw land development company. The key is finding seasoned, reputable companies in this field.

Professional raw land development companies or 'land developers' often seek outside investors as silent partners to raise capital for their raw land development projects. Silent partners have no involvement in the day-to-day management activities of the business, but they share in the net profits of the project. In addition to profit sharing, some professional raw land developers also will pay high yield interest to their silent partners for the use of their money until the principal is returned.

B) Legitimate Low Risk Investments:

It is regular practice for professional raw land development companies to back their silent investor partners' principal investments with project assets (e.g. the value of the land itself). This means that in the event of a developer default (heaven forbid), the project assets can be sold and the silent investors can recoup some or all of their principal plus any net profits.

In addition, for added security, silent investor partners are commonly placed in First Position for the raw land development project's assets and revenue. This means that in the event of a developer default, if the project's assets must be sold, the silent partners will be the first in line to be paid. (Similar to when a bank holds the mortgage or first deed on a home.)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

I. Per industry averages, a professionally managed raw land development project will increase the value of raw land by 2-5 times its original cost. In other words, a professional land developer will typically sell a completed raw land development project for 200-500% more than they paid for it originally as undeveloped, raw land.

II. It is widely held that real estate investment has created more riches than any other form of investments. Taking that one step further: Raw Land Development is the most profitable form of real estate.

III. For these reasons, professionally managed raw land development investment has been the cornerstone for many of the world's wealthiest investors' investment portfolios for generations.

Until recently, participation in raw land development projects was restricted to the very rich due to the exorbitant minimum investments required (often $1 Million +).

However, this has changed in the past several years, with some professional land developers dramatically reducing their minimum investment rquirements to allow smaller-scale investors to now participate in these legitimate high yield investments.