Slay REI Dragons for Free Online!
I confess that I’ve never really gotten into computer games. In college, I lost friends to games like Quake and Doom. I was occasionally frightened by the way they became glassy-eyed, pale hermits in their darkened rooms, playing these games for hours on end.
Even then, slaying dragons and gunning down masked enemies just never seemed relevant to my life or my business. But with the current array of free on-line real estate investment-themed games available online, I may be at risk of developing my own secret addiction. Here are some of the best I’ve seen. If you know of more, please don’t hesitate to share them with the rest of us.
- One of my favorite REI-themed games, Price Me Now, is available through Zip Realty. The game is all about demonstrating your PropertyIQ, or knowledge of prevailing market home prices in various selected areas. By accurately guessing sales prices, players build their PropertyIQ points and can see how their scores compare to those of others.
- If flipping properties is more your style, Domania hosts Mansion: Impossible. This goal of this deceptively simple game is to buy and sell houses in a cartoon property market to buy a posh $10 million estate. It looks easier than it is, and is a fun exercise for testing your strategy and market timing.
- Flip That House! is a much more complex game that requires registration. Its developers call it: “The real estate cash flow trainer.” Success in this game starts with buying your first time home and doesn’t get any easier. Here, you have to build your real estate empire starting at the bottom and work your way up by dealing with hideous rentals, saving money, negotiating with mortgage brokers, rehabbing your flips, etc. Bad electrical, ruined carpets, leaking roofs, and faulty plumbing may make this game too realistic for many of us to enjoy recreationally, but as you persist, as in life, you’ll see hour portfolio improve.
- Though not available for Mac, Flip or Flop is a game download where you renovate homes, trying to eke out enough capital to save your Grandma’s home from the clutches of foreclosure at the hands of evil mortgage lenders.
I hope that these little amusements offer you a way enjoy your downtime while still keeping your eye on the real estate prize.
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