Start Here — How to Think About Investing With MIH
Investing success is rarely the result of a single deal or tactic. Instead, it is shaped by how investors think about capital, risk, and decision-making over time.
MIH is built as an education-first platform. The purpose of this section is not to tell you what to buy, but to help you understand how experienced investors reason, especially when conditions change.
This Start Here path introduces the core mental models that guide disciplined investors across market cycles.
How to Use This Section
The articles below are designed to be read in sequence. Each builds on the previous one.
Rather than scanning, take time to absorb the ideas. These frameworks are intentionally evergreen. They are meant to guide judgment long after any single market phase has passed.
The Four Core Frameworks
1. Understand the Role of Your Capital
Before choosing strategies or assets, experienced investors first define the role their capital should play.
This article explains the difference between deploying capital passively and actively, and why that distinction matters more than most people realize.
→ Passive vs Active Investing Explained
2. Learn How Investors Think About Trade-Offs
Every investment choice closes other doors. Opportunity cost is the discipline of recognizing those trade-offs before capital is committed.
This guide shows how investors evaluate opportunity cost across time, risk, and flexibility rather than headline returns.
→ How Investors Think About Opportunity Cost
3. Compare Business Ownership and Real Estate Clearly
Buying a business and buying an apartment building are often discussed together, but they behave very differently under stress.
This article explains when each path makes sense, based on management intensity, risk behavior, and capital preservation priorities.
→ When to Buy a Business vs an Apartment Building
4. Evaluate Opportunity Cost Across Both Paths
The final article brings the frameworks together.
It compares multifamily investing and business acquisition directly through the lens of opportunity cost, showing how experienced investors decide where capital belongs at different stages.
→ Multifamily Investing vs Business Acquisition: Opportunity Cost Explained
What Comes Next
After completing this Start Here sequence, you can explore MIH’s Education & Guides by topic.
From there, you’ll find deeper material on:
- Multifamily investing
- Deal structuring and partnerships
- Underwriting and risk analysis
- Capital allocation and strategy
At every level, the focus remains the same: protecting capital, managing risk, and making decisions that hold up across cycles.
A Final Note
These frameworks are not time-sensitive. They are decision tools.
Investors who revisit them periodically tend to make fewer reactive choices and maintain greater flexibility when markets shift.
That discipline, more than any single opportunity, is what compounds over time.