Having or purchasing a website is very similar to buying actual real estate properties when you think about it. This is true even more so if you are buying the real estate for the sole purpose of renting it out and bringing in residual income every month.

Here is a list of how the two are a like:

• 1) You can generate money off your website every month. If monetized properly this can be a very large sum. (This would be similar to rent collected from a rental property)
• 2) Websites have a homepage that must look inviting and easy to use. Homes have an outside which must look appealing to even bring a potential purchaser inside to view the rest of the house.
• 3) A website has sub pages that must look nice, flow and make sense, similar to the indoors of a home. If this is accomplished this too increases the value of the website or home. For the website users will stay longer if it can be easily navigated and there is good information there. For a home someone would be more apt to buy a home that looks good on the inside too. No one wants a nice homepage and garbage in the inside the same is true no one wants only a house that looks nice from the outside.
• 4) The amount of traffic that a website gets can greatly influence its overall worth the same is true for a rental property in a highly populated area. The value goes up.
• 5) The harder you work at and contribute to either the more profitable they become.
• 6) You pay for hosting of a website and you pay property tax on a home each year.

They say that websites really are the most valuable piece of real estate you can buy when you take into consideration the profit to actual physical size ratio : I like the fact that I have control over making my property "websites" more profitable rather than having the market influence their worth completely.