[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","dateModified":"2022-07-26","datePublished":"2017-12-11","headline":"What Is the Definition of Generational Wealth and How Can I Build It?","image":"https:\/\/moneydoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Build-Generational-Wealth.png","description":"This article is about generational wealth.","name":"Generational Wealth Article","articleBody":"\u201cGenerational wealth\u201d is a term that\u2019s thrown around quite frequently these days.  But what is the definition of generational wealth?  And how you can create generational wealth and build it for you and for your family?  Well, let\u2019s start with the easy part: defining generational wealth.  What Is Generational Wealth? Generational wealth \u2014 also called family wealth or multigenerational wealth or legacy wealth \u2014 is wealth that is passed down from one generation to another.  Now, generational wealth takes many forms.  It can be in the form of traditions and heirlooms, or even biology and good genes.  But typically, when people talk about generational wealth, they\u2019re talking about financial wealth that can be passed down to the next generation.  How Can I Build Generational Wealth? You build generational wealth by acquiring generational assets that you can leave to your heirs.  Assets are anything you own that makes money for you rather than take money out of your pocket.  For example, my dividend-paying stocks are generational assets.  Every few months, I get money deposited into my account because I own these assets.  And when I pass away, I can leave these stocks to the next generation, and they will collect dividends as well.  3 Ways Anyone Can Build Generational Wealth With $25-$500 Obviously the richest of the rich leave assets like hotels and businesses to the next generation.  But, thankfully, there are ways that the rest of us can start building generational wealth today with as little as $25.  Check out these 3 ways that anyone can build generational wealth today.  1. Invest in dividend-paying stocks. We love dividends here at Money Done Right.  When you invest in a dividend-paying stock, you are acquiring a portion of a company that somebody else built and that thousands of other people work for, and they are giving you a portion of their profits. Blows my mind!  There are plenty of great places to open up a stock-investing account, but the one that\u2019s getting us hot and bothered at the moment is Ally Invest.  Ally Invest is great because you can trade dividend stocks for as little as $3.95 per trade compared to $6.95 at E*TRADE and Charles Schwab.  Ally Invest has developed a pretty amazing platform, and no matter if the stock market goes up or done, we still get dividends deposited into our Ally Invest account every quarter!  2. Invest in real estate with as little as $500. In the old days, you needed a lot of money to invest in real estate.  $500 would not have cut it.  But thanks to advances in technology, real estate investing has become democratized.  Now, if you have $500 or $1,000 in your pocket, you can get started investing in real estate through a platform called Fundrise.  Fundrise is the first private market real estate investing platform.  By combining technology with new federal regulations, Fundrise lets you invest in the once-unattainable world of private investments.  3. Lend out money at 4-6% interest. ($25 Minimum) Lending out money is one of the oldest ways to earn passive income. It\u2019s essentially renting out your money for either people to use, and the rent you charge is known as the interest rate.  Now, in the old days, if you wanted to lend money to somebody in particular, you were taking on a pretty risky business, unless he or she put up some form of collateral.  But now, thanks to technology, you can spread out the risk by only lending your money in $25 increments.  How does this work? Well, let\u2019s say Borrower A needs a $25,000 loan.  Instead of going to one entity, like a bank or rich person, to borrow the full $25,000 \u2014 which would be very risky to that one entity \u2014 he or she borrows $25 from 1,000 people.  This scenario presents much less risk because the most any single investor could lose is only $25.  Such an arrangement would have been administratively impossible just 15 years ago.  But thanks to the wonders of the Internet, it is now very possible, and the peer-to-peer lending industry, as it\u2019s known, is thriving for borrowers and investors alike.","author":{"@type":"Person","url":"https:\/\/moneydoneright.com\/author\/nia-simone-mcleod\/","name":"Nia Simone McLeod","description":"Nia Simone McLeod is a personal finance researcher and writer for Money Done Right. 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