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Want to work from home? There is a lot of ways to make money from a home based business. Two major sources of income are real estate investing and internet business. Both of them have their pros and cons but which is better?

Real estate offers huge payoffs to the creative investor who works hard. But thats just the problem. In order to get paid with real estate you always have to be working. If you stop looking for properties and writing offers the money stops too. There is an exception if you have the luxury of buying large pieces of property and having someone else manage them. But for the rookie investor this isnt an option.

So what are the experts doing? What are Robert Allen, Ron LaGrande, and Carlton Sheets doing with their expert knowledge? Lets discuss what they arent doing. They arent scouring the newspaper looking for public notice foreclosures. They arent knocking doors making offers to desperate sellers. They arent sending form letters to out-of-state property owners. Do you know why they arent doing any of the things they know so much about? Because it requires too much work.

Instead of being knee deep in real estate they are making their money teaching people how to invest for themselves. They arent real estate investors anymore, they are information marketers. These experts moved from real estate investing to information marketing because there is easier money in selling information.

Selling information gives you many advantages over any other business model. The first advantage is that selling information has great margins. This means you for every dollar you spend on expenses you can get 2, 3, or 10 dollars of return. They wrote their material one time and sell it over and over again. It doesnt cost them any thing extra after they get the system up and going.

The easiest, fastest, way to sell information is through the internet. Setting up an internet business requires very little risk and investment. Unlike real estate investing which requires a lot of personal risk. If one real estate deal falls apart you could lose your home or destroy your credit. If your internet business fails nothing major is at risk.

The chance of your internet business failing is a lot lower too. If you do your research and avoid spamming techniques theres little that can destroy your little business. With real estate, on the other hand, there are hundreds of ways for a deal to fall to pieces. Things like shifts in market, unexpected expenses, and people flaking out can all cause your real estate investing to sour.

The real clincher for an internet business being better than real estate investing is this: passive income. Passive income is a powerful force. Your internet business will make you money while you sleep, while youre on vacation, and while youre doing other things. Some real estate investors will probably bring up rental properties. Isnt that passive income? My wifes parents have a lot of rental properties and they are always chasing down payments, fixing things, or paying the bills. Its really not as passive as it first appears.

So, lets leave real estate investing to people that dont know better and do what real estate gurus are doing instead; selling information online.

Matthew Ryan is the owner of Online Internet Business Opportunity. Learn more about starting home based internet businesses or a home based internet marketing business that really work. Find out how to start scam free, spam free, money making internet businesses.