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Ready to get your read on? Dive into the article archive to help you build wealth through real estate investing. We feature top subject matter experts exploring every facet of the industry.
An Understanding of Private Equity Funds Will Help Smaller Investors Move Beyond Single-Family into Commercial Real Estate Commercial real estate investments bring immense benefits that an investor is hard-pressed to achieve with a portfolio that is limited to single-family homes. However, individual investors traditionally have shied away from this asset ...
The Customer is Always Right There
Your Relationship with Your Clients is of Utmost Importance, So Set the Right Tone from the Start The customer relationship is vital to the success of any business. As real estate investors, we operate a unique type of business, but that doesn’t mean the value of relationships is any less ...
Did You Know You Have Five Profit Centers in Each of Your Rental Properties When You Keep Them for The Long Term? Most investment opportunities have one potential profit center. When you buy an index fund or a mutual fund or gold, for example, all you can really do is ...
Choosing the Right Entry and Exit Strategies Will Help Ensure a Positive Outcome for Your Fix-and-Flip Deals When you watch our show on HGTV, you usually see me and my wife going through a lot of crazy things while we fix and flip houses for our real estate investing business ...
Playing to Win with Mobile Homes
In Real-Life Real Estate Investing, It Is About Whether You Win or Lose Have you ever played Monopoly and through well-played strategy ended up with expensive, money-making properties? Did you always win the game when you played? I will admit to being competitive when I play games. And I will ...
Founders Brandon Thompson and Will Hardy Have Found a Formula for Successful Growth of Their Company, Investor Network, and They Freely Share It There’s no grass growing under the foundation of one Atlanta-based investment company. Investor Network is on the move. Not ones to be idle, founders Brandon Thompson and ...
International investors swooped in when the U.S. economy faltered. Now that the dollar is regaining strength, they're still here. America – the land of the free, home of the brave and beacon to international real estate investors? While Francis Scott Key might spin in his grave with that last phrase, ...
The Most Important Real Estate Investing Lesson
A good real estate lesson doesn't have to break the bank. At Think Realty, learn how to separate the 'real-deal' educators from real estate investing gurus and scammers. In real estate investing, as in other aspects of life, education is the foundation for success. But it’s not as simple as ...
You Owe It to Yourself to Learn About Crowdfunding
In Episode 16 of my video series, Real Estate Deal Talk, I want to give you a little piece of advice on how to raise capital. One of the ways that we have been able to get money for our deals is through crowdfunding. Now, there are a lot ...
Think Realty Awards of Distinction Honor Leaders in Real Estate Investing
Think Realty Magazine, the nation’s oldest continuously publishing news magazine dedicated to individual real estate investing, honors 19 outstanding leaders in the industry niche with the 2016 Think Realty Awards of Distinction. The prestigious awards will be presented in August in San Francisco as part of Think Realty’s Global Conference, an ...
I Want to Invest in Real Estate, But Now What?
“OK, I know I want to invest in real estate—but now what?” That’s a question that every real estate investor—whether full-time, part-time or just thinking about it—has asked himself or herself at some point. And that leads to a whole bunch of other questions, including: What do you do? Where ...
Nationwide Foreclosure Activity Drops to Lowest Level in More Than Nine Years
RealtyTrac’s just-released Q1 and March 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ shows first quarter foreclosure activity was below pre-recession levels in 78 out of 216 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (36 percent) analyzed in the report. Nationwide, the report shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—on 289,116 U.S. properties in ...
Homeownership No Longer Has Tax Savings
We believe we have found one of the primary reasons why entry-level home buying has not recovered—and why homeownership has been plunging. For decades, homeowners benefitted from both the financial and psychological benefits of paying less taxes. Homeownership came with income tax savings because mortgage interest plus property taxes easily exceeded ...
7 Common Landlording Mistakes to Avoid
In the landlording business, we make lots of mistakes. Indeed, there would be no successes if we did not encounter some mistakes along the way. It is these mistakes that cultivate our systems for success. The idea, of course, is to run a profitable, stress-free business. We take what works ...
Understanding Equity Real Estate Investments Through Direct Participation Vehicles
By Lawrence Fassler Some real estate crowdfunding companies offer equity real estate investments through “direct participation” investment vehicles such as limited liability companies (LLCs). These entities, together with similar vehicles at the property title-holding level, allow for the “pass-through” of depreciation, interest expense and other deductions that can reduce or ...
The Essential Commercial Property Checklist
When it comes to successfully investing in real estate, due diligence and proper research are strongly required and an investing checklist is invaluable. No. 1 – Population Growth and Diverse Economic Activity My goal is to invest in areas of strong growth. We never want to invest in unstable or ...
Seattle Again Tops List of “Hottest” U.S. Single-Family Markets
By The Editors Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Palm Beach County and Fort Lauderdale took the top spots on Ten-X’s recently released Top Single-Family Housing Markets Report for Spring 2016. These markets have displayed the most consistent combination of rising home prices, home appreciation, favorable affordability and excellent economic and demographic conditions ...
Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments
Should you focus your attention on big deals or smaller ones? This is a question that applies not only to part-time real estate investors, but full-time investors as well. Let’s take a look at how you can determine which one is best for your circumstances. To provide some perspective, I’d ...
Real Estate Roller-Coaster Expected to Keep Heading Up in 2016
To say the housing market has seen a few ups and downs over the past decade would be an understatement at best. Even with a couple of good solid years under the belt in 2014 and 2015, many people are still feeling a little uncertain when it comes to the ...
The 20% of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before
Did you know that 20 percent of investors succeed while 80 percent do not? So says the Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, and it applies to everything we do in life. For example, do you know that you wear 20 percent of the clothes in your closet ...
Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business
Here it is, mid-March of 2016, and right around the corner is next month’s NFL draft. You have owners, coaches and managers working diligently and strategically to pick their team members for the upcoming fall football season. The level of intensity and effort and diligence that they use is no ...
3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor
Over the years I have been involved in hundreds of investment property purchases, which prompts a lot of how-to questions. Perhaps the most highly sought-after answer is to the question of where to find the best properties. Wow, that question has lots of different answers, but there is one that ...
Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby
As you hear so often—and you’ve heard it from me, too—in order to be successful in real estate investing, you have to treat it as a business. But what exactly does that mean? From my experience as a real estate investor and a HomeVestors franchisee in Dallas, I’ll share some ...
U.S. Home Sellers In 2015 Realized Biggest Price Gains Since 2007
RealtyTrac’s Year-End 2015 U.S. Home Sales Report shows that U.S. home sellers in 2015 realized an average price gain since purchase of 11 percent ($20,378), the biggest average price gain for U.S. home sellers since 2007 — an eight-year high. The 11 percent average price gain in 2015 marked the ...
