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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.
Real Estate Investing Success: As Simple as One, Two, Three
If you've ever looked in the self-help section for books on success, you'll soon realize that everybody has a system. Whether it is the 9 Habits from Rich Habits by Tom Corley, the 7 Habits by Stephen Covey, or the 8 Steps to Success by Andy Albright, those who are ...
Tips For Managing Mold In Your Rental Property
In cyberspace, there is a wealth of information available about mold. You could read hours’ worth of studies on how mycotoxins affect the immune system, exacerbate allergies and the like, but what information is most important for you as a real estate investor to know? Let’s discuss the basics of ...
One-to-one with Joe Fairless: Offering Advice
Joe Fairless is founder of Fairless Investing and host of the “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever” podcast. Fairless Investing controls more than $99 million in multifamily units, primarily in Dallas and Houston, and provides turnkey investments to real estate investors. Joe Fairless also hosts the world’s longest-running daily real ...
Should You Consider a Solo 401(k)?
As we move toward tax time, many real estate investors are reeling from the amount of money they owe Uncle Sam. I’m surprised they don’t spend more time doing something about it. I deal with real estate investors on a daily basis, and I’m always impressed with their creativity, independence ...
Tax-Saving Tips Every Landlord Should Know
Tax time is looming – again. This means that landlords across the country are compiling expense and income reports, and rushing to get their taxes in before the deadline, which this year is April 18. While tax time has to be the most tedious time of the year for landlords ...
Property Value Directly Impacts Rental Rates
When a property is marketed for rent, its curb appeal, neighborhood quality and location all affect the base monthly rate. Some homes do not require incentives to attract tenants, and some do. The difference between a home that will rent easier than another depends on several factors. Although the location ...
Remove Odors From Your Investment Properties
From pet urine or mold in a newly acquired property to that smell you can’t quite put your finger on after a tenant moves out, odor is an issue all investors tackle at one point, and unfortunately, there’s a lot at stake. Odors often mean more days on the market ...
Strategic Approaches to Purchasing Investment Properties
Investors, brokers and many real estate agents are constantly on the hunt to purchase properties that can yield a high rate of profitability and a solid return on investment. Whether it’s a short sale, a small fixer-upper or a major rehab project, the rewards can be significant with the proper ...
Why RE Investors Must Have A Social Presence Online
The wealth of social media platforms that real estate investors have available to find deals, attract funding and meet other like-minded people is unprecedented, yet many investors aren’t taking advantage of them, says an owner of a social media management company that helps real estate investors manage their social media ...
6 House Flipping Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Flipping a property, or purchasing for a quick resale profit, can be a worthwhile investment. If everything goes according to plan, it can provide a very large, profitable reward in a short amount of time—sometimes even a few months. For people who plan to get into real estate investing, flipping ...
Pending Home Sales Down in January ’17
Insufficient supply levels led to a lull in contract activity in the Midwest and West, which dragged down pending home sales in January 2017 to their lowest level in a year, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, ...
Cities with Most Underwater Mortgages Still Offer the Best Bargains
Another one million previously underwater homes are now above the water line. ATTOM Data Solutions released its 2016 Year End Home Equity and Underwater Report that shows just 5.4 million properties are still seriously underwater. Let’s take a look at what this all means for investors. While 5.4 million properties ...
Encouraging News for SFR Investors
Good news for investors of single-family rentals: Market stability appears to be gaining steam, as RentRange’s Q4 2016 data shows a lessening percentage change between quarters while rent rates continue to increase. “As we begin 2017, it continues to look bright for single-family rental investors,” said Wally Charnoff, chief executive ...
Woman: Carrie Cook Company: Preferred Trust Company, Ignite Funding Place in the Industry When Carrie Cook says success in real estate is earned - she knows what she’s talking about. “I do not have an Ivy League education. In fact, I didn’t go to college until 10 years after I graduated high ...
Hope for the Design-challenged Renovator
It became clear pretty quickly that the one area where we were ill-equipped for this renovation was in the area of DESIGN. While I love to watch HGTV, it overwhelmed me to have to pick out paint colors for the rental house, and because neither my husband, Lucas, nor I ...
Be the Best Version of Yourself
There are real estate investors out there who are striving to be their best. Yet there are a lot of real estate investors who are not even sure what they should be good at. This was me, more than 10 years ago. As I did my due diligence and pondered ...
Property Management: Why You Should do it Yourself
Investing in real estate provides investors with more control over their money than most investing vehicles. Rather than putting your money into a fund and having someone else decide where it goes while you watch the numbers go up or down, real estate allows you to determine exactly what you ...
Policy Uncertainty Clouds Growth Expectations
Conservative growth expectations for 2017 persist as the markets continue to weigh the unfolding policies of the new administration, according to the Fannie Mae Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group's February 2017 Economic and Housing Outlook, released on Feb. 16, 2017. The full-year economic growth forecast remains unchanged from last ...
Woman: Sonia Booker Company: Sonia Booker Enterprises Place in the Industry When Sonia started investing more than two decades ago, “I did it all,” she says. That doesn’t seem to have changed much. The self-described wealth-builder and thought leader not only buys and rehabs single-family properties for sale and rental ...
Kathy Fettke Stresses Investors’ Need to Understand Market Cycles “I’m going to depress all of you, and offend about half of you,” Kathy Fettke, co-founder of California’s Real Wealth Network (RWN), said as she kicked off her 2017 Market Predictions session at the Think Realty San Diego Group Event Feb ...
Five Steps to Flipping Properties for $100,000 a Year
REVTRAC’s Ryan McFarland Explains the Science of Successful Investing When it comes to flipping properties, Ryan McFarland of the Real Estate Veterans Training Academy (REVTRAC), has the process down to a science. REVTRAC was founded by Chris Bedgood, star of A&E’s “Flipping San Diego” and provides training to real estate ...
Using Knowledge to Overcome Fear
SDIC Co-Founder Imran Clark Says Education is Key What drives people to real estate from every walk of life? Imran Clark, co-founder of the San Diego Investment Club (SDIC) has a very simple answer: “At the end of the day, most of us really like hanging out with our families ...
The Truth About Diversifying Your Investment Portfolio
Ignite’s Bill Bray Makes the Case for Variation Sometimes, words that get thrown around in investing don’t mean what you think they mean, and a great example of this is the word “diversifying.” Bill Bray, an investment agent at Ignite Funding, delved into this particular misconception in detail at the ...
When Buying Ugly Yields Pretty Results
Equistream’s Kent Davis Shares His Expertise at Think Realty San Diego Event Kent Davis, co-founder of Equistream and longtime pastor and missionary, starts everything out with a bang, including his general session at the Feb. 18, 2017, Think Realty San Diego Group Event. Within five minutes of his introduction, Davis covered ...
Budget-Busting Property Insurance Myths
Don’t Let These Property Insurance Myths Kill Your Real Estate Investments, Advises Shawn Woedl What you don’t know can hurt you, especially if what you don’t know has to do with your passive real estate investment. Shawn Woedl, senior vice president of REIGuard, a provider of property insurance specifically for ...
