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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.
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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.
There are definite habits and traits that separate part-time and beginning real estate investors who are successful from those who are not. There are so many, in fact, that we can’t cover them all in one article. So let’s just focus on one contrast in particular. As is often the ...
Twin Cities Real Estate Investing in 2016
The Twin Cities are ideally situated to generate wealth for investors hoping to access mid-range buyers who value family, safety and stability. A True ‘Crystal-Ball Market’ In 2014, Trulia researchers, headed by the website’s chief economist, Jed Kolko, pulled all the available housing data from the past 24 years on ...
The 2016 Twin Cities Housing Market At A Glance
The Twin Cities housing market has become a buyer's market in 2016 thanks to an improving economy, a lower jobless rate and rising equity. A lack of inventory is slowly pushing up sales prices. But the recovery is uneven, with some areas seeing fast appreciation, while others are languishing, according ...
Why You Need to Become a Real Estate Agent
For many residential real estate investors, it’s still not the typical way of doing business. But if you want to power up your operations, you need to seriously consider becoming a licensed real estate agent, according to Angie and Dan Francis, the owners of Texas-based StepStone Realty. Being both an ...
Like every industry, real estate has been going through a transformation over the last few years. Where it was once possible to find many properties to purchase and either rehabilitate, sell or use as rental properties for cash flow, it can now be quite challenging. Approaches that used to work ...
Who could have predicted that experience trading stock options, starting ministries and hunting elk would combine to form a successful real estate investment company? That’s the interesting path Kent Davis and Chuck Bates have traveled as co-founders of Equistream, formerly Kingdom First Holdings, based in Tampa, Fla. Today, Equistream buys large ...
I don’t ever get any good leads …” “You can’t get deals like that where I live …” These are just some of the statements I hear all the time from real estate investors who haven’t honed their lead-to-deal conversion ninja skills. Mostly likely, the problem isn’t that they aren’t ...
Mixed-use developments are communities within the community, a mix of residential units over retail, including restaurants, convenience stores and medical offices. Residents can socialize and sometimes work in the building as well as live there, and if they need to venture to other parts of the city, nearby public transportation ...
You’re on the Road to Real Estate Investing, but is it the Right Road for Success?
As we hit the midyear point, it’s a good time for an investor to ask himself or herself some key questions: How do I find the road to real estate investing success? And, once I find it, what am I supposed to do? Before you can even find which road ...
After experiencing a disappointing 2014, the Phoenix new-home market steadily improved throughout 2015—and the positive momentum has carried into this year. Buyer demand increased sharply over the past year and a half, with builders experiencing rising net sales per community. Net prices finally stabilized in mid-2015 and trended upward after ...
While it may be today’s favorite buzzword—and a much-overused one —brand is a business essential that you must leverage effectively. The very survival of your business depends on it. Without a vivid understanding of how proper branding affects your business and your ability to promote it, you are doomed to ...
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Six Essentials for Wealth and Happiness
As we get older, time goes by much faster than when we were growing up—or at least that’s the way it appears to me. When I was an adolescent, I wanted to be older. After graduating high school, then college and raising a family, a funny thing happened—it’s like, “Where ...
Hundreds Converge to Discuss the Single-Family-Home Investing Craze
Recently I attended a three-day event in Miami focused on single-family home investing. In fact, I had the privilege of meeting some of you readers there. I was honored to be a moderator on one of the panels where I met the “who’s who” in real estate investing. It was ...
Investing in Real Estate Improves Lives as Well as Property
This post’s topic is evergreen—always relevant—because there is always room for improvement in your real estate investing. It all starts with a state of mind. I base this on my own experience. I have been investing in real estate for over 10 years in Dallas. I started as a part-time ...
The One That Got Away—A Sweet Deal Gone Bad
You learn just as much—sometimes even more—from a failed deal as from a successful one. So today, we bring you the story of “one that got away.” Unfortunate, but an interesting story nonetheless, which I tell in Episode 23 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk.” Story time! The ...
Real Estate Investing is Not All Black-and-White. Success is in the Gray Zone
To the outside observer, real estate investing may look fairly black-and-white. But it’s actually more complicated than that. There is a gray zone that both constitutes the reason real estate investors exist and is the area in which those investors provide their greatest value. Let me explain what I mean, ...
Home Flipping Increases 20 Percent In Q1 2016 to a 2-Year High
Home flipping activity increased 20 percent to a two-year high in Q1 2016, according to new figures from RealtyTrac. scr The national housing data provider’s just-released Q1 2016 U.S. Home Flipping Report shows that 6.6 percent (43,740) of all single-family home and condo sales in the first quarter of 2016 ...
The part-time real estate investor is suddenly in demand
When I look at the successful part-time investors — and I draw on my own experience here in Dallas where I started as a part-time investor — I see them succeed when they treat it like a business. It is not a hobby or get-rich-quick solution, and it’s not a ...
How to Select the Best Home Improvements to Increase Resale Value
It’s tough to know which home improvement projects are worth your time when the ultimate goal is to increase your return on the investment (ROI). Many home upgrades cost more to complete with supplies and labor than they recoup. According to Remodeling Magazine, on average, only 64.4 percent of home ...
Homeownership More Profitable for Single Men Than Single Women, According to New RealtyTrac Analysis
An analysis by leading housing data provider RealtyTrac shows that homes owned by single men on average are valued 10 percent more and have appreciated $10,112 (16 percent) more since purchase than homes owned by single women. The analysis covered more than 2.1 million single-family homes nationwide owned by either ...
Getting the most bang for your rehabbing buck
It seems like with all the TV shows out there nowadays, everybody has heard the term “fix-and-flip.” But what does that really mean, and will that be a viable strategy for you as an investor? Very simply, fix-and-flip involves buying a property at a discounted cost, renovating (or fixing) it, ...
Website identifies location of more than 300 natural gas underground storage facilities
Leading housing data provider RealtyTrac, through its pre-diligence website, www.HomeDisclosure.com, has identified the locations of more than 300 natural gas underground storage facilities across the county. Investors and consumers alike can now use HomeDisclosure.com to find out if a home they’re interested in buying or renting is near any one ...
This is a terrible house, so why am I excited? Profit, baby!
I love this deal! We are under contract for this house for $60,000. As you can see in the video for Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 22, it is in terrible condition. So why am I excited? Because of what’s going on across the street. That is a one-story, three-bedroom, ...
Passive Investing in Active Value-Add Real Estate
Many of the most interesting real estate investment opportunities involve “value-add” situations—renovation or redevelopment projects that aim at repositioning a property to a higher price point. The value-add strategy is often considered to have medium to high risk, but the returns can be potentially high as well. The Different Approaches ...
