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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.
Profile: Jeffrey Taylor “Mr. Landlord”
With 30 Years' Experience, Jeffrey Taylor Has More Than Earned The Moniker 'Mr. Landlord.' Mr. Landlord, as Jeffrey Taylor is known, is the resource for landlords eager to learn best practices from his 30 years of experience. Taylor says he reaches more do-it-yourself rental owners than any other company through ...
What are the three most important sources of information you read, watch or listen to every day to help you in your investing? I can’t say that I go to any one information source daily. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of random sources and media about real estate investing that ...
Fewer is Better – When Renters Stick Around
Source your tenants carefully and treat them well, and they will help ensure your success. When I look back at my first rental property purchase more than 10 years ago, I am amazed at my good fortune. There were plenty of times, as a part-time real estate investor with a full-time ...
John Warren and lima One Capital Are Leading the Charge for Sensible Lending Options for Real Estate Investors Lima One Capital—a South Carolina-based lender serving residential real estate investors—has become one of the industry’s fastest-growing providers of financing, approving more than $100 million in loans last year. And CEO John ...
Case Study: A House Rehab in Greensboro NC
Editors Note: The following is a case study of one rehab deal, courtesy of John Tesh, who with his wife, Corinne, owns Citygate Home LLC in Greensboro, N.C. We found this house by a referral from a past customer. She knew we paid cash for houses and closed quickly. The owner was ...
A Life-Changing Decision: Investing in Real Estate
Real estate investing—done right—can change your life. It did for Tamara and Jesse Tijerina. Little more than a year ago, they were going about life like many growing, young families do. Jesse had a steady job that he loved and that brought in a good income. Tamara had decided to ...
With so many accomplishments already, Carl Dean seems to have lived a lifetime of success as a real estate investor. But the 30-year-old is just getting started. So what happens when you’re only 30 and you’ve already been wildly successful in a career you love—real estate? If you’re Carl Dean, ...
How Do You move from SFD to Commercial Investing?
As With So Many Things, The Answer Is: It Depends. Here are some tips to help you make the right decision for your situation. READER QUESTION: Right now I’m investing my money in single-family residences. I had no previous experience and have been at it for a year. I’ve done a ...
Buying By The Numbers: 5 Efficient Ways to Find Off-Market House Deals
The Cheaper You Buy, the Better Your Return is Going to Be, Regardless of Your investment Strategy Smart real estate investors know that the secret to true success is finding deals with great numbers. So as a house flipper, in order to increase my profit margins, reduce my risk and ...
Short-Term Rentals Aren't Just for Summer Vacationers Anymore Many homeowners looking to list their houses on popular short-term vacation rental sites like Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey, and Tripping.com wait for summer to cash in on out-of-town vacationers. And it’s not hard to see why—with nearly 17 million people worldwide who booked ...
This is Not Your Grandfather's 'Rooming House.' As students of real estate investing for the last 13 years, we’ve seen—and participated in—quite a few strategies related to single-family and multifamily investing. We have learned a great deal along the way, but one timeless lesson remains far superior to any other: ...
Are You Taking Advantage of the Benefits of Investing in Real Estate Through Your Self-Directed IRA? As April 15 approaches each year, most real estate investors spend some quality time with their accountants or financial advisers. It can be a bittersweet time as they look over their real estate earnings ...
Senior Housing as an Emerging Asset
The senior population in the United States is skyrocketing. By 2030, one in five Americans will be age 65 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, up from one in seven today. As the general population ages, housing needs will also shift. People in their 60s, 70s and beyond ...
All-Cash Buyers Nationwide See Discounted Price Per Square Foot in Q1 2016, RealtyTrac Report Shows
RealtyTrac’s Q1 2016 U.S. Cash & Institutional Investor Housing Market Report shows that all-cash buyers of single-family homes and condos nationwide paid 23 percent less per square foot than all homebuyers, but that cash buyers in 9 percent of local housing markets paid a premium price per square foot. ...
Blanket Bans on Renting to Criminals May Violate Fair Housing Act
Landlords beware: there’s a new housing sheriff in town and he wants you to rent your property to tenants who are murderers, rapists, thieves — and other criminals. “The fact that you were arrested shouldn’t keep you from getting a job, and it shouldn’t keep you from renting a home,” ...
Fannie Mae Reports Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rate Down in March
Fannie Mae's has released its March 2016 Monthly Summary, containing information about the mortgage provider’s monthly and year-to-date activities for its gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, serious delinquency rates and loan modifications. Among the reports highlights: The Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rate decreased ...
The Good News: Real Estate Is Booming. The Bad News: Real Estate Is Booming.
There’s little argument that the real estate market right now is hot. That’s good news for real estate investors, but it’s also bad—or let’s instead call it “challenging”—news. While the level of activity varies among different markets, we are seeing one of the highest residential real estate markets since back ...
A Guide to Choosing a Self-Directed IRA Provider Chances are, you’ve been hearing about self-directed individual retirement accounts ever since you started investing in real estate. On the surface, self-directed IRAs seem cumbersome and complex. When tax rates are low, self-directed IRAs may not seem worth the trouble. But any ...
One of the great thing about the world of real estate investing is that it represents fantastic opportunities for people who can find more than one way to solve a problem—people like Emil Khodorkovsky, the president of Forbix Capital Corp., a California-based boutique mortgage banker for residential and commercial loans ...
U.S. Home Sellers’ Price Gains in March 2016 Highest Since December 2007
RealtyTrac’s March and Q1 2016 U.S. Home Sales report shows that U.S. home sellers in March on average sold for $30,500 more than their purchase price, a 17 percent average gain in price — the highest average price gain for home sellers in any month since December 2007 at the ...
How to Calculate the Worth of Your Investment Property
Investing in real estate is often considered a profitable path to gain financial freedom. However, it involves making huge investment—and that is where it gets tricky. Investors are lured by the notion of making easy money from the booming property prices, which often leads to wrong and hasty decisions. So, ...
Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment
An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
Chicago: Lessons from the most beat-up housing market in the country
For years, our thesis has been that the national downturn and recovery (in blue below) will play out similarly to the mid-1980s downturn in Houston (in orange below) and the early-1990s downturn in Southern California (in green below) because both the job losses and bank/savings and loan destructions were similar ...
Determine the Option That Best Aligns with Your Investment Goals Experienced investors and real estate professionals are aware that real estate can be a cornerstone of their IRAs. Real estate is an asset that adds diversity to account holders’ retirement portfolios. Account holders can find a reprieve from the volatility ...
Self-Directed IRA Investor's Guide to Contributions, Transfers and Rollovers Welcome to the world of self-directed IRAs! Guess what? These powerful investment tools are just like regular IRAs in so many ways (except for investing). Just as with a typical IRA, a self-directed IRA can be funded in three ways: 1 ...
