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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.
With So Many Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate Investing, Where Do You Start? Very early on, starting out as a part-time real estate investor, I recognized the enormous challenges in the vast ocean of real estate but also the numerous opportunities that exist. It can become overwhelming, and almost ...
Profile: Hilda Lunderstedt CEO of Global Operations for Wealth Migrate
Hilda Lunderstedt is on a Mission to Open Investing Opportunities to All Hilda Lunderstedt—successful businessperson, investor and CEO of global operations for Wealth Migrate—has a passion for real estate and for educating investors, particularly women. In this Q&A with Think Realty Magazine, she shares her thoughts on the ways real ...
Student Housing Boom: Increasing Higher-Ed Enrollment Points to Opportunity in Rentals
Student enrollment in U.S. universities and colleges has been on an upward trend for the past decade, and it is expected to continue throughout 2016 and beyond. As President Obama noted in his State of the Union address in January, “By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion ...
Transactions Involving Smaller Commercial Properties are on the Upswing Big trophy properties in larger cities have certainly benefited from the recent strong real estate market, but last year’s bigger story was about the recent resurgence of smaller commercial properties. Transactions involving assets priced under $5 million were at record levels ...
Nothing is as Easy to Buy, Sell, Rent and Manage as Single-Family Houses Single-family houses are the easiest to understand of all real estate investments and the easiest to liquidate. Most people in the United States live in houses, so we are familiar with the care and maintenance a home ...
Investing in Probate Property Gives You a Way to Help Others While Also Benefiting Financially Ever stop to think about all of the different types of property we accumulate throughout our lifetime and what becomes of it when we are no longer around? What happens to someone’s property when he ...
Which One Makes the Most Financial Sense for Your Second Home: Vacation or Long-Term Rental? Second homes are increasing in popularity, with more and more Americans looking to buy vacation property. According to the National Association of Realtors, vacation-home sales accounted for 21 percent of all transactions in 2014, their ...
Bird-Dogging Provides a Way to Ease into Real Estate Investing Since you’re reading this, you probably recognize that real estate investing is one of the best vehicles for making money and achieving long-term financial success. Many people, however, may not have the money, experience or confidence to become real estate ...
There's a Method to Determining Where and Why to Buy Single-Fmaily Houses I recently met an investor of single-family properties who made this statement when I asked him where and why he buys houses: “I am very specific about the single-family homes that I invest in. I only buy three-bedroom, ...
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 ...
