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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.
Tap into Private Lending When Buying a Short-Term Rental
Until recently, the private lending world had significant concerns about the consistency of income from short-term rentals. Lenders are much more comfortable with an annual lease for a defined rental amount, which results in a low risk of significant vacancy. With the explosive growth of Airbnb and VRBO, however, more ...
Why Using Credit Scores to Screen Tenants Is a Big Mistake
Everything and everyone in the property management industry teaches us to use credit scores to screen tenants. We are taught to pull credit scores and rent only to prospective tenants with good credit scores. If you are following this practice, you are making a big mistake. In fact, it could ...
PlanOmatic Survey Reveals How Single-Family Rental Investors and Owners Utilize Property Data
PlanOmatic, a provider of property insights and marketing services for the single-family rental (SFR) industry nationwide has released the results from its November 2021 survey highlighting how SFR investors, owners, and developers use property data and technology. SFR investors collect and use property data for various reasons, but surprisingly, many ...
FREE WEBINAR! Real Estate Investors’ and Lenders Guide to Digital Marketing
Think Realty is providing you with another FREE WEBINAR! On April 26th at 2PM (CST), Angela Barleen from iFocus Marketing will be speaking about digital marketing and how to use it to grow your business. From this webinar you will learn: • How to evaluate your business's digital presence and ...
Springtime Property Inspections
Springtime ushers in warmer days and blooming trees. It’s also a strategic time of year to inspect the overall health of your rental property. You should ensure you are scheduling time annually to perform property inspections checks; specifically, spring is a good time of year to inspect for any damage ...
5 Educational Tools at Every Investor’s Fingertips
If long-term success is your goal as a real estate investor, it’s imperative to maintain your hunger for knowledge. One of the biggest mistakes an investor can make is assuming they’ve learned everything they need to know. Complacency will crush you in this industry. The two things you’ll need to ...
Why Real Estate Investors Are Buying Homes at a Record High
A new report revealed that real estate investors are buying a large percentage of U.S. homes that hit the market. Investor-purchased homes accounted for more than 18% of all sales in the fourth quarter of 2021. In December of that year, investors purchased nearly 44% more homes — more than ...
Is Real Estate Education Still Needed?
As an 18-year veteran and third-generation real estate investor, I feel like I have seen it all. I have seen the market cycles, both the ups and the downs. I have seen people make hundreds of millions, and I have seen some of the most gruesome losses. For me, real ...
Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Market Crash in 2022?
I was hoping the article title would get your attention. First, am I 100% sure a crash is coming? Yes! Am I 100% sure it’s going to happen in 2022? No, but I really do feel in my gut it is going to happen in 2022. Obviously, on Jan. 1, ...
Think Realty’s New Government Relations Committee Identifies First Key Issue
Welcome to the first Legislative Lookout brought to you by the Government Relations Committee at Think Realty. Our aim is to provide you with a quick update on what we have been working on, specifically as it relates to issues that impact real estate investors and stakeholders such as yourself ...
3 Smart Business Ideas for 2022
Innovation is not the only challenge you face as a business owner. You’re probably also searching for the next big idea that will lead to business success. An idea can succeed for many reasons. It’s often about timing. A clever idea won’t work if you don’t launch it at the ...
What to Look for When Choosing Floor Plan Software (and 3 Tips for Creating the Perfect Floor Plan)
Putting together floor plans is simple thanks to the myriad software solutions designed to streamline this process. Of course if you aren’t familiar with the market and you don’t know what separates the top options from their second rate rivals, it’s easy to be baffled by the choices you face ...
Don’t Become the Prey in Today’s Predatory Sellers’ Market
In today’s red-hot real estate market, sellers can be almost predatory. Bidding wars, minimal due diligence times, and larger deposits make it tough for lenders to feel comfortable with their deals. In this type of environment, it is more important than ever to protect yourself. Lenders have well-established ways of ...
What the Heck Is Lead Generation, Anyway?
For many investors, new and experienced alike, deciding which lead generation source is the best option can be a daunting task. There are a few ways to simplify the process and bypass unnecessary headaches. The process begins with a clear understanding of the following: Exactly what lead generation is (and ...
Prioritize Your Personal Development
The biggest investment you can make is in yourself. No doubt you’ve heard that sentiment before, in one form or another. Most people would agree with the idea, yet when it comes to applying it—that is, making the investment—many miss the mark. As an entrepreneur, by nature, you have an ...
Market Spotlight: Baltimore, Maryland
Good morning, Baltimore! Whatever your reference point for Baltimore—the Ravens and Orioles, steamed crabs, or the site of many John Waters movies (including Hairspray)—this close neighbor of Washington, D.C., has potential for investment you may not have considered. Historically, Baltimore is where “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written during a siege ...
5 Common Photography Mistakes When Listing Rentals
Do you shop more online or in-person? We’re willing to wager you often start your shopping journey online (like us). So do renters. Without standout photography, potential renters will skim over your property and ignore it. Many real estate photographers make the same mistakes repeatedly. We’re outlining the five most ...
Investing with Turnkey Rental Real Estate
What if I said you could invest in the hottest markets in the country and have the support from teams that have been helping investors accomplish this goal for two decades? What if I also told you that you could do this from the comfort of your own home? Rent ...
5 Ways Investors Continue to Improve New York City
It seems impossible to make a city like New York any better than it is, but some investors are up to the challenge. While it may feel like all the properties in the Big Apple are taken, wise investors know that there is still money to be made and that ...
Why Multifamily Is in a Good Spot
The markets for apartment rentals and home and condo purchases usually move in opposite directions. A strong housing market is generally accompanied by soft rental markets and vice versa. However, as the real estate market recovered and housing demand steadily increased over the past decade since the financial crisis, the ...
9 Do’s and Don’ts for Going the Distance with Rental Property
In 2022, real estate investors are facing a very different market than they did in 2020. Where fix-and-flip properties were an appealing draw two years ago, the outlook has changed. According to ATTOM Data, profit margins for real estate shrank to 33.5% in late 2021, which is the largest dip ...
Proposed California bill would tax nearly all residences sold within 7 years of purchase
The additional tax would decline in annual increments until the property has been owned for more than seven years. Legislators proposed AB 1771, also known as the California Housing Speculation Act, on the misguided notion that soaring prices of California homes are driven by investor-purchasers of residential properties in California. The ...
Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?
A recent case has shed light on one of the riskiest retirement plan strategies offered by promoters. In McNulty v. Commissioner (157 T.C. 10), a U.S. Tax Court provided clarity to the scheme of using self-directed IRAs for personal investments. Although the rules are strict, they had become lax and ...
How Can You Benefit From the BRRRR Method?
There are countless ways for real estate investors to create passive income opportunities. One of those is BRRRR, or ”Buy, Renovate, Rent, Refinance, and Repeat.” When applied correctly, the BRRRR method is a leading technique for investors who want to use one investment property to fund another. Unlike the average ...
Top Reasons to Invest in Texas
Which market in Texas is the best one to invest in? The answer is all of them. Last year in Texas, single-family housing sales ended 6.1% higher at 416,488 units sold. The average and median prices increased to $372,656 and $300,000, up 18.1% and 15.7% respectively from 2020 according to ...
