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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.
Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage
Did you notice how the government didn’t place rent restrictions, moratoriums, etc. on self-storage during the pandemic? That’s because they not focused on someone’s stuff that has been collecting dust for years sitting in a metal box. While single and multi-family landlords have been feeling the heat, self-storage is gaining ...
Political Advocacy in the REI Industry
Every year in every state capital and every day in Washington, D.C. and your local town, politicians get together to pass laws. The simple truth is that most Americans blissfully go about their day with no knowledge that elected officials meeting behind closed doors are in the process of “goring ...
5 Factors for Real REI Success
Many real estate investors tend to get caught in the trap of believing that since we have been investing in real estate for years that we have that many years of experience. “How many years of experience do you have?” “I’ve got 18 years of experience in real estate investing,” ...
The Abstract Side of Real Estate
What does it even mean to invest in real estate? Historically, you buy a building. You develop. You occupy. You rent. You manage. Real estate has always been, literally, something real and tangible, something you can touch. But over time, as with every other investment type, real estate has become ...
Bursting the Real Estate Bubble Concerns
While it might feel like we’re in a similar housing market bubble circa 2006, it’s not the same. In order for there to be a bubble in the first place, there has to be a catalyst that causes the housing market to crash. Historically, there are a variety of factors ...
The New Think Realty Government Relations Committee
Earlier this year, Think Realty started its own Government Relations Committee (GRC) to help spur REI-friendly legislation in state legislatures and Congress. The Why Behind the Movement Tackling issues like these often starts with semantics. In Think Realty’s Realty Matters article series last year, contributor Brian Wojcik spoke about the ...
With travel picking up again, short-term rental hosts are fully engaged to capitalize on the excitement. But in the rush to attain some semblance of new normalcy, it’s important that owners take a moment to understand new efforts to enforce marketplace legislation around lodging, lest they trip into the myriad ...
Add Value to Your Home With These Upgrades
Timing for an upgrade to your home, or even home improvements, might never be perfect, but now is as good a time as any to begin the projects you want to complete. While you might have no interest right now in selling, that doesn’t mean you need to put that ...
The Indispensable Guide to Selling Your Home
Ready to sell your home? If you’re feeling the pull to put your home up for sale, it helps to know the best strategic moves to be successful. Curious about how to get the best results when it comes to selling your home? Here are key considerations to guide your ...
3 Ways to Invest in the UK Property Market
The UK property market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007, with nearly £500bn (~$680bn) in home sales and annual house price inflation currently averaging 13% across the country. Many analysts are forecasting continued momentum in the UK market, despite potential headwinds such as increased living costs ...
New Study Reveals Growing Disparity Between Income and Home Prices Nationwide
It’s not just you — buying a home has objectively gotten a lot more difficult the past several years. That’s one of the primary findings of a new study by Real Estate Witch, which uses an analysis of publicly available U.S. Census data to paint a disturbing picture of the ...
Top 3 Property Management Solutions Perfect for DIY Landlords
Being a self-employed landlord can be challenging. Although many newbie landlords are still collecting paper applications and receiving payments by check, it is much simpler to use helpful digital tools to manage rentals more effectively and save more time to expand businesses, grow portfolios, and spend quality time with their ...
Looking to Sell? Here Are Your Best Options
Not long ago, homeowners wishing to sell their houses only had one option. They called a real estate agent. The agent showed their home, had open houses, and eventually sold their house. It was the accepted (and only) method of selling, so homeowners went with it. Today’s real estate market ...
Like many real estate investors, the 2008 market crash caused Jorge Abreu to re-evaluate his career and his future. His next steps, however, were likely not the same as the path forward for others: He moved halfway across the country with his fiancée and a lifelong friend, renting a home ...
Property Development Is About People
It is easy to get lost in the finer points of property development when there are so many moving pieces that developers are responsible for managing. Between acquiring professional teams, project deadlines, budget revisions, risk management, and compliance with local ordinances, a developer must always be on call. The most ...
Renovating homes for a living is of course a numbers game. Buy low, have a reasonable renovation budget to work with, and hope to turn a profit in the end. The buying and selling are reasonably simple. It’s the in between part that can get tricky for investors! What, where, ...
Technology for Sustainable Communities
In nearly every industry the trend has been for smaller, customized, agile, and modular capabilities. Even in real estate we now see planned developments with retail, office, and housing co-located. And everywhere that these types of approaches are used they result in better, more robust products. They make life better ...
Gentrification vs. Revitalization
There are multiple points of view between gentrifying a neighborhood and revitalizing one. A lot of words like segregation, colonialism, and racism are often used when discussing these two points. I’m not here to discuss these concepts and will leave that to sociologists. My goal is to visit both ideas ...
When I got into this business five years ago, I quickly picked up on the negative connotations associated with wholesaling. I also quickly understood why there were so many negative stereotypes about wholesaling and wholesalers. In my market of Indianapolis, there are many legit wholesalers that are truly trying to ...
Securing trustworthy renters is an ongoing challenge and migraine-inducing process for property managers. Screening applications for fraudulent data and document fabrication to decrease eviction rates and rental fee defaults down the road is a top priority. Property managers, with small to large rental inventories, need screening tools that provide reliable ...
Which Type of Lender Is Right for You?
Lenders come in all shapes and sizes. Investors often don’t have a solid understanding of the different types of lending entities, how they are structured, and the products they offer. As founder of a national commercial mortgage brokerage that works with most of the top private lenders serving the investment ...
The ability to assume existing debt can be a great way to make a deal work for both buyer and seller. In a relatively flat or declining rate environment as we have seen in recent years, prepayment penalties on securitized loans can be extremely expensive. That additional expense will often ...
Building a House Checklist: 5 Things to Consider
Building a new home is an exciting time. However, this excitement can soon turn into overwhelm when you’re faced with endless choices, decisions, and time and money constraints. The building process is more efficient and less stressful when you develop a good plan, choose a competent builder and think long-term ...
Hot Spots for Home Construction
The ongoing supply and labor shortages induced by the pandemic have paralyzed most industries in America, but not construction. Over the last two years, residential construction has surged across the U.S., according to an in-depth report using US Census Bureau data by Omnis Panels. The report analyzed new building permit ...
Increase Rental Property ROI With These Upgrades
With property values at record highs and homeownership out of reach for millions of people, it’s a great time to be a landlord. However, given the number of rentals available and the limited number of reliable renters, landlords are under increasing pressure to spruce up their properties to make them ...
