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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.
Finding the Perfect Neighborhood for an Investment Property
So, you want to buy a house to rent out. It’s important to look at a variety of factors as you make your decision. Picking a house and community you want to live in is very different from choosing a house for someone else to live in. While many people ...
Empty Downtown Offices: America’s Next Hot Apartment Trend?
During the pandemic, U.S. workers turned their homes into offices. Now, office buildings turned into homes could be a major real estate trend. Remote work emptied office buildings across the country. Commercial vacancy rates are higher than they've been in years. Developers are ready to convert vacant office buildings into homes ...
Think Realty Honors the Life of Gene Guarino
Think Realty honors the life of an industry icon, Gene Guarino, who passed away last week. Gene was instrumental in creating investment opportunities in senior assisted living and truly made an impact on the real estate investing industry. Founder of IMPACT Housing Group, he also created RAL Academy, an educational ...
Why Investing in Real Estate Is Better Than Stocks
When it comes to growing your investment portfolio, investors have two solid options for building their wealth: real estate and stocks. Both investment opportunities offer potential. The real estate and stock markets have performed well throughout 2021. After the global pandemic took a toll on the markets in 2020, they ...
5 Loans to Help You Buy a House
The economy is still recovering from the constraints of the pandemic, but the housing market is booming. With people around the country relocating and the real estate industry thriving, there are many families looking to buy a home. If you can afford to buy a property but don’t know what ...
How Outsourcing Property Listing Management Benefits Realtors
Going by the predictions, the global stock of institutional-grade real estate may grow from $29 trillion in 2012 to $69 trillion in 2030. To add to that by 2050 the world's population will be up by more than 50% vastly affecting the real estate demand. This massive growth calls for ...
Investing in Real Estate for Senior Citizens
Senior citizens (people over the age of 65) currently make up 16% of the population in America according to the US Census Bureau. That’s a revealing statistic in terms of your potential real estate investment success. Why? Because if you consider there are over 70 million seniors making decisions about ...
FREE WEBINAR! The Secret World of Real Estate and Crowdfunding
Learn how to benefit from the biggest change in real estate investing for 80 years If you are a real estate investor or want to be one, then this webinar is for you. In it, Dr. Gower debunks the myths surrounding real estate crowdfunding and reveals how it has come ...
Cities Where Apartment Living Best Supports the Work-from-Home Reality
Remote work has been an option for some workers in the past few years, but the pandemic has pushed the movement into the mainstream. As a result, the home took center stage for those workers that could carry out their job duties remotely. This meant that for renters — who, ...
As the Pandemic Persists, Renter Preferences Continue to Shift
The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated multifamily trends that were already in place prior to the virus’s arrival – work from home (WFH), migration away from expensive gateway markets, and increasing investor interest in apartment properties. Now, more than 18 months into the pandemic, it’s obvious that those trends have accelerated ...
Commercial Real Estate Investors Follow Migration Trends
Housing shortfall back in the spotlight. Employment growth, reopening economies, and the revival of population mobility in the first half of 2021 led more people to search for residences after being locked in place during much of last year. This amplified the ongoing housing shortage in the U.S., a storyline ...
Managing the Lifecycle of a Storage Facility
An interesting part of investing in self-storage is managing an asset through the various stages of its lifecycle. Great success may be achieved in purchasing value-add facilities—properties where the operations are significantly lacking. This can be a daunting task for a new buyer but are a lot of fun after ...
The Passive Investing Lifestyle
The Real Estate Bug I had read an investing book years ago called Rich Dad’s Prophesy by Robert Kiyosaki. The only thing I remember about the book was to “stay out of the stock market” and “invest for cash flow”. Real estate was going to be the ticket to freedom ...
Smart Tech for Build-to-Rent Investors
The real estate boom hasn’t been kind to everyone, and many people who were saving to buy homes have found themselves unable to afford anything — even in smaller, lesser-known markets. For example, Boise, Idaho, Wichita, Kansas, and Dayton, Ohio, have seen median housing prices increase year over year by ...
Lessons in Diversification from COVID-19
Investors regularly reassess their portfolios and rebalance in order to achieve diversification. And many view this process as a way to tweak their portfolios, making small changes. But the last year has shown us how quickly macro-sized changes can occur. These events should encourage us to broaden our concept of ...
Big Tech Will Disrupt the Real Estate Business
Believe it or not, there was actually a time in which people who wanted to buy or sell a home needed to know a Realtor—or at least know someone who did. There was no internet, and besides the real estate section of the newspaper, there was no place where you ...
How to Diversify Your Marketing Strategy
We all remember those days when marketing focused on a select number of options. A company could buy an ad in a local newspaper, rent billboard space, or purchase a commercial slot on the radio or television, maybe even toss some bandit signs out. Marketing was simple wasn’t it? But ...
6 Reasons to Choose Multifamily Rentals
Many real estate investors choose to own multiple single-family rentals (SFR) instead of investing in multifamily properties, or apartments. While the viewpoint is that single family is simpler; in many ways, multifamily makes more sense. When you invest in SFRs you might see roughly $200/month in cashflow when you take ...
Create Wealth and Confident, Financially Educated Children
All humans seek a life of significance. It is what gives us optimism, vitality, and creativity; it is that truly wondrous quality that sets us apart from all other animals. Rather than being satisfied with survival and immediate pleasure, humans at some point ponder the purpose of their journey and ...
Dave Van Horn started working early—in every sense of the word. In fourth grade, he had a paper route, delivering the news at the crack of dawn. Since then, he’s continued putting in the hard work, but over time, he’s learned how to put his money to work as well ...
Generating Income From Your Guest House
There are several ways to boost your income if you're a property owner. Obviously, there are renovations to boost value for your rental property that can be done, and you'll see a serious turn on your investment. Things as simple as a fresh coat of paint, upgrading the lighting to ...
Ready to Get Away? How to Find Your Dream Vacation Home
After almost two years in a pandemic, people are itching to go on vacation like never before. And with interest rates at an all-time low, it might be worth considering purchasing a vacation home of your very own to get away from it all. But how do you find a ...
Beyond Profits: These Are the Signs of a Great Landlord
Real Estate can make you rich, or it can make you a pauper. It is a great way to quickly transform millions into thousands. Going in with too much confidence and not enough education will poison your investment and leave you holding an empty bag. We all enjoy watching shows ...
Essential Tips for First-Time Property Investors
The property market is one of the most lucrative investment opportunities for people looking to grow their wealth. But it's not always easy, especially when you're a first-time investor. You need to have a thorough understanding of what you can and cannot afford before making the jump into property investing ...
6 Ways to Pay Off a Mortgage Faster
With housing prices continuing to skyrocket across the country, current homeowners find themselves in an envious position. Watching the value of their homes increase every year, many are eager to sell and cash in. Others want to utilize the value of their home for borrowing purposes. Whether looking to sell ...
