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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.
How to Become a Successful Real Estate Agent in California
Real estate is one of the most lucrative businesses one can invest in. It has good returns, and the more you practice, the higher your commission. However, one of the things you need to remember is that it takes time to build a career in real estate. It is not ...
3D Tours Increase SFR Property Leads
If you haven’t been using 3D tours to market your single-family rental properties, you might want to consider doing so. According to PlanOmatic, a national provider of Property Insights and marketing services for the single-family rental industry, the impact of 3D tours is substantial. The company announced the results of ...
6 Ways to Save Time And Money When Moving
No matter how you put it, moving can be expensive and time-consuming. That’s why it’s essential to find every opportunity you can to save precious resources when doing your big move. If you’re planning on moving to a new house soon, consider reading this article in its entirety as it ...
RCN Capital Surpasses 10,000 Loans Funded
RCN Capital, a leading nationwide private lender specializing in providing financing for real estate investors, announced that it has funded over 10,000 loans since its inception in 2010, affirming the company as an influential lender in the space. This is the second funding milestone RCN Capital has reached in 2021 ...
Connecting Deals and Investors: The Virtual Event of the Year!
Join Real Estate IQ in a virtual event with 7 experts, multiple networking rooms, and simultaneous translation to Spanish. Free entrance for the first 100 registrations! Get your comfy slippers, put on a nice shirt, and sit on your favorite couch because the virtual event of the year is here! Join ...
How to Find an Investment-Minded Real Estate Agent
There are many ways to find good deals. You can send out letters to potentially motivated sellers, build up an online presence with SEO marketing, scout FSBOs on Craigslist and other sites, network with wholesalers or become a real estate agent yourself and look through the MLS for potential deals ...
5 Ways to Get Your Rental Property Ready for Peak Leasing Season
The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and that sweet spring smell is in the air. It must be time for peak leasing season — and people are looking to move! Are you ready to take advantage of this increase in demand? Here are five ways to ensure your ...
How to Sell Your Mobile Home Quickly
You may have been living comfortably in a mobile home for years. But, now that you’ve finally saved enough for an upgrade, you might be considering to live downtown to a site-built home and sell your mobile home. 'How to sell my mobile home fast?' This might be a question ...
What You Need To Know About House-Flipping
It’s funny how reality tv shows about flipping houses reflect very little about the actual process and outcome. You see a happily married couple secure a home for a steal, invest money into fixing it up, then sell the property for thousands of dollars in profit. Think about it for ...
On the Radar: Accessory Dwelling Units
Creative real estate comes in all shapes and sizes. Seller carryback, wraps, master leasing, and lot splits are a few that come to mind. However, there’s one creative strategy I’ve been following closely since 2017: accessory dwelling units or ADUs. The strategy is becoming more popular due to government intervention, ...
Cal American Homes owner and Claremont Capital founder Jessie Rodriguez didn’t just play a house flipper on television, he does so in real life. Over the course of 20 years, former HGTV host Jessie Rodriguez has found success in every facet of real estate including mortgages, house flipping, investing, and ...
Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upheave the Housing Market
Sweeping demographic changes are underway in the U.S. as tens of millions of Baby Boomers age into retirement. Between now and 2030, the number of Americans aged 65 years and older will increase to 73 million people, accounting for 30 percent of the population. Roughly 70 percent of them will ...
Manufactured/Mobile Homes on Acreage: The Best Kept Secret in Real Estate Investing
Most likely, you’ve already read the title of this article. At the four mastermind groups in which I am a member and speaker and at the nationwide events I speak at, I always use this title. People always ask me, “Do you really believe that? Why?” My answer is always, ...
Being Creative with Wholesale Deals
Wholesaling is a great way to get started in real estate, capitalize on deals that you are not going to be buying yourself, and provide other investors with properties they need while making some decent money. Your typical wholesale deal consists of a vacant property that the seller needs to ...
Creative Marketing for Real Estate Investors
As Real Estate investors, the goal is to find the motivated sellers before the competition does. One thing many sellers are looking for is answers to their situation. Content is rapidly becoming one of the most basic forms of marketing. Not only does consistent content marketing positively impact customers’ experience, ...
CEO of Bull Funding, Kemra Norsworthy, has been in the real estate lending industry since 2003. For the most part, she has remained on the lending side of REI but plans to buy a multifamily building soon and has had a couple rental properties in the past. But no matter ...
Three Reasons to Sell Your Real Estate for Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin has risen from $6,700 per coin to $58,000 in the past year. That’s an 860 percent annual increase and, frankly, that’s the average for what Bitcoin has done over the past five years. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that? And Bitcoin is not unique in its out-of-this-world appreciation ...
Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies
Back when I was first getting started in real estate investments, I had two strategies available to me. I could buy-and-hold or fix-and-flip. That was it. Thankfully, these days, there are a bunch of new out-of-the-box strategies for investing in real estate that fall into the new category of “creative ...
Market Spotlight: Charlotte NC
The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC market is the 22nd largest metro in the U.S., the 2nd largest metro area in the Southeast, and second largest banking headquarters in the U.S. after NYC. Charlotte is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. and has one of the fastest-growing Millennial populations. Many great universities around ...
The Next BIG Wave: Motel to Multifamily Conversions
One of the biggest lessons I learned early on in my career is that an entrepreneur gets paid in relation to the size of problems he or she can solve. One of the major problems happening in the U.S. economy today is the lack of supply for affordable housing. Home ...
Sometimes that next great home to renovate may just be the home other investors are passing up. Often these are the homes that have bigger problems than kitchen updates or a new roof. It may take creativity to solve these more difficult investment property problems. As a real estate investor, ...
How SFR Investors Can Streamline Due Diligence to Acquire Properties Faster
The single-family rental (SFR) market is one of the fastest-growing asset classes for investment, with SFR home rents and occupancy rising by 5.7% last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. With increased demand and dwindling supply, the market continues to heat up with SFR investors facing increased competition and scrambling ...
10 Home Projects to Improve Your Kitchen
Are you satisfied with the way your kitchen looks like? If not, then do not worry. You are not the only one. Many people have trouble planning out their kitchen and tend to either make it look way too cramped or disorganized. Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem! ...
Luxury Real Estate Trends in 2021
The luxury real estate world never stops growing. New trends are constantly popping up, while some of the old ideas are making a surprising comeback. This constant fluctuation of ideas makes real estate one of the most exciting industries to observe. Whether you are a real estate agent or a ...
Can You Still Find Deals on the MLS?
The real estate market is really hot right now and has been for some time and finding good deals is not nearly as easy as it once was. Back around 2011, for us it was as simple as driving around and looking at one bank owned property after another. Nowadays, ...
