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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.
Listen to Nathan Brooks tell his story and you may feel a bit like you’re on a rocket ship watching a blur of lives pass by. As a kid, he displayed an aptitude for music, picking up a variety of instruments including string base, piano, and guitar and developing a ...
Asking “what is the best real estate investment?” is the wrong question. The right question is, “what is the best real estate investment for me?” There is no “best” type of real estate investment. You have to compare the pros and cons of each and decide what fits you. It ...
If you ask me, as a real-estate investor with nearly $2B in assets under management, what is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of real estate you might expect to hear me say “cashflow,” which is one of my favorite expressions. However, while I’ve always got ...
Realty Matters: Rethinking Community Development
While Washington continues to address the crisis of people unable to pay rent, they have not addressed the issue of rental property owners who are unable to pay mortgages, which can create another “domino effect” of evictions and loss. The rental providers, therefore, suddenly find themselves thrown under the bus ...
Presidents’ Circle Featured Member: Sam Kaddah
Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member and President/CEO of Liquid Logics, Sam Kaddah, never imagined he would move from global operations into the financial industry, but life sometimes takes a funny turn. Before his career in global operations, Kaddah was an electrical engineer. And as happens at all first jobs, Kaddah ...
Skip Loans, Raise Billions in Capital
Investing in real estate is worlds apart from other investment options, such as bonds or stocks. Raising capital is one of the most essential yet difficult aspects of running a real estate business. Investing in real estate requires prudence. Else you'll quickly run out of your hard-earned money. It has ...
In some of my past articles, I’ve talked at length about the Build-to-Rent Subdivision concept and the advantages to investors and builders alike. Like a lot of concepts, though, it’s easy to talk in broad strokes and leave out some important minutia that can make or break a deal. Recently, ...
How Smart Digital Keys Can Simplify Property Management
Physical keys will soon become relics. For property managers and owners who want to improve the experience of staff members, tenants, and prospective renters, smart digital keys are the right move. Digital keys have been gaining popularity slowly for years now, but they hit new levels of visibility and accessibility ...
Best Advice for Real Estate Investors Going Into 2021
2020 has been a rocky year for real estate investors. The good news is that things haven’t gotten as bad as most people initially feared. With so many investors breathing a collective sigh of relief, it’s an excellent time to make plans for the new year. Before getting started, consider the ...
Risks of Real Estate Investing You Need to Know
Real estate investing has remained one of the time-tested ways to create wealth. While the potential returns can be compelling, it is important to consider the risks objectively and then make a judicious decision. Unpredictability Until the economic meltdown of 2008, many investors ignored real estate risks and assumed that ...
5 Tips for Promoting Your Open House
As any agent who has ever had one can tell you, open houses are a lot of work. However, it's said that they're worth it because homes for sale that have open houses tend to sell for more money and spend less time on the market. But how do you ...
7 Tips for Finding Off-Market Properties
2020 has been a year of highs and lows in many aspects, including real estate. Despite a slow start to the buying season due to COVID-19 concerns, the real estate market has fully recovered in most of the country. But, inventory remains low as many sellers still hesitate to put ...
5 Tools for an Effective Property Management System
If you are interested in finding an effective property management system, you need to understand the key points of a good one. One of these is the need for the system to be user friendly, which means it should be simple enough that even those with no experience with property ...
Touchless Technology in Your Real Estate Business
Businesses are prioritizing hygiene like never before. In your real estate business, operations should now include touchless technology measures to protect your staff, clients and customers. And as a Think Realty Member, you receive special offers from companies like Batteries Plus Bulbs who can help provide you with the batteries ...
10 Reasons to Invest in Baltimore
Are you wondering where the Baltimore market is heading during these current events? According to a recent report by Norada Real Estate Investments, here are a few of the positive reasons to invest in Baltimore: Baltimore’s Foreclosure Bounty Foreclosure has made the news repeatedly for foreclosure abuse and extreme cases ...
The Link Between the Eviction Crisis and Application Fraud
Eviction rates have been rising for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed them to new levels. These evictions are having devastating effects on both tenants and property managers, and while there are moratoriums on evictions at local, state, and—most recently—federal levels, these effects will remain. Why have evictions risen ...
Think Realty Sells out its First-ever Hybrid Event
ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 30, 2020 – Think Realty, an educational platform for real estate investors, hosted its first hybrid event last week, delivering informative and inspirational sessions onsite and in a virtual format. Since its inception, the company has hosted dozens of in-person conferences and expos around the country, typically ...
The Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area (Phoenix MSA) has been a high-performing market and a favorite amongst investors since the last recession. It has been red hot in terms of population, job growth, rental and price appreciation over the last five years but rolling virus concerns, economic shocks, and unpredictable ...
No country in the world receives more foreign direct investment (FDI) than the United States. In 2019, the USA received $251 billion in FDI, according to United Nations data. The second was China, with $140 billion. Of that $251 billion that flowed into America, $78 billion, or 31 percent, went ...
The Series LLC for Real Estate Investors
For those unfamiliar with a Series LLC, think of it as one company with multiple subsidiaries. Each subsidiary operates as a separate entity with a unique name, bank account and separate books and records, separate liabilities, and possibly even different owners and or managers. However, unlike a traditional parent-subsidiary relationship ...
If you’re not one of Grant Cardone’s 2.9 million Instagram followers, you’re missing out on business tips, sales strategies, real estate advice, and so much more. Known for his dynamic personality, this real estate mogul and multi-business owner has a way with words that might just leave you feeling inspired ...
If the Coronavirus has taught businesses within the mortgage industry anything, RCN Capital included, it is that they need to be prepared for the worst, and more importantly, the “what ifs.” What if something happens to a member of the Executive Management team? Is there a succession plan in place? ...
Farmland: An Under-the-Radar Investment
As early as I can remember, every weekend my Dad took me and our German Shorthaired Pointer to visit our farm, about 25 miles east of our home in Moline, Illinois, and then he let our dog go crazy chasing, but never catching, all the critters. I listened and learned ...
Lies Your Stockbroker Told You
Whenever I hear a stockbroker saying that you should diversify your portfolio by investing in stocks AND bonds, I’m reminded of the old Blues Brothers movie (the one with John Belushi). As the band arrives at a honky-tonk bar for their first gig, Elwood Blues asks the proprietor what kind ...
