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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.
Featured Member: Andre Johnson
If you have attended a Think Realty event in Baltimore, you have probably met Presidents’ Circle member Andre Johnson, leader of Deal Mastery mastermind and Deals Meetup, an online, nationwide networking opportunity for investors to put together profitable deals. His expert-guided tour of wholesale/REO deals and rehab projects is a ...
Automate. Outsource. Scale. This business-building lingo is all the rage, but savvy investors do these things, usually with the help from virtual assistants. Think Realty Supplier REVAGlobal provides outsourcing solutions utilizing virtual assistants. Founded in 2016 by CEO Bob Lachance, REVAGlobal is currently the solution for many of the country’s ...
Helping You Protect What You’ve Built
Cover your investment properties with top carriers in any stage of occupancy (tenant-occupied, vacant, rehab) across all 50 states. Think Realty Supplier National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) has an unmatched program that allows you to insure all your properties on one schedule, with an online portal and helpful client ...
Our regular ways of comparing real estate markets are pretty much out the window because EVERY market is now beset with heavy job losses, and jobs drive demand for real estate. Instead of jobs as they are now, let's think about jobs a couple of years down the road. Which ...
Crucial Mistakes When House Flipping
Flipping homes—the process of purchasing a home, remodeling it, and then immediately putting it back on the market—can be a way to quickly build wealth. Yet, it’s not without its risks and potential pitfalls. Every veteran flipper has a horror story of that “one” property they worked on, or can ...
How a Great Kitchen Makes a Happy Home
With the plethora of recipes available online, many people want to engage in at-home cooking activities. In order to do so, they need to invest in proper kitchen instruments ingredients, and interior design. Even though high-quality kitchen essentials cost more than inferior alternatives, they are ultimately worth the price. While ...
Most Single-Family Renters Current with Payments
Single-family renters continue to be current with their June rent payments, according to a nationwide survey released today by the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®). The survey was conducted among NARPM’s 6,000 members with 462 responses. Nearly 70 percent of property managers who responded reported that 91 to ...
Rediscovering Buildings: Honeywell and SAP Announce Cloud Partnership
On June 11, SAP hosted a press roundtable to focus on a connected building solution from SAP and Honeywell that enables real estate owners of corporate and commercial buildings to get a 360-degree view of their real estate holdings, including financial and occupant insights. The webinar, moderated by Patrick Moorhead, ...
6 Hot Real Estate Markets in the U.S.
The real estate market in the United States has continued to do well ever since the Great Recession, which saw a significant amount of foreclosures and declines in property values all over the country. Ever since the 2008 lows, markets have continued to rebound and property owners have seen prices ...
Renovating Your Rental Home? Here Are Tips to Do It Right
You’ve made the plunge into the rental market and all has been well for the last few years. But as of late, you’ve begun to wonder if you should renovate your property. It could and probably will help draw in new tenants and you could make more money in rent ...
Outside the Box: Marketing Different Properties
Real estate professionals in 2020 may benefit from rethinking their listing marketing strategies. Here’s the traditional flow: The agent signs a listing and enters it into the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). On the appropriate date, she saves the listing as active. The agent then initiates--sometimes this is handled by an ...
Given the current status with Covid-19 and Maryland restrictions on how many people are allowed at gatherings, we have made the decision to again postpone the Baltimore conference until October 24-25, 2020. We originally thought that by pushing into July we could avoid having to reschedule again, but unfortunately that ...
How to Keep Calm and Pivot Your Fix and Flip During COVID-19
What a difference a few short months can make. Back in February of this year, mortgage applications reached an 11-year high and it’s safe to say that no one in real estate, or any industry for that matter, foresaw what was about to happen. By April, sales of existing homes ...
How to Virtually Showcase Your Rental Property
Now more than ever, renters are making leasing decisions virtually. According to research conducted in a partnership between Apartments.com and Kingsley Associates, virtual tour mentions in email leads increased over 140% from March to April 2020, making it that much more important that your property is equipped to handle such ...
Outdoor Living: Summer’s Big Value-Add in Real Estate
As summer begins and most states initiate some form of economic reopening, there are many signals indicating that outdoor living is going to be the “big boost” for real estate this summer. With slow spring sales pushing many buyers’ home-seeking activities into the summer months, this probably would have happened ...
Mitigate Risk with Build-for-Rent
In early April, I read a well-known real estate website and came across an article that discussed potential ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis on the real estate market. In one scenario, the article stated that potential listings will remain low, interest rates will remain low, and homes are likely to ...
Economic Zombies and the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll. The deadly infection has spared no nation. Millions have contracted the disease and hundreds of thousands have died. However, in the United States a broad-based reopening of our economy is underway. States feared that remaining shutdown would rock the economy to its very ...
Realty Matters: Risk Management
When talking to prospective clients for my property management business, I always say, “rental property management is really about Risk Management.” I often tell the story of a client, who had previously decided to self-manage. Although he always tried to do the right thing, a small, innocent error led to ...
Talking Loudly: Navigating Through Turbulence
Since COVID-19 has necessitated social distancing and closing non-essential businesses, it has slowed the economy and caused concern amongst Wall Street and the capital markets. Investment banks like Goldman Sachs have predicted the U.S. GDP will shrink by 34 percent in the second quarter. Now, major housing lenders have updated ...
In his early days of real estate investing, Joe Fairless was living in an unairconditioned apartment, attending Rich Dad Poor Dad seminars and taking improv and standup classes. Each was a formative experience that led to his national success as a real estate investor, businessman, author, and famed podcaster of ...
Reducing Risk in Rental Properties
There is always some risk associated with buying a property for the sole purpose of renting it out, whether on a monthly or a daily basis. But regardless of rental timelines, here is a checklist to follow that will help reduce your real estate investment risks. Budget Rationally The first ...
The Presidents’ Circle is a select group of top-performing executives from both the private lending and real estate investing industries who gather at exclusive events to network, learn, and tackle challenges in a confidential setting. This month, we asked Presidents’ Circle member and Think Realty podcast host Abhi Golhar: What ...
How many of you have heard knowledgeable real estate investors discuss risk? In sober tones they describe “risks” like loss of tenants, market risk, title claims, competition. And their “risk management” approaches are to always buy title insurance, don’t build if there are other projects in the pipeline, only buy ...
Is Long-term Co-working a Thing of the Past?
Commercial real estate’s co-working industry is going to feel an impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the economy on an uncertain path and social distancing requirements in place, it may take time before new leases are inked for the spaces and employees feel comfortable using shared space. Co-working allows workers ...
More Rent Payments Made in May
The majority of single-family tenants are current with their May rent payments, according to a nationwide survey released by the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®). The survey was conducted among NARPM’s 6,500 members with 909 responses. Over 60 percent of property managers reported that 91 to 100 percent ...
