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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.
Presidents’ Circle: Robert Knight
Presidents’ Circle member, missionary, real estate investor, and business owner Robert Knight has been purchasing and rehabbing buy-and-hold single-family rentals since 2009. In 2016 he pivoted to new construction in the sunshine state. He shared his real estate story and a few other fun facts with Think Realty, including business ...
Co-star recently reported that Blackstone Group out of New York just launched a $5 BILLION distressed debt real estate fund in hopes of capitalizing on assets affected by the lack of liquidity due to COVID-19. Am I personally worried about competing with a $5 billion dollar fund? Should you be ...
Talking Loudly: Listen to the Lenders
It is undeniable that COVID-19 heavily impacted the real estate industry, creating a high degree of fear and uncertainty. The pandemic and accompanying shutdown hit the lending market hard, with mortgage delinquencies surging by 1.6 million in April to peak at 6.45 percent. While it now seems like we are ...
Realty Matters: Influencers in Real Estate
Trends are not easy to predict in any industry. To understand industry trends, you must first understand who influences trends and why trends change. Is it simply fashionable? Has a new technology usurped an existing popular system? Maybe a rising ethos toppled an old stereotype? Looking at existing trends to ...
Meet Think Realty’s newest supplier partner, Batteries Plus! Since 1988, Batteries Plus has grown to over 700 stores nationwide. We are the fastest-growing battery, light bulb and smartphone/tablet repair franchise with a nationwide network of stores. With access to more than 60,000 types of batteries, light bulbs and accessories, we ...
Midwest Market Garners Global Attention
Part of my job as the CEO of an established turnkey company in Kansas City is setting the vision for our business. To do this well, I have to be looking at the big picture, the overarching trends, the high-level view. I take this seriously. I want to earn my ...
The real estate industry has been somewhat slow to embrace technology when it comes to transactions, but for the past five years, Roofstock has been there for those who have been ahead of the game. Oakland, CA-based Roofstock specializes in bringing real estate buyers and sellers together. Investors can use ...
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, household incomes were showing steady growth. From 2016 to 2018, for example, household incomes rose 2.2 percent, from $61,779 to $63,179. It was a positive sign that the economy was making good progress. Consumers still faced a challenge finding affordable housing, however. From June 2016 ...
Scale Safely with Private Money
Leverage. OPM. Financing. Capital. Funding. For a real estate investor, the ability to scale comes down to money. Banks and credit unions will only complete so many transactions with an investor before closing the door — if they will fund an REI deal at all. So, most investors looking to ...
RentRange®, an industry leader in market data and analytics for the single-family rental (SFR) housing industry, found in its recent data report that the Kansas City, KS-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Kansas City MSA) is a mid-to-large sized market which has been steadily growing within its means. The market is one ...
In March, every sector and every business scrambled to understand how COVID-19 could and would impact their operations and what paradigm shifts, if any, would occur. A diversified real estate investment company called outlier, based in Washington, DC, has $100 million of co-living projects in various stages of operations, construction, ...
How COVID Has Affected Office Space
In March, when our world changed in a way unlike anyone living as experienced before, The Great Adaptation began. And as Think Realty published months ago, uncertainty creates a need to be fulfilled. You, as real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners can fill that need, and can capitalize from ...
Technology Revolutionizing Real Estate Document Processing
Technology is a key lever, and its penetration in operations can prove to be a decisive factor for an organization’s strategic success. Accurately capturing data, inputting it to appropriate tables, keeping the data integrated in a database, and employing robust security measures; all these aspects can be handled efficiently by ...
Rural and Suburban Property Values Rise
If you are looking for a new place to live these days, the odds are good you have at least considered taking the “country mouse” route and buying a home in a rural area. The odds are also pretty good that a year ago, you would never have spared the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the U.S. economy, from healthcare costs to the job market. After the initial lockdowns in March, even the housing market, which had been on a pronounced upswing for several years, looked to be trending downward. After a brief plunge, the housing ...
The Tampa Bay Property Market in 2020
Most real estate investors are on a weekly lookout to assess the property situation due to COVID-19. Many pay especially close attention to what's happening in red-hot markets. One such example is the Tampa Bay Area located on the west coast of Florida. Tampa and the surrounding region has topped investment ...
Modular Housing and Mainstream Real Estate
Modular homes aren’t new, but the concept is becoming more popular as affordable housing continues to be a substantial issue for North Americans. With supply shortages across the country, the most obvious solution would be to build more homes. However, a hefty combination of economic trends, policy decisions, and demographic ...
The Hottest Real Estate Markets in Southern California
Real estate markets vary greatly depending on the location. In southern California, real estate has skyrocketed in recent years and has shown no sign of slowing down. Let's take a close look at the hottest real estate markets throughout Southern California. Long Beach Long Beach has always been a popular ...
For real estate investors, the task of tax preparation may seem even more daunting. When owning a handful of properties, operating several businesses, earning income from various states, and navigating ever-shifting regulations, taxes for investors can quickly get complex. But for Clint Coons, founding partner with Anderson Business Advisors, therein ...
There are many stereotypes surrounding tiny homes and the people who might be interested in owning them: minimalists with only one pair of shoes; mountain people; hippies. Many people might think these structures are merely trailers that look more like portable classrooms than homes. In actuality, tiny homes are a ...
3 Ways to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Pandemic-Resistant
By early May, most analysts and even many public health experts agreed the American public and the American economy could not take much more of the stay-at-home mandates and mandatory business shutdowns that resulted from COVID-19. The U.S. economy was shrinking at a faster rate than it had since 2008, ...
Realty Matters: Designing Your Business
Evaluation of a real estate opportunity comes in two forms: Use in search of a Site, or Site in search of a Use In other words, a business produces something and needs a suitable location; conversely, a location is available for a suitable business. A parallel approach and methodology can ...
Don’t Let “New Normal” Slow You Down
Turn on any newscast and one of the phrases you are likely to hear is the “New Normal.” There is an expectation that the COVID-19 crisis has permanently altered just about everything we know to be true and that we should accept our fate. I take a slightly different view, ...
Good for you! You’ve been investing and you have a nice piece of rental real estate where you’ve built up equity. But you have noticed that the return on that equity is not the best each year. Traditionally, you would say it’s time to sell and use a 1031 deferred ...
Talking Loudly: A Path to Higher Profits
The process sounds simple. Purchase an undervalued property. Renovate the home. Then, sell or rent for a solid profit. However, there’s a lot of work involved to successfully cross that finish line. For value-add real estate investment projects, you must define the proper levels of renovation, identify the ROI sweet ...
