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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.
Think Realty Baltimore Conference Rescheduled
Think Realty is postponing its March 21-22 Baltimore Conference & Expo until July 13-14, 2020. Think Realty's owner and CEO Eddie Wilson explains why here. This decision is intended to avoid increasing the risk of illness or disease, including, but not limited to, the spread of the COVID-19 to our ...
5 Tips On How to Find the Right Office Space
As a business owner, you know for sure that there's going to be a lot of decisions that you're going to face and make in your life. There's nothing easy about running, opening, or even expanding a business. Of the many choices that you're necessarily going to have to go ...
The use of color in home design is evolving as we enter a new decade. 2020 promises to be an empowering year of change, focused on colors that bring joy, serenity, and clarity. People continue to move beyond how spaces look and toward how they make them feel. Sherwin-Williams 2020 ...
3 Strategies Better Than Bandit Signs
Think back to your last road trip. Chances are good that the highways you drove down were lined with hundreds of billboards advertising everything from hotels to lawyers to fast-food restaurants. How many of these billboards caught your eye? Were you able to grab a pen and jot down the ...
While television, infomercials, and internet advertising assures us of overnight riches in Real Estate Investing, the true power comes from holding property for the long term. I recently interviewed Tom Latimer, former President of the Metrolina REIA and one of the most seasoned landlords I know. I asked him for ...
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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area (Baltimore MSA) is a complex market for real estate investing, where cautious investors may find lucrative opportunities. Job Gowth According to ...
Civic Financial Services is a private money lender, specializing in the financing of non-owner-occupied investment properties. CIVIC was created to serve investors who don’t fit traditional lending criteria. One of CIVIC’s most prevalent causes is to support our nation’s injured veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). Additionally, the private ...
Legislation created in the political arena often has a widespread effect on industries such as real estate investing and the people operating their individual businesses -- people like you. The real estate investing industry has been affected by legislation like HMDA (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act); the S.A.F.E. Act (Secure and ...
2020 Women to Watch: Susan Harper
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Formerly a teacher, Susan Harper, was looking for something to keep her busy during her summers off. Her brother-in-law owned several properties and a property management company so she ...
2020 Women to Watch: Elizabeth Maora Sickels
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. When the politics of corporate America had gotten a little too heavy for Elizabeth Maora Sickels, a corporate engineer by training, she decided to trade working all over the ...
2020 Women to Watch: Bettina Hernandez
A former police officer in San Antonio, TX, Bettina Hernandez was faced with one of the most important decisions of her life. Her newborn unfortunately had some health issues and Bettina needed to find appropriate childcare or stay home to take care of her daughter. The decision to give up ...
2020 Women to Watch: Heather Self
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. The first home Heather Self purchased was through Habitat for Humanity. She was a single mom in her 20s, working full time, teaching life-skills classes to welfare recipients, the ...
2020 Women to Watch: Sonia Booker
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Real estate entrepreneur, speaker, and author Sonia Booker was exposed to real estate investing long before she purchased her first investment property. Originally from Mississippi, she was introduced to ...
2020 Women to Watch: Deborah Razo
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Just over 10 years ago, real estate investor Deborah Razo had an opportunity to start over. She was in a car accident that left her literally crushed; her head ...
2020 Women to Watch: Carrie Cook
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Carrie Cook with Ignite Funding has 15 years’ experience in the real estate investment industry. In a time when many in the industry were getting out, Cook stuck with ...
2020 Women to Watch: Jamie Wooley
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Real estate investor Jamie Wooley has always been an entrepreneur at heart, having a few businesses when she was in her early twenties. But those businesses didn’t lend to ...
2020 will be a year of caution for investors. Home prices have peaked in some markets and could be headed downward; the economy continues to slow; and trade wars or real wars could upset all economic plans. In this environment it pays to look at the low risk options: markets ...
Talking Loudly: The History of Hard Money
Typically, we think of credit as a relatively modern invention. However, “hard money” loans have been around since the earliest civilizations. The concept of hard money is one of the oldest kinds of credit financing. Many history experts believe that Hammurabi, the ruler of Babylon during the 18th century B.C.E., ...
2020 Women to Watch: Susan Naftulin
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Susan Naftulin has been in the mortgage/real estate investing world since 1998. This former Philadelphia-based attorney left law for the mortgage industry where she managed the foreclosure and bankruptcies ...
Presidents’ Circle: Nancy Wallace-Laabs
In 2005, Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member, Nancy Wallace-Laabs, lived in Phoenix, AZ. When the uptick in home prices went even higher, she and her husband Brian decided to cash in. They sold their home for a substantial profit, packed up, and moved to Frisco, TX. It was a time ...
How to Find Off-Market Properties
A multiple listing service (MLS) is the most common place to find residential homes for sale, but it isn’t the best place to look if you’re hunting for an investment property, or a low-cost fixer upper. Experienced investors find off-market properties so they can find a deal that makes sense ...
'Roll Up Strategy' One trend Haldeman sees is a “roll up strategy” of consolidating products into one company, rather than each “new whiz bang thing” existing on its own. The end result will be fewer vendors providing more functionality to owners, he said. Coworking + Living As the gig economy ...
Why It’s Important to Have a Residential Lease Agreement in Place
A residential lease agreement is a legally binding contract connecting the landlord and tenant for the latter to rent an apartment, house, or place of residence from the former. Other names of this contract include a rental lease agreement or a landlord-tenant lease. As a landlord, you should have this ...
Foreclosures to Increase Despite no Recession
Most default servicers expect foreclosures to increase in 2020 despite no economic recession, according to a recent Auction.com survey. Auction.com announced the results of its 2020 Default Servicing Insights report, based on a survey of more than 40 of the nation’s largest bank and nonbank default servicing clients along with ...
You may have heard the saying, “Sit with winners. The conversation is different.” It basically means that the company you keep defines the type of conversations you have, and the results of those conversations can determine whether you “win” or “lose” in your personal or professional life. Being part of ...
