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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.
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 ...
Presidents’ Circle: Greg Slaughter
Not many young high schoolers know what they want to do with their life after graduation. But Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member Greg Slaughter did. He knew he would have a career in real estate. What he didn’t know is how long he’d have to wait to make it happen. ...
Steps to Closing You Need to Know
As a seasoned real estate investor, you’re probably well aware of the home closing process and that longer closing times are the new normal. If you’re buying, you submit an offer, get the home inspected, get approved for your loan and then do any final negotiations before handing the seller ...
Real estate acquisition and sale has traditionally been a slow-moving process. When I purchased my first home in 1987, a typical home-buying process took 30 days. Today, with modern technology, electronic communication, searchable databases, and the ability to execute contracts online, a typical home-buying process takes – 30 days. How ...
Chicago: The Rise of Silicon Prairie
The overall demand for multifamily housing in Chicago is strong, but the market’s performance is bifurcated. A steady increase in high-paying jobs has boosted the number of households earning more than $100,000, while the number of households earning less than $100,000 has declined. As a result, Lifestyle units are performing ...
How many times have you heard about the latest technology or new company “disrupting” an industry? The real estate industry hasn’t seen any significantly disruptive innovation; the edges of existing processes have evolved, a bit. Did We-Work “disrupt” leasing? Nope. They simply added some Silicon Valley sizzle to an existing ...
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. Homeowners continue to move beyond how spaces look and toward how they make them feel. Sherwin-Williams 2020 ...
Lucas Haldeman started his career as a software developer at one of the first companies to put a database of apartments online. Today, he leads a cutting-edge PropTech firm, SmartRent, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. SmartRent is an enterprise home-automation company developing software and hardware that helps owners, property managers, and ...
"If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” - Warren Buffett Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie. These modern-day activists promote human welfare and social reforms and help to save lives across ...
If you are a new business owner, you must wear many hats until the company achieves a level of success to warrant support staff. You might find yourself being everything from CEO to receptionist. Eventually, though, most business owners will start replacing themselves, which is the proper way to grow ...
Meetups are one of the most beneficial ways to market your business and to meet like-minded individuals, and there are so many available. From interests like real estate investing to hiking, there are meetups for almost everyone in every city. Organizers post these networking events on meetup.com. To join, go ...
Selling a home isn’t as easy as finding a willing buyer in the market. Aside from having to iron out the necessary paperwork, you’ll need to ensure that people would be able to see the true value in having your house as theirs. Although you may think that your house ...
The Median Home Age Across the U.S.
Home age is one of many factors to consider when investing in real estate. Which areas have the newest homes? Where are the oldest homes located? House Method recently conducted a study on the median age of homes in the United States. They analyzed data from the U.S. Census on ...
How To Find Success With Off-Market Property Deals
With the right circumstances, an off-market property deal is ideal for real estate investors. Here’s why: many listed properties today receive multiple offers from competing investors. And it can be difficult for your offer to stand out. Here’s the secret, though: there are strategic tactics to find off-the-market homes to ...
The real estate industry continues to be a profitable business. Housing keeps on being of high demand, with not enough homeowners supplying it, making now an optimum time to sell. Whether you’re going for an upgrade or selling surplus property, you can stand to gain a handsome profit when you ...
Blond wood in all sorts of things: Furniture, flooring, cabinetry – it’s great to contrast with dark tones! Jewel tones: ALL the jewel tones! Adding personality to a room: Paint the walls, trim and ceiling the same color for a dramatic effect. Two-tone cabinets: Darker lowers and lighter uppers are ...
What do you get when two brothers, one with a background in architecture and another in finance, join forces? A successful real estate investing company, that’s what. And it just so happens, that for the King brothers, helping others along the way has made their road to success that much ...
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 ...
RentRange, an industry leader in market data and analytics for the single-family rental housing industry, found in its recent metro report on Dallas-Fort Worth, that this Midwest metropolis continues its measured growth in both home value and rental rate appreciation. Annual job growth by volume leads the nation with a ...
For the past decade, I have been a student of business operations. I have led multiple businesses that use operational systems such as Six Sigma or Kaizen. I have seen many real estate businesses adopt a system called EOS or sometimes referred to as Traction. I believe that all of ...
The Power of Mobile Home Rentals
In the mobile home rental market, in most cases, investors put in half the money for double the cashflow in return. With the right strategy, investing in mobile homes creates passive income streams that add value to your clients, your business, and your bank account while you are spending time ...
Imagine a group of real estate brokers who help their clients trade real estate parcels as if they were baseball cards. Brokers who can figure out how to move through properties (sometimes in three, four or five steps) to get to an ultimate cash sale. These brokers regularly do the ...
The psychology of word association is fascinating and powerful. In the following sentences, fill in the blank with the first word that comes to your mind: ________ is where the heart is. Habitat for _____________. Most likely you chose Home and Humanity. What feelings do those terms conjure for you? ...
