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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.
Pro Real Estate Photography Can Make a Big Difference in Selling
We’ve all seen the listings where a home looks great on paper but in photos, it’s a dark, dreary scene. From blurry images to gloomy lighting to messy kitchens, poor presentations of a home not only fail to show its potential but can actually deter people from seeking more information ...
Tips for Starting a Probate Lead Business
Most investors are continually looking for ways to grow their business, but many real estate investors are missing out on a great source to find motivated sellers: probate leads. As a refresher, probate leads are potential seller clients who inherit properties. Typically, they want to sell quickly after traversing the ...
Though some may debate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment, most scientists agree that the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the “greenhouse effect.” As a small business owner, it’s easy to feel powerless to take action in the face of ...
Pros & Cons of Multifamily Property Management
As someone who’s been in this industry for years, I’m often asked by investors what is the better investment: single-family or multifamily? There has been much written on the different aspects of financing, buying, and selling a multifamily property. But what about the day-to-day management and operations of the property? ...
Counties With Most Abundant Foreclosure-Buying Opportunities
There were a total of 624,753 U.S. properties that received a foreclosure filing in 2018, and of those, 230,305 properties were repossessed by a lender, according to the ATTOM Data Solutions 2018 Year-End Foreclosure Activity Report. While bank repossessions (REOs) decreased 21 percent from 2017 and were down 78 percent ...
2019 Women to Watch: Missy McCall-Hammonds
In this article we pick up our Women to Watch series, featuring seven standout female real estate investors to watch in 2019. Read the full intro here. How did you get started investing in real estate? I was a female executive in corporate America and realized that I was quickly heading ...
2019 Women to Watch: Deborah Razo
In this article we pick up our Women to Watch series, featuring seven standout female real estate investors to watch in 2019. Read the full intro here. How did you get started investing in real estate? I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and 10 years ago I had an ...
Huge Influx of Millionaires will have ‘Significant Impact’ on Silicon Valley Real Estate
Thanks to the prospective public offerings of several large tech firms, Silicon Valley will likely see thousands of new millionaires vying for real estate in the next two years. Already boasting some of the most expensive homes and neighborhoods in the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area is expected to ...
Springtime Staging Tips to Increase Returns and Sell Fast
After a long winter, what better time to sell a home than the springtime? With the flowers blooming and the weather changing people can be more motivated to purchase. With the springtime comes change, which means there may need to be some updates to your house to get it in ...
How Transparency Impacts the Real Estate Sales Process
Real estate is the largest investment the vast majority of people will ever make. In fact, the impact of this transaction will be so significant on both the buyer and the seller that every state has developed a set of real estate laws designed to ensure the legal transfer of ...
Top 10 U.S. Metros for the Highest Vacancy Rates
For investors, understanding the overall health of a market is imperative to success. One metric — an area’s vacancy rates — can help not only in determining financing needs but also how much you can hope to sell the property for. And thanks to a recent report from LendingTree, investors ...
2019 Women to Watch: Christina Suter
In this article we pick up our Women to Watch series, featuring seven standout female real estate investors to watch in 2019. Read the full intro here. How did you get started investing in real estate? I started in real estate when I was 17 years old. My mom gave me ...
2019 Women to Watch: Monick Halm
Throughout our years in this industry, we've met and worked with impressive women who are shaping the industry, and we feel it's our duty as a trusted voice in this sector to highlight them. In this year's Women to Watch series, we are showcasing seven standout female real estate investors ...
What to Do When a Resident Passes Away
Rental homes bear witness to the entire scope of human life. From birth to death and everything in between, it is important for a property owner to be prepared for all of life’s eventualities. When a tenant passes away in a rental home, there are a number of steps that ...
Three Tips to Scale Your Multifamily Passive Investing Business
We get it — you’re busy. Perhaps it’s a full-time job, new kiddo or you simply want to enjoy your retirement. Whatever the case may be, you can still passively invest in apartment syndications and achieve returns that are greater than those of stocks, bonds, REITs, and other investment vehicles ...
iBuyer Growth Grounded in Speed, Simplicity and Certainty of a Cash Purchase
Cash is king in a home sale — and cash buyers are often able to buy below market value — because cash represents speed, simplicity and certainty for the home seller. More to the point, sellers attach some monetary value to speed, simplicity and certainty in a home sales transaction ...
Survey: Home Sellers Question Value of Realtors, but Still Use Them
As new technology disrupts the world of real estate, home sellers are growing increasingly skeptical of the value realtors bring to the dealmaking table. But while that skepticism seems rich among sellers’ sentiments — in particular with Millennials — most will still turn to a realtor to sell their home, ...
Building Empowerment: HGTV Star Jasmine Roth Inspires Confidence
If you ask Jasmine Roth when she first ventured into real estate, the blossoming star of HGTV’s “Hidden Potential” has to laugh. “I would say in utero,” Roth responded with a chuckle. “My parents moved from New Jersey to Virginia when I was just a thought. They bought a piece of ...
Report: Fifth of Home Sellers Dropped Prices in February
Continuing a recent overture of good news for prospective buyers and investors, about one in five homes for sale dropped in prices last month. February saw 21.1 percent of homes for sale nationwide drop in price, which was the largest rate drop in the last decade, according to a report ...
3 Lead Generation Pitfalls that Will Cost you Time and Money
Editor’s Note: This content is sponsored by Realeflow and produced in collaboration with Think Realty. Click here for more information on Realeflow and its special promotion for Think Realty readers. For time-strapped investors, lead generation can appear to be a juggling act fraught with challenges. From sourcing prospects and persistent ...
Spring into Early Success this Season with these Six Maintenance Steps
For many of us, "springing forward” into Daylight Savings Time is when we leave winter behind. This year, it arrives March 10. Whether you invest in areas that experience dramatic or moderate temperature shifts, the following tips will help you stay on top of routine maintenance and avoid major expenditures ...
Flipping Flop? Fix-and-Flip Deals Decline in Rates, Returns
Returns and sales for single-family and condo flipping are struggling, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. 207,957 single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2018, down about 4 percent from 216,537 flips in 2017, according to ATTOM’s U.S. Home Flipping Report. Flips comprised about on 5.6 percent ...
Millennials Flexing Buying Power, Boosting Homeownership Rates for Two Years
In spite of bleak headlines saying homeownership evades their grasp, Millennials for the last two years have helped drive growing homeownership rates, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. Thanks in large part to people under 35, the U.S. homeownership rate grew to 64.8 percent in the fourth quarter of ...
Lowering Barriers, Startup Roofstock Offers Investors Shares of Homes
Proptech startup Roofstock is aiming to create more real estate investors with their platform that allows people to buy shares of homes for as low as $5,000. The Oakland-based tech firm created a marketplace that offers its users a lower barrier to entry to become investors in single-family rental homes ...
Study Reveals the Best Month for Sellers to List their Home
As the realtors prepare for what’s anticipated to be a booming Spring season, sellers are eyeing when exactly to list their homes. And thanks to a recent study from Zillow, sellers have more insight on when to list to maximize their time and returns. Data indicates that not only do ...
