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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.
Property Management: DIY or Hire?
It is the age-old question every landlord must face: Should you manage yourself or hire a property manager? It’s not an easy question to answer and it depends on all sorts of different factors including your available time, money, inclinations and personality. To help make that decision, it is helpful ...
Lead Generation: Evolve to Beat Your Competition
I’ve been hunting bargain properties for decades. Just like everything else in life, the process has evolved. In a lot of cases, what used to work doesn’t work anymore, and what works today wasn’t even on the radar last year. If you want to be competitive in today’s market, you ...
3 Staging and Design Mistakes to Avoid
As a professional stager, I see gorgeous homes that have been beautifully remodeled and upgraded by the investors who purchased them in hopes of selling for top dollar on the retail market. I also meet a lot of owner-occupants who have carefully staged their lovely properties with painstaking attention to ...
Coinbase Victory for BitCoin Users
Digital currency marketplace, Coinbase, is celebrating a partial victory in its fight to keep Uncle Sam out of customer accounts. A broad ranging request for user account information has been reduced to a fraction of the original request with far fewer pieces of information. Crypto leader Bitcoin has grabbed the ...
Grow Your Network Every Day This Month – Week 1
It’s a great time to grow our networks. Many of us have just committed to, or reaffirmed, our real estate investment goals for 2018. There’s no doubt that successful investing takes a village – that’s where your network comes in. From sourcing deals to finding a partner, there’s not much ...
Insider Insight: Self-Directed IRAs
Real estate investors love discovering new sources of capital to fund their deals, but sometimes getting to that capital can be a little complicated. Think Realty Magazine sat down with Kaaren Hall, founder and CEO of self-directed account administrator uDirect IRA Services, to learn more about how real estate investors ...
Home Flipping Profits Decrease
If you are a home flipper, you may be finding that your profits are shrinking. The latest Home Flipping Report from ATTOM Data Solutions shows a decrease in returns to their lowest level in two years. The quarter three report shows, single family homes and condos that were flipped in ...
Using Drones for Real Estate Marketing
Real estate marketing is a tough industry. Competition is high and face to face meetings are becoming rare. The internet changed the face of the market when it came to real estate. Instead of starting a search by visiting a real estate agent’s office in person, most clients begin their ...
Think Realty wants you to stay ahead of the competition, so we compiled a list of predictions and trends for 2018 real estate. Predictions were gathered from Think Realty Resident Experts, industry influencers, and other credible sources to ensure you are making the best possible decisions for you and your ...
Options for Your Buy and Hold Investments
When you hear the words “buy and hold,” you probably subconsciously insert the word “forever” at the end of the phrase. Most real estate investors do. However, there is far more to buy and hold investing than simply purchasing an investment property, making the mortgage payments for decades, and then ...
Commuter Suburbs: The New Millennial Dream
The city or the suburbs? Which location does the largest rising block of home buyers prefer? In recent years, conventional wisdom would have steered real estate investors toward the urban centers thanks to the stated preferences of the Millennial generation, which has tended to prefer renting over owning, community space ...
Tax Bill Signals Big Gains for RE Market
In the wake of Republican-led tax bill being pushed through the house and senate in rapid-fire fashion, commercial real estate is poised for big gains. Though there are some disparities between the current House and Senate versions of the bill, it looks like the commercial real estate market will fare ...
3 Essential Tools from Racing for REIs
Every investor knows that if you are going to build something, you need the right tools. Sometimes you will use physical tools, and sometimes your toolbox will consist of intangibles more powerful than a hammer or drill ever could be. No matter where you are on your real estate investing ...
Cash-Poor IRA Owners Could Benefit from Old Program
Sometimes, self-directed investors using individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to invest in real estate find themselves in the position of not having quite enough cash. An IRA that is real-estate rich but cash-poor can create serious stress for an investor worried about unforeseen expenses or making minimum distributions. Here is an ...
Phishing Scam Costs First-Time Homebuyer $36k
Any time your real estate agent or other real estate professional sends you an email adjusting the location, amount, or method of transferring money, it might behoove you to take five minutes and verify their identity before you respond. Failing to pick up the phone and double-check the identity of ...
Net Neutrality Rolled Back by FCC
In mid-December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it would roll back net neutrality rules in a highly controversial decision that has most of the country up in arms on one side or the other of the issue. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) officially rebuked the FCC for ...
Think Realty Radio & Benefits for 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – December 20, 2017 – Think Realty is a membership-based resource platform developed exclusively for real estate investors. Since launching in 2016, investors across the nation and around the globe have signed up at thinkrealty.com to become Think Realty members, with an 81 percent increase in membership ...
4 Holiday Savings Tips for Your Tenants
You have a new tenant who just moved in or you recently sold one of your properties to a new client. While giving clients an affordable, comfortable place to call home around the holidays is a great help but the job shouldn't stop there, and there are more ways for ...
ALPS Helps Keep Your Properties Safe
Affinity Loss Prevention Services (ALPS) is your source for information and resources to help you avoid preventable losses at your investment properties. Any loss costs you money, but it could also result in serious injury, the loss of a tenant or a claim, causing fluctuations in your insurance costs. If ...
First-Time Homebuyers Rushing into Year-End Market
For the first time since just after the turn of the century, first-time homebuyers are rushing into the housing market in droves. According to Genworth Financial’s “First-Time Homebuyer Market Report,” 601,000 first-time homebuyers purchased single-family homes during Q3 2017, up six percent from Q3 2016. This is the highest rate ...
Consumer Optimism Declines Week Before Christmas
The week before Christmas is a make-or-break period of time for many retailers, so it’s not surprising that many economists became concerned in mid-December when the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers indicated the American public is feeling slightly less optimistic heading into the final sprint before the holiday season ...
Net Neutrality: What it Means for Real Estate Investors
On December 14, the FCC voted to kill Net Neutrality, now what? Linda Liberatore of Secure Pay One answers a few questions about net neutrality, what it is and how it could impact real estate investors. For those of you who had not realized this ruling happened, let's take a ...
Economic Confidence on the Rise in December
According to figures released by the Conference Board last week, Americans are more confidence about the economy and labor market than they have been in the last 17 years. The confidence index rose to 129.5 last month, while the board’s consumer expectations index rose to 113.3. This is the highest ...
2018 is Time to Sell According to Poll
Nearly a third of all homeowners told analysts at Trulia that they believe 2018 is “a better time to sell” than 2017. Leading those analysts to conclude that national housing inventory woes might be alleviated in the coming 12 months. “At a 17-percentage-point differential, the home-selling sentiment is the second-highest ...
Denver’s Green Roof Initiative
It was a hotly contested ballot initiative in Denver, but environmentalists won their battle for “green rooftops” in the last election. The Green Roof Initiative passed with 54 percent of the vote, and was certified on November 24. Although Denver is not the first city to adopt a mandate for ...
