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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.
3 Keys for Making a Splash in a New Market
Whether you are selling your first house or your 500th, nearly every investor fears that “what next?” moment. You’ve been marketing for leads and the process is working. The phones are ringing off the hook. You’ve got a property under contract, but now you’ve got to do something with it ...
Private Lending and Personal Guarantees
Physical property is one of the soundest forms of loan collateral in existence, so it’s no wonder that lending entities of all types, from megabanks like Wells Fargo to private, individual lenders, like real estate so much. As our sitting president has famously said for decades, “Real estate is always ...
5 Keys to Effective Social Media Marketing Domination
In the Netflix original series “Santa Clarita Diet,” actor Timothy Olyphant’s character (a realtor caught up in a sticky situation) discusses the perks of his job. “I work my own hours,” he explains. “I only see my boss twice a week!” Indeed, most people seem to think selling real estate ...
3 Questions You Must Ask Your Self-Directed IRA Administrator
Ever had a great deal right in front of you, but been painfully unable to act because you were short on capital? If so, then you likely understand why so many real estate investors opt to take their traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and make them self-directed IRAs. Real estate ...
Leveling the Playing Field Through Technology and Real Estate
When Brew Johnson and Brett Crosby, co-founders of PeerStreet Lending, first joined forces, the old friends never once thought about their private lending project on a small scale. Nor do they think on a small scale today. “We have created a technology platform to empower lenders to make loans to ...
5 Insurance Takeaways from Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire
Last year’s warehouse fire in the “Ghost Ship” building in Oakland, California, has been called the nation’s deadliest structure fire in more than 14 years. The fire was a three-alarm fire, requiring 52 firefighters to bring it under control. The fire caused 36 fatalities and building losses of more than ...
Panel in Print: Overcome Your Investing Fears
Nearly every real estate investor out there, from the greenest “newbie” to the most experienced industry veteran, has one thing in common: they know about investing fears. Think Realty Resident Experts Eddie Wilson, Sonia Booker, and Pam Goodwin have very different perspectives on what fear can do to an investor ...
2 Effective Ways to Get the Best Contractors on Your Team
Are you ready to hit the ground running with flips, but have no bench of contractors to do the work? If so, then you are facing one of the most common issues that stall out new investors, but don’t worry. The lack of reliable labor obviously presents a problem of ...
Renovation Rock Stars: Kitchen Edition
Ever watched one of those “reality” real estate shows and thought to yourself, “I could do so much better, for so much less! And why are they hanging that hideous wallpaper in a rental property anyway?” If so, you’re not alone. In fact, at every Think Realty event, we meet ...
When a group of real estate investors partnered with former New York City developer David Comfort last fall to acquire 800 lush acres of fertile Costa Rica farmland for just $4 million, they became part of a project that represented diversification not just in their real estate portfolios, but into ...
Case Study: Why Flippers Make the Move to Self-Storage
For many investors who have spent the majority of their real estate careers fixing and flipping single-family residential properties, the idea of expanding their portfolio into a large commercial investment, such as a self-storage facility, can be both attractive and intimidating. Think Realty Magazine sat down with Scott Meyers, owner ...
A Five-Year Plan for Investing Success
You’ve decided that real estate investing is for you, but there’s one problem. You need some startup capital. Here’s a tough truth about this business: unless your family has left you with a fortune, you most likely will have to spend some time building up available cash to invest. Once ...
Market Update: Atlanta, Georgia
Last October, Think Realty Magazine featured Atlanta, Georgia, in a market analysis. At that time, we observed that the southern city represented an opportunity not just to traditional real estate investors interested in building real estate portfolios but also to private lenders. Individuals and companies facilitating short-term, hard-money loans were ...
Commercial Investors vs. Zombie Malls
In the mid-1990s, malls were being constructed at a rate of 140 new shopping centers per year. In 2001, however, disturbing trends began to emerge. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that underperforming and vacant malls were becoming increasingly common. In 2007, for the first time in 50 years, there was not ...
When my husband Lucas and I decided to take the leap into real estate investing, it was with the reassurance that Lucas is handy, motivated, reliable and a true “do-it-yourselfer.” He knows all kinds of useful things, like the difference between a miter saw and a circular saw, where a ...
Think Realty Resident Experts Release New Course Materials
Think Realty Resident Experts provide valuable education to real estate investors through video courses accessible on the Think Realty website. Each course typically contains between six and 12 lessons that are easily digestible and implementable. This quarter, Experts Eddie Wilson, “The Deal Maker,” and Abhi Golhar, “The Connector,” released new ...
Regional Spotlight on Memphis, Tennessee
Two years ago, Memphis, Tennessee, was one of the hottest real estate investing markets in the country. Media outlets like CNN Money gleefully described the “hordes of real estate investors…snapping up foreclosures and other cheap housing, rehabbing the homes, and renting them out for handsome profits.” Then, in a way ...
Trendspotting vs. Falling for the Hype
As a contractor who works exclusively with real estate investors, I often hear some “dangerous language” from my clients. I’m not talking about obscenities! I’m talking about investors who are so eager to spot the “next big thing” that they convince themselves that certain areas are about to take off ...
The Combat Guide to Real Estate
Seth Wilson knows that the devil is in the details, whether you are a real estate investor or a U.S. Air Force pilot. “It might not seem like the two connect at first,” admitted the Air National Guard pilot, owner of Sierra Whiskey Properties (SWP) and a recently-published author. He ...
Beautifully Engaged: Public Art and Private Property
What do you do when you purchase an investment property with a nasty reputation in a great location? If you’re Monick Halm, managing partner of Vineyard Investment Partners, you give it a literal makeover and, just as in any other makeover, the “face” plays a huge role in the process ...
Where We’re Thinking in 2017: TREIA Conference & Expo Powered by Think Realty
TREIA Conference & Expo, Powered by Think Realty | Raleigh, NC | August 27-28 Investors throughout North Carolina’s Triangle Region Join Forces this August The Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA) is hosting an exciting two-day event powered by Think Realty for new and experienced investors. “We’ve brought together some ...
Q&A with Shannon White: Showing Up at the Table Can Change Your Life
When Shannon White, an Atlanta-area wholesaler, flipper, and founder of the popular local Facebook group, “Ladies in High Heels Wholesale Houses 2,” first got started in real estate, it was for a very simple reason. “I needed more money coming in!” she said honestly. “At the time, I had a ...
3 Keys to Back-to-Back Tenant Turnover
Savvy landlords know the keys of a back-to-back move-in/move-out process: 365 days of uninterrupted revenue. With 2017 occupancy rates predicted to be 94.6 percent, landlords nationwide are trying to maximize payout and minimize lost time and revenue by moving old tenants out and new ones in as quickly as possible ...
The Real Estate Leverage Mistake that Can Implode Your IRA
Real estate investors often use leverage in order to do bigger deals that offer higher returns than they could achieve using only their own capital. Borrowing money in order to expand your investing capacity can be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, thanks to a nasty and misleading lender habit, many investors ...
I know a lot about what’s in a name because I inherited a well-known, well-respected one. My father, motivational icon Zig Ziglar, went to great lengths to protect his reputation and his name. I am a very grateful, direct beneficiary of his efforts and I work every day to keep ...
