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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.
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 ...
Insurance Myths Debunked, a Think Realty Series
Let’s debunk one of the trickiest myths in property insurance: Self-insurance is too risky. This is one of the trickier myths we discuss because everything depends on what line of coverage we are talking about. Let’s debunk the main myth first. When I am speaking to different groups across the ...
Profitable Investing with Foreclosure Receivership Properties
Real estate investors are always looking for good deals, but one word often makes them turn and run from a great price on a property. That word is “receivership.” Receivers are court-appointed individuals (officers of the court) who have a fiduciary responsibility not only to the original owners of the ...
The Power of Leverage for Investors
How do aspiring real estate developers get started and then stay successful? There’s more to it than you might think. While finding great deals on properties, moving quickly, and understanding construction costs are all important, true success really comes down to a thorough understanding of financing and leverage. Over the ...
City Link Real Estate Solutions almost never existed at all. Fortunately for hundreds of North Carolina homeowners and investors, Tyler Weitz, one of the company’s two co-founders, understands the value of perseverance. Add to that equation that the other co-founder, Keith Murray, has a passion for scaling upward so that, ...
3 Strategies for Staging Investment Properties
Many real estate investors believe that staging is unnecessary for their properties. They could not be more wrong! Whether you are hoping to sell for top dollar or rent out a buy-and-hold property, a few economical staging investments will give your property that “special something” that attracts buyers or renters ...
The Attractions of Commercial Real Estate
Direct participation in commercial real estate (CRE), private investments via pass-through vehicles, as opposed to publicly-traded REITs, has long been a key asset class for most larger portfolios. Online marketplaces such as RealtyShares have now made CRE available to accredited investors generally. These investments provide meaningful diversification to any portfolio. ...
3 Lease & Regulation Tips to Discuss with Your Legal Team
Often times new real estate investors purchase buy and hold properties without truly understanding the importance of having a good lease and regulation handbook. While attending many networking meetings I hear people say they downloaded a lease they found online or at a local big box store. Most of these ...
Pre-Mover Index Names Top Market for Likely Relocation
ATTOM Data Solutions, Pre-Mover Housing Index, released on August 24, 2017 for Q2 2017 shows the markets with the highest pre-mover indices. Predicting strong sales activity in the following cities for third quarter: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Reno, Nevada; and Lexington, Kentucky. Using data collected from purchase ...
Commercial Real Estate Investing FAQs
What is Commercial Real Estate? The term “commercial real estate” sounds like one big category, but commercial real estate is actually a way to describe several different types of property that are used solely for business purposes. One easy way to determine if you are dealing with commercial real estate ...
Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse in Real Estate
Buyer’s remorse is something we want to avoid, especially when it comes to real estate because it comes at a high price. We consider, evaluate, and scrutinize all the options to make a decision, but quite often, homebuyers wish they had done things differently. Trulia just came out with a ...
3 Reasons to Fix and Flip Outside Your Local Market
There is such a boom of television broadcasts and investment managers pitching about all the great profits we can make doing fix and flips these days. Nearly all of what you see and hear is about doing it “in your hometown.” While flipping in your hometown sounds wonderful and, furthermore, ...
Think Realty Resident Expert: Abhi Golhar, The Connector
Think Realty is highlighting our dynamic lineup of Think Realty Resident Experts: real estate pros who’ve experienced the ups and downs of the REI industry. Whether you're buying your first property or expanding your established portfolio, you can rely on our Think Realty Resident Experts to give you the insight ...
Navigating Wholesale Paperwork
Resident Expert Abhi Golhar has released Navigating Wholesale Paperwork, a new course available to Think Realty members. The lessons in this course, taught over six episodes, provide plenty of material to make note of. Golhar gives tips that are actionable, and imparts knowledge that can quickly impact an investor’s portfolio ...
Amount of Equity Rich Properties Increase Q2 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report on August 17, 2017 showing that at the end of the second quarter of 2017 there were more than 14 million (14,038,372) U.S. properties that were equity rich; where combined loan amounts secured by the property was ...
2 Crucial Mistakes Investors Make When They Scale Up
Almost every full-time investor remembers the moment that they realized that real estate investing was actually going to change their lives. Sure, you hear other people talk about it. You see other people succeeding and living beyond their wildest dreams, but the moment that crystalizes the potential in real estate ...
3 Ways to Start Investing Immediately
We’ve all heard the old adage, “You have to spend money to make money.” Nowhere is that less true than in real estate. While you do have to spend something to get started in real estate investing, it does not necessarily have to be tons and tons of cash. Nowhere ...
