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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.
Median Home Price Least Affordable Since 2008
ATTOM Data Solutions, released their Q2 U.S. Home Affordability Index on June 29, 2017, which shows the U.S. median home price of $253,000 in the second quarter of 2017 was at the least affordable level since Q3 2008, a nearly nine-year low in affordability. Median home prices rose faster than ...
3 Real Estate Images Social Media Users Can’t Resist
According to Socialnomics, 93 percent of buying decisions are influenced by the purchaser’s social media use. That is incredible! That means for every tenant who decides to check out one of your rental properties, nearly all of them were somehow influenced by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, or some other social ...
Foreclosure Activity Down 20 Percent First 6 Months of 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Midyear 2017 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 428,400 U.S. properties with foreclosure activity to include: default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions. In the first six months of 2017, foreclosure filings were down 20 percent from the same time period a year ago ...
Property Insurance Series: “It’s Not Covered” – Named Storms
Welcome to our "It’s Not Covered" property insurance series. We hope these quick reads help you increase your understanding of your insurance coverage, clear up confusion and avoid preventable losses! So, what’s the confusion? If you have properties in coastal locations, it’s not always clear if you have coverage when ...
Tax Reform: A Closer Look at the Possibilities
When President Trump was running for office, he made a lot of big commitments. Whether you love him, hate him, or are just trying to ignore the current political climate entirely, his success or failure in keeping those commitments will affect your real estate investing strategies and returns. One of ...
5 Actionable Rules for Buying Foreclosures at Auction
To say we have seen everything there is to see at foreclosure auctions would probably be an understatement. We have seen fist fights on the courthouse steps, guns pulled, people not having a clue as to what they are buying, or even what it is really worth. You name it, ...
Never Look Back – Except Maybe, Now
We've all heard or been told to live by the mantra of never looking back, that the past is leave it behind you and continue to move forward. I'll admit, I don't disagree with this approach for life or real estate investing. However, there comes a time when you can ...
3 Tips for Hiring OSHA Compliant Contractors
Real estate investors juggle a lot of tasks when buying and selling their properties. If you are into fix-and-flips or any exit strategy that involves second party workers coming and going from your property, you need to make sure they are being safe. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ...
3 Social Media Tips for Landlords to Increase Visibility
When most landlords get started in real estate investing, they learn quickly that their new career will require multiple skill sets. If you are like most of my clients, you still spend a great deal of time offline looking at potential deals for new properties, scanning the Multiple Listing Service ...
5 Tips to Get Proper Liability Coverage for Your Property
Are your properties adequately insured? How much coverage is enough coverage when it comes to liability insurance? Shawn Woedl of the National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) sat down with Think Realty Magazine after his Baltimore breakout session to share these tips to help investors choose what type of liability ...
Air National Guard Pilot Debuts Amazon Real Estate Bestseller
When Seth Wilson says, “The devil is in the details,” he is talking about more than just flying U.S. Air Force jets. He’s talking real estate. Wilson, who recently published an Amazon bestseller relating his combat experience in the National Guard and his experience in real estate from starting with ...
Think Realty Honors FAQs Answered
May 31, 2020, is the last day to submit nominations for the Think Realty Honors, which will be awarded this September at the Think Realty Conference & Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. These Honors are awarded each year to industry leaders who represent the very best of what the real estate ...
Leverage: The Greatest Real Estate Advantage
Ignoring the fact that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investments are either over-valued or providing negative real returns, real estate has almost always been the best use of capital specifically because of your ability to leverage your investment. If used properly, leverage will significantly enhance your return on investment. ...
Owner Financing: Can You Sell Your Home Faster & Make A Bigger Profit?
How would you like to have the potential to sell your home faster, sell it “as is”, and possibly get a better interest rate than on some other investments? Consider owner financing.Make your home stand out in the market by adding these three words to the listing (and to a yard ...
5 Secret Investment Hotspots in America
To most people, the idea of taking 42 business trips in one year may not sound like a whole lot of fun. That's what my 2016 looked like – but I actually loved it. Why? Because I'm one of those annoying people who thinks he has the greatest job on ...
3 Tips for Using Virtual Assistants to Market Your Rentals
You may be the expert when it comes to your personal rental property portfolio, but that does not mean that you need to personally micromanage every aspect of the marketing campaign to fill those rentals. While many DIY landlords automatically discount the idea of using virtual assistants (VA) to help ...
3 Red Flags for Any Real Estate Market
This is a transcript of a previously-aired segment of “Self-Directed Investor Talk,” a radio show dealing with self-directed IRA strategy hosted by Bryan Ellis. Did you know that there are three housing market indicators that can tell you, with astounding certainty, whether a region and the real estate located there ...
Think Realty National Conference & Expo Attendees Double Their Networks in No Time
If you attended Capital City REIA (CCREIA)’s breakout session at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 24, 2017, then you probably heard a dull roar shaking the Baltimore convention center around 9:35am. That roar was not the passing of a freight train or a ...
5 Common Mistakes Made by REIs
If you’ve never had an opportunity to see Kent Davis of Equistream speak, you need to attend the next Think Realty Conference & Expo. Davis is unique in his presence and the way he connects with the audience. He is knowledgeable, logical, and experienced. Everything you would expect out of an ...
3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Real Estate IRA
When it comes to real estate investing, you probably have a lot of options that haven’t even occurred to you yet. Bill Humphrey, co-founder and CEO of New Direction IRA, dove deep into these options at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 24, 2017, ...
Sherman Ragland Reveals His Number-One-Rule for Real Estate
Sherman Ragland, founder of DCREIA, dean of the Realinvestors Academy, and longtime commercial real estate broker and investor, has some very simple rules for success in real estate. He disclosed those rules during his overflowing training session at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June ...
Failed Asset Protection: A Case Study Provided by Legally Mine
“You have two options available to you when it comes to lawsuits: forget them and hope the snake never strikes, or legally chop the snake’s head off before it strikes,” said Steve Broadley, of Legally Mine asset protection services. During his training session at the 2017 Think Realty National Conference ...
Think Realty Panel Addresses the Complicated Legal Landscape of Independent Landlords
“How many of you want to go to jail because you did the wrong thing with an investment? None of you? Then we’re on the right track!” So started Think Realty’s legislative panel, “Navigating the Legal Landscape,” moderated by Brian Wojcik, founder of Landlord411 and NAIL411.org, landlord-advocacy groups based in ...
“If you are silent, something may happen that you don’t want to see,” Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., Maryland Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly House of Delegates for District 23 B, warned real estate investors today during his opening remarks at the 2017 Think Realty National Conference & Expo in ...
National Conference & Expo :: Dallas, Texas Education, Networking, and Purpose Came Together in Dallas Attendees of the Think Realty National Conference and Expo in Dallas, Texas, April 29-30, 2017, not only enjoyed a very full day of education and networking with local and national influencers in the real estate ...
