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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.
6 Signs It’s Time To Replace Your Property’s Air Filters
Your air filter is critical to the efficient operation of your HVAC system. Its primary role is to keep an area safe from contaminated air, allowing cooler air to enter instead. Dirt and tiny debris can degrade your system's performance and put your family's health at risk. Changing the air ...
How Tokenization Could Streamline The Mortgage Process
The traditional mortgage industry with its high cost entry and illiquidity is discouraging to smaller players trying to break into the market. However, with the introduction of blockchain technology, tokenization is poised to revolutionize how mortgages work by Improving the liquidity and transparency of these assets while creating the opportunities ...
How to Get a Mortgage to Buy a Rental Property
It’s a great time to buy a rental property. Most real estate investors finance their rental property purchases using home loans. But getting a loan for a home you plan to rent out isn’t quite the same as getting a loan for a home you plan to live in. To ...
Dominion Financial Services Lends $100 MM to Real Estate Investors in a Single Month
BALTIMORE, MD – For the first time in 20 years of business, Dominion Financial Services (DFS) hit the $100,000,000 milestone for loans originated in a single month back in March of 2022. The goal of a $100MM month is a result of a new loan product hitting the market during ...
Capital, Real Estate, Cash Flow, and the Velocity of Money
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson added the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It was inspired by the 17th-century scholar, philosopher, and thinker John Locke, who wrote “life, liberty, and the pursuit of property.” Locke was resolute to the idea that common property or possession converts ...
Planning for Your Prepayment Penalty
In recent years, lenders have seen record volumes of long-term loan requests for commercial property acquisitions. This makes sense as a hedge against rising interest rates. That hedge provides certainty that your interest rate will remain the same for a set period, no matter what market rates do. It’s important ...
What to Know Before Buying a House in San Diego
Are you looking to buy a house in San Diego? If so, then there are some things that you need to know before diving into the process. For instance, did you know that a bank or lender can reject your application even if you have excellent credit and income? It’s ...
How Deed Restrictions May Impact Your Real Estate Investment
There are typically two types of restrictions that impact an investor’s plans to develop a property: zoning restrictions and deed restrictions. Investors are generally familiar with zoning restrictions, and they can be easily found when an investor researches a property. Zoning restrictions are developed to better regulate the expansion of ...
A Property Manager’s Perspective on Investing in Real Estate
Professional property managers have a lot of experience that can help both new and seasoned real estate investors make the best investment and property management decisions. I asked my property manager, Jill Powell, of 1st Choice Real Estate to share some of her insights into what investors should be considering ...
How Real Estate Investors Can Benefit from Inflation
What do you think the current rate of inflation is? I start every conversation with investors with that question. Much too often I hear “2%-3%” in response. A common number in recent years, that number is now quite a distance from the “official” numbers. Let’s take a look at how ...
Things to Consider Before Buying Rental Property
The primary reasons for purchasing rental property include making money and using it to build wealth in the long term. Just as it is with any other type of market, prices for housing and demand for rental properties can go up and down, depending on the cycles of the real ...
5 Successful Lead Generation Strategies for New Real Estate Agents
As in any other commission-based industry, real estate brokers and agents must rely on a steady pipeline of clients to keep their businesses profitable. If you are entering the real estate industry in 2022, you are facing a unique combination of a skyrocketing housing market, limited inventory, and intense competition ...
Getting Into Real Estate Investment: 5 Key Preparations to Make
Real estate remains to be a popular investment due to its potentially lucrative payoff. It’s also fairly simple to understand and get into. As an investor, you buy a property, let its value appreciate, and cash out after a while. When you compare real estate with stocks, you have a ...
After a Two-Year Hiatus, Will Foreclosure Volume Return in 2022?
Data from Auction.com and other sources suggest that foreclosure volume will increase substantially in 2022 off a record low in 2021, while staying safely below pre-pandemic levels. The trend of gradually rising foreclosure volume was already established leading into 2022. Completed foreclosure auctions on the Auction.com platform in the fourth ...
The renewed plunge into coronavirus disruptions—this time by the omicron variant—increases the difficulty of separating temporary from longer-term changes to the U.S. economy. Economic disruptions often accelerate trends that had already been brewing under the surface. On-line shopping, remote working and learning, and the reordering of life-work priorities aren’t new ...
4 Reasons Multifamily Isn’t in a Bubble
Over the last decade, this country has printed more money than in the previous 95 years. In addition, there are fewer and fewer places where individuals and institutions can get yield on their cash. When the asset craze finally does bust, the money moving from those assets—stocks, crypto, and single-family ...
How to Succeed as a First-Time Investor
In 2022, it’s easier than ever to be a first-time real estate investor. Technological advances are producing accurate property values. Competition is bringing real estate commissions down. And a booming market is driving home prices through the roof. But just because we’re in a flourishing market, that doesn’t mean success ...
How to Prepare for Selling a House
When you are getting ready to sell your house, there are plenty of things to do to get ready and get the most out of selling your home. Not only should you make sure that the house is in the best possible shape, but you should also do the research ...
Taking on the challenge of flipping or remodeling an investment property can be daunting when it comes to the design side of it. Whether it’s your very first investment project or your hundredth, being creative can be a challenge. Luckily, we live during a time in which home design ideas ...
4 Strategies to Help You Pay Off Your Mortgage Sooner
Many first-time homebuyers get themselves locked into 30-year mortgages, with no real plan of getting it paid off sooner. While it’s fine to simply pay the minimum each month, financial freedom truly comes when you no longer need to make a large mortgage payment each month. For most people, their ...
16 Ways to Find a Good Real Estate Teacher
How do you know which real estate investment teachers to trust? The litmus test is this: They must have earned the right to teach measured by their years of success in real estate—not in selling seminars. Do an internet search for the teacher’s name and company name(s) with words such ...
FREE WEBINAR! How To Scale From a Duplex to a 670 Unit Deal
Think Realty is providing you with another FREE WEBINAR! On April 28th at 1PM (CST), Liz Faircloth will be speaking about how to scale from a duplex to a 670 unit deal! Scaling a multifamily portfolio takes a lot of focus, hard work and resilience. Liz Faircloth and her husband ...
Free Listings for Your Real Estate Property
When it’s time to sell or lease, getting your property in front of as many people as possible is important. But the key to success is getting your property in front of the right people—those who are looking to buy or rent in your area, and whose needs your property ...
Tap into Private Lending When Buying a Short-Term Rental
Until recently, the private lending world had significant concerns about the consistency of income from short-term rentals. Lenders are much more comfortable with an annual lease for a defined rental amount, which results in a low risk of significant vacancy. With the explosive growth of Airbnb and VRBO, however, more ...
Why Using Credit Scores to Screen Tenants Is a Big Mistake
Everything and everyone in the property management industry teaches us to use credit scores to screen tenants. We are taught to pull credit scores and rent only to prospective tenants with good credit scores. If you are following this practice, you are making a big mistake. In fact, it could ...
