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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.
10 Employee Handbook Topics for Your Business
Training your employees is crucial if you want your business to work effectively. It is not sufficient to only train new employees, as you should constantly improve your whole company. Moreover, you may want to prepare a universal handbook for every employee to have. This way you can make sure ...
Answers to the Top Questions Real Estate Investors Ask
As a real estate investor, your number one priority should be to be open to learning and educating yourself on the real estate market's happenings. These frequently asked real estate questions will provide you with a better understanding of what to expect as a real estate investor and provide you ...
Build-to-Rent Continues Rapid Growth and Creates Opportunity for Builders, Investors
One of the hottest trends in real estate investing today is the Build-for-Rent single-family home. In the past year, Build-to-Rent has doubled its share of new home construction from 4% to 6%. We expect this share to double by 2024. The most visible factor pushing this boom is the ascension ...
How Hotels Are Adapting to a Shifting Landscape
Throughout the past year, hotels were forced to undergo significant front-facing changes to stay afloat. However, the need for evolution doesn’t end when masks come off. If front-end enhancements are what allowed hotels to stay relevant and maintain their loyalty with guests, then their continued evolution coupled with back-end efficiencies ...
What’s the Difference between a QM and Non-QM Loan Program for Real Estate Investors?
Great question! QM stands for a qualified mortgage. Qualified mortgages tend to be traditional government-backed loans and conventional loans (basically non-government backed traditional loans). QM Loans are usually processed through a bank on an owner-occupied property whereas NON-QM Loans are a more desirable solution for real estate investors on an ...
How to Diversify Your Portfolio with Real Estate
The real estate market has become highly volatile in the recent past, in part because of the ever-shifting consumer trends. This has led even the strongest of investment portfolios to experience a few periods of loss every now and then. Nonetheless, you can considerably mitigate those losses by diversifying your ...
How to Buy Real Estate Out of State (If You Must)
Some places are so expensive these days that it’s all but impossible to find a rental property that will produce positive cash flow, particularly if you are buying with a loan. So it’s not surprising that many investors look out-of-state (and some out-of-country) to find rentals that will actually cash ...
3 Things Real Estate Investors Should Always Check Before Buying a Property
Today, there are endless stories doing the rounds about people who have earned themselves a fortune simply by investing in real estate. Real estate can indeed be a powerful tool when it comes to diversifying your investment portfolio. There are no two ways about it! What’s more? Right now is ...
3 Types of Loans That Can Help You Get out of Debt
Have you ever noticed how many credit card offers you start getting when finances get a little tight? It is as if they know every little detail about you, and like vultures, are circling for the feast. That is how it often feels even if it isn’t exactly the case ...
Five Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home
When you’re a homeowner, you will want to make money on the property. While the house might go up in value even if you do nothing, you should make investments in the property to increase its value. Luckily there are a lot of ways to improve your home and keep ...
PeerStreet Launches Evolving Neighborhood Uplift Fund for Entrepreneurs
PeerStreet, a two-sided marketplace for investing in real estate debt, announced the launch of a new charitable initiative, the Evolving Neighborhood Uplift Fund, or the E.N.U.F. project. The aim behind E.N.U.F. is to create a more purposeful and sustainable way to invest in real estate entrepreneurs from underserved communities across ...
Tips for Investing in Real Estate Part Time
Ask any professional investor, and nearly all will agree: Real estate is a great way to build wealth over time, making it one of the most valuable asset classes in any portfolio. In fact, 41% of Americans surveyed in 2021 said “real estate is the best long-term investment.” But real ...
How Real Estate Depreciation Can Help You Achieve Financial Freedom
Real estate prices might be skyrocketing across the country right now, but for whatever reason, the IRS believes they are falling. In fact, they have believed they are falling for a long time and at a very consistent rate. If you just bought your house today, in 27 and a ...
Increase Your ROI with Architects and Designers
In one of the hottest real estate markets in the country, Tampa, FL, my wife Gloria Kloter and I launched Glow Architects. With her background as an award-winning architect, being in the industry since 2004, and having a variety of exposure to different design styles, we were poised to take ...
Design a Life You Love Using Real Estate
When I think about design, I see it primarily as a thoughtful, proactive element in crafting our output and shaping outcomes in life. Other times, it is best seen in review, when looking back at our project or personal history. The fact is that I have always loved designing, whether ...
We all know that wholesaling real estate is a hustle and such a transactional business. You can have the best month ever, but once that calendar turns you are right back to zero and have to do it all over again. Your business is built off of going after that ...
Design Elements in Rental Homes
When it comes to real estate, most people swear by the axiom “Location, location, location.” But, there’s one other element I think is equally important. The kitchen, the kitchen, the kitchen. The kitchen has long been a centerpiece of family gatherings, whether it’s a nightly family dinner, leisurely Sunday breakfast ...
Connecting Past and Present Through Design
Every state, every city, and every small town has a past or a history in which a potential home buyer may perhaps be in love with enough that they are considering moving there. Why not capture that history in the design of your next investment? Designing a beach-themed home at ...
Turning a Nightmare Home into a Dream Home
It may not look like it now but this house was as scary as they come. When acquiring a property you’ll often hear the saying, “It needs some work, but it has good bones.” We ended up finding out that not only did this house “need some work,” but the ...
Custom Furniture Printed for Your Home
On February I wrote about 3D printed houses and how they can help to address the affordable housing crisis while also being unique and beautiful works of art. But the technology has widespread applications beyond houses. Already today there are companies creating stylish furnishings that are 3D printed. And many ...
How to Design an Effective Online Marketing Campaign
Let’s face it, online leads are better leads. Online ads and social media promotion are becoming favorite business generators for realtors and investors. If you still think internet marketing is not that important for real estate firms, it’s time to divert your attention to the digital age. Undoubtedly, you can ...
Real estate investing is a wonderful way to improve your financial future and earn financial freedom. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bias and uninformed thinking that goes into real estate education. For example, how investors choose to focus on “good” tenants verses “bad” tenants can have a significant impact ...
Tarkett: Durable Flooring Solutions
Tarkett creates people-friendly flooring solutions for any property. In your investment properties or your own home(s), you know how important quality flooring is. And with industry trends changing rapidly, there are so many new products to freshen floors and make them last. Gone are the days of replacing carpet with ...
PPG: Color Expertise and Advice
If you are a painting contractor, new home builder, or real estate investor working on your first (or 50th) flip, you can save money with PPG paints. And you can save time by simply submitting your order and managing your account online. From product information at your fingertips to pro ...
The New Think Realty Paint and Flooring Program
Nationwide brands Benjamin Moore and PPG and flooring supplier Tarkett have partnered with Think Realty to provide its members—real estate investors like you—savings on quality supplies and services to help you keep up your investment properties while keeping more money in your bank account. Benjamin Moore: Home Color Inspiration Benjamin ...
