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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.

Suburbanization Unveils Growth Opportunities

Suburbanization Unveils Growth Opportunities

Urban And Suburban Tradeoff Accentuated by the Health Crisis The drastically different lifestyles of quarantine and the shift to remote working are having an immediate impact on renter preferences, with implications for multifamily properties and investors. Living space is taking priority over location for many who are currently searching for ...
Protecting Multifamily Investments

Protecting Multifamily Investments

In the midst of this pandemic-induced economic recession, a new president was inaugurated and the balance of power in the House of Representatives and the Senate shifted. This provokes an additional degree of uncertainty. Will the new administration authorize additional economic stimuli? When will the eviction moratorium end? Will the ...
Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID

Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID

Although it has been over ten years since the financial crisis of 2008, I still remember how this country got completely rocked. I’ll never forget the fear and uncertainty I felt back then, wondering if I was going to have a business when it was all over. We made it ...
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Top 8 Things That You Should Do After Buying a House

| Think Realty | Article | Fundamentals
Buying a house is a costly and time-consuming process. First of all, you need to determine what you are looking for and find a few houses for sale that suit your needs. Thanks to the internet, you can do that with ease. You just have to start googling things like ...
Augmented Reality in Construction

Augmented Reality in Construction

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technological innovation that includes virtual elements in a real environment and now this technology is revolutionizing many industries, including construction and real estate. AR technology is making it possible to facilitate many processes in this industry while increasing the accuracy, efficiency, and management of work ...
10 Tech Savvy Garage Security Tips to Make Your Home Safer

10 Tech Savvy Garage Security Tips to Make Your Home Safer

Although not many people believe it, your garage is one of the most important parts of your house - it stores your car, as well as other, often expensive items, and many people tend to use it to enter the living area more often than the front door. However, it ...
Tips for a 1031 Exchange

Tips for a 1031 Exchange

A 1031 exchange is any large investor’s secret weapon, but you’ll want to be sure to use it even if you’re just getting started. When buying and selling homes, the IRS always wants its slice of the pie in the form of tax. Although a 1031 exchange can be tricky ...
On the Radar: Want Success? Focus on Chocolate

On the Radar: Want Success? Focus on Chocolate

Sam wants to be a real estate investor. He attentively shows up to every local investor meeting, has a vision board, knows his “why,” opened an LLC, and even launched a motivated seller website. Every weekend, he selects a new neighborhood to walk while listening to real estate podcasts on ...
Think Local, Learn Local

Think Local, Learn Local

Over the past year, one of the changes we all had to make was learning how to thrive in a virtual world. An advantage that I found with this new virtual world was that I got back so much of my time. In the same amount of time that it ...
Profiting from Real Estate Syndication

Profiting from Real Estate Syndication

A real estate syndication is essentially referring to the partnership between an expert, or team of experts, and a group of investors who collaborate to acquire larger assets that otherwise could not be attained on one’s own. The first is the sponsor(s) (the experts) who source the deal. In a ...
When the Largest Generation Affects REI

When the Largest Generation Affects REI

Baby Boomers have been at the helm of economic trends in the United States for decades. Currently holding nearly 80 percent of total housing wealth in the United States, the Baby Boomer generation is clearly steering residential real estate trends as well. In terms of assets, middle class Baby Boomers ...
Is AI Next in REI Education?

Is AI Next in REI Education?

Over the past year, real estate investment (REI) organizations have scrambled to remain relevant and operative as the pandemic has shut down and altered in-person meetings. Mostly gone are the three-day live bootcamps, the annual conferences in vacation spots like Las Vegas and Orlando, and even the REIA meetings at ...
Design Within Your Budget

Design Within Your Budget

Realistically, for most housing providers and homeowners, designer trends seem out of reach, but what if you could achieve the designer look and leave money in the bank? The key to staying within budget does not start at the store, it starts with the vision. Creating a mood board is ...
The Disruptive Educator

The Disruptive Educator

| Joe Dyton | Article | Profiles
Those familiar with the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad know it is an exploration into personal finance, investing and making money work for people rather than the other way around. Steve Trang read it and came out with a different interpretation—he should become a Realtor. “I look back now ...
Raising Capital for Your Real Estate Investments

Raising Capital for Your Real Estate Investments

How much real estate would you buy if money was not a limiting factor? I’m guessing the answer is that there is no limit, and you would buy all you could. For most real estate investors, we are limited by our own bank accounts when it comes to purchasing that ...
What To Consider When Buying Your First Home

What To Consider When Buying Your First Home

Finally! The moment you’ve been waiting for! You are ready to buy your first home. You’ve planned your finances well and saved for some time to be able to make a big purchase. However, it can be intimidating buying your first home, as you don’t have any experience in the ...
A New President at Auction.com

A New President at Auction.com

Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today announced that Ali Haralson has been promoted to president, a new position in the company that will oversee both sales and operations. She is the company’s first female president. This move intensifies the company’s focus on “get to sold” with innovative ...
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How to Invest in Real Estate Debt Funds

Real estate debt funds gained popularity during the 2008 financial crisis. Essentially, debt funds link borrowers, who tend to be developers, to short-term capital to finance their construction projects. Real estate debt funds have in the recent past been experiencing rising interest from investors. The strong competition is leading to ...
How Residential Real Estate Investors Can Help Solve the Impending Silver Tsunami Crisis

How Residential Real Estate Investors Can Help Solve the Impending Silver Tsunami Crisis

With nearly 10,000 Americans turning 65 every single day, our country is rapidly aging. By 2030, all of the nation’s baby boomers - roughly 20% of the American population - will be older than 65. This will expand the size of the country’s elderly population to a staggering 72.8 million ...
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Types of Loans Available to Texans and Others

Borrowed money can be utilized for a variety of things, from buying an engagement ring to funding your business dream. However, with the various types of loans available to Texans and others, which one is the best option for what purpose? Here’s a quick look at a few types of ...
Tax Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

Tax Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

Real estate investment is one of the most lucrative investment options available. The industry has created countless millionaires since time immemorial. In fact, many financial experts rank real estate as the best investment to get the highest return on investment (ROI). This is also backed by many studies that have ...
How to Prepare for Millennial Homebuyers

How to Prepare for Millennial Homebuyers

The pandemic has pushed more millennials into searching for a home earlier than they had anticipated. In its third annual Millennial homebuyer survey, Clever Real Estate asked 1,000 people who are planning to purchase a home in the next year about their hopes, anxieties, and the compromises they’re willing to ...
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Is Investing in Rental Properties Worth the Risk?

Rental properties can provide a way to supplement your income and over time can lead to your only source of income. However, as with any investment, there are some risks. Listed below are a few pros and cons to owning rental properties. Fixer Upper If you’re investing in real estate ...
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Software and Its Role in the Real Estate Industry

If you work in the real estate industry, you’re aware of the many types of software that can help you work in a more efficient and productive manner. And when you do that, your chance of success goes through the roof. With that in mind, a growing number of real ...
Compassionate Marketing for Real Estate Investors

Compassionate Marketing for Real Estate Investors

As real estate investors, we often need to remember to be people first, and deal with the emotional struggles a family might be facing. That has never been more apparent than during the pandemic. For your business to survive the pandemic, not just grow, remember how you are able to ...