Carole VanSickle Ellis
Silver Lining: Hurricane Damage Can Help Home Values
In recent weeks, the United States has been hit with not one but two major hurricanes. In fact, at time of this writing, it is still somewhat unclear exactly how far-reaching the effects of Hurricane Irma, which is working its way through Florida and up the east coast, will be ...
Can Your Street Name Cost You 44 Percent of Your Sales Price?
It seems impossible, but selling a house on a street with the wrong name could cost you 44 percent of your sales price. According to a recently-released tidbit from Zillow, sellers who list properties on a street with a certain negative name could end up making 44 percent less than ...
Private Lending and Personal Guarantees
Physical property is one of the soundest forms of loan collateral in existence, so it’s no wonder that lending entities of all types, from megabanks like Wells Fargo to private, individual lenders, like real estate so much. As our sitting president has famously said for decades, “Real estate is always ...
Commercial Power Broker Joins Resident Expert Team
Title and Affiliations: Founder of Goodwin Commercial, member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, member of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals, Founder of “Deals in Heels,” approved Texas Real Estate Commission instructor, Think Realty 2017 “Woman to Watch in Real Estate,” and Real ...
Leveling the Playing Field Through Technology and Real Estate
When Brew Johnson and Brett Crosby, co-founders of PeerStreet Lending, first joined forces, the old friends never once thought about their private lending project on a small scale. Nor do they think on a small scale today. “We have created a technology platform to empower lenders to make loans to ...
Case Study: Why Flippers Make the Move to Self-Storage
For many investors who have spent the majority of their real estate careers fixing and flipping single-family residential properties, the idea of expanding their portfolio into a large commercial investment, such as a self-storage facility, can be both attractive and intimidating. Think Realty Magazine sat down with Scott Meyers, owner ...
Market Update: Atlanta, Georgia
Last October, Think Realty Magazine featured Atlanta, Georgia, in a market analysis. At that time, we observed that the southern city represented an opportunity not just to traditional real estate investors interested in building real estate portfolios but also to private lenders. Individuals and companies facilitating short-term, hard-money loans were ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Why Chinese Investors Pulled Global Property Investments
When the Chinese government made a list of “negative” foreign investments that were attracting Chinese investment capital in 2016, the global real estate investing community held its breath. Would Chinese investors accelerate their buying in order to move their funds out of the country, or accede to their government’s wishes ...
Top Cities for Chinese Investment Capital in 2017
Chinese real estate investors have been the top foreign buyers of U.S. residential real estate for the past three years, and although the Chinese government is tightening its hold on its citizens’ investment capital the U.S. housing market is set to attract those investors’ capital for another year at least ...
3 Keys to Understanding the Chinese Real Estate Investment Discussion
Attend any real estate investing group these days and you will hear at least one attendee holding forth about the joys of working with international investors flush with capital and eager to pay retail or higher in the U.S. market. All thanks to the country’s strong respect for private property ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s going to get messy, and walls hide a lot of secrets.” That’s the note of caution Erin Shipps, creator, executive producer and host of Kansas City-based web series “ShowMe Renovation”, gives to investors looking to rehab old homes. “Any renovation project has the potential to make a mess, but ...
Market Update: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
In June 2016, Think Realty Magazine featured the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, in its “Regional Investor” feature. At that time, the regional housing market was benefitting from an overall improving economy, falling jobless rate, and rising equity. Low inventory in the “starter home” sector had begun to ...
