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Helping You Protect What You’ve Built
Cover your investment properties with top carriers in any stage of occupancy (tenant-occupied, vacant, rehab) across all 50 states. Think Realty Supplier National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) has an unmatched program that allows you to insure all your properties on one schedule, with an online portal and helpful client ...
Crucial Mistakes When House Flipping
Flipping homes—the process of purchasing a home, remodeling it, and then immediately putting it back on the market—can be a way to quickly build wealth. Yet, it’s not without its risks and potential pitfalls. Every veteran flipper has a horror story of that “one” property they worked on, or can ...
How a Great Kitchen Makes a Happy Home
With the plethora of recipes available online, many people want to engage in at-home cooking activities. In order to do so, they need to invest in proper kitchen instruments ingredients, and interior design. Even though high-quality kitchen essentials cost more than inferior alternatives, they are ultimately worth the price. While ...
Rediscovering Buildings: Honeywell and SAP Announce Cloud Partnership
On June 11, SAP hosted a press roundtable to focus on a connected building solution from SAP and Honeywell that enables real estate owners of corporate and commercial buildings to get a 360-degree view of their real estate holdings, including financial and occupant insights. The webinar, moderated by Patrick Moorhead, ...
6 Hot Real Estate Markets in the U.S.
The real estate market in the United States has continued to do well ever since the Great Recession, which saw a significant amount of foreclosures and declines in property values all over the country. Ever since the 2008 lows, markets have continued to rebound and property owners have seen prices ...
Renovating Your Rental Home? Here Are Tips to Do It Right
You’ve made the plunge into the rental market and all has been well for the last few years. But as of late, you’ve begun to wonder if you should renovate your property. It could and probably will help draw in new tenants and you could make more money in rent ...
Outside the Box: Marketing Different Properties
Real estate professionals in 2020 may benefit from rethinking their listing marketing strategies. Here’s the traditional flow: The agent signs a listing and enters it into the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). On the appropriate date, she saves the listing as active. The agent then initiates--sometimes this is handled by an ...
Is Long-term Co-working a Thing of the Past?
Commercial real estate’s co-working industry is going to feel an impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the economy on an uncertain path and social distancing requirements in place, it may take time before new leases are inked for the spaces and employees feel comfortable using shared space. Co-working allows workers ...
10 Best Cashflow Markets in Light of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the game in many industries and real estate is no exception. With the stock market underperforming and the economy reeling from shelter-in-place orders, investors may be wondering where to put their cash. Historically, residential real estate has proven relatively stable amidst other failing economic factors ...
The Effects of COVID-19 for Landlords
The novel coronavirus has rocked economies across the globe. Stay-at-home orders have affected businesses and millions of Americans’ jobs, with projections that the unemployment rate could be nearing the 15% mark — the highest level since 1940. For real estate investors and landlords this has a very real impact — ...
Stimulus Payments Help Pay Rent
Despite the economic downturn due to COVID-19, many Americans are still managing to pay rent. This could be due in part to stimulus money delivered this week. In a nationwide survey released April 16, 2020, by the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®), it was found that most renters ...
4 Budget-Friendly Ideas to Boost Curb Appeal
You've put your investment property on the market, and you've already got your first showing scheduled. The inside looks great, but how do you get potential buyers to see it? The answer is in the little details that boost curb appeal. Consider these budget-friendly landscaping and exterior cleaning tips to ...
House Hacking with a 1031 Exchange to Multiply Your Portfolio
You don’t have to be wealthy to begin investing in real estate. In fact, it can often actually be easier if you’re younger and have a more flexible lifestyle. It’s much easier to navigate creative opportunities like house hacking or live-in flips when you don’t have large work or family ...
Think Realty Baltimore Conference Rescheduled
Think Realty is postponing its March 21-22 Baltimore Conference & Expo until July 13-14, 2020. Think Realty's owner and CEO Eddie Wilson explains why here. This decision is intended to avoid increasing the risk of illness or disease, including, but not limited to, the spread of the COVID-19 to our ...
5 Tips On How to Find the Right Office Space
As a business owner, you know for sure that there's going to be a lot of decisions that you're going to face and make in your life. There's nothing easy about running, opening, or even expanding a business. Of the many choices that you're necessarily going to have to go ...
Civic Financial Services is a private money lender, specializing in the financing of non-owner-occupied investment properties. CIVIC was created to serve investors who don’t fit traditional lending criteria. One of CIVIC’s most prevalent causes is to support our nation’s injured veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). Additionally, the private ...
How to Find Off-Market Properties
A multiple listing service (MLS) is the most common place to find residential homes for sale, but it isn’t the best place to look if you’re hunting for an investment property, or a low-cost fixer upper. Experienced investors find off-market properties so they can find a deal that makes sense ...
Why It’s Important to Have a Residential Lease Agreement in Place
A residential lease agreement is a legally binding contract connecting the landlord and tenant for the latter to rent an apartment, house, or place of residence from the former. Other names of this contract include a rental lease agreement or a landlord-tenant lease. As a landlord, you should have this ...
Foreclosures to Increase Despite no Recession
Most default servicers expect foreclosures to increase in 2020 despite no economic recession, according to a recent Auction.com survey. Auction.com announced the results of its 2020 Default Servicing Insights report, based on a survey of more than 40 of the nation’s largest bank and nonbank default servicing clients along with ...
Steps to Closing You Need to Know
As a seasoned real estate investor, you’re probably well aware of the home closing process and that longer closing times are the new normal. If you’re buying, you submit an offer, get the home inspected, get approved for your loan and then do any final negotiations before handing the seller ...
Selling a home isn’t as easy as finding a willing buyer in the market. Aside from having to iron out the necessary paperwork, you’ll need to ensure that people would be able to see the true value in having your house as theirs. Although you may think that your house ...
The Median Home Age Across the U.S.
Home age is one of many factors to consider when investing in real estate. Which areas have the newest homes? Where are the oldest homes located? House Method recently conducted a study on the median age of homes in the United States. They analyzed data from the U.S. Census on ...
The real estate industry continues to be a profitable business. Housing keeps on being of high demand, with not enough homeowners supplying it, making now an optimum time to sell. Whether you’re going for an upgrade or selling surplus property, you can stand to gain a handsome profit when you ...
Blond wood in all sorts of things: Furniture, flooring, cabinetry – it’s great to contrast with dark tones! Jewel tones: ALL the jewel tones! Adding personality to a room: Paint the walls, trim and ceiling the same color for a dramatic effect. Two-tone cabinets: Darker lowers and lighter uppers are ...
Secrets of Discount and Flat-Fee Real Estate
Some principles are universal. One of these universal principles is that everyone, absolutely everyone, loves a discount. So when you’re selling your home, and you’re looking at giving up a 6% real estate agent commission, it’s understandable to be intrigued by the idea of a discount realtor. But another one ...
