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Whether you’re a homeowner looking to sell or a real estate agent building your business, in real estate, referrals are everything. Relying on word of mouth from friends and family can only go so far to make these connections — particularly for new agents — which is where real estate ...
Ryan Serhant’s Lessons of Business Success
When Ryan Serhant, best-selling author and star of Bravo TV’s "Million Dollar Listing NY,” says he’s going to do something, he does it. Even if it means responding to emails at 3 a.m., he will always get the job done. Being true to his word doesn’t just mean he’s an ...
5 Home Improvements with Positive ROI
Home improvements can help you sell your home in more ways than one. By making it more desirable, you will attract more buyers. Additionally, they’ll be willing to spend more because they’ll be getting a better value. However, home improvement projects can get expensive and you don’t always get the ...
The Insurance Industry Outlook
The Deloitte Centre for Financial Services published a 2019 Insurance Outlook which detailed the prospects for the insurance industry for the current year. Among the many challenges faced by the industry are product development trends, technological trends, regulatory trends, privacy trends, tax reform, mergers and acquisitions, and cyber risk trends ...
Designer, Realtor®, investor, and mentor Lorraine Beato is as much a Renovation Rockstar as are the properties she flips. She shares her reasons for real estate and some advice for newcomers. Why are you passionate about real estate? My why is creating beautiful living spaces that are affordable for first-time ...
Renovation Rockstar: Atlanta Flip
When real estate entrepreneur Lorraine Beato spoke on a panel at Think Realty’s 2016 event in Atlanta, GA, little did she know that the young gentleman wearing a red cardigan asking to apprentice with one of the panelists would turn out to be one of her first flipping mentees. Thurman ...
Sponsored Content provided by Pull the Trigger Enterprises Become the Bank™ is a concept born out of the current market conditions, with lack of REOs and defaults at 4.3 percent of 55 million single-family mortgages. Without the Non-Performing Note (NPN) there are no REOs. The note, whether performing or nonperforming, ...
Office Depot Pilots New Coworking Space
In an effort to expand their offerings and tap into an emerging commercial real estate trend, Office Depot may soon become an easy spot for real estate investors to get work done on the go (and print some postcards and yard signs at the same time!). In partnership with Proximity, ...
3 Money-Saving Strategies Hands-On Investors Miss
When you think about all the in’s and out’s of managing a fix-and-flip project or other renovation, you probably immediately leap to the processes of keeping the timeline on track, managing the inevitable budget adjustments as new issues come to light during the process, and building enough “cushion” into the ...
Hall of Fame Coach Mack Brown inspires at Think Realty Conference in Dallas
We had a blast at our Dallas Conference & Expo with former University of Texas head football coach and our event kickoff speaker, Mack Brown. Watch along as Brown offers insights into how to be successful in life and in business—starting with practical tips you can implement today. Thank you, ...
What is Time to a Real Estate Investor?
Time itself is an investment. Often, you put in time for a very specific purpose or to achieve a certain goal. That goal could be to obtain more time. For real estate investors, the initial investment of your time may mean you later have additional days to spend with family ...
Project Management for Better Productivity
Real estate investors often find themselves overwhelmed, which is one of the main sources of disappointment in this popular industry for new investors. Ask any active investor at a local real estate investors’ association (REIA) meeting what surprised them when they started investing full-time, and most will mention that they ...
Lender Reveals Biggest Investor Challenge
When Jon Shipley, a Senior Vice President at Longhorn Investments, thinks about horror stories, he doesn’t think about ghouls and gore. Instead, he thinks about the poor decisions real estate investors make when choosing their contractors. “Making the wrong choice in a contractor can completely change the outcome of any ...
Whole Home Cast Iron Repipe Video with Q&A: Blake Johnson
Sitting at the Think Realty editorial desk, we were able to walk through a repiping project with Blake Johnson, owner of Fort Worth-based Finishing Touches Remodeling, by watching a video he shared with us. Awestruck at the amount of work, time, and money that goes into a repipe project as extensive ...
Breaking News: Amazon Announces 20 Finalists for HQ2
Amazon announced today it has narrowed the list of possible locations for its second headquarters, HQ2, down to 20. Not surprisingly, the list features a number of metro areas in the Midwest and South, which are the most affordable regions of the United States, and steers away from what the ...
Gary Harper Joins Think Realty Resident Experts
Effective leadership is not only a necessity in our society, but it is also a necessity for a successful business. Gary Harper, president and founder of Sharper Business Solutions and founder and CEO of Monster House Deals LLC, just to name two of his affiliations, is someone who understands what ...
Year-End Best Practices for Your Real Estate Investment Business
Listen in as our Resident Experts Ben Rao, Linda Liberatore, and Abhi Golhar discuss their year-end practices. Are you doing everything you can to wrap the year up right? These Experts let us in on what they are doing right now, and what they know they have overlooked, for their ...
9 Things to Know When Buying at Auction – Part 2 of 2
In the first part of this series we discussed five things to consider when purchasing an investment property at auction. In the second part, we will be discussing the advantages, disadvantages, tips, and red flags for both online and offline auctions. Read the first part in this series by clicking here ...
9 Things to Know When Buying at Auction – Part 1 of 2
During the height of the housing downturn, the term auction usually referred to a foreclosed piece of property sold to the highest of many jostling bidders on the local courthouse steps. Typically, there was no chance for a preview of the property, little time for due diligence, and the requirement ...
Top 3 Lighting Preferences for Homeowners in 2017
As the year winds to a close and lighting begins to take on a bit of a holiday tone, lighting manufacturer Legrand has released its annual lighting product survey. Legrand asked more than 2,200 U.S. adults about their lighting preferences and noted that 1,563 of those surveyed were homeowners. Real ...
Scorching Seattle Housing Market Draws Tech Population
Savvy real estate investors know that broken-down buildings can hide diamonds in the rough. This has never been truer than in a “hot” market like Seattle, Washington. A 1901 home with no bedrooms in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood was recently listed at $595,000, and local real estate professionals predict that the ...
Think Realty Welcomes Linda Liberatore to Resident Expert Team
Linda Liberatore, challenge-seeker, mother, teacher, and founder and president of Secure Pay One Inc., is the newest addition to the Resident Experts at Think Realty. “I’m so passionate about helping other people and when I realized that I could combine real estate with that passion, I really felt like I ...
California Settles with Mortgage Servicer Over Alleged Misconduct
After a long and drawn-out battle with the state of California, Ocwen Financial Corporation has finally reached a settlement with California’s Department of Business Oversight (DBO). Ocwen agreed to pay nearly $25 million to the state as well as providing nearly $200 million in debt forgiveness through loan modifications made ...
California Wildfire Damages to Exceed $1 Billion, Exacerbates Housing Crisis
California wildfires have killed nearly four dozen people, destroyed nearly 7,000 homes and other buildings, and caused at least $1 billion in damages, so far, said northern California officials late last week. State insurance commissioner Dave Jones reported that his office had arrived at the preliminary dollar amount of losses ...
How to Maintain a Profitable Investment Portfolio in a Shifting Housing Market
“Live where you want, but invest where it makes sense.” Marco Santarelli, founder and CEO of Norada Real Estate Investments, is known for saying. Santarelli, who invests in cash-flowing turnkey rental properties in markets around the country, has maintained a profitable investment portfolio for more than two decades thanks to ...
