Larry Arth
5 Key Wealth Building Principles for REIs
Real estate is an increasingly trendy investment. Prices are low, interest rates are low, and opportunity is everywhere. But why is it right for you? Do you know the right investing niche for you? Know Your Niche I like to capture all five principles, but not all investments will do ...
Hundreds Converge to Discuss the Single-Family-Home Investing Craze
Recently I attended a three-day event in Miami focused on single-family home investing. In fact, I had the privilege of meeting some of you readers there. I was honored to be a moderator on one of the panels where I met the “who’s who” in real estate investing. It was ...
Top 10 Trends in a Banner Year for Real Estate Investors
2016 is proving to be another banner year for real estate investors, with a continued short supply of homes to live in and even shorter supply of the most highly sought after single-family rentals, investors indeed have continued to find advantages to investing in real estate. Real estate is, of ...
Case Study: Flipping a Duplex to a Single-Family Home
As an investor and a person who loves the water, when I read about an open house for a duplex that has water access and a deeded dock for $109,000, I sat up and took notice. When I read on to see it has an attached double garage and a ...
7 Common Landlording Mistakes to Avoid
In the landlording business, we make lots of mistakes. Indeed, there would be no successes if we did not encounter some mistakes along the way. It is these mistakes that cultivate our systems for success. The idea, of course, is to run a profitable, stress-free business. We take what works ...
Avoid These 7 Common Landlording Mistakes
In the landlording business, we make lots of mistakes. Indeed, there would be no successes if we did not encounter some mistakes along the way. It is these mistakes that cultivate our systems for success. The idea, of course, is to run a profitable, stress-free business. We take what works ...
8 Reasons Behind the Single-Family Home Investing Phenomenon
Wow, it is hard to read an article on investing or on real estate in general without seeing headlines about the single-family home being in such high demand. Over the past several months I have read many articles on this topic to try to determine if this is simply a ...
The 20% of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before
Did you know that 20 percent of investors succeed while 80 percent do not? So says the Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, and it applies to everything we do in life. For example, do you know that you wear 20 percent of the clothes in your closet ...
The 20 Percent of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before
Did you know that 20 percent of investors succeed while 80 percent do not? So says the Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, and it applies to everything we do in life. For example, do you know that you wear 20 percent of the clothes in your closet ...
3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor
Over the years I have been involved in hundreds of investment property purchases, which prompts a lot of how-to questions. Perhaps the most highly sought-after answer is to the question of where to find the best properties. Wow, that question has lots of different answers, but there is one that ...
3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor
Over the years I have been involved in hundreds of investment property purchases, which prompts a lot of how-to questions. Perhaps the most highly sought-after answer is to the question of where to find the best properties. Wow, that question has lots of different answers, but there is one that ...
3 Things to Consider When Selling an Investment Property
This week I have been conversing with an investor who 10 years ago had bought a newly constructed single-family home in the Tampa market. He managed to buy during the market’s “up” cycle and place a good tenant with cash flow. The cash flow was light, but he was considering ...
Seasoned Investors See It Big and Keep It Simple
Over the past decade many investors either won big or they lost big because of the Great Recession. The losers included rehabbers who got stuck with properties for which they paid too much and then could not sell. Buy-and-hold investors saw their tenants move out to share housing with friends ...
5 Benefits You Get From an Owner-Occupied Investment
As an investor and a person who loves the water, when I read about an open house for a duplex that has water access and a deeded dock for $109,000, I sit up and take notice. When I read on to see it has a double attached garage and a ...
A 7-Point Checklist That Ensures You Are Buying Great Investments in 2016
2016 is upon us and everyone is telling you to get your goals set right? When it comes to those goals around investing, I always like to share with my investors some good practices to include in their investing endeavors. I have found with hundreds of conversations each year on ...
7 Lessons Learned From My Landlord Mistakes
If I’ve learned anything over the years it would be to embrace your mistakes and turn them into profitable lessons. I suppose you could look at it as a sort of tuition for some good education. Trying as these lessons can be, it is paramount to truly learn what you ...
5 Things I Would Tell My Younger Self About Real Estate Investing
How often have you heard the expression, “If I knew then what I know now?” It reminds me, growing up, listening to Dad talk about real estate investing, he was always saying, “If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things much differently.” So this got ...
Landlords create great ROI by giving gifts for the holidays to tenants
After I was married 33 years ago, my gift giving list during the holidays grew exponentially with all the additional mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers, sisters and even aunt and uncle in-laws. I remember after an exhausting day of shopping and purchasing the final gifts telling my wife, “Damn glad to have ...
11 things Baby Boomer renters want and landlords need to know
As a real estate investor and landlord myself I understand that tenants are the pillars of our business. Working with hundreds of investors, I carry a high level of interest in these tenants who represent our customer base. I trust that you, as landlords and diligent investors, do as well ...
5 things to do to make 2016 your best investment year ever
In the fourth quarter of the year, I always hear investors talking about closing the year’s investments strong and wondering what next year will have in store for them. This reminds me of a consultant friend of mine who said, “Predict the future by creating it.” Wise words indeed. However, ...
3 big things you need to know before you raise the rent
It is a great time to be a landlord. In fact, landlords have been having a great time enjoying some of the fasted growth in rent rates in recent history. Being aware there is a cap to the growth is now key. Rental demand continues to remain very strong, which ...
8 questions to ask yourself about your investing strategy
Working with hundreds of investors over the years, I have found a very small percentage who have actually taken the time to identify and to clearly define their investment goals. What I witness every day is investors bouncing from one real estate investment strategy to the next. Ultimately they will ...
Can’t find a deal? Create one!
Perhaps the best investments that I have ever personally done or helped investors with are the manufactured investments. As the world renowned personal developmental instructor Jim Rohn would always say, “Imagine the possibilities; turn nothing into something.” As the markets tighten, seasoned investors are less affected than others. They excel ...
3 ways to make sure your investment deals are still good
When I talk to investors and ask if their properties are performing the way they intended when first purchased, I often get a glazed expression as they try to decide. Just as a bad apple in the bag will spread decay into the other apples, so can one bad or ...
Is your hometown always the best place to invest?
A popular debate I hear regularly among real estate investors concerns the question of whether to invest locally in your hometown or in another market. I hear this debate at local real estate offices as well as at local real estate investment club meetings I attend. I enjoy hearing the ...
