Investment Strategy
Learn about asset classes and investment methods that dial into strategies to meet your REI goals: Alternative Investing | Commercial | Funds | IRAs | Multifamily | Single Family | Syndication
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Investment Strategy
Learn about asset classes and investment methods that dial into strategies to meet your REI goals: Alternative Investing | Commercial | Funds | IRAs | Multifamily | Single Family | Syndication
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3 Disasters Where Self-Directed Investors Made a Huge Difference
Lately, the news has been full of natural disasters and recovery efforts. Everyone in the country wants to help with the recovery from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. In fact, one self-titled “IRA Expert” even implied in a very public promotional campaign that real estate investors using their self-directed retirement accounts ...
The Truth About Tax-Free Profits in Real Estate IRAs
If you love the idea of huge real estate investing returns but dread the tax bills that come with financial success, then you share a common bond with just about every other investor in the country. However, if you realize that there are actually ways to create “tax-free profits” in ...
What Your IRA Custodians Cannot Tell you
Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and 401(k) custodians wish you wouldn’t make this mistake, but they can’t tell you directly! It’s literally illegal for them to do so because they’re not allowed to give investment advice. One of the most common ways that 401(k) owners fund real estate deals when they’re ...
3 Devastating Checkbook IRA Mistakes
When a Phoenix engineer started flipping real estate after the 2008 housing crash, his first few flips netted him about $126,000. Things were off to a great start. However, due to a serious mistake, the engineer made when he set up his flipping business using a Checkbook LLC, he ended ...
Dedicated Single-Family Property Management
Renters Warehouse is America’s #1 residential property management company, streamlining property management so individuals and investors can more easily build and grow lucrative single-family rental portfolios. In just 10 years, Renters Warehouse has grown to become the premier national leasing and property management firm exclusively dedicated to the SFR (single-family ...
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 ...
5 Keys to Effective Social Media Marketing Domination
In the Netflix original series “Santa Clarita Diet,” actor Timothy Olyphant’s character (a realtor caught up in a sticky situation) discusses the perks of his job. “I work my own hours,” he explains. “I only see my boss twice a week!” Indeed, most people seem to think selling real estate ...
3 Questions You Must Ask Your Self-Directed IRA Administrator
Ever had a great deal right in front of you, but been painfully unable to act because you were short on capital? If so, then you likely understand why so many real estate investors opt to take their traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and make them self-directed IRAs. Real estate ...
5 Insurance Takeaways from Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire
Last year’s warehouse fire in the “Ghost Ship” building in Oakland, California, has been called the nation’s deadliest structure fire in more than 14 years. The fire was a three-alarm fire, requiring 52 firefighters to bring it under control. The fire caused 36 fatalities and building losses of more than ...
2 Effective Ways to Get the Best Contractors on Your Team
Are you ready to hit the ground running with flips, but have no bench of contractors to do the work? If so, then you are facing one of the most common issues that stall out new investors, but don’t worry. The lack of reliable labor obviously presents a problem of ...
A Five-Year Plan for Investing Success
You’ve decided that real estate investing is for you, but there’s one problem. You need some startup capital. Here’s a tough truth about this business: unless your family has left you with a fortune, you most likely will have to spend some time building up available cash to invest. Once ...
Commercial Investors vs. Zombie Malls
In the mid-1990s, malls were being constructed at a rate of 140 new shopping centers per year. In 2001, however, disturbing trends began to emerge. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that underperforming and vacant malls were becoming increasingly common. In 2007, for the first time in 50 years, there was not ...
When my husband Lucas and I decided to take the leap into real estate investing, it was with the reassurance that Lucas is handy, motivated, reliable and a true “do-it-yourselfer.” He knows all kinds of useful things, like the difference between a miter saw and a circular saw, where a ...
Trendspotting vs. Falling for the Hype
As a contractor who works exclusively with real estate investors, I often hear some “dangerous language” from my clients. I’m not talking about obscenities! I’m talking about investors who are so eager to spot the “next big thing” that they convince themselves that certain areas are about to take off ...
3 Keys to Back-to-Back Tenant Turnover
Savvy landlords know the keys of a back-to-back move-in/move-out process: 365 days of uninterrupted revenue. With 2017 occupancy rates predicted to be 94.6 percent, landlords nationwide are trying to maximize payout and minimize lost time and revenue by moving old tenants out and new ones in as quickly as possible ...
The Real Estate Leverage Mistake that Can Implode Your IRA
Real estate investors often use leverage in order to do bigger deals that offer higher returns than they could achieve using only their own capital. Borrowing money in order to expand your investing capacity can be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, thanks to a nasty and misleading lender habit, many investors ...
Profitable Investing with Foreclosure Receivership Properties
Real estate investors are always looking for good deals, but one word often makes them turn and run from a great price on a property. That word is “receivership.” Receivers are court-appointed individuals (officers of the court) who have a fiduciary responsibility not only to the original owners of the ...
Insurance Myths Debunked, a Think Realty Series
Let’s debunk one of the trickiest myths in property insurance: Self-insurance is too risky. This is one of the trickier myths we discuss because everything depends on what line of coverage we are talking about. Let’s debunk the main myth first. When I am speaking to different groups across the ...
The Attractions of Commercial Real Estate
Direct participation in commercial real estate (CRE), private investments via pass-through vehicles, as opposed to publicly-traded REITs, has long been a key asset class for most larger portfolios. Online marketplaces such as RealtyShares have now made CRE available to accredited investors generally. These investments provide meaningful diversification to any portfolio. ...
Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse in Real Estate
Buyer’s remorse is something we want to avoid, especially when it comes to real estate because it comes at a high price. We consider, evaluate, and scrutinize all the options to make a decision, but quite often, homebuyers wish they had done things differently. Trulia just came out with a ...
3 Reasons to Fix and Flip Outside Your Local Market
There is such a boom of television broadcasts and investment managers pitching about all the great profits we can make doing fix and flips these days. Nearly all of what you see and hear is about doing it “in your hometown.” While flipping in your hometown sounds wonderful and, furthermore, ...
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 ...
How to Choose the Best Market for Your Real Estate Investment
Successful real estate investing relies on several factors, but as the old adage goes, “location, location, location” is top of the list. But “location” is a broad term, and evaluating the right place to invest your dollars in real estate means identifying the right market in both the macro and micro senses ...
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 ...
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 ...
