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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Like every industry, real estate has been going through a transformation over the last few years. Where it was once possible to find many properties to purchase and either rehabilitate, sell or use as rental properties for cash flow, it can now be quite challenging. Approaches that used to work ...
I don’t ever get any good leads …” “You can’t get deals like that where I live …” These are just some of the statements I hear all the time from real estate investors who haven’t honed their lead-to-deal conversion ninja skills. Mostly likely, the problem isn’t that they aren’t ...
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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 ...
Getting the most bang for your rehabbing buck
It seems like with all the TV shows out there nowadays, everybody has heard the term “fix-and-flip.” But what does that really mean, and will that be a viable strategy for you as an investor? Very simply, fix-and-flip involves buying a property at a discounted cost, renovating (or fixing) it, ...
Passive Investing in Active Value-Add Real Estate
Many of the most interesting real estate investment opportunities involve “value-add” situations—renovation or redevelopment projects that aim at repositioning a property to a higher price point. The value-add strategy is often considered to have medium to high risk, but the returns can be potentially high as well. The Different Approaches ...
Before it was Cool: Crowdfunding with Ignite Funding
The term “crowdfunding” did not exist in the American vocabulary prior to 2011. Over its first five years in existence, $34 billion in contributions has been reached, carving out a whole new industry-driven 100% by investors presented with the opportunity to rethink the lending industry. Additionally, crowdfunding for real estate ...
How Do You move from SFD to Commercial Investing?
As With So Many Things, The Answer Is: It Depends. Here are some tips to help you make the right decision for your situation. READER QUESTION: Right now I’m investing my money in single-family residences. I had no previous experience and have been at it for a year. I’ve done a ...
Buying By The Numbers: 5 Efficient Ways to Find Off-Market House Deals
The Cheaper You Buy, the Better Your Return is Going to Be, Regardless of Your investment Strategy Smart real estate investors know that the secret to true success is finding deals with great numbers. So as a house flipper, in order to increase my profit margins, reduce my risk and ...
Short-Term Rentals Aren't Just for Summer Vacationers Anymore Many homeowners looking to list their houses on popular short-term vacation rental sites like Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey, and Tripping.com wait for summer to cash in on out-of-town vacationers. And it’s not hard to see why—with nearly 17 million people worldwide who booked ...
This is Not Your Grandfather's 'Rooming House.' As students of real estate investing for the last 13 years, we’ve seen—and participated in—quite a few strategies related to single-family and multifamily investing. We have learned a great deal along the way, but one timeless lesson remains far superior to any other: ...
Are You Taking Advantage of the Benefits of Investing in Real Estate Through Your Self-Directed IRA? As April 15 approaches each year, most real estate investors spend some quality time with their accountants or financial advisers. It can be a bittersweet time as they look over their real estate earnings ...
Think Realty Magazine May/June 2016
+WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | The Most Important Lesson • Comings & Goings • The Beauty of Buy & Hold • Finding the Bull's-Eye • More Foreigners Investing in U.S. Cover Feature | Expanding Network Up Close & Personal | Crowdfunding Crusader • The Weekend Investor • Best of Two Worlds • ...
The Insider’s Guide to Rent Estate
| 9 pages | 2,592 words | half hour read | Excerpt The crash of 2008. The rise of Millennials as the nation’s largest demographic. Uber, Airbnb and the emergence of the “sharing economy.” The American Dream is alive and well, but it’s changing rapidly. And for millions of people, ...
How to Calculate the Worth of Your Investment Property
Investing in real estate is often considered a profitable path to gain financial freedom. However, it involves making huge investment—and that is where it gets tricky. Investors are lured by the notion of making easy money from the booming property prices, which often leads to wrong and hasty decisions. So, ...
Determine the Option That Best Aligns with Your Investment Goals Experienced investors and real estate professionals are aware that real estate can be a cornerstone of their IRAs. Real estate is an asset that adds diversity to account holders’ retirement portfolios. Account holders can find a reprieve from the volatility ...
Self-Directed IRA Investor's Guide to Contributions, Transfers and Rollovers Welcome to the world of self-directed IRAs! Guess what? These powerful investment tools are just like regular IRAs in so many ways (except for investing). Just as with a typical IRA, a self-directed IRA can be funded in three ways: 1 ...
SHIRA is Gaining More Attention As an IRA Investing Strategy If you would like to tap into your qualified retirement plan to purchase investment property and avoid all the usual prohibited transactions, the SAFE HARBOR®-Directed IRA™ (SHIRA™) may be the vehicle for you. Lasaii’s OUTSIDE® structure of utilizing IRA money ...
How to Harness the Power of Nonperforming Notes It’s no news to anyone that you can use your self-directed IRA to invest in real estate. Many investors use their IRA accounts to purchase real estate and to make private or hard money loans to other investors, but many forget they ...
Self-Directed IRAs Can Lead to Retirement Success—With the Right Guidance Self-directed IRAs are an excellent option for retirement investments. They allow you to fund your retirement using assets you know a lot about, such as real estate. But self-directed IRAs, particularly ones with checkbook capabilities, are not for every investor ...
It Pays to Know Your Options in Using Retirement Accounts for Real Estate Investing I’m surprised by the number of full-time real estate investors who rely entirely on the stock market for their retirement portfolio despite driving higher returns by renting, rehabbing or lending. I field questions every day from ...
Self-directed IRAs Can Boost Your Wealth While Positively Impacting Your Community Rex, a real estate investor from Illinois, purchased a foreclosed single-family home in 2013 for $47,000, including some rehab costs. After renting it for a year, he was able to sell it for $69,000. This looks like a profitable, ...
How to Avoid Unintended Tax Implications in Your Real Estate IRA Everyone knows that you don’t pay taxes on the growth of assets in an IRA, right? Well, not always. It’s true that the asset growth in the classic investments made in a Traditional IRA—stocks, bonds and mutual funds, for ...
How to Harness the Power of IRA Non-Recourse Loans for Real Estate Investing Investors have always known the power of real estate to enhance their retirement portfolios, but few realize they have the option to leverage self-directed retirement accounts to purchase investment property. Since the creation of the IRA in ...
A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Mortgage Regulations It’s a common problem: Many people want to get started in real estate investment or buy more properties, but their biggest store of liquidity is in their IRAs and other retirement accounts. Fortunately for investors in that situation, there’s a simple and ...
