Alternative Investing
Alternative asset opportunities in real estate investment abound. Diversify — or find your differentiating niche — with short term rentals, assisted living, manufactured homes, notes, self-storage, and more.
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Alternative Investing
Alternative asset opportunities in real estate investment abound. Diversify — or find your differentiating niche — with short term rentals, assisted living, manufactured homes, notes, self-storage, and more.
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Think Realty Podcast #147 – Helping Humanity with REI
What does “help” mean to you? When was the last time someone helped you? Are you willing to receive it? Are you willing to give it? Real estate investors CAN effectively give back to communities and help so many people. This episode explores the concept of Philanthroinvesting™ and how real ...
Think Realty Podcast #146 – Recharge Your Rentals
The benefits of being a Think Realty member just got bigger! Think Realty’s newest supplier partner is Batteries Plus. On this episode, find out how they are helping real estate investors save money! From common, daily-use batteries to battery-operated devices and bulbs in your rental units, you can keep costs ...
Think Realty Podcast #144 – Start with the End
When you think real estate, you probably don’t think of residential assisted living as an investment opportunity. But you should. On this episode learn about this untapped niche of REI, and why it’s recession-resistant — even in the worst of markets. If you’re not involved in senior housing, you’re missing ...
There are many stereotypes surrounding tiny homes and the people who might be interested in owning them: minimalists with only one pair of shoes; mountain people; hippies. Many people might think these structures are merely trailers that look more like portable classrooms than homes. In actuality, tiny homes are a ...
Good for you! You’ve been investing and you have a nice piece of rental real estate where you’ve built up equity. But you have noticed that the return on that equity is not the best each year. Traditionally, you would say it’s time to sell and use a 1031 deferred ...
Think Realty Podcast #140 – Are You Ready to Diversify?
Are you ready for something different in your REI? A different market? A different country even? On this episode, we dive into Panama and discuss why investing in agriculture could be the next big thing. After all, smart farming is as important as smart investing. Learn how this not-so-common niche ...
Think Realty Podcast #135 – The Sticky Factor
How many opportunities exist in the world of real estate investing? Too many to count! But one you might not have thought about is Self-Storage. This episode explains why Self-Storage should be on the top of your REI strategies list. Highest returns compared to other asset classes is just one ...
As many of you know, it is my professional mission to flip my hometown of Gary, Indiana. In the town’s heyday, the city was the second largest in the state. It was home to a booming steel industry, a diverse and thriving population, and a beautiful lakefront community on the ...
Think Realty Podcast #122 – MeiLani Hock with Why Not Me AirBnB
Want to learn how to turn your trial into a triumph? Think Realty CEO Eddie Wilson talks with MeiLani Hock, real estate investor, Airbnb host/property manager, and founder of Why NOT Me? which coaches people to create the lives they want by building passive income through Airbnb using other people’s ...
Perspectives: Coronavirus and the Short-Term Rentals Industry
Time for Creativity and Adaptation The spread of the Coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. has affected all aspects of the real estate industry, but the impact has been most sizeable for short-term rentals. Analysis from Mashvisor, a real estate data analytics company, shows major declines in Airbnb activity in March ...
Most real estate investors know two traditional paths to profitability: big, multifamily buildings with hundreds of units, or single-family homes used for rental income or as a flip. But a new trend in on the rise. Build-to-rent single-family-home neighborhoods is a viable investment option that is a hybrid of the ...
The Future of Airbnb Investing
The establishment of Airbnb in 2008 and the subsequent emergence of similar websites revolutionized the real estate industry. Renting out on a short-term basis escaped the limits of home-sharing and evolved into an independent, full-time real estate investment strategy. Major cities in the U.S. as well as globally experienced an ...
The Power of Mobile Home Rentals
In the mobile home rental market, in most cases, investors put in half the money for double the cashflow in return. With the right strategy, investing in mobile homes creates passive income streams that add value to your clients, your business, and your bank account while you are spending time ...
Cryptocurrency: Inherently International
There are numerous challenges to investing in real estate outside your own country. Many things that we take for granted in the U.S. (e.g., strong property ownership protection, the ability to get a mortgage) are not true in other countries. In addition, there are language barriers, differences in currency and ...
12 Myths of Real Estate Note Investing
Whether you’re a new investor or have been in the game for a while, you might be uncertain of real estate note investing because of what you have heard. Here are facts to dispel just some of the many myths surrounding this niche of real estate investing. Myth #1: “You need ...
Real estate investing can be the best approach to build and preserve wealth. The value of real estate assets typically increases over time, yet regular and predictable currency devaluation can exacerbate increases. Plus, real estate is notorious for a lack of liquidity and a slow pace for buying and selling ...
The 3 P’s of Real Estate Note Investing
A real estate note is simply an IOU secured by property. In a conventional real estate transaction, a buyer makes a down payment, obtains a loan, and signs a note promising to pay a certain amount each month to the lender until the loan, plus interest, is paid. In a ...
Become the Bank: What is Wealth?
Wealth: what is it? Why does everyone talk about its creation? Wealth is defined by one’s perception and what it means to them. As a real estate investor, wealth is built through transactions, short-term and long-term. Non-performing notes can provide short-term gains through flipping and wholesaling; long-term growth is accomplished ...
Real estate wholesaling is addictive. The freedom and money that wholesaling provides are hard to give up once you’ve had a taste. But it's just as hard to give up a steady job in favor of an uncertain, if potentially lucrative, side hustle. When I quit my job to work ...
Online travel agencies (OTAs) have shaken up the vacation rental industry making short-term rentals more mainstream. Traditionally, vacation rentals were available in vacation destinations near beaches or in the mountains, for example. But now, thanks to internet booking sites and worldwide rental availability, vacationers and business travelers can stay almost ...
Vacation rentals, increasingly referred to as private accommodations, have been around for decades. Historically, a family would buy a second home and then hire a property manager to rent it out during the time it wasn’t in use. With this tactic, the owners used vacation rental income to defray ongoing ...
Cryptocurrency and Real Estate
Cryptocurrency and one of its main underlying technologies, Blockchain, seem poised to transform many industries. Real estate, which tends to be a conservative, slow-to-change industry, is ripe for transformation by these technologies. How can real estate investors take advantage of Bitcoin and Blockchain to set themselves apart from the crowd ...
Despite serious competition for the good deals, the tax lien real estate sector definitely rewards effort. Investing in tax liens and acquiring properties through tax sales is a highly effective way to build a big, profitable portfolio, if you are willing to put energy toward developing a strategy and understanding ...
How to Build Continuous Cash through Noteworthy Investments
How would you like to have a retirement plan that builds up cash continuously with as little as one initial contribution from you? Imagine a plan that you do not have to set up with a brokerage firm, a plan that has no fees of any kind, a plan in ...
Invest from the Couch: 7 Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms
Whether you’re looking to cut a seven-figure check or buy a small share of a building, more crowdfunding platforms are entering the world of real estate to fuel the next generation of investing. Leveraging a law enacted in 2013, real estate crowdfunding tools have significantly grown in popularity with dozens ...
