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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Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?
A recent case has shed light on one of the riskiest retirement plan strategies offered by promoters. In McNulty v. Commissioner (157 T.C. 10), a U.S. Tax Court provided clarity to the scheme of using self-directed IRAs for personal investments. Although the rules are strict, they had become lax and ...
Think Realty Magazine March/April 2022
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Profiles | Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Market Crash in 2022? Legislation | Think Realty’s New Government Relations Committee Identifies First Key Issue Funding | Tap into Private Lending When Buying a Short-Term Rental • Capital, Real Estate, Cash Flow, and the Velocity of Money • ...
Think Realty Podcast #223 – The Multifamily Investment Roadmap
Investing in multifamily real estate can sound intimidating, but our guest Rob Beardsley from Lone Star Capital is giving you the roadmap on how to do it successfully. He explains what factors he looks for when choosing a property, what to look for when running a full comp analysis between ...
Earn Real Estate Rental Income without Being a Landlord
They do say that real estate is always a great investment, but the traditional way of investing in real estate comes with a heavy burden of work. If you’re a landlord managing your own rental property, you’re fielding calls from tenants, sometimes in the middle of the night; dealing with ...
Ashcroft Capital Announces Second Fund
At Ashcroft Capital, we focus on capital preservation while still having upside potential through our Value-Add Funds. We are proud to announce our second Fund, the Ashcroft Value-Add Fund II (AVAF2) is now open and accepting accredited investors. What is a Real Estate Fund? How is this Fund different from ...
How To Earn From Airbnb; Learn The Art Of Real Estate Arbitrage
Do you want to leverage your property to earn rent but don’t know how? Don’t worry! Using Air Bnb you can find tenants by connecting with people around the world. Planning vacations and looking for a place that gives you a home-like feel? Use Airbnb. This is an online marketplace ...
Think Realty Podcast #220 – Rent to Retirement – Turnkey Investing
When you think of making money with your investment properties, do you think of picking up a hammer and doing DIY projects? You don’t have to do that anymore thanks to turnkey investing! Our guest, Zach Lemaster from Rent to Retirement, teaches how turnkey investing works, how to make your ...
Instagram-Worthy Staging and Photography
House staging and well-composed photos go together like peanut butter and jelly. A single ingredient just doesn’t hit the spot the same way. A perfectly-staged house without photos — or photos of a cluttered home — won’t cut it if you’re looking to sell a property quickly or start a ...
The Stage and Sell Partnership
Preparing a house to sell takes teamwork to do it right! With all the “Home Buying Televisions Shows'' having such a big influence on how people view homes now, it’s no wonder more real estate agents are teaming up with staging companies to help market their clients’ homes better. However ...
Contractual Unity in a Volatile Market
In today’s market, unity amongst construction personnel has never been more important. Construction projects have always been susceptible to shifting parameters like weather delays, shortage of skilled workers, and supply chain issues. In the current market, construction personnel also must factor in certain safety requirements ushered in by the pandemic ...
Think Realty Podcast #219 – Self-Directed IRA’s: Congress is Watching, Now What?
Using capital through a self-directed IRA is a beneficial strategy, but now that Congress is cracking down, what does that mean for you? What are the risks to using checkbook control? Our guest Derreck Long from Quest Trust Company discusses the strategies to make self-directed IRA’s work for you! To ...
Considerations for Selling or Renting Your Commercial Property Investment
If you’ve invested in commercial real estate, you might be experiencing a tough time renting or selling your property while getting the full return on your investment. Namely, the current pandemic had a drastic impact on the commercial real estate (CRE) market, and real estate forecasters predict the pandemic-centric concerns ...
Think Realty Podcast #218 – Strategies of Section 8
If you haven’t thought about investing in a Section 8 property, you could be missing out on a HUGE opportunity! Our guest Joe Asamoah has been successfully investing for over 30 years and is sharing his strategies on why Section 8 properties are beneficial, when to invest and how to ...
How to Pay Yourself Now and Pay Yourself Later with Partnering
When you think about creating wealth, you’re often thinking about your future. Questions like “how can I retire comfortably?” and “what investments will help me reach my goals?” may float around in your head. A common thought would be to shovel a bunch of money away in a savings account ...
No matter how much time you’ve spent in real estate, chances are you have logged some serious hours staring at a computer screen, trying to make numbers work on a spreadsheet and making sure you haven’t made any mistakes. If you have a team, you’re only as good as your ...
Real estate investing is very rewarding. But the last thing you want to happen is to have all that success and lose one of the most valuable assets you have—your relationship with your spouse. Throughout the last five years, my husband Chris and I have worked together in different real ...
Things to Check Before Investing in New Property
Investing in real estate is a smart way to acquire one or more assets whose value will more than likely continue to increase in the coming years. Rather than leaving your money sitting in a bank account, you can instead invest in real estate that you can then use to ...
Think Realty Magazine January/February 2022
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Local Real Estate Investors Improve Communities One House at a Time • A Woman to Watch: Eboni Killian Fundamentals | The Power of Partnerships • Instagram-Worthy Staging and Photography • What Does Leadership for a Property Manager Look Like? • Contractual Unity in a ...
Have you ever worked with or thought about working with your spouse in your business? There are a lot of benefits to doing this. When you are both on the same page striving for the same goals, you can accomplish those goals much quicker. You have someone you know that ...
A Demographic Shift Prime for Investment
With inflation on the rise and uncertainty growing, investors look to the horizon, watching for patterns and identifying changes that point to opportunity. The desire to diversify amid growing market concerns is nothing new. For years, investors have looked for the best methods to increase return on investment while ensuring ...
I have been running businesses and investing in real estate for over 30 years and I have learned that partnerships are the most efficient ways to scale any venture. I haven’t always felt that way. In the beginning of my career, I was worried about keeping my market share, my ...
Does 15% to 20% ROI investing in Turnkey Rental Real Estate sound attractive? What if I told you that you could invest in the hottest markets in the country and have the support from teams that have been helping investors accomplish this goal for two decades? What if I also told ...
Local Real Estate Investors Improve Communities One House at a Time
Local real estate investors across the country are uniquely positioned to help alleviate the significant shortage of homes available to low- to mid-income families. They work closely with private lenders and capital providers who enable and encourage the delivery of updated affordable housing. The severe lack of quality affordable housing ...
2022’s New Legal Requirement: The Corporate Transparency Act
The U.S. Government wants to know who owns your business. The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) requires, as of January 2022, entities defined as reporting companies to report key information about their beneficial owners. The information will be held in a ‘secure’ database maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s ...
Setting Up Commercial Office Space? These Are the Features It Has to Have
There are some excellent opportunities in commercial real estate despite the crash of 2020. A lot of real estate holders took a rather unpleasant bath as they were left holding property that no one wanted. Retail made a mad dash toward the nearest eCommerce portal they could find. Restaurants discovered ...
