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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Ditch the Spreadsheets

Ditch the Spreadsheets

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 ...
Sustaining Partnerships

Sustaining Partnerships

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

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

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 ...
A Partnership Close to Home

A Partnership Close to Home

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

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 ...
The Power of Partnerships

The Power of Partnerships

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 ...
Rent to Retirement

Rent to Retirement

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 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

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

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 ...
Think Realty Magazine December 2021

Think Realty Magazine December 2021

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories |  Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton • Presidents' Circle Featuring Marco Santarelli Fundamentals |  The Social Impact of Real Estate • Tax Benefits with Short-Term Rentals • 5 Factors for Real REI Success • Commercial Review • How to Buy or Sell a Property Management ...
December 2021 Commercial Review

December 2021 Commercial Review

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review |  Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage • Multifamily Investors Venture Beyond Gateway Markets • Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022 • Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021 • Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID ...
Global Real Estate Investing

Global Real Estate Investing

With current U.S. real estate prices surging out-of-control, let’s look at five reasons why global real estate investing in Panama can be a great way to diversify your portfolio. Many U.S. properties are being sold for 10-22 percent over the asking price. On top of this surge, many buyers are ...
Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage

Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage

Did you notice how the government didn’t place rent restrictions, moratoriums, etc. on self-storage during the pandemic? That’s because they not focused on someone’s stuff that has been collecting dust for years sitting in a metal box. While single and multi-family landlords have been feeling the heat, self-storage is gaining ...
The Abstract Side of Real Estate

The Abstract Side of Real Estate

What does it even mean to invest in real estate? Historically, you buy a building. You develop. You occupy. You rent. You manage. Real estate has always been, literally, something real and tangible, something you can touch. But over time, as with every other investment type, real estate has become ...
Short-term Rental Regulations

Short-term Rental Regulations

With travel picking up again, short-term rental hosts are fully engaged to capitalize on the excitement. But in the rush to attain some semblance of new normalcy, it’s important that owners take a moment to understand new efforts to enforce marketplace legislation around lodging, lest they trip into the myriad ...
Think Realty Podcast #216 – Future of Short-Term Rentals

Think Realty Podcast #216 – Future of Short-Term Rentals

Do you know what Lodging Tax is? Also known as occupancy tax, this show explains the taxes people pay when they stay in any type of lodging, like hotels and vacation rentals. If you’re a short-term rental owner, learn why you should consider automation for this potentially industry-changing development. Plus, ...
Think Realty Podcast #215 – Protect Your IRA

Think Realty Podcast #215 – Protect Your IRA

On this show, Abhi interviews the Titan of Self-Directed IRAs, Quincy Long. This esteemed guest knows all there is to know about tax-advantage accounts. They tackle the hot topic of current proposed laws in Washington that could drastically affect investors, like you. Find out what this legislation could mean for ...
Think Realty Magazine November 2021

Think Realty Magazine November 2021

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories |  Community Impact • Presidents' Circle Featuring Aaron Chapman Fundamentals |  The Subdivision Market • A Mastermind Mindset • Invest for Cause and Community • Grow Your Property Management Business • Investor Review • Wholesaling Integrity • Property Development Is About People Investor Review |  ...
Property Development Is About People

Property Development Is About People

It is easy to get lost in the finer points of property development when there are so many moving pieces that developers are responsible for managing. Between acquiring professional teams, project deadlines, budget revisions, risk management, and compliance with local ordinances, a developer must always be on call. The most ...
Heart of the Home

Heart of the Home

Renovating homes for a living is of course a numbers game. Buy low, have a reasonable renovation budget to work with, and hope to turn a profit in the end. The buying and selling are reasonably simple. It’s the in between part that can get tricky for investors! What, where, ...
Wholesaling Integrity

Wholesaling Integrity

When I got into this business five years ago, I quickly picked up on the negative connotations associated with wholesaling. I also quickly understood why there were so many negative stereotypes about wholesaling and wholesalers. In my market of Indianapolis, there are many legit wholesalers that are truly trying to ...
Loan Assumptions

Loan Assumptions

The ability to assume existing debt can be a great way to make a deal work for both buyer and seller. In a relatively flat or declining rate environment as we have seen in recent years, prepayment penalties on securitized loans can be extremely expensive. That additional expense will often ...
New-Home-Construction

Hot Spots for Home Construction

The ongoing supply and labor shortages induced by the pandemic have paralyzed most industries in America, but not construction. Over the last two years, residential construction has surged across the U.S., according to an in-depth report using US Census Bureau data by Omnis Panels. The report analyzed new building permit ...