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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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Think Realty Podcast #191 – Thinking Multifamily?

Think Realty Podcast #191 – Thinking Multifamily?

If buying a 100-unit property seems untouchable, you’ll want to listen to this episode because investing in the multifamily space is more doable than you might think. Host Abhi and guest Mark Kenney demystify multifamily as they discuss MF trends, markets, raising capital, best resources, and more! To learn how ...
Think Realty Podcast #190​ – Secure Your Financial Future

Think Realty Podcast #190​ – Secure Your Financial Future

Permanent wealth. Sounds pretty good, right? On this show, learn the relationship between control and risk and find out how you can sustain your finances in any situation. Guest Gary Pinkerton explains the ideas of hierarchal wealth, infinite banking, and more. Plus, did you know you can use a whole ...
Think Realty Magazine May 2021

Think Realty Magazine May 2021

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories |  Contributor Corner Featuring Aaron Norris • Presidents' Circle Featuring Kemra Norsworthy Fundamentals |  Investing Ideas That Work • The Next BIG Wave: Motel to Multifamily Conversions • Cardone’s Column: Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies • Creative Marketing for Real Estate Investors • Investor Review ...
On the Radar: Accessory Dwelling Units

On the Radar: Accessory Dwelling Units

Creative real estate comes in all shapes and sizes. Seller carryback, wraps, master leasing, and lot splits are a few that come to mind. However, there’s one creative strategy I’ve been following closely since 2017: accessory dwelling units or ADUs. The strategy is becoming more popular due to government intervention, ...
Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upheave the Housing Market

Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upheave the Housing Market

Sweeping demographic changes are underway in the U.S. as tens of millions of Baby Boomers age into retirement. Between now and 2030, the number of Americans aged 65 years and older will increase to 73 million people, accounting for 30 percent of the population. Roughly 70 percent of them will ...
Manufactured/Mobile Homes on Acreage:  The Best Kept Secret in Real Estate Investing

Manufactured/Mobile Homes on Acreage: The Best Kept Secret in Real Estate Investing

Most likely, you’ve already read the title of this article. At the four mastermind groups in which I am a member and speaker and at the nationwide events I speak at, I always use this title. People always ask me, “Do you really believe that? Why?” My answer is always, ...
Being Creative with Wholesale Deals

Being Creative with Wholesale Deals

Wholesaling is a great way to get started in real estate, capitalize on deals that you are not going to be buying yourself, and provide other investors with properties they need while making some decent money. Your typical wholesale deal consists of a vacant property that the seller needs to ...
Creative Marketing for Real Estate Investors

Creative Marketing for Real Estate Investors

As Real Estate investors, the goal is to find the motivated sellers before the competition does. One thing many sellers are looking for is answers to their situation. Content is rapidly becoming one of the most basic forms of marketing. Not only does consistent content marketing positively impact customers’ experience, ...
Three Reasons to Sell Your Real Estate for Cryptocurrency

Three Reasons to Sell Your Real Estate for Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin has risen from $6,700 per coin to $58,000 in the past year. That’s an 860 percent annual increase and, frankly, that’s the average for what Bitcoin has done over the past five years. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that? And Bitcoin is not unique in its out-of-this-world appreciation ...
Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies

Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies

Back when I was first getting started in real estate investments, I had two strategies available to me. I could buy-and-hold or fix-and-flip. That was it. Thankfully, these days, there are a bunch of new out-of-the-box strategies for investing in real estate that fall into the new category of “creative ...
The Next BIG Wave: Motel to Multifamily Conversions

The Next BIG Wave: Motel to Multifamily Conversions

One of the biggest lessons I learned early on in my career is that an entrepreneur gets paid in relation to the size of problems he or she can solve. One of the major problems happening in the U.S. economy today is the lack of supply for affordable housing. Home ...
Investment Treasures

Investment Treasures

Sometimes that next great home to renovate may just be the home other investors are passing up. Often these are the homes that have bigger problems than kitchen updates or a new roof. It may take creativity to solve these more difficult investment property problems. As a real estate investor, ...
How To Scale From a Duplex to a 670-Unit Deal

How To Scale From a Duplex to a 670-Unit Deal

00:58:00 |Scaling a multifamily portfolio takes a lot of focus, hard work and resilience. Liz Faircloth and her husband Matt started their real estate investing journey in their 20’s with no money, no experience, and no knowledge of investing. 16 years later, they control over 1500 units of multifamily real ...
Why Buy and Hold Is So Powerful

Why Buy and Hold Is So Powerful

Anyone who has watched the real estate market of late (and by that, I mean the last decade) knows that owning real estate at any time since the crash of 2008 bottomed out was a great investment. And while real estate can certainly go down in value like any investment—as ...
Self-Storage Sector Holds Up

Self-Storage Sector Holds Up

The self-storage industry has grown significantly in recent years, with developers regularly finding profitable locations for new facilities. Also, as it provides vital services, it has a reputation for riding out challenging times relatively well. Add to this the comparative ease with which a self-storage business can be started, and ...
Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions

Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions

As a real estate investor, incorrectly identifying a deal can potentially cause catastrophic losses, while proper identification of a deal can set you up for long-term success and wealth creation. In a competitive marketplace, real estate investors must combine a boot-on-the-ground qualitative analysis with data-driven quantitative research. It is the ...
Protecting Multifamily Investments

Protecting Multifamily Investments

In the midst of this pandemic-induced economic recession, a new president was inaugurated and the balance of power in the House of Representatives and the Senate shifted. This provokes an additional degree of uncertainty. Will the new administration authorize additional economic stimuli? When will the eviction moratorium end? Will the ...
Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID

Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID

Although it has been over ten years since the financial crisis of 2008, I still remember how this country got completely rocked. I’ll never forget the fear and uncertainty I felt back then, wondering if I was going to have a business when it was all over. We made it ...
Think Realty Podcast #187 – The Secret Source

Think Realty Podcast #187 – The Secret Source

Leads in a seller’s market aren’t as scarce as you might think! On this episode, find out why the senior living industry is the best lead source out there. More than 20 million Boomers will be selling their homes in the next 20 years and YOU could be the investor ...
Tips for a 1031 Exchange

Tips for a 1031 Exchange

A 1031 exchange is any large investor’s secret weapon, but you’ll want to be sure to use it even if you’re just getting started. When buying and selling homes, the IRS always wants its slice of the pie in the form of tax. Although a 1031 exchange can be tricky ...
Think Realty Magazine April 2021

Think Realty Magazine April 2021

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories |  Contributor Corner Featuring Steve Streetman • Former Teacher Turns to Real Estate • Presidents' Circle Fundamentals |  The Right Real Estate Investment Instructors • Profiting from Real Estate Syndication • Five Strange Facts About IRAs • Commercial Review • Extend Your Capabilities with Property ...
April 2021 Commercial Review

April 2021 Commercial Review

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review |  Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID • Protecting Multifamily Investments • Suburbanization Unveils Growth Opportunities • Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions ...
Think Local, Learn Local

Think Local, Learn Local

Over the past year, one of the changes we all had to make was learning how to thrive in a virtual world. An advantage that I found with this new virtual world was that I got back so much of my time. In the same amount of time that it ...
Profiting from Real Estate Syndication

Profiting from Real Estate Syndication

A real estate syndication is essentially referring to the partnership between an expert, or team of experts, and a group of investors who collaborate to acquire larger assets that otherwise could not be attained on one’s own. The first is the sponsor(s) (the experts) who source the deal. In a ...
When the Largest Generation Affects REI

When the Largest Generation Affects REI

Baby Boomers have been at the helm of economic trends in the United States for decades. Currently holding nearly 80 percent of total housing wealth in the United States, the Baby Boomer generation is clearly steering residential real estate trends as well. In terms of assets, middle class Baby Boomers ...