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Opportunity Zones: Boosting America’s Distressed Neighborhoods?
A lot of small communities are expanding their job base, but what’s happening in these leading towns with between 50,000 and 75,000 people is not true everywhere. We increasingly have a divided economy. At one end are world cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York as well ...
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 ...
Next-Gen Real Estate Investing
01:06:35 | Everybody's racing into Real Estate investing because it's the most proven way to become a millionaire and create more freedom. But the competition is fierce, deals are harder to find, and many struggle to even get started. That's why you need to be on the forefront of real ...
Think Realty Housing News Report October/November 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Making Your Tasks Easier • Rooted in Service •Focusing on Millennials for Real Estate Investors Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Kevin Kim •Veterans Buy America Fundamentals | Evaluating the Numbers • Building Your Brand • Managing the Business Risks ...
by Aaron Chapman and Marco Santarelli The world of real estate finance is riddled with varied forms of verification. Since taking someone at their word has been jeopardized by the unscrupulous, having a disinterested third party verify the data has become the standard. Most of this third-party data is based ...
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 ...
1031 Exchanges, Opportunity Zones & Self-Directed Retirement Accounts
Whether you have been in real estate for one day or more than a decade, you can’t miss the current buzz about opportunity zones. Did you know the deadline for investing in a qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) is almost here? As that deadline approaches, investors and fund managers are becoming ...
On the Walls Gray walls lasted a lot longer than I expected! What's in now? All white walls, which can be crisp and cool or warm and soft depending on the undertone. Two of my favorites - Sherwin Williams Extra White for a true crisp white and Sherwin William Alabaster ...
Think Realty Housing News Report September 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Housing News Report | The New Path Toward Tomorrow's Real Estate Profits •My Take: What is Property Data API? • Market Spotlight: The Southeast • Data in Action: The Home Affordability Struggle • Big Data Sandbox: The Home Affordability Maze: The Search to Buy a Home ...
Think Realty Magazine September/October 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty Benefits: Home Depot Pro Investor Stories | Passion for Green • Presidents' Circle Featuring Aaron Norris •Veterans Buy America Fundamentals | A Good Start • Portfolio Diversification • Women as Resources • A Legal View •Saving the Planet ...
When you’re looking at investment properties, you’re always exploring your options. In the world of real estate investing, there are almost as many strategies to consider as there are properties out there! With all the investing options, I have found buy and hold works. 5 Reasons Why Buy and Hold ...
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 ...
Renovation Rockstar: Atlanta Flip
When real estate entrepreneur Lorraine Beato spoke on a panel at Think Realty’s 2016 event in Atlanta, GA, little did she know that the young gentleman wearing a red cardigan asking to apprentice with one of the panelists would turn out to be one of her first flipping mentees. Thurman ...
The 9 Laws of Renovating Apartments
1. Be Knowledgeable Know and learn the business or hire someone who can help you. This applies to anyone who will be involved with the complex, from your property manager to your contractor. The desire to control everything and have your fingers in everything isn’t a good desire. The ability ...
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 ...
There is an affordability crisis in cities across our nation and around the world. In the United States alone, 40 percent of renters are cost-constrained, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent (Pew Trusts). An analyst at a consulting firm makes $75,000 per year, and ...
The Solution for Single-Family Success
Propertyware® and RealPage® deliver unique solutions that are unmatched in the industry. Built by single-family experts, Propertyware has been the industry’s leading property management platform for almost twenty years. Our all-in-one solution, which includes payments, screening, portals, maintenance, call center services and more, is designed for the way you do ...
Think Realty Housing News Report August/September 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Floor Trends: Vinyl Plank • How Fewer First-Time Home Buyers Threaten the Market Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Marco Santarelli •Service Before Self Fundamentals | High-Quality Investing Methods • A Different Way to Diversify • A Legal View • ...
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 ...
Tamara Day’s Strategic Renovation Advice
Photo courtesy of DIY Network As seasoned investors well know, each renovation presents new challenges that, if miscalculated, can bust budgets and tank an opportunity. With more than 30 home rehabs under her belt, Bargain Mansions host Tamara Day has plenty of tools to keep a project on track and under ...
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 ...
The Turnkey Real Estate business is one that comes with numerous opportunities and significant potential. There are many different avenues that companies take when putting their clients into hands-off investment properties. The traditional model of the turnkey space is to sell a client a renovated, tenanted, and managed property in ...
Think Realty Magazine July/August 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty Benefits: ApplyConnect • Top of Mind Investor Stories | Rebuilding Rural America •Fab and Fearless •Healthy Passive Income Fundamentals | Developing a Niche • Generational Tenants • 9 Steps to a Deed-in-Lieu-of Foreclosure• A Legal View •Doing Well ...
Think Realty Housing News Report July 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Housing News Report | Will Opportunity Zones Boost America's Distressed Neighborhoods? •My Take: Designed for the Conveniences of Today: Even Real Estate Transactions Can Be Done From Home • Market Spotlight: Investors Still Finding Success in the Middle • Big Data Sandbox: Where are the ZIP's that ...
