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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The Investor’s Guide to Building a Full Credit Picture
Real estate has always been about credit, even before Congress created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 1938 and the wheels were set in motion to create today’s extremely credit-dependent home-lending environment. As far back as the 9th century, lords of the manor on feudal estates documented rents collected (and associated ...
5 Things Ken and Anita Corsini Think Every Investor Should Know
Both Ken and Anita spend a lot of time talking to real estate investors, especially new ones. “We actually have certain things we really want everyone to know about real estate investing, that we feel helps kind of frame the concept,” Ken said. Here are the five things they feel ...
Renovation Rockstar: The Park at LeBlanc
Featured investors: Mike Becker & Carl Dean, SPI Advisory LLC (Dallas office) Making over a 168-unit apartment complex is no simple task, even when you have more than a dozen deals under your belt. When Michael Becker, Principal at SPI Advisory LLC in Dallas, Texas, first encountered The Villas at ...
While investors traditionally are encouraged to remain inside a fairly unremarkable “box” when it comes to design decisions, Ken and Anita like to push the limits in their remodeling designs. “Historically, investors stay neutral because you do not know what a buyer will really like in a house. You use ...
The Opportunity in Real Estate Has Never Been Greater
Sponsored content from Angel Oak Prime Bridge. Today’s real estate market presents powerful investment opportunities for those with entrepreneurial spirit and access to capital. As many insiders and analysts note, there is a nearly unlimited supply of aged housing and very limited supply of new housing available. This market dynamic ...
3 Signs an Airbnb Rental Could Be Right for Your Market
Airbnb has permanently changed the way we travel and, perhaps even more significantly, the way we think about real estate investing. In 2013, best estimates indicated about 3 percent (7 million Americans) considered themselves active real estate investors of any type. Just two years later, market data indicated there were ...
Think Realty Magazine September 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | How Much Longer Can Atlanta's Hot Housing Market Last? •Out of the Ordinary Design Point | Renovation Rockstar (Multifamily Edition): The Park at LeBlanc •Vinyl Flooring Decisions Made in the Field • Tuned Into the Market • How the Latest Kitchen Cabinetry Trend Could ...
The Think Realty Walkability Primer
Current data shows properties with higher walkability translate to: Higher home value Higher rent for residential and commercial real estate Increased value per-square-foot of up to $81.54 Clearly, real estate investors need to understand walkability, both in terms of what it means for individual investments and how it may affect ...
Billboards: A Highly Visible but Overlooked Real Estate Niche
Imagine being able to spot a piece of real estate that no one else realizes is full of potential, get a great deal on it, and then leverage it in a way that requires very little maintenance, upkeep, or management. It might sound like an impossibility, but you drive by ...
Investing in mortgage notes has made many people very wealthy and created cash flows for them that come in every month. I think of notes as cash-flow machines that you build, plug in, and then they produce income for you for years. The best news? There is no limit to ...
U.S. Commerce Dept. Warns Housing Inventory Still Short
If the goal of homebuilding is to cool rising prices, the slight uptick in new home inventory this past July won't do the trick. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, total housing starts in single- and multi-family building rose nearly 1% in July to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.17 ...
How to Identify the Best Secondary Markets for Investment
Eight years into a recovery that has seen property values soar to all-time highs, the real estate market is growing nervous about how long the good times can last. The economy is fast approaching its post-World War II record of 120 months without a recession and acquisition yields are at ...
Residential Real Estate Indicators You Must Know
Now is the time to buy residential real estate. I have been in the real estate investing business for more than 20 years, and all the signs are there: The stock market is near all-time highs Debt market yields are still historically low Supply and demand factors in residential rentals ...
Renovation Rockstar: Historic Home Yields Hidden Treasures
Featured investors: Kathryn Harbour, Realtor with Keller Williams and Steve & Denise Nunley, Steeden Preferred Properties Deal Notes & Numbers: 1935 historic home in Acworth, Georgia. Within walking distance of Lake Acworth, multiple public parks, and the historic downtown Acworth area, home to local dining, boutique retail, an arts district, ...
The Truth About “Totally Passive” Income from Syndications
Back in 2010, a long-time developer asked if I could raise $3 million to acquire a foreclosed subdivision worth about $15 million. At the time, I had been helping California investors find foreclosures nationwide. Pooling funds to buy a foreclosed subdivision was something completely new to my network and to ...
Funding Options for Fix and Flips
This content is sponsored by Sunset Equity. Learn more about Sunset Equity here. [siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] Are you interested in beginning to fix-and-flip houses for profit? If you are, in fact, interested in entering the growing marketplace for flippers, you must have a lot of questions. Unless you have caches of ...
Think Realty Magazine August 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty's Newest Coach: Shawn Woedl Design Point | Renovation Rockstar: Historic Home Yields Hidden Treasures • 3 Countertop Options from the Field Special Focus: Strategy | Sourcing True Success in Housing •How to Identify the Best Secondary Markets for ...
5 Strategic Videos that Will Revolutionize Your Real Estate Marketing
The same YouTube that hosts those crazy (and strangely addictive) cat videos can also be quite effective in promoting your real estate business. YouTube is a perfect platform for scaling your business brand along with adding a user-friendly team resource. Furthermore, many of the most effective YouTube strategies in use ...
3 Red Flags for Airbnb Investors
Airbnb is one of the most disruptive short-term rental platforms in the world right now, and that description is both complimentary and pejorative, depending on the source. According to the company’s head of global policy, Chris Lehane, Airbnb uses “technology to create economic empowerment.” However, many city officials (not to ...
10 Hard Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Commercial Partnership Deal
Real estate has always been regarded as an equal-opportunity wealth creator. However, caveat emptor: Real estate historically has been full of scams. Based on my experience managing distressed real estate funds, that fear of being deceived and losing it all is the number one reason why smaller investors don’t invest ...
3 Ways to Invest in Secondary Mortgage Notes
Back in 2005, it was clear to those of us who looked closely that the housing market was sitting on unstable ground. When lenders are freely lending money to borrowers with low credit scores (in the 500s) at combined loan-to-value (LTV) ratios of 103 on a stated income with no ...
Are Smart-Bathroom Upgrades a Smart Investment Move?
The Internet of Things and the advent of smart little helpers like Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Home have brought the concept of smart design out of the pages of science fiction and into our daily lives. Yet for many of us, the idea of a smart home stops ...
The 5-Minute Rule for Wildly Successful Digital Lead Generation
In today's competitive real estate investing landscape, lead generation is essential for growing the bottom line. Wholesalers and fix-and-flippers cannot survive without fresh leads! Deal or No Deal? Quality leads turn into appointments and some of those appointments will turn into lucrative deals. High quality leads increase your odds of landing a good ...
Debunking the “Liquidity Myth” Around Real Estate
When most investors think about their real estate assets, they believe them to be illiquid, meaning they are not easily converted into cash from their physical property form. This belief, dominant throughout the financial industry and across investing sectors, has formed some of the guiding principles that govern real estate ...
Think Realty Magazine July 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events •Better Property Management Through Better Expense Management Design Point | Renovation Rockstar: California Dreamin' • Investing in Smart Bathroom Upgrades Special Focus: Technology | Refining A Platform for Real Estate Empowerment •The Facts, Fictions, and Myths of Real Estate Investing Technology ...
