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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7 Creative Ways To Market Your Property
In a sea of MLS listings, creative marketing can help your property stand out. While these seven strategies may not be for everyone or for every property, under the right circumstances, one of them may help you get a competitive edge. 1. Throw a Party Open houses attract buyers on ...
The calls to OdorXit’s 1-877 help line come practically all day, every day. On the phone are real estate investors desperate to banish the stench of skunk spray, cigarette smoke and dead animals from their rental properties. OdorXit’s president, Deb Meyer, has heard practically every horror story out there—and has ...
There is no other business like the real estate business. Everything that is acquired can be negotiated, and the most important negotiations are terms and price. Terms are far more important than price, because you can obtain terms at low or no interest and then the rent from the house ...
A surge in retirees (people turning 65) will slow the growth of workers in the United States. In 2000, 2 million people turned 65; 3.5 million did in 2016; and 4 million will in 2021. Even with a higher-than-usual rate of retiree-aged people working, U.S. economic growth will almost certainly ...
Many real estate investors are looking to expand into new markets as backyard deals become scarcer and thinner based on demand for product, reduced HUD foreclosures and property values recovering from the mortgage meltdown. While new investors struggle to find local deals, seasoned and savvy investors are moving into new ...
The convergence of two important trends—the improving U.S. real estate market and growing interest in self-directed retirement savings plans—presents an opportunity for people saving for their post-working years. Self-directed IRAs give you the freedom to invest in a wider range of assets, including real estate. The following data from clients ...
1031 Exchange, named after Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, allows a real estate investor to defer (postpone) tax liability when selling one property and buying another. This raises an important question: How much income tax will I owe if I sell this property but do not acquire a ...
Know Before You Go: A Loan Commitment Checklist
While issues such as interest rates, principal loan amounts, underwriting requirements, etc., generally are included in a loan commitment, many issues are often not addressed until after the prospective borrower has signed the loan commitment, paid the nonrefundable loan commitment fee and funded, in advance, a deposit for expenses related ...
5 Strategies For Building Wealth Through Note Buying
"You can make a living brokering notes, but you get wealthy owning notes!” This statement from a pioneer real estate note investor provided one of those “lightbulb” moments for me. Determined to start owning notes, I left a 10-year “job” in the corporate note-buying world to start my own note ...
Whether this is your first flip or your 20th flip, there are strategies you can use to help make your business even more successful. Fixing-and-flipping homes can be profitable for real estate investors in a number of different cycles. An important thing to keep in mind when starting out is ...
Newbies, Don’t Let Sellers Take Advantage of You
I’ve got a gripe, and I think it’s important to share it so that some of the newbies out there don’t get unfairly taken advantage of. It’s driving me nuts that new investor—and even some seasoned, pro investors—are buying deals at terrible prices. I see it happening in Atlanta, where ...
Believe in Success—And it Will Come
This blog post is a little more philosophical than usual, but I really believe in this as a key to reaching success—whether that’s in your real estate investing, or in life in general. What I’m talking about is the “law of attraction,” which is, quite simply: what you think, you ...
Looking to Accelerate Your Wealth in Real Estate Investing? Try a ‘Flip-and-Hold’
If you are already in the real estate business, then by now you have encountered the basic issues that first-time investors come across when starting out. You went through sourcing and acquiring the financing you needed to begin your initial investment, found the property or properties that you were interested ...
Real Estate Investment Wholesaling 101: What’s it all about?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately asking about wholesaling, such as: Why should I wholesale? Is wholesaling real estate worth it? Can I make money in it? Do I have to invest capital? What does it even mean to be a wholesaler? Is it the same as being ...
5 Things You Need to Know about Investing in Land
Successful land investing, like any type of investing, requires a lot of due diligence. Investing in land often requires travel, since are several things a buyer cannot know about a piece of land before seeing it in person. Google Maps is a great resource, but it is not a substitute ...
That Bargain-Priced Mobile Home Just Could Be Your Big-Time Investment
Don’t you love getting a good deal? When shopping for real estate, nobody wants to pay full price. As buyers looking for a bargain, we start with distressed properties, hoping to flip the property for a good profit spread. Seeing a substantial profit made over the original cost of the ...
Think Realty Magazine July/August 2016
+WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | Turnaround Specialists • Conversion is the Key • Alive and Well • Moving Up the ‘Risk Curve’ • Looking for the Right Mix Cover Feature | Think Realty Awards of Distinction Up Close & Personal | Got Your License Yet? • One-to-One with Lukas Krause • Street-Smart: ...
How To ‘Quantify’ the Quality of Different Rental Houses
Just as with the stock market, there are different levels of quality in investment properties. This is true with apartments, office buildings, industrial warehouses, and it is true with rental houses. Many brokers and investors qualify a property as A, B, or C. I use that same technique when I evaluate rental ...
Real estate investors often start small—a single-family home investment or a small apartment, office or retail building—before leveraging that early experience into multiple properties and a larger portfolio. The move up from new property investor to a seasoned property investor level can require training in the “school of hard knocks.” ...
There’s a natural tendency for investors to think more like home appraisers than home inspectors when evaluating a property, and it makes sense—you need to know how much you can expect to sell for when the time comes. But you can miss issues that affect your bottom line when you ...
In his best seller, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” Stephen Covey provides seven concepts to guide the reader toward self-mastery and business success. The general theme of the book is that, in order to achieve success in one’s life, certain habits should be implemented. A successful life can ...
School’s out now, and one of the best parts of summer, I think, are the cookouts. Some of the best memories I have with friends and family have come from these get-togethers. A key part of our mission at Affinity Loss Prevention Services (ALPS) is to deliver seasonally relevant information ...
It’s your first time flipping a house, and it’s almost ready. Now what? That’s a question we hear a lot. While our business model is mostly wholesale properties, we will flip six or eight houses a year and have learned you have to start marketing the properties even before the ...
What Smart Property Managers Need to Know Now
Thanks to sky-high demand for rental housing, right now is a great time to be in the business of property management. It’s simpler than ever to find and place quality tenants in a property. Make no mistake, though: Property management is a business, one that’s shaped by larger trends in ...
One of the simplest ways for companies to communicate financial well-being and shareholder value is to say that “the dividend check is in the mail.” Dividends—those cash distributions that some companies pay out regularly to shareholders from earnings—send a clear and powerful message about that company’s current performance and future ...
