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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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 ...
Thanks to a rocky recent history, American real estate has been dubbed the “land of milk and honey” for foreign investors. Countless people from across the globe are scooping up American houses like they’re hotcakes, spending an average of nearly $500,000 per purchase, which far surpasses the average U.S. home ...
No recovery in U.S. property until 2017,” blared Reuters in 2009. Analysts were fearful that commercial real estate prices would fall another 50 percent from the peak in 2007. Building prices were forecast to take at least six to eight years to recover. Vacancies were soaring. Local malls, shopping plazas ...
Like every industry, real estate has been going through a transformation over the last few years. Where it was once possible to find many properties to purchase and either rehabilitate, sell or use as rental properties for cash flow, it can now be quite challenging. Approaches that used to work ...
I don’t ever get any good leads …” “You can’t get deals like that where I live …” These are just some of the statements I hear all the time from real estate investors who haven’t honed their lead-to-deal conversion ninja skills. Mostly likely, the problem isn’t that they aren’t ...
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Hundreds Converge to Discuss the Single-Family-Home Investing Craze
Recently I attended a three-day event in Miami focused on single-family home investing. In fact, I had the privilege of meeting some of you readers there. I was honored to be a moderator on one of the panels where I met the “who’s who” in real estate investing. It was ...
Getting the most bang for your rehabbing buck
It seems like with all the TV shows out there nowadays, everybody has heard the term “fix-and-flip.” But what does that really mean, and will that be a viable strategy for you as an investor? Very simply, fix-and-flip involves buying a property at a discounted cost, renovating (or fixing) it, ...
Passive Investing in Active Value-Add Real Estate
Many of the most interesting real estate investment opportunities involve “value-add” situations—renovation or redevelopment projects that aim at repositioning a property to a higher price point. The value-add strategy is often considered to have medium to high risk, but the returns can be potentially high as well. The Different Approaches ...
Before it was Cool: Crowdfunding with Ignite Funding
The term “crowdfunding” did not exist in the American vocabulary prior to 2011. Over its first five years in existence, $34 billion in contributions has been reached, carving out a whole new industry-driven 100% by investors presented with the opportunity to rethink the lending industry. Additionally, crowdfunding for real estate ...
How Do You move from SFD to Commercial Investing?
As With So Many Things, The Answer Is: It Depends. Here are some tips to help you make the right decision for your situation. READER QUESTION: Right now I’m investing my money in single-family residences. I had no previous experience and have been at it for a year. I’ve done a ...
Buying By The Numbers: 5 Efficient Ways to Find Off-Market House Deals
The Cheaper You Buy, the Better Your Return is Going to Be, Regardless of Your investment Strategy Smart real estate investors know that the secret to true success is finding deals with great numbers. So as a house flipper, in order to increase my profit margins, reduce my risk and ...
Short-Term Rentals Aren't Just for Summer Vacationers Anymore Many homeowners looking to list their houses on popular short-term vacation rental sites like Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey, and Tripping.com wait for summer to cash in on out-of-town vacationers. And it’s not hard to see why—with nearly 17 million people worldwide who booked ...
This is Not Your Grandfather's 'Rooming House.' As students of real estate investing for the last 13 years, we’ve seen—and participated in—quite a few strategies related to single-family and multifamily investing. We have learned a great deal along the way, but one timeless lesson remains far superior to any other: ...
Are You Taking Advantage of the Benefits of Investing in Real Estate Through Your Self-Directed IRA? As April 15 approaches each year, most real estate investors spend some quality time with their accountants or financial advisers. It can be a bittersweet time as they look over their real estate earnings ...
Think Realty Magazine May/June 2016
+WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | The Most Important Lesson • Comings & Goings • The Beauty of Buy & Hold • Finding the Bull's-Eye • More Foreigners Investing in U.S. Cover Feature | Expanding Network Up Close & Personal | Crowdfunding Crusader • The Weekend Investor • Best of Two Worlds • ...
The Insider’s Guide to Rent Estate
| 9 pages | 2,592 words | half hour read | Excerpt The crash of 2008. The rise of Millennials as the nation’s largest demographic. Uber, Airbnb and the emergence of the “sharing economy.” The American Dream is alive and well, but it’s changing rapidly. And for millions of people, ...
How to Calculate the Worth of Your Investment Property
Investing in real estate is often considered a profitable path to gain financial freedom. However, it involves making huge investment—and that is where it gets tricky. Investors are lured by the notion of making easy money from the booming property prices, which often leads to wrong and hasty decisions. So, ...
