REI Fundamentals

Whether you're pre- first deal or a seasoned professional, explore the foundational knowledge upon which real estate investment success is built.

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REI Fundamentals

Whether you're pre- first deal or a seasoned professional, explore the foundational knowledge upon which real estate investment success is built.

Back To: All Topics  |  Operations

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The Good News: Real Estate Is Booming. The Bad News: Real Estate Is Booming.

There’s little argument that the real estate market right now is hot. That’s good news for real estate investors, but it’s also bad—or let’s instead call it “challenging”—news. While the level of activity varies among different markets, we are seeing one of the highest residential real estate markets since back ...
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Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment

An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
First Things First

First Things First

With So Many Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate Investing, Where Do You Start? Very early on, starting out as a part-time real estate investor, I recognized the enormous challenges in the vast ocean of real estate but also the numerous opportunities that exist. It can become overwhelming, and almost ...
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I Want to Invest in Real Estate, But Now What?

“OK, I know I want to invest in real estate—but now what?” That’s a question that every real estate investor—whether full-time, part-time or just thinking about it—has asked himself or herself at some point. And that leads to a whole bunch of other questions, including: What do you do? Where ...
Checklist

The Essential Commercial Property Checklist

| Harmel Rayat | Article | Fundamentals
When it comes to successfully investing in real estate, due diligence and proper research are strongly required and an investing checklist is invaluable. No. 1 – Population Growth and Diverse Economic Activity My goal is to invest in areas of strong growth. We never want to invest in unstable or ...
Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own

Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own

| Kevin Guz | Article, Fundamentals
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
The 7 Best Renovations for Rental Properties

The 7 Best Renovations for Rental Properties

Here are a number of renovation suggestions designed to help ensure that a prospective tenant will choose your rental. When dealing with rental-property ownership, two of the biggest variables are dealing with vacancies and the length of time it takes you or your property manager to re-rent the property. Marketing ...
Create your own full-time benefits from part-time real estate investing

Create your own full-time benefits from part-time real estate investing

In writing this blog post, I am going to draw on my own experience as a part-time real estate investor who was employed full-time in corporate America. Hindsight is 20-20. I will admit I did not see the full-time benefits I was building with my part-time real estate investing at ...
4 Ways to Start Small as a Real Estate Investor

4 Ways to Start Small as a Real Estate Investor

I speak from experience when I say that taking that first step is one of the most significant and common obstacles for a new or part-time investor who is looking to get started. Most people struggle to take that first step. I’ll admit it is the most difficult step and ...
3 steps to overcoming fear in purchasing your first real estate investment property

3 steps to overcoming fear in buying your first investment property

Many times people thinking about buying their first investment property are anxious or scared. So how do you overcome the fear factor? I guarantee there are many people out there who put down on their resolutions and goals for 2015 that they want to buy their first investment property. You ...