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
Building a House Checklist: 5 Things to Consider
Building a new home is an exciting time. However, this excitement can soon turn into overwhelm when you’re faced with endless choices, decisions, and time and money constraints. The building process is more efficient and less stressful when you develop a good plan, choose a competent builder and think long-term ...
Increase Rental Property ROI With These Upgrades
With property values at record highs and homeownership out of reach for millions of people, it’s a great time to be a landlord. However, given the number of rentals available and the limited number of reliable renters, landlords are under increasing pressure to spruce up their properties to make them ...
Finding the Perfect Neighborhood for an Investment Property
So, you want to buy a house to rent out. It’s important to look at a variety of factors as you make your decision. Picking a house and community you want to live in is very different from choosing a house for someone else to live in. While many people ...
5 Loans to Help You Buy a House
The economy is still recovering from the constraints of the pandemic, but the housing market is booming. With people around the country relocating and the real estate industry thriving, there are many families looking to buy a home. If you can afford to buy a property but don’t know what ...
Big Tech Will Disrupt the Real Estate Business
Believe it or not, there was actually a time in which people who wanted to buy or sell a home needed to know a Realtor—or at least know someone who did. There was no internet, and besides the real estate section of the newspaper, there was no place where you ...
Essential Tips for First-Time Property Investors
The property market is one of the most lucrative investment opportunities for people looking to grow their wealth. But it's not always easy, especially when you're a first-time investor. You need to have a thorough understanding of what you can and cannot afford before making the jump into property investing ...
6 Ways to Pay Off a Mortgage Faster
With housing prices continuing to skyrocket across the country, current homeowners find themselves in an envious position. Watching the value of their homes increase every year, many are eager to sell and cash in. Others want to utilize the value of their home for borrowing purposes. Whether looking to sell ...
Using Social Media to Reduce Vacancy
Real estate investors stand to gain so much by leveraging social media; you might even say it's necessary to have an online presence. These days people start searching for homes online, and if you concentrate all your efforts on traditional means such as newspapers, you risk losing out on prospective ...
Top Tools Real Estate Professionals Need to Use
Anyone who has been in the real estate industry for a while has probably realized that the industry has changed significantly during the past few years. Therefore, real estate professionals need to do everything they can to stay one step ahead of their competitors. Now, there are numerous tools available ...
Creating a Stress-Free Rental Portfolio
As investors, we enjoy the thought of reaping the benefits of passive income, thus many of us look to rental properties when considering our options. Utilizing leverage to acquire properties can allow us to enter the market with a relatively low capital output. Although, there is a difference between passive ...
4 Steps for Vetting a General Contractor
Embarking on a development project of your own is an exciting and rewarding endeavor. However, it is also a venture that comes with many obstacles. This is particularly true if you are a first-time developer and not familiar with navigating the construction process. The key to a successful build is ...
Borrowers, Real Estate Investors, Real Estate Entrepreneurs
The real estate world can be complicated. There’s a significant amount of terms and concepts that you need to understand to be successful in the field. Real Estate Investors, borrowers, and entrepreneurs are some of the most fundamental terms you’ll need to know. Luckily, these are very self-explanatory and easy ...
When Is It Time to Sell Your Rental Property?
Rental properties offer real estate investors long- and short-term profits. From the start, you can charge rent that will cover the cost of the mortgage, expenses, and taxes while producing a steady stream of income. Owning a rental property also yields long-term results. At some point, you will sell your ...
4 Real Estate Questions That Buyers and Sellers Need to Ask
Real estate is a great business to be in. But it is also one of the most heavily regulated businesses you can be in. There is a very good reason for that heavy regulation. There was a time when the real estate game was dreadfully corrupt. Sadly, this is why ...
How Real Estate Professionals Can Impress Clients During Boom Periods
The real estate market waxes and wanes, as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic — and when it waxes, there’s a lot of money to be made. Real estate professionals need to not only take note when interest surges (and prices surge) but also respond accordingly, upping their efforts and ...
5 Ways to Find the Fair Market Value of a Home
As a homeowner, you want to get the best price while selling your home. Irrespective of the condition of the housing market, it’s important to find out the fair market price for your home to deal with instances like stamp duty collection, taxation, insurance claims, loans, sale or purchase, and ...
Real Estate Agents—Doomed or Different?
It goes without saying that 2020 and the pandemic brought about huge changes in the real estate industry, forcing many real estate agents to pivot, adapt, and re-strategize. While many saw their businesses tank, others still saw an increase in their businesses. Why? What did they do differently? With over ...
5 Things to Look For When Buying Rental Properties
It’s no secret that priorities have shifted and values have evolved for property owners and tenants alike. With more renters entering the market, real estate is hot for investors. If you’re already an investor or want to get into the field, now is a good time because people are relocating, ...
10 Employee Handbook Topics for Your Business
Training your employees is crucial if you want your business to work effectively. It is not sufficient to only train new employees, as you should constantly improve your whole company. Moreover, you may want to prepare a universal handbook for every employee to have. This way you can make sure ...
How to Buy Real Estate Out of State (If You Must)
Some places are so expensive these days that it’s all but impossible to find a rental property that will produce positive cash flow, particularly if you are buying with a loan. So it’s not surprising that many investors look out-of-state (and some out-of-country) to find rentals that will actually cash ...
3 Things Real Estate Investors Should Always Check Before Buying a Property
Today, there are endless stories doing the rounds about people who have earned themselves a fortune simply by investing in real estate. Real estate can indeed be a powerful tool when it comes to diversifying your investment portfolio. There are no two ways about it! What’s more? Right now is ...
Five Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home
When you’re a homeowner, you will want to make money on the property. While the house might go up in value even if you do nothing, you should make investments in the property to increase its value. Luckily there are a lot of ways to improve your home and keep ...
Tips for Investing in Real Estate Part Time
Ask any professional investor, and nearly all will agree: Real estate is a great way to build wealth over time, making it one of the most valuable asset classes in any portfolio. In fact, 41% of Americans surveyed in 2021 said “real estate is the best long-term investment.” But real ...
Design a Life You Love Using Real Estate
When I think about design, I see it primarily as a thoughtful, proactive element in crafting our output and shaping outcomes in life. Other times, it is best seen in review, when looking back at our project or personal history. The fact is that I have always loved designing, whether ...
Real estate investing is a wonderful way to improve your financial future and earn financial freedom. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bias and uninformed thinking that goes into real estate education. For example, how investors choose to focus on “good” tenants verses “bad” tenants can have a significant impact ...
