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Your operations define your long-term success in real estate investing. Fine-tune your process with: Asset Management | Asset Protection | Deal Analysis | Fundamentals | Growth | Lead Generation | Risk Management

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Your operations define your long-term success in real estate investing. Fine-tune your process with: Asset Management | Asset Protection | Deal Analysis | Fundamentals | Growth | Lead Generation | Risk Management

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How to Choose Which Investment Vehicle is Best For You

How to Choose Which Investment Vehicle is Best For You

00:09:14| What are you seeking, which suits your appetite the best? Which has the fastest turnaround potential? Where can you get cash flow? What about tax benefits? Which one will I have the most control over? Find out the main differences here to help you decide ...
The Stock Market Versus Real Estate

The Stock Market Versus Real Estate

00:07:27 | There are 5 areas investors review when analyzing investment opportunities. How do stocks and real estate compare in each area? Flip and Dani discuss their opinion on the matter ...
Tax Benefits For Passive Real Estate Investors

Tax Benefits For Passive Real Estate Investors

00:09:28 | Flip and Dani talk about the tax benefits of real estate investing. They list out the scores of incentives to real estate investing that you need to know, all under 10 minutes. It’s not always how much a deal makes, it’s how much you get to keep! ...
Building a Partnership That Thrives

Building a Partnership That Thrives

Think for a moment about a few of the most successful corporations in the world. It is a fair bet to claim that none of them ascended to their peaks alone. In fact, they likely had partners who were critical to their industry rise. Simply put, partnering with another company ...
How we Set Ourselves up to Retire in 5 Years Through Real Estate Investing

How we Set Ourselves up to Retire in 5 Years Through Real Estate Investing

00:07:43 | Flip & Dani share how they set themselves up to retire in 5 years through real estate investing and how their passion to help others do the same inspired them to create a 365 day Podcast Series titled "Freedom Through Passive Income ...
What is an Accredited Investor and How Do I Become One?

What is an Accredited Investor and How Do I Become One?

00:07:52 | In this episode, Resident Experts Flip & Dani talk about what is an accredited investor and how to become one ...
Think Realty Magazine January/February 2023

Think Realty Magazine January/February 2023

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Woman to Watch |  Revolutionizing the Assisted Living Industry Industry Awards |  2022 Think Realty Honors Winners Operations |  3 Ways to Reduce Capital Gains Tax on Rental Properties • Metrics Matter! • Faster Alone, Further Together • 6 Tips for Finding the Perfect Marketing Partner • ...
Key Considerations for a Commercial Real Estate Partnership

Key Considerations for a Commercial Real Estate Partnership

A real estate partnership is no different from any other partnership in its basic purpose: mutual benefit through collaboration to achieve more together than can be accomplished alone. Steve Jobs distilled the benefit of collaboration this way: “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by ...
6 Tips for Finding the Perfect Marketing Partner

6 Tips for Finding the Perfect Marketing Partner

Whether you’re trying to sell real estate, rent luxury properties, or both, you need a smart marketing strategy on your side. To get in front of your target audience and make conversions, partner with an agency you can trust, has experience in your industry, and who show you which channels ...
Faster Alone, Further Together

Faster Alone, Further Together

An often-quoted African proverb states: “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” It is advice you would be wise to heed. Why? Because it takes a team to build an Empire. Yes, you can be the emperor or leader, but you ...
Building a Strong Foundation For Your Relationships

Building a Strong Foundation For Your Relationships

Partnerships are as powerful as multiplication and addition. When you find the right partner—whether in your business efforts or a life relationship—you can accomplish more than you would going it alone. As wonderful as partnerships can be, however, they can equally be as detrimental. After being involved in more than ...
Metrics Matter!

Metrics Matter!

Fred and Tom were two young entrepreneurs who had just partnered to start a business. Unfortunately, they were struggling because they didn’t know their numbers, and they weren’t adjusting their business accordingly. “I don’t know what’s wrong,” said Fred, looking despondently at Tom. “We’ve been working hard to make this ...
3 Ways to Reduce Capital Gains Tax on Rental Properties

3 Ways to Reduce Capital Gains Tax on Rental Properties

Similar to stocks, rental properties are viewed as capital assets. So, when you sell them and earn a profit, you must pay capital gains tax on the money you’ve earned. You can calculate your profit by subtracting the amount you paid for the property (plus any costs for renovations or ...
What the Heck Is Lead Generation, Anyway?

What the Heck Is Lead Generation, Anyway?

For many investors, new and experienced alike, deciding which lead generation source is the best option can be a daunting task. There are a few ways to simplify the process and bypass unnecessary headaches. The process begins with a clear understanding of the following: Exactly what lead generation is (and ...
Property Manager Due Diligence

Property Manager Due Diligence

Property managers (PM) are not typically considered an essential piece of your real estate investment team—unless you live out of state. Honestly, if you buy a local property there are a lot of compelling reasons you shouldn’t have a PM. The biggest reason people opt out of having a PM ...
How to Leverage Social Media to Promote Rental Properties

How to Leverage Social Media to Promote Rental Properties

The best business advice you’ll ever get is to market where your audience is. With 70% of American adults on social media, according to the Pew Research Center, it’s a prime channel for advertising many products and services. To get your rental properties in front of your target audience, take ...
Empathy As Advocacy

Empathy As Advocacy

Empathy seems like an overused term lately. It conjures up visions of corporate mission statements that use the word empathy but in practice no one who works at the company or does business with it feels anything but empathy, compassion, or customer service. Some corporations have even adopted slogans like ...
56 Unit Horror Story: Part 2

56 Unit Horror Story: Part 2

00:09:01 | This is Part 2 of the story about our first apartment acquisition. We discuss the financial numbers including how much have our private money lenders made in interest so far, what is the projected profit and was the battle worth it ...
56 Unit Horror Story: Part 1

56 Unit Horror Story: Part 1

00:09:24 | This is Part 1 of the story about our first apartment acquisition. Fun facts: None of the keys collected at the closing worked, the “supervisor” was taking social security and government subsidy checks from tenants and there were a ton of repeated break ins…and MORE ...
Think Realty Magazine November/December 2022

Think Realty Magazine November/December 2022

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Funding |  The Effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on Real Estate Investment Strategy • What Does the Cooling Real Estate Market Mean for BRRRR Investors? Design |  Extreme Makeover: Creativity Is a Must! Management |  Empathy As Advocacy Market & Trends |  Sizing and Timing the ...
Time management for businessmen: 3 hacks that will gift you more hours in a day

Time management for businessmen: 3 hacks that will gift you more hours in a day

Busy people know how hard it might be to find some more hours in a day to do more – thanks to neuroscience and psychology we now know many interesting hacks and tips that you can use to expand your possibilities and give yourself some more time on important things ...
Are Series LLCs a Good Choice?

Are Series LLCs a Good Choice?

In 1996, Delaware introduced the series LLC. As one of the newer entity choices, series LLCs are an interesting creation. The idea was derived from Delaware’s statutory trust law, which was popular with mutual funds. Under this law, an investment company could form a trust with separate series, each with ...
Change Brings Opportunity

Change Brings Opportunity

According to an old Chinese proverb, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” This is true about so many things in life, especially investing in real estate. In a changing market, however, many people might challenge that advice. Like the seasons, ...
Think Realty Magazine September/October 2022

Think Realty Magazine September/October 2022

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investment Strategy |  Change Brings Opportunity • 4 Ways to Protect Your Investment in Recessionary Times • Become a Strategy Savvy Investor • Fix and Flip: A Practical Guide for Investors in 2022 • Are Series LLCs a Good Choice? • What is Legacy Investing? • Should Investors ...
Maximize Profit and Minimize Taxes with Real Estate Investing

Maximize Profit and Minimize Taxes with Real Estate Investing

Andrew Carnegie is famous in many circles, but one of his quotes stands out: “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.” Although there are several real estate investment strategies, most novice investors start with a rental home, often their own or the other half of their ...