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How SFR Investors Can Streamline Due Diligence to Acquire Properties Faster
The single-family rental (SFR) market is one of the fastest-growing asset classes for investment, with SFR home rents and occupancy rising by 5.7% last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. With increased demand and dwindling supply, the market continues to heat up with SFR investors facing increased competition and scrambling ...
10 Home Projects to Improve Your Kitchen
Are you satisfied with the way your kitchen looks like? If not, then do not worry. You are not the only one. Many people have trouble planning out their kitchen and tend to either make it look way too cramped or disorganized. Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem! ...
How To Scale From a Duplex to a 670-Unit Deal
00:58:00 |Scaling a multifamily portfolio takes a lot of focus, hard work and resilience. Liz Faircloth and her husband Matt started their real estate investing journey in their 20’s with no money, no experience, and no knowledge of investing. 16 years later, they control over 1500 units of multifamily real ...
Can You Still Find Deals on the MLS?
The real estate market is really hot right now and has been for some time and finding good deals is not nearly as easy as it once was. Back around 2011, for us it was as simple as driving around and looking at one bank owned property after another. Nowadays, ...
7 Tips for Keeping Your Roof in Top Shape
The roof is one of the most important parts of any house. After all, it serves as a barrier against hail, ice, snow, and rain, as well as branches and debris. Unfortunately, it is not indestructible, and if you want it to serve its purpose for many years to come, ...
Top 6 Cost-Effective Home Improvement Projects
Do you want to make your home a better place to live but feel like you do not have enough money to do that? If that is the case, then you are not the only one. Many people out there give up on home improvement projects out of fear of ...
Top 8 Things That You Should Do After Buying a House
Buying a house is a costly and time-consuming process. First of all, you need to determine what you are looking for and find a few houses for sale that suit your needs. Thanks to the internet, you can do that with ease. You just have to start googling things like ...
Voices of Reason: Managing Your New Remote-Work Team
00:58:51 | Many of you have transitioned -- or are in the process of transitioning -- your teams to working from home during COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates. While technology makes this an increasingly viable option, managing a remote team is markedly different than an in-person environment. And COVID-19 means that this ...
10 Tech Savvy Garage Security Tips to Make Your Home Safer
Although not many people believe it, your garage is one of the most important parts of your house - it stores your car, as well as other, often expensive items, and many people tend to use it to enter the living area more often than the front door. However, it ...
Think Realty Magazine April 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Contributor Corner Featuring Steve Streetman • Former Teacher Turns to Real Estate • Presidents' Circle Fundamentals | The Right Real Estate Investment Instructors • Profiting from Real Estate Syndication • Five Strange Facts About IRAs • Commercial Review • Extend Your Capabilities with Property ...
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review | Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID • Protecting Multifamily Investments • Suburbanization Unveils Growth Opportunities • Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions ...
Voices of Reason: Managing Your Real Estate Business During Covid-19
02:53:03 | The current Coronavirus situation is unlike anything we have experienced in our lifetime. And while some of you are enthusiastic for positive opportunities, others are concerned and anxious. Regardless of which side of the emotional fence you’re on (and it might change daily), Think Realty and the American ...
On the Radar: Want Success? Focus on Chocolate
Sam wants to be a real estate investor. He attentively shows up to every local investor meeting, has a vision board, knows his “why,” opened an LLC, and even launched a motivated seller website. Every weekend, he selects a new neighborhood to walk while listening to real estate podcasts on ...
Over the past year, real estate investment (REI) organizations have scrambled to remain relevant and operative as the pandemic has shut down and altered in-person meetings. Mostly gone are the three-day live bootcamps, the annual conferences in vacation spots like Las Vegas and Orlando, and even the REIA meetings at ...
What To Consider When Buying Your First Home
Finally! The moment you’ve been waiting for! You are ready to buy your first home. You’ve planned your finances well and saved for some time to be able to make a big purchase. However, it can be intimidating buying your first home, as you don’t have any experience in the ...
How to Invest in Real Estate Debt Funds
Real estate debt funds gained popularity during the 2008 financial crisis. Essentially, debt funds link borrowers, who tend to be developers, to short-term capital to finance their construction projects. Real estate debt funds have in the recent past been experiencing rising interest from investors. The strong competition is leading to ...
How Residential Real Estate Investors Can Help Solve the Impending Silver Tsunami Crisis
With nearly 10,000 Americans turning 65 every single day, our country is rapidly aging. By 2030, all of the nation’s baby boomers - roughly 20% of the American population - will be older than 65. This will expand the size of the country’s elderly population to a staggering 72.8 million ...
Types of Loans Available to Texans and Others
Borrowed money can be utilized for a variety of things, from buying an engagement ring to funding your business dream. However, with the various types of loans available to Texans and others, which one is the best option for what purpose? Here’s a quick look at a few types of ...
Tax Benefits of Investing in Real Estate
Real estate investment is one of the most lucrative investment options available. The industry has created countless millionaires since time immemorial. In fact, many financial experts rank real estate as the best investment to get the highest return on investment (ROI). This is also backed by many studies that have ...
Is Investing in Rental Properties Worth the Risk?
Rental properties can provide a way to supplement your income and over time can lead to your only source of income. However, as with any investment, there are some risks. Listed below are a few pros and cons to owning rental properties. Fixer Upper If you’re investing in real estate ...
Compassionate Marketing for Real Estate Investors
As real estate investors, we often need to remember to be people first, and deal with the emotional struggles a family might be facing. That has never been more apparent than during the pandemic. For your business to survive the pandemic, not just grow, remember how you are able to ...
How to Keep Maintenance Costs Down in Your Rental Property
Buying that first investment property can be a strange experience. Most people approach their own home with a “whatever it takes” attitude. Leaking pipe? Pay whatever plumber can get there fastest—no matter the cost. With a rental property, you suddenly have to think about things like your return on investment ...
Multifamily Loans: Clarification in Commercial Real Estate
Using a Multifamily Loan to finance an apartment will allow you to buy a property that could very well end up being self-sufficient from the monthly rent you receive from tenants. Buying multifamily real estate properties may seem complicated at first glance, but a Multifamily Loan now offers a private ...
Think Realty Magazine March 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Bruce and Stephanie Petersen • Success Story • Contributor Corner Featuring Lorraine Beato Fundamentals | Corporate Transparency and Real Estate • Building a More Diverse Industry • Investor Review • Tax Return Mistakes • Hard Money Loans Demystified Investor Review | ...
How You Can Benefit from Common Living
Food, water, clothing, and shelter are indeed the necessary foundations of survival, and more and more people are looking at creative ways to find a place to rent and live. In cities far and wide, finding affordable places to live has become difficult. Between impacts from the recent pandemic to ...
