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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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Think Realty Podcast #151 – DO Quit Your Day Job

Think Realty Podcast #151 – DO Quit Your Day Job

Have you thought about trading your desk job for another career? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit? If the thought of investing in real estate excites you, but you’re afraid to quit your day job, then you’ll want to listen to this! DON’T let market selection, cap rates, due diligence, ...
Technology Revolutionizing Real Estate Document Processing

Technology Revolutionizing Real Estate Document Processing

Technology is a key lever, and its penetration in operations can prove to be a decisive factor for an organization’s strategic success. Accurately capturing data, inputting it to appropriate tables, keeping the data integrated in a database, and employing robust security measures; all these aspects can be handled efficiently by ...
Think Realty Podcast #149 – Hurry Up and Wait

Think Realty Podcast #149 – Hurry Up and Wait

If you could see it, everyone would be doing it. When it comes to REI, anticipation is key. But how do you know when the fallout will come? It’s all about understanding markets. Learn how to dive into real estate market research, how to time the market, and what information ...
Think Realty Podcast #148 – Take it Easy

Think Realty Podcast #148 – Take it Easy

Think Realty supplier TaskEasy is here to explain how they can make life easier for real estate investors! And what’s better than making your business life easier? Saving money at the same time! On this episode, learn how Think Realty members can take advantage of lawn care maintenance for their ...
Modular Housing and Mainstream Real Estate

Modular Housing and Mainstream Real Estate

Modular homes aren’t new, but the concept is becoming more popular as affordable housing continues to be a substantial issue for North Americans. With supply shortages across the country, the most obvious solution would be to build more homes. However, a hefty combination of economic trends, policy decisions, and demographic ...
Think Realty Magazine July 2020

Think Realty Magazine July 2020

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  News & Events Investor Stories |  Presidents' Circle Featuring Andre Johnson • Redesigned Renovation • Investor Voices Engagement |  Realty Matters: Designing Your Business • Easy Answers Fundamentals |  3 Ways to Stay Profitable and Pandemic-Resistant • Designing Your Real Estate Investment Portfolio • ...
3 Ways to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Pandemic-Resistant

3 Ways to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Pandemic-Resistant

By early May, most analysts and even many public health experts agreed the American public and the American economy could not take much more of the stay-at-home mandates and mandatory business shutdowns that resulted from COVID-19. The U.S. economy was shrinking at a faster rate than it had since 2008, ...
Realty Matters: Designing Your Business

Realty Matters: Designing Your Business

Evaluation of a real estate opportunity comes in two forms:  Use in search of a Site, or  Site in search of a Use  In other words, a business produces something and needs a suitable location; conversely, a location is available for a suitable business. A parallel approach and methodology can ...
Color and Quality at a Discount

Color and Quality at a Discount

On your next flip or rehab project, be confident in your color selections! Think Realty Supplier, Sherwin-Williams, has been committed to supporting homeowners and professionals with exceptional products and color expertise for more than 150 years. The company provides customers with resources to confidently choose colors, like their annual Colormix ...
Show and Sell

Show and Sell

As a mother-daughter duo in real estate, we have been able to focus in on what it really takes to get a house staged and ready to sell. Flipping and selling over a hundred homes together, we have been able to see what helps motivate buyers when viewing a property ...
Effective and Efficient Maintenance

Effective and Efficient Maintenance

TaskEasy is the nationwide solution to ordering and managing lawn care for rental properties. With TaskEasy, you can order services and manage your entire rental portfolio online, in one convenient place.  Founded in 2013 by CEO Ken Davis, TaskEasy was built to solve a long-standing problem: mowing the lawn. Ken, ...
Grow Your Business Safely

Grow Your Business Safely

Wanting to grow your house-flipping business? Need to keep up to date with safety protocols? Want to enhance your properties with different flooring options? Think Realty Supplier Sunbelt Rentals can help with these tasks, and more.  Sunbelt Rentals is one of the largest rental companies in North America. With 12 ...
Ask for Assistance

Ask for Assistance

Automate. Outsource. Scale. This business-building lingo is all the rage, but savvy investors do these things, usually with the help from virtual assistants. Think Realty Supplier REVAGlobal provides outsourcing solutions utilizing virtual assistants. Founded in 2016 by CEO Bob Lachance, REVAGlobal is currently the solution for many of the country’s ...
Think Realty Podcast #142 – Navigate to Capital

Think Realty Podcast #142 – Navigate to Capital

| Abhi Golhar | Podcast | Funding, Growth
It’s no secret that investors need capital. But when it comes to the pathway to private money, sometimes you might need help navigating the process. If your rehab is going sideways, there is help out there to guide you to profits! If you are buying, fixing, and flipping or buying, ...
Home-Flipping-ZIPs

Crucial Mistakes When House Flipping

Flipping homes—the process of purchasing a home, remodeling it, and then immediately putting it back on the market—can be a way to quickly build wealth. Yet, it’s not without its risks and potential pitfalls. Every veteran flipper has a horror story of that “one” property they worked on, or can ...
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Renovating Your Rental Home? Here Are Tips to Do It Right

You’ve made the plunge into the rental market and all has been well for the last few years. But as of late, you’ve begun to wonder if you should renovate your property. It could and probably will help draw in new tenants and you could make more money in rent ...
outdoor living

Outdoor Living: Summer’s Big Value-Add in Real Estate

As summer begins and most states initiate some form of economic reopening, there are many signals indicating that outdoor living is going to be the “big boost” for real estate this summer. With slow spring sales pushing many buyers’ home-seeking activities into the summer months, this probably would have happened ...
Think Realty Podcast #137 – Data Drives Decisions!

Think Realty Podcast #137 – Data Drives Decisions!

| Abhi Golhar | Podcast | Funding, Growth
How do public records play a role in real estate? The golden goose of real estate is that every customer and potential customer is already in public records with lots of data about them. You can know every future customer’s name, equity, home sale prices, and more … but this ...
Economic Zombies and the COVID-19 Crisis

Economic Zombies and the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll. The deadly infection has spared no nation. Millions have contracted the disease and hundreds of thousands have died. However, in the United States a broad-based reopening of our economy is underway. States feared that remaining shutdown would rock the economy to its very ...
Think Realty Magazine June 2020

Think Realty Magazine June 2020

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  News & Events • Think Realty Supplier: Sunbelt Rentals Investor Stories |  Coaching • Presidents' Circle Featuring Abhi Golhar • Titan Talk Featuring Glenn Stromberg • Passion With A Purpose Engagement |  Realty Matters: Calculating Risk • Preparation Investor Review |  The Five Most ...
Realty Matters: Risk Management

Realty Matters: Risk Management

When talking to prospective clients for my property management business, I always say, “rental property management is really about Risk Management.” I often tell the story of a client, who had previously decided to self-manage. Although he always tried to do the right thing, a small, innocent error led to ...
Reducing Risk in Rental Properties

Reducing Risk in Rental Properties

There is always some risk associated with buying a property for the sole purpose of renting it out, whether on a monthly or a daily basis. But regardless of rental timelines, here is a checklist to follow that will help reduce your real estate investment risks.  Budget Rationally  The first ...
A Real Risk Assessment

A Real Risk Assessment

How many of you have heard knowledgeable real estate investors discuss risk? In sober tones they describe “risks” like loss of tenants, market risk, title claims, competition. And their “risk management” approaches are to always buy title insurance, don’t build if there are other projects in the pipeline, only buy ...
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Is Long-term Co-working a Thing of the Past?

Commercial real estate’s co-working industry is going to feel an impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the economy on an uncertain path and social distancing requirements in place, it may take time before new leases are inked for the spaces and employees feel comfortable using shared space. Co-working allows workers ...
Think Realty Podcast #133 – Some Good News on Lending

Think Realty Podcast #133 – Some Good News on Lending

When dialogue in the lending space changes overnight, as happened this spring, preservation of capital is the number one priority. That abrupt shift in lending caused more chaos in a disruption never seen before in our lifetimes. Everyone is ready for some good news, and you’re in luck! All is ...