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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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Embracing Opportunity Without Sacrificing Returns

In today’s world of always trying to make “the next big impact” in community, business, or life, real estate investors often end up overlooking the big picture of their investment strategies. They abandon one strategy for another and pride themselves on ruthlessly cutting deals. The constant need to shift, change, ...
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Clint Coons Clears Up Investment Misconceptions

Through nearly 30 years of business, Clint Coons has seen real estate investors employ a variety of strategies based on fallacies, misinterpretations, and just plain bad advice. Here are three such misconceptions that Coons most frequently sees in his work: Your insurance will protect you from lawsuits While you should ...
Think Realty Podcast #119 – Ken McElroy with MC Companies

Think Realty Podcast #119 – Ken McElroy with MC Companies

Eddie speaks with Ken about his new book, “Return to Orchard Canyon” and how it incorporates money and business lessons from Robert Kiyosaki's famed text "Rich Dad Poor Dad." They go beyond the book and tackle some tough topics in the world of real estate investing. You won’t want to ...
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House Hacking with a 1031 Exchange to Multiply Your Portfolio

You don’t have to be wealthy to begin investing in real estate. In fact, it can often actually be easier if you’re younger and have a more flexible lifestyle. It’s much easier to navigate creative opportunities like house hacking or live-in flips when you don’t have large work or family ...
Think Realty Podcast #118 – Marco Santarelli with Norada Real Estate Investments

Think Realty Podcast #118 – Marco Santarelli with Norada Real Estate Investments

Coronavirus. Stock Market. Mortgage Interest Rates. These topics are hot, hot, hot right now and on this episode, Eddie Wilson and Marco Santarelli dive into all of them, and more! What will the impact be? What are good markets to invest in today? In the second segment, learn about some ...
Part-Time Real Estate Investing

Part-Time Real Estate Investing

Real estate investing is a great way to build wealth. This is an opportunity to invest your savings while working, studying, or just enjoying life with family and friends as a passive investor, and spending less (or more) time on projects as an active investor. New investors often find themselves ...
Think Realty Podcast #117 – Stuart Grazier with Storehouse310Turnkey.com

Think Realty Podcast #117 – Stuart Grazier with Storehouse310Turnkey.com

Think Realty CEO Eddie Wilson talks with Stuart Grazier about his career as an active duty Navy pilot and how he discovered real estate investing and learned about the power of passive income. Stuart is passing his knowledge to others through a Military/Veteran Real Estate Conference on May 29-30 called ...
5 Tips On How to Find the Right Office Space

5 Tips On How to Find the Right Office Space

As a business owner, you know for sure that there's going to be a lot of decisions that you're going to face and make in your life. There's nothing easy about running, opening, or even expanding a business. Of the many choices that you're necessarily going to have to go ...
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Color Trends

The use of color in home design is evolving as we enter a new decade. 2020 promises to be an empowering year of change, focused on colors that bring joy, serenity, and clarity. People continue to move beyond how spaces look and toward how they make them feel. Sherwin-Williams 2020 ...
Think Realty Podcast #114 – Jason DeBono with Nuview Trust

Think Realty Podcast #114 – Jason DeBono with Nuview Trust

Why are self-directed accounts becoming so popular? How does the economy impact self-directed accounts? Is self-directed right for you? Vice President of NuView Trust, Jason DeBono answers these questions and more! For more information about NuView Trust, visit NuViewTrust.com For more information about the Think Realty Baltimore Conference & Expo ...
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3 Strategies Better Than Bandit Signs

Think back to your last road trip. Chances are good that the highways you drove down were lined with hundreds of billboards advertising everything from hotels to lawyers to fast-food restaurants. How many of these billboards caught your eye? Were you able to grab a pen and jot down the ...
A Timeless Trend

A Timeless Trend

While television, infomercials, and internet advertising assures us of overnight riches in Real Estate Investing, the true power comes from holding property for the long term. I recently interviewed Tom Latimer, former President of the Metrolina REIA and one of the most seasoned landlords I know. I asked him for ...
Think Realty Podcast #113 – Daniel Huertas with Washington Capital Partners

Think Realty Podcast #113 – Daniel Huertas with Washington Capital Partners

What is the investor immortality complex? It’s something you want to avoid. Find out how on this episode! Also, knowing your bandwidth and financial limitations, how to talk with lenders to avoid taking out “the loan that broke the camel’s back,” and Abhi discusses Zumper’s National Rent Report for February ...
California Ranch

California Ranch

From the Designer Growing up assisting my father building and investing in strip malls, it was clear at an early age that real estate investing was a natural path for me to take. I received a formal education in design from the Interior Designers Institute of Newport Beach, California, and ...
Think Realty Magazine March 2020

Think Realty Magazine March 2020

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  News & Events • Think Realty Supplier: Sherwin Williams Paint Investor Stories |  Presidents' Circle Featuring Nancy Wallace-Laabs • Heroes Among Us • Women to Watch Engagement |  Easy Answers Fundamentals |  Tips to Tackle Your Day • Sharper Tips: Protecting Your Invaluable Assets• ...
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How to Find Off-Market Properties

A multiple listing service (MLS) is the most common place to find residential homes for sale, but it isn’t the best place to look if you’re hunting for an investment property, or a low-cost fixer upper. Experienced investors find off-market properties so they can find a deal that makes sense ...
Think Realty Podcast #111 – Glenn Stromberg with Stromberg Investment Group

Think Realty Podcast #111 – Glenn Stromberg with Stromberg Investment Group

Every real estate investor likes to talk money! We’re getting down to the bottom profit line on this episode of the Think Realty Podcast when Abhi talks with Glenn Stromberg about his business model and why it provides profitable investment opportunities. Stromberg Investment Group structures lucrative real estate joint ventures ...
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On the Horizon

'Roll Up Strategy' One trend Haldeman sees is a “roll up strategy” of consolidating products into one company, rather than each “new whiz bang thing” existing on its own. The end result will be fewer vendors providing more functionality to owners, he said. Coworking + Living As the gig economy ...
Why It's Important to Have a Residential Lease Agreement in Place

Why It’s Important to Have a Residential Lease Agreement in Place

A residential lease agreement is a legally binding contract connecting the landlord and tenant for the latter to rent an apartment, house, or place of residence from the former. Other names of this contract include a rental lease agreement or a landlord-tenant lease. As a landlord, you should have this ...
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“Disruptive” Tech

You may have heard the saying, “Sit with winners. The conversation is different.” It basically means that the company you keep defines the type of conversations you have, and the results of those conversations can determine whether you “win” or “lose” in your personal or professional life. Being part of ...
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Steps to Closing You Need to Know

As a seasoned real estate investor, you’re probably well aware of the home closing process and that longer closing times are the new normal. If you’re buying, you submit an offer, get the home inspected, get approved for your loan and then do any final negotiations before handing the seller ...
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Quick to Close

Real estate acquisition and sale has traditionally been a slow-moving process. When I purchased my first home in 1987, a typical home-buying process took 30 days. Today, with modern technology, electronic communication, searchable databases, and the ability to execute contracts online, a typical home-buying process takes – 30 days. How ...
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Realty Matters: Technology

| Brian Wojcik | Article | Operations
How many times have you heard about the latest technology or new company “disrupting” an industry? The real estate industry hasn’t seen any significantly disruptive innovation; the edges of existing processes have evolved, a bit. Did We-Work “disrupt” leasing? Nope. They simply added some Silicon Valley sizzle to an existing ...
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Color Trends, Part 2

The use of color in home design is evolving as we enter a new decade. 2020 promises to be an empowering year of change, focused on colors that bring joy, serenity and clarity. Homeowners continue to move beyond how spaces look and toward how they make them feel. Sherwin-Williams 2020 ...
French Country Kitchen

French Country Kitchen

From the Designer Growing up assisting my father building and investing in strip malls, it was clear at an early age that real estate investing was a natural path for me to take. I received a formal education in design from the Interior Designers Institute of Newport Beach, California, and ...