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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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Operations

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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“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 ...
Quick-to-Close

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 ...
Think Realty Magazine February 2020

Think Realty Magazine February 2020

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  News & Events • Think Realty Supplier: Sherwin Williams Paint Investor Stories |  Presidents' Circle Featuring Greg Slaughter • A Different Path to Success • Get Smart Engagement |  Easy Answers • Realty Matters: Technology Fundamentals |  Quick to Close • The Morals of ...
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Real Estate for Humanity

"If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” - Warren Buffett Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie. These modern-day activists promote human welfare and social reforms and help to save lives across ...
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Growing a Healthy Business

| Gary Harper | Article | Operations
If you are a new business owner, you must wear many hats until the company achieves a level of success to warrant support staff. You might find yourself being everything from CEO to receptionist. Eventually, though, most business owners will start replacing themselves, which is the proper way to grow ...
Mastering-Meetups

Mastering Meetups

| Bruce Kellogg | Article | Operations
Meetups are one of the most beneficial ways to market your business and to meet like-minded individuals, and there are so many available. From interests like real estate investing to hiking, there are meetups for almost everyone in every city. Organizers post these networking events on meetup.com. To join, go ...
Stage Your Home for Selling

Stage Your Home for Selling

Selling a home isn’t as easy as finding a willing buyer in the market. Aside from having to iron out the necessary paperwork, you’ll need to ensure that people would be able to see the true value in having your house as theirs. Although you may think that your house ...
How To Find Success With Off-Market Property Deals

How To Find Success With Off-Market Property Deals

With the right circumstances, an off-market property deal is ideal for real estate investors. Here’s why: many listed properties today receive multiple offers from competing investors. And it can be difficult for your offer to stand out. Here’s the secret, though: there are strategic tactics to find off-the-market homes to ...
5 Reasons to Sell Your Home

5 Reasons to Sell Your Home

The real estate industry continues to be a profitable business. Housing keeps on being of high demand, with not enough homeowners supplying it, making now an optimum time to sell. Whether you’re going for an upgrade or selling surplus property, you can stand to gain a handsome profit when you ...
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Pretty and Practical

Blond wood in all sorts of things: Furniture, flooring, cabinetry – it’s great to contrast with dark tones! Jewel tones: ALL the jewel tones! Adding personality to a room: Paint the walls, trim and ceiling the same color for a dramatic effect. Two-tone cabinets: Darker lowers and lighter uppers are ...
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Color Trends, Part 1

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 #98 – Kristine Gentry with US Probate Leads

Think Realty Podcast #98 – Kristine Gentry with US Probate Leads

Abhi speaks with Kristine Gentry, the VP of Innovation at US Probate Leads about the growing probate market and why probate leads are good. And learn about new services available to help use leads effectively. Also, Zumper’s National Rent Report for December 2019 and more! For more information about US ...
Business-Efficiency

Business Efficiency

| Eddie Wilson | Article | Operations
For the past decade, I have been a student of business operations. I have led multiple businesses that use operational systems such as Six Sigma or Kaizen. I have seen many real estate businesses adopt a system called EOS or sometimes referred to as Traction. I believe that all of ...
Property-Exchange

Property Exchange

Imagine a group of real estate brokers who help their clients trade real estate parcels as if they were baseball cards. Brokers who can figure out how to move through properties (sometimes in three, four or five steps) to get to an ultimate cash sale. These brokers regularly do the ...
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Realty Matters: FAIR Housing

| Brian Wojcik | Article | Operations
The psychology of word association is fascinating and powerful. In the following sentences, fill in the blank with the first word that comes to your mind: ________ is where the heart is. Habitat for _____________. Most likely you chose Home and Humanity. What feelings do those terms conjure for you? ...
Think Realty Magazine January 2020

Think Realty Magazine January 2020

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  News & Events • Think Realty Supplier: Sherwin Williams Paint Investor Stories |  Running with Values • Presidents' Circle Featuring Abhi Golhar • A People Business • Revival of the Fittest Engagement |  Easy Answers • Realty Matters: FAIR Housing Fundamentals |  Real Estate ...
Think Realty Podcast #97 – Paul White with RealNumberz.com

Think Realty Podcast #97 – Paul White with RealNumberz.com

Abhi speaks with Kristine Gentry, the VP of Innovation at US Probate Leads about the growing probate market and why probate leads are good. And learn about new services available to help use leads effectively. Also, Zumper’s National Rent Report for December 2019 and more! For more information about US ...
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You Want a Partner?

Being a passive investor is a great way to gain experience and knowledge in real estate investing. But before you drop that dollar, here are some things you need to know about partnering and investing in real estate. A Joint Venture (JV) agreement is a contract between two or more ...
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Flip the Switch

I recently spoke at the Think Realty Conference & Expo in Atlanta and moderated a panel of real estate agents who have “flipped the switch” from real estate agent to real estate investor. What I found out was that all of the people in the room came from corporate America ...
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Lead Generation: Sellers

Sellers come in various shapes and sizes. Some simply want to sell, such as a family wanting to move up or down in the same area. Others, however, need to sell, such as an owner facing foreclosure. Then there’s the matter of distress. Some properties are distressed, such as the ...