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Tax Break Creates New Frontiers of ‘Opportunity’
A new program that incentivizes real estate development in struggling communities could spur a flurry of investment activity as it helps uplift beleaguered areas. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 contained a provision that allows investors to avoid taxes on capital gains if the money is reinvested in ...
Seeing Is Believing with Virtual Reality, Even Before It’s Built
Virtual reality (VR) technology is making the impossible possible for real estate professionals, even offering the ability to walk potential buyers through a project that has yet to be built. Although two-dimensional computer renderings and animated videos may bring some similar capabilities, the complete immersion accessible through VR allows potential ...
The Best Kept Secret for Finding Off-Market Deals
Over the past several years, the real estate sales market has strengthened and prices have risen. While this is positive for the economy and owners of real estate, it has created a challenge for those of us looking to find and purchase “good deals” on rental investments. Would you believe ...
You’ve Gone from an Investor to an Employer. Now What?
Thanks to your smart investing, you’ve passed the point of what you can manage by yourself. You’ve officially become someone’s boss! But remember that with great power comes great responsibility. Think Realty supplier, Resourcing Edge, provides a long-term strategy to control costs, reduce risks, and better manage payroll, human resources, ...
Direct Mail Proof: Real Campaigns Netting Up to $100,000 Per Month
Any good real estate investment starts first and foremost with finding the best deal. And that's where a smart direct mail marketing campaign comes in. If you're looking for a direct mail article with general advice — get a good list, mail every month, et cetera — move along. I'm ...
Renovation Rockstar: Malibu Mansion
Featured investor: Lin He Project Notes: Size: 3,600 sq ft Location: Malibu, CA Purchase Price: $985,000 Rehab Budget: $300,000 Sale Price: $1,970,000 Carrying Costs & Commission: $285,000 Profit: $400,000 When it comes to Lin He’s philosophy behind real estate investing, he’ll shoot you straight. “Once in a while we get ...
Busting the Seasonal Home-Selling Myth
In my work as a real estate broker, I hear from sellers every year asking, “Should we wait until spring to sell our home?” My answer is always the same: people buy homes in all months of the year. If you are ready to sell, you should put your home ...
Video Conferencing for Real Estate Investors
One of the things it seems like no one expects when they start scaling their real estate business is all of the meetings. You have meetings with your clients if you are in property management, any type of sales, or turnkey real estate. You have meetings with tenants and potential ...
Using the Time Value of Money to Increase Your Profits in Note Investing
Most real estate investors understand the importance of the return on investment (ROI) of a deal. However, they often overlook an important factor in ROI: time. Time has a monetary value, and it differs from investor to investor and strategy to strategy. In note investing, the faster you earn back ...
Before Resolutions Begin, Consider a Revamp to Your Fitness Amenities
Just like that, another year is gone! No doubt, when looking ahead to the New Year, fitness and health is on the minds of many. So, what better time than now for property owners and developers planning for 2019 to evaluate their fitness amenities? For new building projects starting with ...
2019 Housing Outlook for Real Estate Investors
The U.S. housing market will continue to face headwinds that likely will grow in strength and number in 2019, according to seven leading housing economists interviewed by Think Realty's Housing News Report for our annual housing outlook report. Home affordability challenges exacerbated by rising mortgage rates will slow home price ...
Think Realty Housing News Report January 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Housing News Report | 2019 OUTLOOK: 7 ECONOMISTS PREDICT HOUSING MARKET TRENDS •MY TAKE: DIG DEEP WITH DATA TO FIND YOUR NEXT INVESTMENT MARKET •DATA IN ACTION: PRIME INVESTING OPPORTUNITIES IN AMAZON HQ2 MARKETS •BIG DATA SANDBOX: INVESTING IN THE LAND OF OZ (OPPORTUNITY ZONES) ...
Think Realty Magazine January/February 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • You’ve Gone from an Investor to an Employer. NowWhat? • Specializing in Success Going Big: Marketing & Lead Generation| Find Your Math Problem to Generate Leads and Success •Building Your Investor Network with a Realtor • Direct Mail Proof: Real ...
Who Are You?: A Branding Exercise
Tell me, who are you? (Do you have that 1978 classic by The Who in your head? You’re welcome.) More specifically, who are you when it comes to your brand? Does your target market know your brand? Are they perceiving your brand the right way? Managing that perception—your message and ...
A Safe and Successful 2019 Starts with Smart Planning
Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! We hope you made it to the New Year unscathed. Traditionally, many take a little time around the end of the year to reflect on the past 12 months and review what goals were achieved and those that weren’t met so that the ...
3 Lessons Learned from Helping a Small Business Invest
Recently, I worked with a jewelry designer and her husband who own a small jewelry company in order to purchase a true “forever home” for their business. They had been leasing a commercial retail space for the last 30 years. They told me they had always known the benefits of ...
Investing in the Age of the New Financial Internet
There has been so much going on in the world of internet technology and finance over the past few years, it is easy to get confused and left behind. First, there was the cryptocurrency craze (mainly bitcoin, but a few others as well) that powered online payments. That made way ...
Breaking Down the Networking Process to Meet “Big Players” in Real Estate
In real estate, it's common to hear people say, "Your network is your net worth" and other one-liners that basically show how important is is to make connections. A good network will make every aspect of investing better and probably more profitable. However, this often leads investors to act a ...
Innovative Real Estate Investing
This is not your grandparents’ real estate world. Bold ideas and disruptive technology are transforming the way we do business, and the real estate industry is no exception. Business as usual might be safe, but it won’t launch you into the future, and the future is where you’ll find success ...
Market Spotlight: Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, spent 2018 quietly living up to its nickname, “The Bold New City of the South,” and is poised as a significant real estate investment destination in 2019. “We believe Jacksonville is one of the best real estate markets in the country, with 24.1 percent population growth since 2000, ...
An Overview of the Looming Commercial Real Estate Debate
For the past five years, my company, Standard Management Company, has cooperated with any number of universities, financial institutions, real estate companies, and industry leaders to produce an all-day conference that is, at heart, more of a conversation than a conference on the direction of the real estate industry. This ...
Protect Your Real Estate Investment from These Elements this Winter
Protecting your property in the winter can mean protecting it from the cold, but there are other elements that can be particularly punishing if you don’t develop a healthy respect for them, namely Earth, Water, and Fire. Read on to find out how you can protect your property from Earth ...
The Dark Side of Equipment Ownership
We’ve all had that moment: You rent the same piece of equipment again and again, and you start to think to yourself, “We should just buy one.” It may sound like a good idea, but there is a dark side to equipment ownership that you should understand before you take ...
Find Your Math Problem to Generate Leads and Success
To be a successful real estate investor, it's all about generating leads to find the right property in which to invest. As the founders of a growing wholesaling business in Indianapolis, Indiana, we approach finding the right properties as a math problem. We know that it's a numbers game, and ...
Construction Costs are Deciding Our Strategies
Today, I have one really big concern in real estate: the rising cost of construction. As a developer of single- and multifamily residential properties throughout the Southeast, the cost of creating new housing options is of primary concern. In fact, although I am still actively acquiring new land for these ...
