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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 ...
The Year in Review: Institutional SFR Investing in 2018
I have been fortunate to work with some of the biggest investors in the country for more than a decade, serving in a variety of roles from advisor to banker to employee. The so-called “institutional investors,” large firms who manage billions in assets for the ultra-wealthy, university endowments, insurance companies, ...
Peek into the Crystal Ball: Five New Year Real Estate Predictions for 2019
As sure as lights and stockings will be hung each December, news outlets will prognosticate on what the coming year holds in store for its readers. And at Think Realty, it’s no different. In between sips of hot chocolate and caroling from office to office, we’ve been researching real estate ...
Think Realty Magazine December 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events •The Dark Side of Equipment Ownership Investor Stories | 3 Lessons from Helping a Small Business Invest • Powerful Data Produces Good Business Design Point | Renovation Rockstar: Small House, Big Makeover Special Section: 2019 Outlook | Sector Breakdown: Multifamily Real ...
5 Things to Consider Before a Home Giveaway
It’s as much a part of the season as mistletoe and silver bells. The annual home giveaway season starts just after Halloween when Christmas lights and holiday dazzle show up on your retailer’s shelves. Among the biggest operators of home-giveaways is St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude's raffles local ...
Real Estate Market Spotlight: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan, has recently received an ambitious title: “A Grand Investment.” The label, derived from an ongoing series of studies and articles commissioned and created by a local “destination marketing organization,” certainly fits the local real estate market. In the past 18 months, the second-largest city in Michigan has ...
Design Your Property Outside the Box
These days, so many investors are using the exact same materials over and over again in their flips. For my husband, Ken, and I, we find that when we go outside the box and do things in our investment properties that nobody else is doing in terms of creativity, we ...
Rehab Regrets: Four Common Rookie Mistakes to Avoid
Newbie real estate investors and homebuyers often are attracted to affordable homes that need repairs with the intention of revamping it to become their dream home. Rehab projects, however, can quickly grow nasty — and expensive — if you’re not realistic and prepared before you buy. Here are four things to consider before ...
Prevent a Holiday Cooking Fire Disaster in Your Investment Properties
Cooking is the leading cause of home structure fires according to research conducted by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the number of cooking fires increases significantly around Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Cooking fires are also one of the most preventable losses in real estate. With regular maintenance and ...
Institutional Class-Action Lawsuits Spell Trouble for Individual Landlords
Recently, industrial single-family home companies are getting some very bad press and facing some pretty nasty class-action accusations. For example, Invitation Homes, a Blackstone vehicle that began buying distressed single-family properties and rehabbing them for rent in 2012, faces a potential class-action suit in California that claims the company’s late ...
How to Get Your Real Estate Website to Actually Rank on Google
Let’s go ahead and burst a bubble for those wanting a quick, easy avenue to a top ranking on Google: There isn’t one. Improving your site’s ranking and SEO, or search engine optimization, entails hard work and time. Furthermore, your website is but one approach — albeit an important one ...
5 Details that Will Make or Break Your Postcard Marketing Campaign
Although an increasing number of real estate investors are relying on digital marketing to generate leads for their deals, postcard mailings stand the test of time. Jamie Wooley, founder of W Streets and one of the largest-volume individual wholesalers in the country, still mails them out every month. Wooley made ...
Top Markets for Movers in Q3 2018
Homeowners are most likely to be moving in the third quarter of 2018 in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Atlanta, according to the latest ATTOM Data Solutions Pre-Mover Housing Index. Using data collected from purchase loan applications on residential real estate transactions, the ATTOM Data Solutions Pre-Mover Housing ...
AI and Deep Learning Help Solve the Big Data Puzzle for Real Estate
Real estate is an industry that is undergoing drastic changes. A big data revolution is on the horizon. This massive industry that boasts an annual revenue of $235 billion with over 200,000 residential brokerage companies and over 1 million loan officers has been overdue for a major shift. But while ...
