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From the Designer I am passionate about real estate - from buying and selling with clients to analyzing deals, rehabbing and helping people create a real estate portfolio. Thinking outside thebox and getting a transaction to the closing table is my specialty. With over 25 years in the industry including ...
I have used letters to reach motivated sellers and find leads on deals for more than 25 years. While many real estate investors have moved away from white and yellow letters (more on the color distinction in a minute) to postcards, I find that my target audience responds better to ...
Tips to Survive the Middle of a Property Flip
When you hear the words “fix-and-flip” or, as I usually hear it at work, “flip” (sometimes with an unprintable adjective thrown in there as well), you probably immediately think of beginnings and endings. If you’re like most people, you think about the beautiful finished product of a cash-flowing rental or ...
Market Trend Spotlight: 3 Indicators of Effective Community Revitalization
As the third quarter of 2018 begins, both national and local housing markets are still experiencing pinched inventory. That is good news for today’s sellers and rental investors, who hope to garner top dollar in tight markets for both retail sales and rental properties, but it makes the classic real ...
How the Latest Kitchen Cabinetry Trend Could Affect Your Design Decisions
This content is sponsored by 84 Lumber. Learn more about 84 Lumber here. 10 years ago, the drivers of kitchen design were “big,” recognizable brand names (think MasterBrands or Kraftmaid) and maybe a few individual celebrities. Today, one of the biggest style drivers of them all is somewhat surprising: IKEA. That’s ...
The Investor’s Guide to Building a Full Credit Picture
Real estate has always been about credit, even before Congress created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 1938 and the wheels were set in motion to create today’s extremely credit-dependent home-lending environment. As far back as the 9th century, lords of the manor on feudal estates documented rents collected (and associated ...
10 Real Estate Calculations Every Investor Should Know
In real estate, not everything will fit into a neat little box. Creativity is a must. However, there is indisputably a mathematical side to successful real estate. Sooner or later, you must put pen to paper and figure out if it makes sense to buy a particular property. These 10 ...
3 Tips for Maximizing Facebook Results
No matter how many articles you read about how Facebook is fading, the truth is that nearly every active real estate professional is still on the platform. That fact combined with Facebook’s extremely simple user interface for boosting posts makes it a very attractive promotional venue for investors regardless of ...
5 Things Ken and Anita Corsini Think Every Investor Should Know
Both Ken and Anita spend a lot of time talking to real estate investors, especially new ones. “We actually have certain things we really want everyone to know about real estate investing, that we feel helps kind of frame the concept,” Ken said. Here are the five things they feel ...
Renovation Rockstar: The Park at LeBlanc
Featured investors: Mike Becker & Carl Dean, SPI Advisory LLC (Dallas office) Making over a 168-unit apartment complex is no simple task, even when you have more than a dozen deals under your belt. When Michael Becker, Principal at SPI Advisory LLC in Dallas, Texas, first encountered The Villas at ...
While investors traditionally are encouraged to remain inside a fairly unremarkable “box” when it comes to design decisions, Ken and Anita like to push the limits in their remodeling designs. “Historically, investors stay neutral because you do not know what a buyer will really like in a house. You use ...
As the resident expert on foreclosure statistics and trends at real estate data giant ATTOM Data Solutions, Daren Blomquist, the company’s senior vice president for communications, spends a lot of time focused on trends. “I’m always looking for indicators about where the housing market is going,” he said. “Sometimes I’m ...
The Opportunity in Real Estate Has Never Been Greater
Sponsored content from Angel Oak Prime Bridge. Today’s real estate market presents powerful investment opportunities for those with entrepreneurial spirit and access to capital. As many insiders and analysts note, there is a nearly unlimited supply of aged housing and very limited supply of new housing available. This market dynamic ...
Tenant Screening in a Challenging Market
Screening tenants successfully is vital to your success in rental real estate. The best landlords and property managers have personal secrets to success that make it possible to choose the right client nearly every time. One of the things that makes this process so complicated is that it can vary ...
Five Financial Benefits of Owning Residential Real Estate Investments
For the last 25 years, I have been helping families and individuals identify goals, establish a plan and determine a clear vision of their financial future. While a financial plan is a future road map that is normally put into writing, it is also a guideline that is used to ...
How Much Longer Can Atlanta’s Hot Housing Market Last?
This past July, Atlanta, Georgia’s housing market posted a historic high when the metro area’s median home price exceeded a quarter of a million dollars for the first time in history. Where does this latest real estate benchmark leave Atlanta-area investors? To answer this question, we must examine not just ...
Every Real Estate Investor’s Guide to Digital Assistants
Whether you are a landlord or prefer some other real estate wealth-generation strategy, you know real estate investors never stop moving. Between lead generation, acquisition, rehab, and project management, you probably are on the go most of the day – especially if you also are still working another job full- ...
Bringing Fresh Eyes to International Real Estate Investing
I recently was honored to be a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Embassy Tbilisi in the country of Georgia. After doing some heavy research on this magnificent country, I set off on a speaking tour. Nothing could have prepared me for the beauty of Georgia, but thanks to Think Realty, ...
An Inside Look at Homebuyer Preferences Reports
National lenders and real estate investors have far more in common than you might expect. One of the greatest areas of overlapping interest lies in homebuyer preferences: How can we best reach buyers? What makes buyers most comfortable when working with us? What business practices are likely to entice/scare off ...
3 Signs an Airbnb Rental Could Be Right for Your Market
Airbnb has permanently changed the way we travel and, perhaps even more significantly, the way we think about real estate investing. In 2013, best estimates indicated about 3 percent (7 million Americans) considered themselves active real estate investors of any type. Just two years later, market data indicated there were ...
Placing Tenants with “Thin” or No Credit
Most landlords consider working with tenants with less-than-perfect credit part of the job description, particularly when interest rates are low and a higher proportion of high-credit individuals are opting to buy. Tenants with less-than-stellar credit but a high motivation to pay rent on time and remain in place for the ...
Make the Most of Event Networking with These 7 Actions
One of the best ways to stay alert to emerging trends in real estate and in your specific sector is to attend relevant industry events. Just attending is not enough, however. Maximize every local group meeting, regional conference, and national expo by leveraging these tips to get the most from ...
Think Realty Magazine September 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | How Much Longer Can Atlanta's Hot Housing Market Last? •Out of the Ordinary Design Point | Renovation Rockstar (Multifamily Edition): The Park at LeBlanc •Vinyl Flooring Decisions Made in the Field • Tuned Into the Market • How the Latest Kitchen Cabinetry Trend Could ...
The Think Realty Walkability Primer
Current data shows properties with higher walkability translate to: Higher home value Higher rent for residential and commercial real estate Increased value per-square-foot of up to $81.54 Clearly, real estate investors need to understand walkability, both in terms of what it means for individual investments and how it may affect ...
Billboards: A Highly Visible but Overlooked Real Estate Niche
Imagine being able to spot a piece of real estate that no one else realizes is full of potential, get a great deal on it, and then leverage it in a way that requires very little maintenance, upkeep, or management. It might sound like an impossibility, but you drive by ...
