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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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Creating Your Content Marketing Plan
Your real estate business can benefit from content marketing in several ways. You can generate leads for deals and for buyers for those deals. You can build your brand and reputation in your specific industry sector. Furthermore, effective content marketing helps you establish that all-important network of valuable contacts and ...
Doctors Could be the Key to Your Next Commercial Investment
Doctors and medical experts have always tended to be in real estate as well as medicine. They often own the buildings that house their practices and, once they get a taste of the joys of real estate ownership, start expanding their portfolios with both commercial and residential properties. Recently, I’ve ...
Progress Report: The Evolution of the Build-to-Rent Industry
Lately, the hottest topic in real estate investing is “building-to-rent.” Before the housing crash, very few investors would have considered this strategy because everyone wanted to own their own home and lenient mortgage lending requirements made that a very real possibility for most people. Today, however, thanks to the combination ...
Changes in Mortgage Finance Represent Opportunity for Investors
Adapting to a changing economic and legal environment is important in every industry, especially real estate. Veteran real estate investors must learn and adapt to the changing environment. The note industry and note investors are no different. This article discusses some of the changes underway in the real estate industry, ...
An Effective, Often-Overlooked Strategy for “Recession-Proof” Investing
The Great Recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009 and had immediate and lasting negative financial impact on households and the broader markets. The economy bottomed out, crushing the real estate and stock markets, destroying $18.9 trillion of household wealth, and wiping out more than eight million jobs ...
Find an REI Partner Who Just “Gets It”
Hello, fellow real estate investors! My name is Tom Olson from the Good Success mastermind community. Finding service providers who understand the unique challenges and risk exposure we face as real estate investors can be a point of frustration. Because of this, I started using National Real Estate Insurance Group ...
The Legal Kryptonite You Need to Fight Financial Vampires
He must have been sweating bullets when he got the news. John, a successful business man and owner of several car dealerships, got the call that his 16-year-old son had just rear-ended my car. Naturally, John’s first concern was the safety of his son. After learning that his son was ...
3 Tips for Doing Profitable Investment Deals in a Seller’s Market
When they hear the term “hot market,” most real estate investors I know immediately assume that I, as a realtor, will love working in an area with this description. After all, properties are selling for big bucks, which means I can earn higher commissions, right? Well, yes and no. A ...
3 Tips for Maximizing the Benefits of 3D Modeling
When you think of three-dimensional (3D) modeling in terms of home design, you probably think of high-end, luxury interior designers and their software. However, 3D modeling can be extremely useful for real estate investors as well as owner-occupants upgrading their homes. Think Realty Magazine talked to Mark Reginelli, director of ...
Think Realty Magazine May 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events •Credit Bureaus Decide to Remove Tax Liens from Credit Reporting Design Point | Renovation Rockstar: New Orleans Edition • Renovation Rockstar: First-Time Townhouse Success 2018 Trends | Perfect Balance •The Future is Now for Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate •Why We ...
Why We Will Live with Labor Shortages in 2018 and Beyond
Look at any major housing market in the country right now, and you will see signs of building. Inventory is short; the housing market is hot, and the cranes are all over the skyline. However, all too often, those cranes are not necessarily moving. In the wake of the housing ...
Is that Home Inspection Worth It?
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Adam Pontier, owner of KCPE LLC. When I was young, my father bought a home that we gutted to the bare studs and put back together as our family home. This was my first taste of construction ...
5 Important Factors for Success in Residential Assisted Living Investments
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Gene Guarino, president and CEO of RAL Academy. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, approximately 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day while another 4,000 turn 85 every day. That is a huge opportunity for savvy real estate ...
Managing Large Portfolios of Properties
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Douglas Skipworth, Co-Founder and Principal Broker at CrestCore Realty. Did you know that the typical property management client owns “1.5 units?” Despite that low (and strangely divisive) number, the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) estimates ...
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Julie Ziglar Norman, realtor with Prime Properties Realty. Investing in real estate is one thing. Building wealth by investing in real estate is another. The first scenario is often a short-term, one-off plan; the second represents a plan ...
How the Internet is Changing Education and Real Estate
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Aaron Norris, VP of The Norris Group. Would you rather take an investment course from a local university professor with mild success managing a small portfolio or from Warren Buffet? Your answer is hopefully the latter ...
3 Reasons to Invest in Small Towns
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Michael Miller, Chief Marketing Officer of 5 Arch Funding. Are you an investor seeking fresh opportunities? If you haven’t yet considered fix-and-flip or rental property investments in small towns, now may be the time. Of course, any ...
4 Unique Ways to Source Off-Market Apartment Deals
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Joe Fairless, Principal at Ashcroft Capital. The most common type of apartment transaction is an on-market sale. An apartment owner lists their property with a broker, the broker markets the deal to the public, and, after a ...
10 Mistakes Property Owners Make When Writing their Property Listing
When it comes to marketing a rental property, many investors (myself included at one point) believe that a compelling set of numbers trumps any other information you might include in your property listing. While this might be the case once a buyer or potential tenant looks at those numbers, if ...
How Blockchain Could Transform Property Record Transparency
This article was originally posted in the April 2018 Think Realty Magazine. It’s hard to go a day without news about Bitcoin these days and it’s easy to understand why. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s rapid rise late last year drew a lot of attention from the financial sector, with analysts espousing ...
3 Keys to “Making Magic Happen” in Your Real Estate Email Marketing
You’ve heard the phrase “Your network is your net worth" in terms of real estate marketing and email marketing, but when Charles Blair, “Mad Scientist” and founder of the Baltimore area’s Real Deal meetup, says it, he means something entirely different from just getting out there and introducing yourself to ...
Co-Living No Longer a Wall Street Concept
This article was originally featured in April 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Aaron Norris, VP of The Norris Group. Co-living is all the rage in major metropolitan areas across the U.S. While these “hacker houses” or “adult dorms” are not new in concept, there are some major players ...
“Best States” Ranking Released for 2018
Iowa, a Midwest farm state in the heart of the United States and host of the winter caucuses, takes first place in U.S. News’ recent “Best States” rankings, which assess and rank how well states perform in serving their citizens’ needs. The study considers health care, education, opportunities, the state’s ...
Investor Spotlight: Memphis Investment Properties
This article was originally published in April 2018 Think Realty Magazine. Memphis Investment Properties (MIP) has been actively investing in the Memphis, Tennessee, real estate market for nearly four decades. the company offers complete turnkey real estate investing services, meaning that real estate investors who wish to own rental real ...
Regional Spotlight: Washington, D.C.
This article was originally published in the April 2018 Think Realty Magazine. When the national housing market collapsed in the mid-2000s, Washington, D.C., homes lost nearly $120,000, on average, from their overall value. Median home prices in the area bottomed out in July 2009 around $355,000, a steep fall from ...
