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Insurance Myths Debunked, a Think Realty Series
Let’s debunk one of the trickiest myths in property insurance: Self-insurance is too risky. This is one of the trickier myths we discuss because everything depends on what line of coverage we are talking about. Let’s debunk the main myth first. When I am speaking to different groups across the ...
Profitable Investing with Foreclosure Receivership Properties
Real estate investors are always looking for good deals, but one word often makes them turn and run from a great price on a property. That word is “receivership.” Receivers are court-appointed individuals (officers of the court) who have a fiduciary responsibility not only to the original owners of the ...
The Power of Leverage for Investors
How do aspiring real estate developers get started and then stay successful? There’s more to it than you might think. While finding great deals on properties, moving quickly, and understanding construction costs are all important, true success really comes down to a thorough understanding of financing and leverage. Over the ...
3 Strategies for Staging Investment Properties
Many real estate investors believe that staging is unnecessary for their properties. They could not be more wrong! Whether you are hoping to sell for top dollar or rent out a buy-and-hold property, a few economical staging investments will give your property that “special something” that attracts buyers or renters ...
The Attractions of Commercial Real Estate
Direct participation in commercial real estate (CRE), private investments via pass-through vehicles, as opposed to publicly-traded REITs, has long been a key asset class for most larger portfolios. Online marketplaces such as RealtyShares have now made CRE available to accredited investors generally. These investments provide meaningful diversification to any portfolio. ...
3 Lease & Regulation Tips to Discuss with Your Legal Team
Often times new real estate investors purchase buy and hold properties without truly understanding the importance of having a good lease and regulation handbook. While attending many networking meetings I hear people say they downloaded a lease they found online or at a local big box store. Most of these ...
Pre-Mover Index Names Top Market for Likely Relocation
ATTOM Data Solutions, Pre-Mover Housing Index, released on August 24, 2017 for Q2 2017 shows the markets with the highest pre-mover indices. Predicting strong sales activity in the following cities for third quarter: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Reno, Nevada; and Lexington, Kentucky. Using data collected from purchase ...
Commercial Real Estate Investing FAQs
What is Commercial Real Estate? The term “commercial real estate” sounds like one big category, but commercial real estate is actually a way to describe several different types of property that are used solely for business purposes. One easy way to determine if you are dealing with commercial real estate ...
Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse in Real Estate
Buyer’s remorse is something we want to avoid, especially when it comes to real estate because it comes at a high price. We consider, evaluate, and scrutinize all the options to make a decision, but quite often, homebuyers wish they had done things differently. Trulia just came out with a ...
3 Reasons to Fix and Flip Outside Your Local Market
There is such a boom of television broadcasts and investment managers pitching about all the great profits we can make doing fix and flips these days. Nearly all of what you see and hear is about doing it “in your hometown.” While flipping in your hometown sounds wonderful and, furthermore, ...
Think Realty Resident Expert: Abhi Golhar, The Connector
Think Realty is highlighting our dynamic lineup of Think Realty Resident Experts: real estate pros who’ve experienced the ups and downs of the REI industry. Whether you're buying your first property or expanding your established portfolio, you can rely on our Think Realty Resident Experts to give you the insight ...
Amount of Equity Rich Properties Increase Q2 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report on August 17, 2017 showing that at the end of the second quarter of 2017 there were more than 14 million (14,038,372) U.S. properties that were equity rich; where combined loan amounts secured by the property was ...
2 Crucial Mistakes Investors Make When They Scale Up
Almost every full-time investor remembers the moment that they realized that real estate investing was actually going to change their lives. Sure, you hear other people talk about it. You see other people succeeding and living beyond their wildest dreams, but the moment that crystalizes the potential in real estate ...
3 Ways to Start Investing Immediately
We’ve all heard the old adage, “You have to spend money to make money.” Nowhere is that less true than in real estate. While you do have to spend something to get started in real estate investing, it does not necessarily have to be tons and tons of cash. Nowhere ...
How to Choose the Best Market for Your Real Estate Investment
Successful real estate investing relies on several factors, but as the old adage goes, “location, location, location” is top of the list. But “location” is a broad term, and evaluating the right place to invest your dollars in real estate means identifying the right market in both the macro and micro senses ...
Why Chinese Investors Pulled Global Property Investments
When the Chinese government made a list of “negative” foreign investments that were attracting Chinese investment capital in 2016, the global real estate investing community held its breath. Would Chinese investors accelerate their buying in order to move their funds out of the country, or accede to their government’s wishes ...
Top Cities for Chinese Investment Capital in 2017
Chinese real estate investors have been the top foreign buyers of U.S. residential real estate for the past three years, and although the Chinese government is tightening its hold on its citizens’ investment capital the U.S. housing market is set to attract those investors’ capital for another year at least ...
3 Keys to Understanding the Chinese Real Estate Investment Discussion
Attend any real estate investing group these days and you will hear at least one attendee holding forth about the joys of working with international investors flush with capital and eager to pay retail or higher in the U.S. market. All thanks to the country’s strong respect for private property ...
Owning rental properties is always an adventure if you choose to manage those properties personally. While no two days will ever be quite the same, there are some basic processes that you can implement to make the landlording experience a little smoother on a day-to-day basis. Here are three insider ...
Highest Average Price Gain in 10 Years Seen in Second Quarter 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Sales Report July 27, 2017, which shows that homeowners who sold in the second quarter realized an average price gain of $51,000 since purchase, the highest average price gain for home sellers since Q2 2007, when it was $57,000. The average ...
Texas Senate Rulings on Wholesaling, Assignments and Double Closes
If your real estate investor business includes wholesaling, assignments, and double closes, you need to know how you will be impacted by Texas Senate Bill 2212 after September 1, 2017. Perhaps you have been helping buyers who have experienced financial struggles, divorce, the need to relocate for business, or other ...
Where to Start with a Fixer-Upper
When you buy a fixer-upper, you know that there will be hours of work ahead. But it can be hard to know where to start. Not everyone is born a Joanna Gaines — the design mastermind behind HGTV’s Fixer Upper — but that doesn’t mean you’re doomed to a dilapidated dwelling. Here’s ...
Grocery Store Wars & Where to Invest
A new ATTOM Data analysis shows that prospective homebuyers are better off buying near a Trader Joe’s than a Whole Foods or an ALDI; although homes near Whole Foods have seen home price appreciation more closely on par with those near Trader Joe’s possibly thanks to the Amazon acquisition of ...
Property Insurance Series: “It’s Not Covered” – Flood
Welcome to our “It’s Not Covered” - Flood, series. We hope these quick reads help you increase your understanding of your insurance coverage, clear up confusion and avoid preventable losses! **Notice some unusual punctuation or capitalization in this insurance article? These anomalies are not typos, but deliberate. When covering insurance-related ...
6 Truths to Know Before Buying Tax Liens
So, you want to start investing in Tax Liens, but have no idea where to start? If you’re like most investors, you’ve seen the late-night infomercials and read gobs and gobs of information online about what an incredible opportunity tax lien investments are. Unfortunately, most of the things you’ve read ...
