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Home Price Insight Report for January 2017
CoreLogic’s Home Price Insight Report for January 2017 showed a 0.7 percent for the national single-family combined tier which included distressed sales over the prior month. The report recorded a year-over-year gain of 6.9 percent nationally for the single-family combined tier to include distressed sales. The U.S. has experienced 60 ...
Landlord and Tenant Respect: A Two-Way Street
We, as landlords, have certain expectations of the people who rent from us. These expectations include timely rent payments, prompt notifications of repair issues, and responsiveness to our attempts to contact them. It’s only fair that a tenant is entitled to their own expectations of us, as landlords. The right ...
Home Building in West L.A.: Interview with Katherine Gladkov
Building a business of taking real estate to its “highest and best use” is both an art and a science. Here, we share an interview that RealtyShares, a prominent real estate investment marketplace, had with Katherine Gladkov, an experienced realtor who has recently moved her business toward speculative home building ...
5 Inexpensive Security Updates for Your Rental Property
Security is important for both property owner and tenant—you want to avoid burglaries and break-ins as much as the people living on your property. Luckily, you don’t have to spend a lot of money on an out-of-box or whole-home system to get the peace of mind that comes with great ...
3 Tips for Landing the Perfect Renter
One of the scariest parts of flipping a rental property is wondering whether or not you’ll find a good renter. Thankfully, I got great advice on this topic while attending the Think Realty event in San Diego in February. At the time Lucas and I were halfway through our renovation ...
Real estate investing is not a solo sport. It requires a strong support team to be successful in mastering the learning curve and to increase your productivity. Each roll on the team is significant to success, even if it is not an actual person. Your success will involve your resolution ...
Shake up Your Routine and Increase Productivity
Are you are looking to implement a new daily discipline that will motivate you to run eagerly to start the day? You might want to consider a treadmill desk, which could provide an enormous boost to your motivation, productivity and creativity. A new routine could be the best investment for ...
Pick Exterior House Paints to Get Your Property Rented!
Every day your rental property remains vacant, is potential income you’re losing. Color plays a big role in getting prospective renters to notice your property. It can attract people to your home or drive them away. Whether you choose to paint yourself or hire a professional, the right exterior hue ...
Commercial Property Outlook for 2017
Online marketplaces like RealtyShares can allow investors to take advantage of investment opportunities across the spectrum of commercial property types. One of the primary market sectors is that of office buildings, which can range from large multi-tenant structures in city business districts to single-tenant buildings that might be built to ...
Are You Ready to Transition to Full-Time Investing?
There are many part-time real estate investors who ask this one specific question, “Am I ready to transition from part-time real estate investing to full-time?” I know from my own experience this question is an important one. I started investing in real estate 10 years ago, part-time, and five years ...
Glutton for Punishment or Naive DIY’er?
You know those things that everyone tells you not to do, but you think, “It won’t be like that for me!” and you do it anyway. Like, when your parents tell you not to get a dog. They tell you, “It’s a lot of responsibility,” “It’s like having a child,” ...
Create & Grow Residual Income Using Real Estate
There is a saying that goes something like this: The rich get richer while the poor get poorer. I would challenge that saying and suggest that anyone can increase their wealth through investing in real estate with the intent to produce a residual income. I just want to focus on ...
Snap IPO Millionaires to Snap Up Property in Silicon Beach
The little private app that erases your chats and snaps just became public. And for many newly made millionaires, it’s been a very friendly little ghost. Snapchat, the app that teenagers opted to use once they discovered that Mom and even Grandma could comment on their Facebook pages, has made ...
Understanding Interior Design vs Decorating
The way you design, decorate, or even stage your investment property, can either attract a buyer or dissuade them from a purchase. As real estate investors, you are bombarded with everything, literally. You have so many balls up in the air, as you catch them, finish placing that ball, you ...
Classically Simple Design Choices are Best
In last week’s column, I discussed my lack of design skills and how Lucas and I called in our talented friend, Jess, to help us choose aesthetically pleasing choices for our rental home. We talked mainly about exterior last week (take a look here!), so this week we’ll attack the ...
How To Choose the Perfect Interior Paint Sheen
You’ve picked the house –now, time for the fun part: choosing the wall colors. Unfortunately, as our Real Estate Rookie discovered, picking out something seemingly simple soon turned complicated. Instead of wasting time and money, we’ve got tips for you to choose the right sheen for the paint job. Think ...
Your Next BIG Investment Could Actually Be Very Tiny
INVESTOR VOICES - Sponsored Content Unlike stocks and bonds, real estate has proven to generate stable (and in many cases, significant) returns, which makes it an attractive investment and lucrative asset. This article weighs the pros and cons of each type of investment. For account holders of self-directed IRAs, real ...
Marketplace Platforms and Institutional Investors
Until the recent development of online real estate financing marketplaces, it was difficult for smaller investors to participate in direct investments in commercial real estate projects. The development of these platforms also benefits institutional investors. How can marketplace investing and institutional investors work together? Real estate finance marketplaces have experienced ...
Invitation Homes IPO Good for Buy-and-Hold Investors
The nation’s largest landlord is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Invitation Homes made its stock market debut on Jan. 31, 2017, as the largest IPO this year and a positive sign for the single-family rental market. The company claims it has almost 50,000 single-family rentals in 13 ...
Residential Refinance Originations Increase Q4 of 2016
More than 1.7 million (1,748,177) loans were originated on U.S. residential property in the fourth quarter of 2016. This is down 15 percent from previous quarters but up 2 percent from a year ago, as reported by ATTOM Data Solutions, parent company of RealtyTrac, in its Q4 2016 U.S. Residential ...
Single-Family Rental Research Performance Summary Released February 2017
Single-borrower, single-family rental securitizations rated by Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC are performing within expectations. The Single-Family Rental Research Performance Summary, released February 28, 2017, shows the average vacancy rate improved to 4.9 percent from 5.1 percent in December 2016. Delinquencies held steady at 0.9 percent. Morningstar expects the vacancy rate ...
The Ideal Mobile Home Park for Your Investing Business
I was offered a mobile home for free last week. Score, right? No, I turned it down. I could keep it in the park, but it needed more work than I was willing to do. It simply did not meet my investment criteria, because I would not be able to ...
Diversify Your Real Estate Portfolio to Minimize Risk
There is no doubt that real estate is usually one of the most stable long-term investments. But like everything else, this type of investment can experience hiccups. The 2008 recession is enough proof of that. That said, you should still include real estate in your investment portfolio. However, if you ...
How To Use Virtual Reality To Your Advantage
In the past, the commercial real estate industry has been regarded as a laggard in tech adoption. But when it comes to virtual reality (VR), it’s game on. In fact, commercial real estate as an industry has been a leader in embracing this increasingly popular technology, which is projected to ...
Real Estate Insurance Policy Myths Debunked
EDITOR’S NOTE: This excerpt is a continuation from “Debunking the 13 Insurance Myths for the Real Estate Investor,” which we began last issue. We’re exploring three common misperceptions about personal dwellings’ fire policy sufficiency for nonowner rentals, umbrella policies and how claims prior to owning a property can affect your ...
