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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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Be the Best Version of Yourself
There are real estate investors out there who are striving to be their best. Yet there are a lot of real estate investors who are not even sure what they should be good at. This was me, more than 10 years ago. As I did my due diligence and pondered ...
Property Management: Why You Should do it Yourself
Investing in real estate provides investors with more control over their money than most investing vehicles. Rather than putting your money into a fund and having someone else decide where it goes while you watch the numbers go up or down, real estate allows you to determine exactly what you ...
Policy Uncertainty Clouds Growth Expectations
Conservative growth expectations for 2017 persist as the markets continue to weigh the unfolding policies of the new administration, according to the Fannie Mae Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group's February 2017 Economic and Housing Outlook, released on Feb. 16, 2017. The full-year economic growth forecast remains unchanged from last ...
Kathy Fettke Stresses Investors’ Need to Understand Market Cycles “I’m going to depress all of you, and offend about half of you,” Kathy Fettke, co-founder of California’s Real Wealth Network (RWN), said as she kicked off her 2017 Market Predictions session at the Think Realty San Diego Group Event Feb ...
Five Steps to Flipping Properties for $100,000 a Year
REVTRAC’s Ryan McFarland Explains the Science of Successful Investing When it comes to flipping properties, Ryan McFarland of the Real Estate Veterans Training Academy (REVTRAC), has the process down to a science. REVTRAC was founded by Chris Bedgood, star of A&E’s “Flipping San Diego” and provides training to real estate ...
Using Knowledge to Overcome Fear
SDIC Co-Founder Imran Clark Says Education is Key What drives people to real estate from every walk of life? Imran Clark, co-founder of the San Diego Investment Club (SDIC) has a very simple answer: “At the end of the day, most of us really like hanging out with our families ...
The Truth About Diversifying Your Investment Portfolio
Ignite’s Bill Bray Makes the Case for Variation Sometimes, words that get thrown around in investing don’t mean what you think they mean, and a great example of this is the word “diversifying.” Bill Bray, an investment agent at Ignite Funding, delved into this particular misconception in detail at the ...
When Buying Ugly Yields Pretty Results
Equistream’s Kent Davis Shares His Expertise at Think Realty San Diego Event Kent Davis, co-founder of Equistream and longtime pastor and missionary, starts everything out with a bang, including his general session at the Feb. 18, 2017, Think Realty San Diego Group Event. Within five minutes of his introduction, Davis covered ...
Budget-Busting Property Insurance Myths
Don’t Let These Property Insurance Myths Kill Your Real Estate Investments, Advises Shawn Woedl What you don’t know can hurt you, especially if what you don’t know has to do with your passive real estate investment. Shawn Woedl, senior vice president of REIGuard, a provider of property insurance specifically for ...
The 10 Most Important Days in Your Real Estate Career
Insights from Bruce Norris Kick Off Think Realty’s San Diego Group Event Of all the important days in your buying career, there are 10 that stand out in particular. If you’re Bruce Norris of The Norris group, a California-based private lender heavily focused on real estate investment strategies, then you ...
Red Flag Warning for Commercial Property Owners
This may be the year that billions of dollars in commercial mortgages go belly-up. These loans were financed in 2007 and are maturing this year. That means some commercial property owners will be faced with huge balloon payments and for some, a major headache to pay them off. The Federal ...
Down Payment Myths Scare Younger Buyers
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), more than one-in-five potential home buyer is opting out of exploring the option of buying a home. At least not without doing the proper research. Simply because they believe the down payment will be prohibitively expensive. The NAR’s 2017 Aspiring Home Buyers ...
Luxury-Home Owners, Redesigning Traditional Living-Space
If you work in the luxury-home sales business, you may want to start being just a little bit more flexible. Don’t worry, the issue is not that you need to start doing more yoga. Actually, it’s more of a matter of living-space preferences. According to a recent report from the ...
Why Real Estate is a Good Investment
Is real estate a good investment? That is the big question on many people's minds. It seems as the housing bubble fades into the background, mortgage rates remain low, and loans are easing up a bit. People love real estate investments again. In fact, almost one-third of Americans are saying ...
Millennials Prefer Staying Put
The Millennials are at it again. They are “bucking tradition” with their living options and, once again, shaking up housing predictions. In many ways, this generation is far less predictable than the ones prior. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the latest Millennial preference to interfere with the housing market ...
Portland to Fine Landlords Who Raise Rents “Too Much”
Portland-area landlords could soon have to pay to help tenants relocate if the landlords raise rents too high for current renters to afford. Portland, Oregon’s city council members recently approved a bill requiring landlords to offer “relocation assistance” in the form of fees between $2,900 and $4,500 depending on the ...
Denver Neighborhood Serves as “Future City”
A high-tech neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, will serve as a test site for various technologies to show “what the future could hold,” according to the city’s “Smart City Project,” an endeavor partnered with Panasonic. The neighborhood, known as Peña Station Next (PSN), will have everything from smart LED street lights ...
Know Your Deal. Price is only part of it.
If you’ve met me in person it’s likely my height and nose already tipped you off, but for those of you that haven’t, I’ll fill you in: I am Dutch. Because of this, by both nature and stereotype, I LOVE a good deal. Yes, it’s true, we Dutch are tall ...
Farmlands Facing Threat of Real Estate Bust
As more and more farmers find themselves in debt thanks to falling prices for corn, wheat, and other agricultural commodities, many are opting to leave the sector entirely. According to economists, the Farm Belt of the United States, traditionally considered to be the central states of the Midwestern U.S., like ...
Detroit Lights Up, Sparking Investor Attention
Detroit has flipped the switch on a plan to light up the streets at night and is now attracting the attention of investors who see bargain basement prices and a whole lot of potential. The once-bankrupt city just completed a four-year project to replace "all" the city's streetlights. 88,000 mostly ...
Foreclosures Down from December 2015
CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report for December 2016, released on Feb. 14, 2017, shows there were 21,000 completed foreclosures nationally which is down from 36,000 in December 2015. Seriously delinquent rate is at 2.6 percent which is the lowest level since June 2007. Approximately 335,000 homes in the U.S. were in ...
Best RE Investment Opportunities in 2017
HomeUnion, has released its 2017 National Single-Family Rental Research (SFR) Report. The comprehensive study ranks 31 metro areas based on several factors including investment opportunities for 2017, yields, rental demand, investment home prices and capital markets conditions. Atlanta topped the Opportunity Rankings list as the metro area offering the best ...
Quarter of Homes Surveyed Found at High Environmental Risk
Almost a quarter of nearly 70 million single-family homes or condos in a recent ATTOM Data Solutions survey were found to have high environmental hazard risk. ATTOM's "Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index," released Feb. 16, 2017, showed 17.3 million residences are in ZIP codes with high or very high risk ...
9 Marketing Arsenal Must-Haves
In a business that focuses on the details, real estate investors may forget to step back and consider the big picture of their goals and how they plan to achieve them. Are you confident your current marketing efforts will get you where you want to be professionally? Here’s a list ...
Who has the Jimmy Choo Shoe Box?
People are reorganizing closets, reclaiming shoe boxes, filled with receipts and statements that are being dropped off at their accountant’s office. All too often, with a commitment to end this cycle of disorganization and unnecessary stress. Always check with your accountant to verify what type of paper documentation they may ...
