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4 Tips On How To Pick The Right Tenant
The screening process can be long and tedious at times, but it pays dividends to have the right tenant in place. Having a tenant who causes problems can be a real headache, especially for a new or inexperienced landlord. Luckily, the majority of tenant-related issues can be avoided altogether by using ...
5 Fail-Proof Ways To Generate Traffic To Your Website
In my last article for Think Realty Magazine, I shared the ingredients for a high-converting real estate investor website. That article focused on what is necessary to get website visitors to submit their personal information to you about the house they want, or possibly need, to sell. But even a ...
The Right Lending Partner: The Difference Between Project Profit & Loss
2016 was a solid year for the real estate industry, and the ranks of fix-and-flip rehabbers continues to swell. According to RealtyTrac, 5.1 percent of all condo and single-family-home sales in the third quarter of 2016 were of the fix-and-flip variety, totaling 45,718 transactions. As fix-and-flip properties remain a sizable ...
12 Questions For Properties Owners To Ask Themselves During Tax Season
Accounting is the non-glamorous side of real estate investing, yet it is a critical component of cash flow and negotiations. You need to be well-versed in the latest federal and state rules surrounding taxes and accounting (e.g., exemptions, depreciation, deferrals, deductions, marginal tax rates, etc.) so you can use these ...
Exercise Your Rights for a Better Business and Life
You want to be a successful entrepreneur or have success with everything in your life, right? That means elevating your performance, and there’s no better way to help yourself accomplish that than by making exercise a regular and continuing part of your life. That’s top of mind for me now ...
Social Media Gets Home Rehabs Noticed Fast
In our work as HomeVestors of America franchise owners for the past two years, we’ve found that social media gives us an extra boost. Of course, first, there’s the purchase of the distressed home (with all the calculations that go into the selection) and the hard rehab work. But fix-and-flip ...
The Advantages of Investing in Commercial Real Estate
Whatever your investment strategy, diversification offers some safety and security, so if one sector goes down, the other sectors—in theory—are less affected. There are opportunities for the short-term (three years or less) investor as well as the investor looking for a long-term (seven years or more) strategy. Commercial real estate ...
Real Estate Investing Success: As Simple as One, Two, Three
If you've ever looked in the self-help section for books on success, you'll soon realize that everybody has a system. Whether it is the 9 Habits from Rich Habits by Tom Corley, the 7 Habits by Stephen Covey, or the 8 Steps to Success by Andy Albright, those who are ...
Tips For Managing Mold In Your Rental Property
In cyberspace, there is a wealth of information available about mold. You could read hours’ worth of studies on how mycotoxins affect the immune system, exacerbate allergies and the like, but what information is most important for you as a real estate investor to know? Let’s discuss the basics of ...
Should You Consider a Solo 401(k)?
As we move toward tax time, many real estate investors are reeling from the amount of money they owe Uncle Sam. I’m surprised they don’t spend more time doing something about it. I deal with real estate investors on a daily basis, and I’m always impressed with their creativity, independence ...
Property Value Directly Impacts Rental Rates
When a property is marketed for rent, its curb appeal, neighborhood quality and location all affect the base monthly rate. Some homes do not require incentives to attract tenants, and some do. The difference between a home that will rent easier than another depends on several factors. Although the location ...
Remove Odors From Your Investment Properties
From pet urine or mold in a newly acquired property to that smell you can’t quite put your finger on after a tenant moves out, odor is an issue all investors tackle at one point, and unfortunately, there’s a lot at stake. Odors often mean more days on the market ...
Strategic Approaches to Purchasing Investment Properties
Investors, brokers and many real estate agents are constantly on the hunt to purchase properties that can yield a high rate of profitability and a solid return on investment. Whether it’s a short sale, a small fixer-upper or a major rehab project, the rewards can be significant with the proper ...
Why RE Investors Must Have A Social Presence Online
The wealth of social media platforms that real estate investors have available to find deals, attract funding and meet other like-minded people is unprecedented, yet many investors aren’t taking advantage of them, says an owner of a social media management company that helps real estate investors manage their social media ...
Think Realty Magazine March/April 2017
+ WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | Rising Tides • Start With a Plan • Diversification Tips • Power of Social Media • Legislative Watch Cover Feature | Triumph Times Two Special Report| 10 Women to Watch The Big Picture| Should You Go Solo? Up Close & Personal| One on ...
6 House Flipping Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Flipping a property, or purchasing for a quick resale profit, can be a worthwhile investment. If everything goes according to plan, it can provide a very large, profitable reward in a short amount of time—sometimes even a few months. For people who plan to get into real estate investing, flipping ...
Pending Home Sales Down in January ’17
Insufficient supply levels led to a lull in contract activity in the Midwest and West, which dragged down pending home sales in January 2017 to their lowest level in a year, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, ...
Cities with Most Underwater Mortgages Still Offer the Best Bargains
Another one million previously underwater homes are now above the water line. ATTOM Data Solutions released its 2016 Year End Home Equity and Underwater Report that shows just 5.4 million properties are still seriously underwater. Let’s take a look at what this all means for investors. While 5.4 million properties ...
Hope for the Design-challenged Renovator
It became clear pretty quickly that the one area where we were ill-equipped for this renovation was in the area of DESIGN. While I love to watch HGTV, it overwhelmed me to have to pick out paint colors for the rental house, and because neither my husband, Lucas, nor I ...
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 ...
