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Foreclosed Property is a Slam-Dunk Great Deal for a Smart Investor
As we film Episode 30 of our video series “Real Estate Deal Talk” it’s “Super Tuesday” in Georgia, which means all the tax sales, foreclosures, etc. are happening on the courthouse steps today. And just this morning we got a call from one of our lenders saying, “Listen, I’m going ...
The Housing Cycle: What Inning Are We In?
Where are we in the housing cycle? This, by far, is the question we get asked the most. It’s often framed with the metaphor of a nine-inning baseball game: What inning are we in? This question implies that markets move in unison, driven by similar factors. In reality, every market ...
A Slowing in High-End Housing?
Home prices are tied not only to interest rates and local demographic factors but also to new construction that brings on added supply to the housing stock. As prices rise, builders take on more construction projects, and the resulting new supply eventually permeates the market and can keep prices down ...
9 Numbers to Help Identify a Profitable Rental Property
What constitutes a good, profitable rental property? There’s no one, single answer to that question. No matter how many people you ask or how many calculations you run, you’re probably going to get that many different answers. I remember when I was starting out as a weekend or part-time investor, ...
Home Flipping at Six-Year High in Q2 2016
Home flips in the second quarter of 2016 were up 14 percent from the previous quarter and up 3 percent from a year ago, to the highest number of home flips since Q2 2010—a six-year high, according to the Q2 2016 U.S. Home Flipping Report from ATTOM Data Solutions, the ...
Tampa Tops Investment Housing Power Rankings
Three Florida cities—Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami—took spots atop HomeUnion’s first-ever “power rankings” of the top investment housing markets in the United States. Milwaukee ranked last among the 32 metro areas listed in the rankings. For the study, the online real estate investment management firm HomeUnion, ranked 31 metros based on how ...
My Advice: Start Small, With Single-Family Investments
I was recently in San Francisco for a speaking engagement. After I had returned to my home and business in Ohio, we started getting a lot of calls. These calls were from people based in California who have some pretty deep pockets—like about $300,000 to $400,000 to invest—but a lot ...
Like a Runner In a Marathon, Focus on Finishing ‘Best’
As I write this, it’s early September, kind of a turning point of the year heading into the fourth quarter and a change of seasons. And here in Dallas, where I am a real estate investor and HomeVestors franchise owner, we live in a very, very warm-weather climate, and another ...
4 Areas of Focus to Make Your Rehab Stand Out
The “lipstick on a pig” model is all but dead. Gone are the days of investors purchasing a house, putting in new carpet and paint and waiting a short period of time for the price to appreciate. For a house flipper, competition is increasing, and you need to make sure ...
How to Get a Property Tenanted In Less Than 30 Days
I am often asked how we get our properties tenanted so quickly. It’s because we focus on quality instead of quantity. First, we focus on buying a property in the right area, for the right amount of money and which needs the right amount of work. That makes the process ...
You are the CEO of Your Real Estate Investing Business
Today I want to talk about how we, as small real estate investors or part-time real estate investors, should step back from time to time and don a CEO’s hat, because that mentality can positively influence your approach to real estate investing and the success you ultimately achieve, enjoy and ...
How an Auto Mechanic is Like a Rehab Contractor
Has it ever occurred to you how similar are the processes of finding a reliable contractor to renovate your investment property and locating a decent mechanic to fix your car? Just think about it for a moment. When you own a car or a house, you are investing both your ...
HELOCs Increase for 17th Consecutive Quarter
Nearly 1.9 million (1,868,187) loans were originated on U.S. residential properties (1 to 4 units) in the second quarter of 2016, up 26 percent from the a two-year low in the previous quarter but down 4 percent from a year ago, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ Q2 2016 U.S. Residential ...
How to Crack the Code and Get ‘Into the (Deal) Flow’
I hear it every day from clients, partners and at conferences: “My real estate business would be growing faster if I could just find the deals!” Our companies work for people just like you. Our clients include thousands of real estate investors and agents in markets all over the world ...
Think Realty Magazine September/October 2016
+ WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | Lawn Care ‘Headache’ Relief • Indicators You Should Monitor • Deep Discounting • 5 Fix-and-Flip Tips • Chinese Like Stability of the U.S. Market Cover Feature | Dynamic Duo Up Close & Personal | A New Avenue • Global Connections • Get in ...
4 Ways to Start Small as a Real Estate Investor
The most common question that I’m asked as a real estate investor is, “How can I get started doing this?” I find that year after year, my answer to this question remains the same—regardless of the person with whom I am speaking, regardless of current market conditions and regardless of ...
The Best Military Towns for Investing in Rental Homes
HomeUnion, an online real estate investment management firm, has released new data on the best military towns for investing in single-family rental (SFR) properties based on average cap rates, which are the relationship between an investment property's net operating income (rents minus expenses) in the first year of ownership and ...
From Eyesore to Awesome—Times Two
In Episode 27 of my video series Real Estate Deal Talk, I’m going to take you through a project in super-hot Kirkwood in Atlanta. We’re going to look at a new build that is underway on the site of what originally was an old, burned-down church with a lot of ...
Have it Your Way, Whether it’s a Single Investing Strategy or a Variety
I was recently listening to a podcast of a real estate investor, one who might even be considered a guru. In this particular podcast he was touting the benefits of a certain type of residential real estate investing, but he also was disparaging all other types of investing that didn’t ...
Chinese Investors Like Stability of U.S. Market
Chinese investors, like those from other foreign countries, found deals aplenty in U.S. real estate at the height of the recent financial crisis here. Now that the U.S. economy has regained strength, the pickings aren’t as easy, but the Chinese remain as enamored of U.S. real estate as ever, even ...
REI Business — The Triple Play Approach
Loan options for investors who rehab and flip houses are pretty straightforward. Private lenders, banks and crowdfunding sites can all be good options, depending on the borrower’s credit and funding needs. But what if there were a funding source that also had a fix-and-flip division in addition to being one of ...
The global real estate market is built on a web of complexity that determines prices and hierarchical relationships of supply and demand. The activity of low-volume transactions, even at the local small-town level, helps determine the conditions and trends that affect the activity of larger investors making multibillion-dollar plays and ...
Don’t you love getting a good deal? When shopping for real estate, nobody wants to pay full price. As buyers looking for a bargain, we start with distressed properties, hoping to flip the property for a good profit spread. Seeing a substantial profit made over the original cost of the ...
Investment yields across many asset classes have lately been disappointing, but a recent report seemed to show that real estate investment vehicles outperformed most other asset classes over the last 15 years. REITs Outperforming Other Liquid Assets? A recent Wall Street Journal article remarked on the planned move by Standard ...
Successful land investing, like any type of investing, requires a lot of due diligence. Investing in land often requires travel, too, since there are several things a buyer cannot know about a piece of land before seeing it in person. Google Maps is a great resource, but it is not ...
