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Repair and remodeling spending grew five percent-plus last year, just as we predicted. On Jan. 4, the Census Bureau announced a significant revision to its residential improvement spending estimates due to a calculation error. Based on our knowledge of the market, we are not surprised by the direction of the ...
Tree Maintenance to improve the Beauty and Safety of your Property
Be Mindful of Your Trees' Needs, to Maintain Beauty and Safety of Your Property As kids, we took trees for granted. We saw them as big, beautiful places to cool down from playtime during summer or a place to stay dry during a downpour. They were infinitely strong. We could ...
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Unrelated Business Income Tax
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Unrelated Business Income Tax Helps in Devising a Debt-Reduction Strategy Real estate is one of the more prominent investment choices for account holders of self-directed IRAs. Investors can translate pre-existing knowledge of the market to their IRA’s real estate investments. In order to devise ...
Combining Ownership with a Tenant-in-Common Agreement
Breaking Up is Not So Hard to Do, When Combining Ownership of Property as a Single-Member LLC with a Tenant-in-Common Agreement Limited liability companies are young creatures recently created by state statutes. By contrast, the law of tenants in common is centuries old, with much of it dating back to ...
Build Your Investment Team on Trust and Respect
Build Your Investment Team on a Solid Foundation of Mutual Trust and Respect Usually, my articles for this magazine focus on a property that I find is a great case study in terms of situation, numbers and process, thus offering valuable lessons for other investors. However, for this issue, I ...
What to Do When your Marketing Starts Generating Leads
Now That You're an Investor Looking to Buy Properties, Getting the Word Out is Only the First Step in Marketing One of the scariest aspects of the business to new real estate investors is when they get that first call generated from their marketing. It can also be scary to ...
What are the three most important sources of information you read, watch or listen to every day to help you in your investing? I can’t say that I go to any one information source daily. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of random sources and media about real estate investing that ...
Fewer is Better – When Renters Stick Around
Source your tenants carefully and treat them well, and they will help ensure your success. When I look back at my first rental property purchase more than 10 years ago, I am amazed at my good fortune. There were plenty of times, as a part-time real estate investor with a full-time ...
A Life-Changing Decision: Investing in Real Estate
Real estate investing—done right—can change your life. It did for Tamara and Jesse Tijerina. Little more than a year ago, they were going about life like many growing, young families do. Jesse had a steady job that he loved and that brought in a good income. Tamara had decided to ...
How Do You move from SFD to Commercial Investing?
As With So Many Things, The Answer Is: It Depends. Here are some tips to help you make the right decision for your situation. READER QUESTION: Right now I’m investing my money in single-family residences. I had no previous experience and have been at it for a year. I’ve done a ...
Buying By The Numbers: 5 Efficient Ways to Find Off-Market House Deals
The Cheaper You Buy, the Better Your Return is Going to Be, Regardless of Your investment Strategy Smart real estate investors know that the secret to true success is finding deals with great numbers. So as a house flipper, in order to increase my profit margins, reduce my risk and ...
Short-Term Rentals Aren't Just for Summer Vacationers Anymore Many homeowners looking to list their houses on popular short-term vacation rental sites like Airbnb, HomeAway, FlipKey, and Tripping.com wait for summer to cash in on out-of-town vacationers. And it’s not hard to see why—with nearly 17 million people worldwide who booked ...
This is Not Your Grandfather's 'Rooming House.' As students of real estate investing for the last 13 years, we’ve seen—and participated in—quite a few strategies related to single-family and multifamily investing. We have learned a great deal along the way, but one timeless lesson remains far superior to any other: ...
Are You Taking Advantage of the Benefits of Investing in Real Estate Through Your Self-Directed IRA? As April 15 approaches each year, most real estate investors spend some quality time with their accountants or financial advisers. It can be a bittersweet time as they look over their real estate earnings ...
Senior Housing as an Emerging Asset
The senior population in the United States is skyrocketing. By 2030, one in five Americans will be age 65 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, up from one in seven today. As the general population ages, housing needs will also shift. People in their 60s, 70s and beyond ...
Think Realty Magazine May/June 2016
+WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | The Most Important Lesson • Comings & Goings • The Beauty of Buy & Hold • Finding the Bull's-Eye • More Foreigners Investing in U.S. Cover Feature | Expanding Network Up Close & Personal | Crowdfunding Crusader • The Weekend Investor • Best of Two Worlds • ...
The Good News: Real Estate Is Booming. The Bad News: Real Estate Is Booming.
There’s little argument that the real estate market right now is hot. That’s good news for real estate investors, but it’s also bad—or let’s instead call it “challenging”—news. While the level of activity varies among different markets, we are seeing one of the highest residential real estate markets since back ...
A Guide to Choosing a Self-Directed IRA Provider Chances are, you’ve been hearing about self-directed individual retirement accounts ever since you started investing in real estate. On the surface, self-directed IRAs seem cumbersome and complex. When tax rates are low, self-directed IRAs may not seem worth the trouble. But any ...
How to Calculate the Worth of Your Investment Property
Investing in real estate is often considered a profitable path to gain financial freedom. However, it involves making huge investment—and that is where it gets tricky. Investors are lured by the notion of making easy money from the booming property prices, which often leads to wrong and hasty decisions. So, ...
Drive Your Investment Business for Performance, Results and Enjoyment
An issue that matters to all real estate investors—whether part-time or full-time—is how to drive your investment business for performance, results and enjoyment. Those three things are critical to success. Let’s start our discussion with the assumption that most of you who are reading this probably are old enough to ...
Chicago: Lessons from the most beat-up housing market in the country
For years, our thesis has been that the national downturn and recovery (in blue below) will play out similarly to the mid-1980s downturn in Houston (in orange below) and the early-1990s downturn in Southern California (in green below) because both the job losses and bank/savings and loan destructions were similar ...
Determine the Option That Best Aligns with Your Investment Goals Experienced investors and real estate professionals are aware that real estate can be a cornerstone of their IRAs. Real estate is an asset that adds diversity to account holders’ retirement portfolios. Account holders can find a reprieve from the volatility ...
Self-Directed IRA Investor's Guide to Contributions, Transfers and Rollovers Welcome to the world of self-directed IRAs! Guess what? These powerful investment tools are just like regular IRAs in so many ways (except for investing). Just as with a typical IRA, a self-directed IRA can be funded in three ways: 1 ...
SHIRA is Gaining More Attention As an IRA Investing Strategy If you would like to tap into your qualified retirement plan to purchase investment property and avoid all the usual prohibited transactions, the SAFE HARBOR®-Directed IRA™ (SHIRA™) may be the vehicle for you. Lasaii’s OUTSIDE® structure of utilizing IRA money ...
How to Harness the Power of Nonperforming Notes It’s no news to anyone that you can use your self-directed IRA to invest in real estate. Many investors use their IRA accounts to purchase real estate and to make private or hard money loans to other investors, but many forget they ...
