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A New Luxury Trend Strips Down Properties Before Showing
Although most homeowners do not want to start “from scratch” when they move into a home, certain high-end buyers like nothing better, and high-end sellers are accommodating that desire by employing a practice known as “white-boxing” to make their homes a blank canvas for the next buyer. White-boxing involves stripping ...
Regional Spotlight: New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA), is anything but simple. From its 73 “official” neighborhoods that some locals claim do not really exist to its storied history replete with pirates, natural disasters, and one of the country’s first “skyscrapers” (erected in 1807), the city is a beautiful and confusing cultural and architectural ...
A New Room Takes Top Place in Remodeling
A new survey from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) indicates remodeling the bathroom is more important to homeowners than remodeling the kitchen, although both rooms dominate other remodeling projects. The survey, which asked respondents about their remodeling projects in 2017 and what types of changes they made, indicated ...
Building Community in Real Estate
It is not uncommon to hear real estate investors refer to their businesses as “supporting the community.” This statement is highly accurate, given that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) estimates that there are nearly 28 million small businesses in the country and, of that 28 million, roughly 10 percent ...
Investor Spotlight: Mark Filler of Apex National Real Estate
Mark Filler, founder and CEO of Apex National Real Estate, has already hit some pretty big milestones in his career. After 20 years in the mortgage business and founding (then selling) multiple national companies, the Harvard law school grad and business partner Chris Shaxted, who has 25,000 new construction homes ...
Kevin Ortner, the CEO of Renters Warehouse, is in a unique position to “think big” about rental real estate. After all, his company spearheads one of the most effective, influential outreach programs in the history of the industry via their far-reaching radio presence and Ortner’s own book, Rent Estate Revolution™ ...
3 Bathroom Trends Evolving in 2018
Meet the Expert: Katrina Rice is a professional kitchen and bath designer with 84 Lumber’s Kitchen & Bath Design Studio in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania. 84 Lumber’s Kitchen & Bath Design Studios exist in more than 30 of 84 Lumber’s 250 stores nationwide and are staffed by experienced professionals. She is ...
D.C. Congressmen Sleeping on Cots, Can’t Afford Housing
According to a report from the New York Post, some lawmakers are sleeping on cots in their offices in order to save money on renting a D.C. apartment during the times of the year Congress is in session. One representative told the Post, “Washington is too expensive.” He added, “If ...
DocuSign Value Soars After Initial Public Offering
E-signature company DocuSign, which led the charge into digital real estate closings, went public last week. All signs indicate that the company will continue to gain value as more and more real estate professionals realize the value of a digital closing. The company started the initial public offering (IPO) with ...
3 Red Flags Your Tenant Screening Process is Flawed
Determining if your tenant screening provider has quality criminal and eviction data is essential if you want to maintain a standard of accepting quality applicants. With faulty or subpar data, you leave your property open to potential threats, which can include lost revenue, extensive damages, lawsuits, and fines. To discern ...
How to Effectively Leverage Business Diversity in Your Real Estate Business
Trailblazers, innovators, and disruptors shape today’s new entrepreneurial normal, and nowhere is that truer than in the housing industry. Today’s successful companies stand out for their ingenuity, uniqueness, complexity and supercharged pace of technological change. Staying at the forefront of change requires extraordinary understanding and agility. Hiring for conventional skills ...
Creating Your Content Marketing Plan
Your real estate business can benefit from content marketing in several ways. You can generate leads for deals and for buyers for those deals. You can build your brand and reputation in your specific industry sector. Furthermore, effective content marketing helps you establish that all-important network of valuable contacts and ...
Doctors Could be the Key to Your Next Commercial Investment
Doctors and medical experts have always tended to be in real estate as well as medicine. They often own the buildings that house their practices and, once they get a taste of the joys of real estate ownership, start expanding their portfolios with both commercial and residential properties. Recently, I’ve ...
Progress Report: The Evolution of the Build-to-Rent Industry
Lately, the hottest topic in real estate investing is “building-to-rent.” Before the housing crash, very few investors would have considered this strategy because everyone wanted to own their own home and lenient mortgage lending requirements made that a very real possibility for most people. Today, however, thanks to the combination ...
Changes in Mortgage Finance Represent Opportunity for Investors
Adapting to a changing economic and legal environment is important in every industry, especially real estate. Veteran real estate investors must learn and adapt to the changing environment. The note industry and note investors are no different. This article discusses some of the changes underway in the real estate industry, ...
An Effective, Often-Overlooked Strategy for “Recession-Proof” Investing
The Great Recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009 and had immediate and lasting negative financial impact on households and the broader markets. The economy bottomed out, crushing the real estate and stock markets, destroying $18.9 trillion of household wealth, and wiping out more than eight million jobs ...
Find an REI Partner Who Just “Gets It”
Hello, fellow real estate investors! My name is Tom Olson from the Good Success mastermind community. Finding service providers who understand the unique challenges and risk exposure we face as real estate investors can be a point of frustration. Because of this, I started using National Real Estate Insurance Group ...
The Legal Kryptonite You Need to Fight Financial Vampires
He must have been sweating bullets when he got the news. John, a successful business man and owner of several car dealerships, got the call that his 16-year-old son had just rear-ended my car. Naturally, John’s first concern was the safety of his son. After learning that his son was ...
Alert: Credit Bureaus Decide to Remove Tax Liens from Credit Reporting
When Transunion, Equifax, and Experian PLC sent out information on credit scores in April, some risky credit applicants may have appeared more creditworthy than they really are. Thanks to a decision to remove tax liens from credit reports, potentially risky borrowers will have a better chance at getting approved for ...
3 Tips for Doing Profitable Investment Deals in a Seller’s Market
When they hear the term “hot market,” most real estate investors I know immediately assume that I, as a realtor, will love working in an area with this description. After all, properties are selling for big bucks, which means I can earn higher commissions, right? Well, yes and no. A ...
The Seattle City Council is considering a new tax law that will charge large employers about $500 per employee and dedication three-quarters of the resulting tax revenue toward building just under 2,000 affordable housing units in the city. The remainder would go toward services for the homeless. Although Amazon is ...
First-Time and Lower-Income Homebuyers to Struggle in 2018
With home values rising, inventory shrinking, and a buying population spurred on by rising interest rates, more and more housing markets are skyrocketing in value. Zillow recently warned that home shoppers have nearly 9 percent fewer homes to choose from than they did this time last year and, furthermore, that ...
Northern Nevada Housing Set Records in April
According to data released by the Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors (RSAR) about March 2018, the local housing market shattered records set before the Great Depression for median home prices for single-family homes. RSAR predicted in the same report prices would keep increasing for the remainder of the year. “We have…a ...
When Dennis Cisterna, CEO of Investability Solutions, joined the Altisource Portfolio Solutions offshoot's “one-stop shop” for single-family residential (SFR) investors, he did so with a clear mission in mind. “It should not be difficult to acquire, finance, manage, and structure partnerships in real estate,” Cisterna said. “There is a place ...
3 Tips for Maximizing the Benefits of 3D Modeling
When you think of three-dimensional (3D) modeling in terms of home design, you probably think of high-end, luxury interior designers and their software. However, 3D modeling can be extremely useful for real estate investors as well as owner-occupants upgrading their homes. Think Realty Magazine talked to Mark Reginelli, director of ...
