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Year-End Best Practices for Your Real Estate Investment Business
Listen in as our Resident Experts Ben Rao, Linda Liberatore, and Abhi Golhar discuss their year-end practices. Are you doing everything you can to wrap the year up right? These Experts let us in on what they are doing right now, and what they know they have overlooked, for their ...
*Sponsored Content Much is made of the need to save and invest for your financial future. The typical path most of us take to save is by participating in a company 401(k)/pension plan, or possibly the old standby of contributing to an IRA. Some may even purchase and maintain rental ...
Top 20 Markets for Defensive Investing
With the national economy slowing down (yes, it is), and the Fed promising to raise interest rates, investors may want to take a step back from their current investing strategy and consider their options. Use this information when researching markets. High-Side Markets On the one hand, there are markets where ...
Top 10 RE Markets for Business & Healthcare
Despite political wrangling, healthcare will be a growing portion of the U.S. economy as Americans get sicker and older and as science spits out new drugs and treatment options. A growing local healthcare industry not only provides jobs directly, but also through the many associated business services it needs in ...
Bitcoin Enters the Real Estate Sector
Most real estate investors probably think about bitcoin mainly in terms of whether they are going to invest in the currency before it hits its next record high or wait until the volatile cryptocurrency tanks (at least temporarily) before getting in. However, an increasing number of landlords, sellers, and other ...
Creative Down Payment Options REIs Need to Know About
According to multiple surveys by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), many would-be homebuyers are opting not to explore their options in the housing market because they believe that they cannot afford the down payment associated with buying a home. While this view is largely inaccurate, the prevailing notion that ...
3 Things About Investing in Detroit to Know in 2018
The Motor City may offer single family rental (SFR) investors the best of all possible worlds in 2018. If you know how to gain the upper hand in the housing market that is. According to Corey Hanker, managing partner at Fortus Partners, these days, “It’s investor advantage in Detroit!” Hanker, ...
Developing Affordable & Profitable Senior Housing
A 70-year old investment is back! James E. Glasgow, a real estate investor for more than 35 years, has successfully connected the growing opportunity for mobile home parks (MHPs) with the growing senior population in the U.S. Mr. Glasgow has created the Mobile Home Park Investment Fund, dedicated towards the ...
Single-Family Rentals Look Bright for 2018
According to a panel of six premier experts in the investment industry, 2018 is going to be a good year for single-family rentals (SFR). Although, as always, the local market is everything. During the opening session of IMN’s 6th Annual SFR Investment Forum (West) on December 3, 2017, in Scottsdale, ...
Build Your Real Estate Business on a Firm Foundation
In the real estate business, you have to have a firm foundation – literally. If your property has a cracked foundation, you will likely take serious losses as you deal with shifting floors, instability, falling property values, and banks are less interested in lending you money. Just as a bad ...
Investment Property Depreciation Explained
Rental investment properties tend to come with benefits when tax time rolls around. When it comes to purchasing real estate properties for investment purposes, it is important for investors to understand the tax benefits and laws which will affect your particular situation. What is Depreciation? A key tax deduction available ...
4 Bonus Aspects of a Positive Market
Although every real estate market is unique and holds its own particular set of opportunities, there are four positive market characteristics that make any market in which they occur a little bit brighter. Can you have a good real estate market without all four of these characteristics? Absolutely! But if ...
Facebook Rental Listings: Real Estate Game Changer?
Home listing sites like Zillow and Redfin may be shaking in their cloud-based data boots. They will be facing what could be a towering social media competitor. Facebook is going full-speed ahead with rental listings in its marketplace section. And plans on a significant expansion into the for-sale market. If ...
Colorado Tops ATTOM’s Q3 Pre-Mover Housing Index
ATTOM Data released its Q3 2017 Pre-Mover Housing Index, which shows that the markets with the highest pre-mover indices during the third quarter — predictive of strong sales activity in the fourth quarter — were Colorado Springs, Colorado; Manchester-Nashua, New Hampshire; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; and Nashville, Tennessee. Using data ...
Staying True to the Mission: The American Dream
“Just about everyone's American Dream is to own their own single-family house. If they can’t own it, then they want to rent it,” says Bruce McNeilage, co-founder and CEO of Kinloch Partners, Kinloch Homes, LLC, and Harpeth Development, LLC. If you think his corporate titles are lengthy, wait until you see ...
Hurricane-Hit Florida Market Already Rebounding
Despite being hit hard by Hurricane Irma in September, the Naples, Florida, housing market closed out October 2017 on a positive note with sales increasing about one percent over the same time the previous year. Naples’ October 2017 Market The Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR) reported, “October could have ...
9 Things to Know When Buying at Auction – Part 2 of 2
In the first part of this series we discussed five things to consider when purchasing an investment property at auction. In the second part, we will be discussing the advantages, disadvantages, tips, and red flags for both online and offline auctions. Read the first part in this series by clicking here ...
Think Realty Magazine December 2017
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | Where We’re Thinking Realty Coaches Corner | Think Realty Coaches • Don’t Rule Out Your Own Backyard • A Small City Office Can Revolutionize Your Investing Cover Feature | Strong Community Secures Returns The Big Picture | Redefining the “Path of Progress” •OSHA: The ...
The 3 Cs: Cannabis, Capital & Commercial RE
GREENZONE Properties LLC is a property acquisition, development, and fund management company. Our focus is on obtaining properties zoned for cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and/or dispensing; namely those in the Green Zone. Our focus is on creating multi-generational wealth for both our clients and our investors through our Cash NOW, Cash ...
SEO & Keywords, Cornerstones for Online Marketing
Many real estate investors struggle to have an online presence, despite two out of three homeowners conducting their home sale research online. Investors know that online marketing presents a tremendous opportunity but are usually unsure how to take advantage of it, don’t have the resources to implement an effective strategy, ...
It’s Not Just Location, Location, Location
You’ve probably heard the old saying, “Real estate is all about three things: location, location, location.” I think we should throw that one right out the window because is entirely wrong. In fact, it’s wrong to the point that people who invest primarily on “location, location, location” often take significant losses. In just about ...
9 Things to Know When Buying at Auction – Part 1 of 2
During the height of the housing downturn, the term auction usually referred to a foreclosed piece of property sold to the highest of many jostling bidders on the local courthouse steps. Typically, there was no chance for a preview of the property, little time for due diligence, and the requirement ...
5 Key Wealth Building Principles for REIs
Real estate is an increasingly trendy investment. Prices are low, interest rates are low, and opportunity is everywhere. But why is it right for you? Do you know the right investing niche for you? Know Your Niche I like to capture all five principles, but not all investments will do ...
Judge Rules Colorado Firm Did Not Defraud During Housing Market Crisis
When the housing market crashed, Castle Law Group, Colorado’s largest foreclosure law firm, took advantage of the situation by “inflating costs of posting legal notices…conspiring with companies that did the work and its own competitors to fix the price at far more than what it actually cost,” alleged the Colorado ...
Breaking and Entering Over Possible Lead Paint?
If you own rental properties in New York City, you might want to tell your tenants to leave the doors unlocked this week. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) might be breaking in if you do not. The NYC Department of Investigation revealed early last week that NYCHA has ...
