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Winterize Your Properties Before It’s Too Late
With the winter season approaching, property owners and managers should make sure their rentals and properties are ready for some bad weather. Freezing temperatures along with cold rain and snow can create a lot of trouble if you’re not prepared. It’s also a great time to check in with tenants ...
Don’t Let an End-Date End Your Dreams
It was a hot and steamy south Miami afternoon in 2004, and I was working as a driving instructor for the Richard Petty Driving Experience. It was tough. We worked 12-hour days, turning countless laps at a fast but “safe” speed (i.e. boring to a race car driver - we’re ...
3 Unique Ways to Find Your Next Investment Property
The MLS (Multiple Listing Service) is a great tool for those shopping in the real estate market. It was designed to simplify the process. It places all of the listings from multiple agencies in one convenient location for buyers and agents to browse without having to visit multiple different websites ...
Get in on the Farmland Phenomenon
Over the past decade, international investors have doubled down on a certain type of real estate. In fact, they have purchased so much of this particular type of land just since 2004 that cross-border ownership in this sector accounts for an area roughly the size of the state of Tennessee ...
Tax Changes Could Hurt Second-Home Market
How would it affect your real estate investing if you could not deduct the mortgage interest on the property loan off your taxes each year? If you purchased one or more of your investment properties using a traditional mortgage loan, then keep reading. Looming changes to the U.S. tax code ...
Smart and Easy Method to RE Investing
The real estate transaction market is huge and real estate crowdfunding has grown exponentially. Big names and big deals are migrating to the new investing and funding approach. The one that everyone is talking about now is CityVest, which claims a top pedigree of founders and investors. The company is ...
Tenant Chefs & Holiday Feasts: Fire Safety
There’s a lot of preparation that goes into having people over for a meal. Especially holiday meals. But how many people are aware of the increased fire risk on these feast days? And even if they are aware, what are they most focused on? Having everything ready by the time ...
4 Tips to Take Your First REI Step
Taking the first step is one of the most significant and common obstacles for a new or part-time investor who is looking to get started. Most people struggle to take the first step. I’ll admit, it is the most difficult step and probably the least rewarding one. Taking the First ...
10 Holiday Cooking Safety Tips for Your Tenants
The peak day for cooking fires each year is Thanksgiving Day. For this reason, it’s important that your tenant chefs are in a “state of readiness” for the holidays. Here are 10 tips to share with your tenants so they can enjoy a turkey-licious fire-free feast. Top Tips 1| TEST ...
Underwater Properties Decrease from Year Ago
ATTOM Data Solutions, released its Q3 2017 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, showing that at the end of the third quarter of 2017 there were 4.6 million (4,628,408) U.S. properties that were seriously underwater (where the combined loan amount secured by the property was at least 25 percent higher than the property’s ...
Certificated and Uncertificated LLC Security – Know the Difference
You want the best protection possible for your assets. You want to use the strongest entity available. But if you live in a weak asset protection state (like California) and set up your LLCs in a strong state (such as Wyoming), which state law applies? Unfortunately, the old standard lawyer ...
Tap Your Holiday Spirit, Offer Solutions
Successful real estate investors tend to focus on offering solutions. Sometimes, those solutions are straightforward, such as buying a home from a distressed homeowner or helping a burned-out landlord exit ownership of a chronically troublesome rental property. If you can clearly convey to any potential lead, business partner, buyer, or ...
How to Keep a Rental Property Secure
Investing in real estate is a rewarding experience, often quite profitable. It gives you the ability to reap a monthly cash revenue with little to no action on your part. And gives you the keys to a future financial freedom. However, rental property investing comes with its fair share of ...
Fed’s Changing of the Guards Could Effect REIs
When President Trump announced he would break with precedent and nominate Federal Reserve Governor Jerome “Jay” Powell to replace current Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen in early 2018, he was keeping a much-publicized campaign promise to “fire” Yellen. During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly criticized the Federal Reserve for keeping ...
Vintage “Kit Homes” Back in Style
If you were around a hundred years ago, the idea of ordering a “kit home” was common. You could pick out the style you want from a catalogue and have all the materials delivered to your future doorstep. They were cheap back then, but today, those homes are commanding high ...
Think Realty Partners with ATTOM Data Solutions
Think Realty, the industry leader in residential real estate investor resources, education and ethics, partnered with ATTOM Data Solutions, the nation’s largest multi-sourced property database through its RealtyTrac, Homefacts, Home Disclosure and ATTOM Media divisions. Beginning with Think Realty Magazine’s Year End issue, ATTOM Data Solutions will contribute original, data-driven ...
3 Simple Seasonal Staging Tips
As the leaves change from green to orange, red, and gold and the words “pumpkin spice” begin appearing on packaging of everything from lattes to pop tarts, we know that fall is in the air. In our own homes, we may crack out the cinnamon brooms, the football-themed front-door decor, and start ...
10 Ways to Give Thanks to Your Tenants
For most landlords –it’s easy to focus on the tenants that went wrong. Experiences with destroyed carpet, and unpaid rent tend to stick in our minds a lot better than the tenants who pay their rent on time, and without incident. But the fact is, though, that for every bad tenant out ...
Proposed Tax Reform Could Impact REIs
The proposed tax reform hit the internet last week. Though there are likely to be many changes and revisions, in its current form, there are many impacts to those who invest in real estate. Let’s explore these. Changes in Deductions The proposed tax reform has changed, reduced, and eliminated many ...
There’s no doubt about it, real estate is an inefficient investment by nature. Each investment and investor has its own unique characteristics and requires our most valuable resource…time! Time is Valuable Your time commitment is perhaps the most significant problem investors face when growing their portfolio. Real estate investing can ...
Big Boom in Baby Boomer Renters
Baby boomers set the housing market on fire when they came of age, but times have changed. Now, they are flocking in droves to an easier lifestyle than one of homeownership. RentCafé looked at Census figures to come up with a snapshot of the renting world. It found that people ...
7 Ways to Retain Your Existing Tenants
When your tenants move out, it can cost thousands of dollars in lost revenue, repairs, renovations, and marketing to get your property re-rented. A hallmark 1987 study by Walker Research identified the cost of finding a new customer versus keeping an existing customer was five times the effort and cost ...
How Recent Tax Proposals May Affect Marketplace Investors Part 2 of 2
In part one, Lawrence Fassler discusses proposed changes to the tax code, including limitations on sponsored business interest deductions, changes to 1031 Exchange program and carried interest taxation. To read part one click here. Lowered Business Income Rates for Investors in Pass-Through Entities The change that might affect investors and ...
Is Your IRA Handled by the Proper Entity?
Last month I met with a potential client, who was unhappy with the service he was receiving through the company that was currently servicing his Self-Directed IRA. He described the challenges he faced trying to fund his investments, get paperwork completed, and the lack of communication between all the parties ...
Driverless Cars to Transform Real Estate Landscape
Driverless cars may seem like a novelty to many of us, but almost two dozen companies are racing to get them on the road in the next few years. It’s still a stretch of the imagination to visualize them as a common mode of transportation but if and when that ...
