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3 Reasons to Fix and Flip Outside Your Local Market

There is such a boom of television broadcasts and investment managers pitching about all the great profits we can make doing fix and flips these days. Nearly all of what you see and hear is about doing it “in your hometown.” While flipping in your hometown sounds wonderful and, furthermore, ...
Think Realty Resident Expert: Abhi Golhar, The Connector

Think Realty Resident Expert: Abhi Golhar, The Connector

Think Realty is highlighting our dynamic lineup of Think Realty Resident Experts: real estate pros who’ve experienced the ups and downs of the REI industry. Whether you're buying your first property or expanding your established portfolio, you can rely on our Think Realty Resident Experts to give you the insight ...
Paperwork

Navigating Wholesale Paperwork

Resident Expert Abhi Golhar has released Navigating Wholesale Paperwork, a new course available to Think Realty members. The lessons in this course, taught over six episodes, provide plenty of material to make note of. Golhar gives tips that are actionable, and imparts knowledge that can quickly impact an investor’s portfolio ...
Amount of Equity Rich Properties Increase Q2 2017

Amount of Equity Rich Properties Increase Q2 2017

ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report on August 17, 2017 showing that at the end of the second quarter of 2017 there were more than 14 million (14,038,372) U.S. properties that were equity rich; where combined loan amounts secured by the property was ...
2 Crucial Mistakes Investors Make When They Scale Up

2 Crucial Mistakes Investors Make When They Scale Up

Almost every full-time investor remembers the moment that they realized that real estate investing was actually going to change their lives. Sure, you hear other people talk about it. You see other people succeeding and living beyond their wildest dreams, but the moment that crystalizes the potential in real estate ...
Investing

3 Ways to Start Investing Immediately

We’ve all heard the old adage, “You have to spend money to make money.” Nowhere is that less true than in real estate. While you do have to spend something to get started in real estate investing, it does not necessarily have to be tons and tons of cash. Nowhere ...
How to Choose the Best Market for Your Real Estate Investment

How to Choose the Best Market for Your Real Estate Investment

Successful real estate investing relies on several factors, but as the old adage goes, “location, location, location” is top of the list. But “location” is a broad term, and evaluating the right place to invest your dollars in real estate means identifying the right market in both the macro and micro senses ...
Why Chinese Investors Pulled Global Property Investments

Why Chinese Investors Pulled Global Property Investments

When the Chinese government made a list of “negative” foreign investments that were attracting Chinese investment capital in 2016, the global real estate investing community held its breath. Would Chinese investors accelerate their buying in order to move their funds out of the country, or accede to their government’s wishes ...
Top Cities for Chinese Investment Capital in 2017

Top Cities for Chinese Investment Capital in 2017

Chinese real estate investors have been the top foreign buyers of U.S. residential real estate for the past three years, and although the Chinese government is tightening its hold on its citizens’ investment capital the U.S. housing market is set to attract those investors’ capital for another year at least ...
3 Keys to Understanding the Chinese Real Estate Investment Discussion

3 Keys to Understanding the Chinese Real Estate Investment Discussion

Attend any real estate investing group these days and you will hear at least one attendee holding forth about the joys of working with international investors flush with capital and eager to pay retail or higher in the U.S. market. All thanks to the country’s strong respect for private property ...
3 Insider Tips for Landlords

3 Insider Tips for Landlords

Owning rental properties is always an adventure if you choose to manage those properties personally. While no two days will ever be quite the same, there are some basic processes that you can implement to make the landlording experience a little smoother on a day-to-day basis. Here are three insider ...
3 Proven Methods for Minimizing Risk in Real Estate

3 Proven Methods for Minimizing Risk in Real Estate

We’ve all heard the saying, “There’s no reward without a little risk,” but that doesn’t mean you have to bet the house every time you do a real estate deal. In fact, real estate is one of the least risky investments out there, assuming you are well-prepared and willing to ...
Jay Conner to Present at TREIA Conference in Raleigh

Jay Conner to Present at TREIA Conference in Raleigh

The real estate investor who raised more than $2.1 million in just under three months after being “cut off” from the banks who had been lending on his projects will soon be teaching Triangle Area investors how use a new set of real estate investing secrets: his “Underground Strategy” for ...
Attendees Gain Unusual Access to Real Estate Rock Star at Triangle-Area Real Estate Event

Attendees Gain Unusual Access to Real Estate Rock Star at Triangle-Area Real Estate Event

Ron LeGrand and will join forces with other real estate powerhouses at a two-day event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on August 26-27, 2017, to help bring everything together for area real estate investors seeking actionable, practical steps to succeed in the investing business. “Ron LeGrand is a nationally-recognized real estate ...
real estate taxes

The Truth About Tax-Free Profits in Real Estate IRAs, TREIA Conference & Expo August 2017

If you love the idea of huge real estate investing returns but dread the tax bills that come with financial success, then you share a common bond with just about every other investor in the country. However, if you realize that there are actually ways to create “tax-free profits” in ...
Exactly What to Say to Close Real Estate Deals, TREIA Conference & Expo 2017

Exactly What to Say to Close Real Estate Deals, TREIA Conference & Expo 2017

If you knew exactly what to say to buyers and sellers to maximize your returns on every real estate deal, do you think you could succeed in this business? Of course you could, and the Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA) is bringing in two of the country’s top experts ...
NASCAR Driver Jennifer Jo Cobb Teams with Think Realty

NASCAR Driver Jennifer Jo Cobb Teams with Think Realty

Think Realty will soon be visible at the head of yet another pack when NASCAR driver Jennifer Jo Cobb hits the racetrack at the end of August. Think Realty parent company Affinity Worldwide recently signed a sponsorship agreement with the motivational figure, and her vehicle and race suit will soon be ...
Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA) and Think Realty Hone in on Practical Steps to Investing Success

Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA) and Think Realty Hone in on Practical Steps to Investing Success

Most of us happily acknowledge that real estate is a true cornerstone of lasting wealth and, in all likelihood, the most widely accessible means to establish a permanent financial legacy. However, the leap from new investor to successful, active investor is often a wide one. The Triangle Real Estate Investors ...
Highest Average Price Gain in 10 Years Seen in Second Quarter 2017

Highest Average Price Gain in 10 Years Seen in Second Quarter 2017

ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Sales Report July 27, 2017, which shows that homeowners who sold in the second quarter realized an average price gain of $51,000 since purchase, the highest average price gain for home sellers since Q2 2007, when it was $57,000. The average ...
Texas Senate Rulings on Wholesaling, Assignments and Double Closes

Texas Senate Rulings on Wholesaling, Assignments and Double Closes

If your real estate investor business includes wholesaling, assignments, and double closes, you need to know how you will be impacted by Texas Senate Bill 2212 after September 1, 2017. Perhaps you have been helping buyers who have experienced financial struggles, divorce, the need to relocate for business, or other ...
Where to Start with a Fixer-Upper

Where to Start with a Fixer-Upper

When you buy a fixer-upper, you know that there will be hours of work ahead. But it can be hard to know where to start. Not everyone is born a Joanna Gaines — the design mastermind behind HGTV’s Fixer Upper — but that doesn’t mean you’re doomed to a dilapidated dwelling. Here’s ...
Grocery Store Wars & Where to Invest

Grocery Store Wars & Where to Invest

A new ATTOM Data analysis shows that prospective homebuyers are better off buying near a Trader Joe’s than a Whole Foods or an ALDI; although homes near Whole Foods have seen home price appreciation more closely on par with those near Trader Joe’s possibly thanks to the Amazon acquisition of ...
Property Insurance Series: “It’s Not Covered” – Flood

Property Insurance Series: “It’s Not Covered” – Flood

Welcome to our “It’s Not Covered” - Flood, series. We hope these quick reads help you increase your understanding of your insurance coverage, clear up confusion and avoid preventable losses! **Notice some unusual punctuation or capitalization in this insurance article? These anomalies are not typos, but deliberate. When covering insurance-related ...
Finding Wholesale Deals

Finding Wholesale Deals

The latest course from Think Realty Resident Expert Abhi Golhar is now available. Finding Wholesale Deals provides invaluable lessons over 11 episodes. The course introduces numerous tactics for investors to add to their arsenal and reminds viewers of the work they must put in to find deals. Since deals are ...
6 Truths to Know Before Buying Tax Liens

6 Truths to Know Before Buying Tax Liens

So, you want to start investing in Tax Liens, but have no idea where to start? If you’re like most investors, you’ve seen the late-night infomercials and read gobs and gobs of information online about what an incredible opportunity tax lien investments are. Unfortunately, most of the things you’ve read ...