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Liability

5 Tips to Get Proper Liability Coverage for Your Property

Are your properties adequately insured? How much coverage is enough coverage when it comes to liability insurance? Shawn Woedl of the National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) sat down with Think Realty Magazine after his Baltimore breakout session to share these tips to help investors choose what type of liability ...
Air National Guard Pilot Debuts Amazon Real Estate Bestseller

Air National Guard Pilot Debuts Amazon Real Estate Bestseller

When Seth Wilson says, “The devil is in the details,” he is talking about more than just flying U.S. Air Force jets. He’s talking real estate. Wilson, who recently published an Amazon bestseller relating his combat experience in the National Guard and his experience in real estate from starting with ...
Think Realty Honors FAQs Answered

Think Realty Honors FAQs Answered

May 31, 2020, is the last day to submit nominations for the Think Realty Honors, which will be awarded this September at the Think Realty Conference & Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. These Honors are awarded each year to industry leaders who represent the very best of what the real estate ...
Leverage: The Greatest Real Estate Advantage

Leverage: The Greatest Real Estate Advantage

Ignoring the fact that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investments are either over-valued or providing negative real returns, real estate has almost always been the best use of capital specifically because of your ability to leverage your investment. If used properly, leverage will significantly enhance your return on investment.  ...
Owner Finance

Owner Financing: Can You Sell Your Home Faster & Make A Bigger Profit?

How would you like to have the potential to sell your home faster, sell it “as is”, and possibly get a better interest rate than on some other investments? Consider owner financing.Make your home stand out in the market by adding these three words to the listing (and to a yard ...
Hotspots

5 Secret Investment Hotspots in America

To most people, the idea of taking 42 business trips in one year may not sound like a whole lot of fun. That's what my 2016 looked like – but I actually loved it. Why? Because I'm one of those annoying people who thinks he has the greatest job on ...
Virtual Assistant

3 Tips for Using Virtual Assistants to Market Your Rentals

You may be the expert when it comes to your personal rental property portfolio, but that does not mean that you need to personally micromanage every aspect of the marketing campaign to fill those rentals. While many DIY landlords automatically discount the idea of using virtual assistants (VA) to help ...
3 Red Flags for Any Real Estate Market

3 Red Flags for Any Real Estate Market

This is a transcript of a previously-aired segment of “Self-Directed Investor Talk,” a radio show dealing with self-directed IRA strategy hosted by Bryan Ellis. Did you know that there are three housing market indicators that can tell you, with astounding certainty, whether a region and the real estate located there ...
Think Realty Magazine July/August 2017

Think Realty Magazine July/August 2017

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty |  Where We’re Thinking Realty in 2017 • Think Realty Honors • Street Smart: Expo Edition Cover Feature |  All-Access: Think Realty's Powerful New Coaching Faculty Design Point |  Finishing Touches The Big Picture|  Reading Between the Lines: Streetcars and Property Values • The Importance ...
Patch of Land

Patch of Land

| Think Realty | Article | Topics
This article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the American Association of Private Lenders' (AAPL)-sponsored "Investor Review" insert in the July/August 2017 issue. Patch of Land is a marketplace lender that originates residential and commercial real estate loans by leveraging proprietary technology to support its innovative crowdfunding platform. In addition to offering ...
Gorilla Capital

Gorilla Capital

| Think Realty | Article | Topics
This article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the American Association of Private Lenders' (AAPL)-sponsored "Investor Review" insert in the July/August 2017 issue. Looking to stretch your time and money further on fix-and-flip projects? Would consolidating funding sources to a single capital provider who can fund on 24-hour notice create more ease ...
Fix-and-Flip Financing, Evolved: A letter from the CEO of Fund That Flip

Fix-and-Flip Financing, Evolved: A letter from the CEO of Fund That Flip

| Think Realty | Article | Topics
This article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the American Association of Private Lenders' (AAPL)-sponsored "Investor Review" insert in the July/August 2017 issue. I got started in the fix-and-flip business as a teenager. I owned a small landscaping business and many of my clients were real estate investors. In addition to landscaping ...
A Two-Fold Focus to Help Investors

A Two-Fold Focus to Help Investors

| Think Realty | Article | Topics
This article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the American Association of Private Lenders' (AAPL)-sponsored "Investor Review" insert in the July/August 2017 issue. Rob Barney, President of DHLC Investments, Inc. and owner of DHLC Mortgage, LLC, has been involved with real estate and real estate financing since 1998 when he bought his ...
Think Realty National Conference & Expo Attendees Double Their Networks in No Time

Think Realty National Conference & Expo Attendees Double Their Networks in No Time

If you attended Capital City REIA (CCREIA)’s breakout session at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 24, 2017, then you probably heard a dull roar shaking the Baltimore convention center around 9:35am. That roar was not the passing of a freight train or a ...
Mistakes

5 Common Mistakes Made by REIs

If you’ve never had an opportunity to see Kent Davis of Equistream speak, you need to attend the next Think Realty Conference & Expo. Davis is unique in his presence and the way he connects with the audience. He is knowledgeable, logical, and experienced. Everything you would expect out of an ...
Walnut Street Finance

Walnut Street Finance

| Think Realty | Article | Topics
This article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the American Association of Private Lenders' (AAPL)-sponsored "Investor Review" insert in the July/August 2017 issue. When private money financing is needed to fund a project, every minute counts. Walnut Street Finance can fund loans within days, so builders, developers and investors can seize investment ...
3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Real Estate IRA

3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Real Estate IRA

When it comes to real estate investing, you probably have a lot of options that haven’t even occurred to you yet. Bill Humphrey, co-founder and CEO of New Direction IRA, dove deep into these options at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 24, 2017, ...
Sherman Ragland Reveals His Number-One-Rule for Real Estate

Sherman Ragland Reveals His Number-One-Rule for Real Estate

Sherman Ragland, founder of DCREIA, dean of the Realinvestors Academy, and longtime commercial real estate broker and investor, has some very simple rules for success in real estate. He disclosed those rules during his overflowing training session at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Baltimore, Maryland, on June ...
Failed Asset Protection: A Case Study Provided by Legally Mine

Failed Asset Protection: A Case Study Provided by Legally Mine

“You have two options available to you when it comes to lawsuits: forget them and hope the snake never strikes, or legally chop the snake’s head off before it strikes,” said Steve Broadley, of Legally Mine asset protection services. During his training session at the 2017 Think Realty National Conference ...
Think Realty Panel Addresses the Complicated Legal Landscape of Independent Landlords

Think Realty Panel Addresses the Complicated Legal Landscape of Independent Landlords

“How many of you want to go to jail because you did the wrong thing with an investment? None of you? Then we’re on the right track!” So started Think Realty’s legislative panel, “Navigating the Legal Landscape,” moderated by Brian Wojcik, founder of Landlord411 and NAIL411.org, landlord-advocacy groups based in ...
Marvin Holmes

Maryland Delegate Marvin E. Holmes Kicks Off 2017 Think Realty National Conference & Expo with His “Demands” for Local Investors

“If you are silent, something may happen that you don’t want to see,” Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., Maryland Delegate to the Maryland General Assembly House of Delegates for District 23 B, warned real estate investors today during his opening remarks at the 2017 Think Realty National Conference & Expo in ...
Where We're Thinking in 2017

Where We’re Thinking in 2017

National Conference & Expo :: Dallas, Texas Education, Networking, and Purpose Came Together in Dallas Attendees of the Think Realty National Conference and Expo in Dallas, Texas, April 29-30, 2017, not only enjoyed a very full day of education and networking with local and national influencers in the real estate ...
Cross-Border Property Transactions in 2016

Cross-Border Property Transactions in 2016

Last year witnessed considerable cross-border investment in several property markets, with investors aiming to diversify their portfolios and protect their wealth from risks at home. Tranio experts analyzed cross-border transactions around the world in 2016 and examined the preferences of major investor groups. In review, 2016 turned out to be ...
Insight Matters: When Lenders Provide More than Just Capital

Insight Matters: When Lenders Provide More than Just Capital

When real estate investors are looking for capital to fund their deals, the only thing as important as speed is creativity. Most real estate investments don’t fit into the neat credit boxes of traditional lenders.  By their nature, real estate investment, development, and fix-and-flip projects require loans that are tailored ...
Playing My Favorite Sport to Win

Playing My Favorite Sport to Win

| Ben Rao | Article | Operations
Many ague with me when I say that entrepreneurialism is a sport. However, when you really break it down, you’ll see that sports and running your own business are very much alike. Let’s start with a simple question: Which of these characteristics are attributes of an athlete and which are ...