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Think Realty Honors 2017 Finalists
The finalists being announced are peer nominated investors who excel within their real estate industry niche. The winners will be recognized at the Think Realty National Conference and Expo - Atlanta. This year's Think Realty Honors finalist list is comprised of real estate professionals in ten categories: Master Investor of ...
Think Realty Co-hosts Global Real Estate Summit in Shanghai
An elite team of Think Realty investors, experts, and executives will travel to China next week for the Global Destination Investment Summit, an event co-hosted by Think Realty. Shanghai is home to one of Affinity Worldwide’s (Think Realty’s parent company) international offices. That office houses Affinity Investments, an investment firm ...
Hurricanes: How to Weather the Storm
As the victims of Hurricane Harvey pick up the pieces, we at Think Realty hope you, our readers, your family, friends and pets are safe. As evident by several impactful hurricanes over the past two decades, TR wants to share some tips and advice from our sister company Affinity Loss ...
Real Property Management: Professional Management for Your Investment Property
Investing in real estate, specifically single-family residences and small multiplexes, can be a great way to build wealth. If you buy the right property and manage it well, you can easily add to your retirement nest egg. Investment property not only provides short-term cash flow, but also delivers long-term property ...
3 Devastating Checkbook IRA Mistakes
When a Phoenix engineer started flipping real estate after the 2008 housing crash, his first few flips netted him about $126,000. Things were off to a great start. However, due to a serious mistake, the engineer made when he set up his flipping business using a Checkbook LLC, he ended ...
3 Keys for Making a Splash in a New Market
Whether you are selling your first house or your 500th, nearly every investor fears that “what next?” moment. You’ve been marketing for leads and the process is working. The phones are ringing off the hook. You’ve got a property under contract, but now you’ve got to do something with it ...
Private Lending and Personal Guarantees
Physical property is one of the soundest forms of loan collateral in existence, so it’s no wonder that lending entities of all types, from megabanks like Wells Fargo to private, individual lenders, like real estate so much. As our sitting president has famously said for decades, “Real estate is always ...
Dedicated Single-Family Property Management
Renters Warehouse is America’s #1 residential property management company, streamlining property management so individuals and investors can more easily build and grow lucrative single-family rental portfolios. In just 10 years, Renters Warehouse has grown to become the premier national leasing and property management firm exclusively dedicated to the SFR (single-family ...
Commercial Power Broker Joins Resident Expert Team
Title and Affiliations: Founder of Goodwin Commercial, member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, member of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals, Founder of “Deals in Heels,” approved Texas Real Estate Commission instructor, Think Realty 2017 “Woman to Watch in Real Estate,” and Real ...
5 Keys to Effective Social Media Marketing Domination
In the Netflix original series “Santa Clarita Diet,” actor Timothy Olyphant’s character (a realtor caught up in a sticky situation) discusses the perks of his job. “I work my own hours,” he explains. “I only see my boss twice a week!” Indeed, most people seem to think selling real estate ...
Detroit Turnkey with Strategy Properties
This strategy properties article was originally published in Think Realty Magazine in the "Investor Review" insert in the October 2017 issue. Strategy Properties is a turnkey real estate investment company located in the Metro Detroit area. The company is well-known in the industry for providing only top-quality investment properties to wholesalers, individual ...
3 Questions You Must Ask Your Self-Directed IRA Administrator
Ever had a great deal right in front of you, but been painfully unable to act because you were short on capital? If so, then you likely understand why so many real estate investors opt to take their traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and make them self-directed IRAs. Real estate ...
5 Insurance Takeaways from Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire
Last year’s warehouse fire in the “Ghost Ship” building in Oakland, California, has been called the nation’s deadliest structure fire in more than 14 years. The fire was a three-alarm fire, requiring 52 firefighters to bring it under control. The fire caused 36 fatalities and building losses of more than ...
Leveling the Playing Field Through Technology and Real Estate
When Brew Johnson and Brett Crosby, co-founders of PeerStreet Lending, first joined forces, the old friends never once thought about their private lending project on a small scale. Nor do they think on a small scale today. “We have created a technology platform to empower lenders to make loans to ...
Panel in Print: Overcome Your Investing Fears
Nearly every real estate investor out there, from the greenest “newbie” to the most experienced industry veteran, has one thing in common: they know about investing fears. Think Realty Resident Experts Eddie Wilson, Sonia Booker, and Pam Goodwin have very different perspectives on what fear can do to an investor ...
When a group of real estate investors partnered with former New York City developer David Comfort last fall to acquire 800 lush acres of fertile Costa Rica farmland for just $4 million, they became part of a project that represented diversification not just in their real estate portfolios, but into ...
2 Effective Ways to Get the Best Contractors on Your Team
Are you ready to hit the ground running with flips, but have no bench of contractors to do the work? If so, then you are facing one of the most common issues that stall out new investors, but don’t worry. The lack of reliable labor obviously presents a problem of ...
Renovation Rock Stars: Kitchen Edition
Ever watched one of those “reality” real estate shows and thought to yourself, “I could do so much better, for so much less! And why are they hanging that hideous wallpaper in a rental property anyway?” If so, you’re not alone. In fact, at every Think Realty event, we meet ...
Adding More Pieces to the Puzzle with Pam Goodwin
This month, I am so excited to introduce Pamela J. Goodwin! She brings yet another dimension to the Resident Expert program with her commercial real estate expertise. For many residential investors, once they have hit a rhythm, commercial real estate feels like the next step. Pam does a great job ...
Norada Real Estate Investments
Marco Santarelli, started investing in real estate at the age of 18. He purchased, renovated, leased and managed a simple townhouse by himself. Over the years he continued building his real estate portfolio with over 84 out-of-state units including single-family homes, duplexes, and small apartments. Founded in late 2003, Santarelli, ...
Case Study: Why Flippers Make the Move to Self-Storage
For many investors who have spent the majority of their real estate careers fixing and flipping single-family residential properties, the idea of expanding their portfolio into a large commercial investment, such as a self-storage facility, can be both attractive and intimidating. Think Realty Magazine sat down with Scott Meyers, owner ...
A Five-Year Plan for Investing Success
You’ve decided that real estate investing is for you, but there’s one problem. You need some startup capital. Here’s a tough truth about this business: unless your family has left you with a fortune, you most likely will have to spend some time building up available cash to invest. Once ...
Market Update: Atlanta, Georgia
Last October, Think Realty Magazine featured Atlanta, Georgia, in a market analysis. At that time, we observed that the southern city represented an opportunity not just to traditional real estate investors interested in building real estate portfolios but also to private lenders. Individuals and companies facilitating short-term, hard-money loans were ...
Commercial Investors vs. Zombie Malls
In the mid-1990s, malls were being constructed at a rate of 140 new shopping centers per year. In 2001, however, disturbing trends began to emerge. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that underperforming and vacant malls were becoming increasingly common. In 2007, for the first time in 50 years, there was not ...
When my husband Lucas and I decided to take the leap into real estate investing, it was with the reassurance that Lucas is handy, motivated, reliable and a true “do-it-yourselfer.” He knows all kinds of useful things, like the difference between a miter saw and a circular saw, where a ...
