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Think Realty Partner, Sonia Booker, Celebrates National Women’s Month and a Feature in O, Magazine
Sonia Booker, an Atlanta, Georgia, real estate investor, held a “historic celebration” at the Sewell Appliance and Showroom in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on March 18, 2017, to celebrate national Women’s Month. Booker, who was recently featured in O, Magazine as one of the publication’s “Leading Women in Business,” honored a ...
You can learn more about Gaylene Lonergan and her law practice and reserve your spot at the “Dallas Market Insights” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. No one has ever disputed that Texas is one of the most unique states in the Union, ...
Cathy Crowe Exposes Dallas’ Market “Heat” at Think Realty Dallas Expo
Cathy Crowe has spent nearly three decades in real estate, managing her own wholesales and rehabbing deals since 1990. All the while creating and selling mortgage notes, owning and managing rental properties, selling more than 100 multifamily properties and other packaged single-family deals. Crowe, who is a licensed Realtor, manages ...
You can learn more about Julie Ziglar Norman and reserve your spot at the “Women to Watch in Real Estate in 2017” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. If real estate is all about relationships, then Think Realty’s “Women to Watch in Real ...
Aim for Fairness, Not Kindness with Tenants
Your tenant calls to inform you that they were fired from their job. They promise they are looking for work, and as soon as they get a new job they will make up payments on their past due rent. That seems reasonable, right? Everyone has set backs and you understand ...
Landlords: Social Media is on Your Side
Advertising vacant units or paying a leasing agent to assist you has increasingly become more expensive. Many landlords have been able to save money by utilizing social media to advertise their vacant spaces. Some social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, can serve as a great resource for ...
Announcing Our Emcee for Think Realty Conference & Expo – Dallas
Lyndzie Birch will be joining us in Dallas to connect with the best and brightest entrepreneurs in the industry! Birch, a Texas native, has quickly emerged as one of the most respected and trusted real estate agents in the metroplex thanks in part to her instinctive ability to make an ...
Woman to Watch: Kimberly Smith
Woman: Kimberly Smith Company: AvenueWest Corporate Housing, AvenueWest Global Franchise Place in the Industry Before there was Airbnb, there was Kimberly Smith and AvenueWest. Smith founded the company in 1999 as a real estate brokerage specializing in furnished property management for monthly fees. “We worked with private investors to get their properties ...
Over time, we are taught and trained in school, at work, or at home, that we need to eliminate distractions so we can focus. That this is the only way we can stay on course and true to our objectives. But when you are a real estate investor, disruptions are ...
Single-Family Homes 2016 Levied Property Taxes hit $277 Billion
A report issued by ATTOM Data Solutions indicates how 2016 property taxes for 84 million U.S. single-family homes, totaled more than $277 billion. Averaging $3,296 per property taxed levied home with an effective tax rate of 1.15 percent. Top 10 Highest Property Tax Rate by State The top five highest ...
Woman: Sue Nelson Company: REO Note Profits Place in the Industry Sue Nelson describes her real estate investing as “simple.” “I buy apartment complexes, basically,” she said. Of course, over the past 12 years the former-art-teacher-turned-commercial-investor has built a portfolio that once included 2,500 units, has taught hundreds of students to do ...
Renovation Success: No Longer a Rookie
Exactly two months after we closed on our rental property, Lucas and I welcomed our renters into their new home. I felt emotional as we drove away from the house that day because (1), we had spent the morning there doing final cleaning and capturing the “after” photos of the ...
China Hits Milestone: 1,000+ LEED Certified Projects
China has achieved a major milestone in “green” building, surpassing 1,000 LEED certified building projects, according to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). “The exponential growth of LEED in the global marketplace and in China drastically helps mitigate climate change and positively affects the health and well-being of millions of ...
Home Inventory Hits Record Low Since 2012
Trulia’s quarterly Inventory and Price Watch report—evaluating the supply of starter, trade-up and premium homes on the market nationally and in the 100 largest U.S. metros—found that markets with the biggest gains in home values since 2012 are facing the tight supply of for-sale homes. Buyers Face Tightest Inventory Levels ...
Best 2017 Single-Family Rental Markets for Investing
Solid returns on single-family rentals are expected to continue in many parts of the Southeast, Rust Belt and Midwest for investors purchasing in 2017, according to results of ATTOM Data Solutions’ Q1 2017 Single Family Rental Market report. The report, released March 23, 2017, analyzed single-family rental returns in 375 ...
Homeownership Hits 50-Year Record Low
Over the past 10 years, homeownership rates in the U.S. collapsed, wiping out more than three decades of progress toward the American Dream for millions of households. Overall, the national homeownership rate dropped from a peak of 69 percent in 2004 to an average of 63.4 percent in 2016. If ...
Why Smart Home Tech is a Smart Investment
The real estate industry is highly competitive, and it’s more important than ever for investors to keep up with the latest trends. Over the last decade or so, the demand for energy efficiency has made upgraded windows, improved insulation and more efficient roofing among the most popular - and profitable ...
If a Family of Four Becomes a Family of Eight
Some landlords misinterpret, to their own disadvantage, the housing laws created to prevent discrimination based on familial status. State and local health and safety codes often set maximum limits on the total number of occupants. It is your right as a landlord, however, to restrict the number of residents based ...
BEWARE. Fed Rate Hike Could Burst Bubbles
The Federal Reserve followed through on its latest promise to raise interest rates. Fed Chief Janet Yellen announced a quarter point hike in the federal funds rate in March. But the increase has little to do with the ripple effect on mortgages and consumer loans, and more to do with ...
Woman To Watch: Vena Jones-Cox
Woman: Vena Jones-Cox Company: You Buy Houses Place in the Industry Vena Jones-Cox has been investing in residential real estate in the greater Cincinnati area full-time since 1989, and she’s completed over 600 deals in the process. “I consider myself a generalist,” she said. “Everything I do is around single family ...
Warning: Read the Fine Print Before You Sign
I married a paramedic/firefighter, so I’m not exaggerating when I say that “safety first” is something my husband and I take seriously. When it came to purchasing our rental property, we drove through the neighborhood, got to know the neighbors, and determined our home was on a safe street. We ...
Real Estate Investing: Simple vs. Easy
The distinction between simple and easy is critical for real estate investors. I’ll admit, I didn’t understand the distinction myself until I had been investing for quite some time. Your ability to recognize and differentiate between the two could be a strong indicator of your future success. That’s why I ...
Use Digital Platforms to Collect Rent
Landlords, it’s time to embrace technology. While the U.S. Postal Service may disagree, the standard, “rent check is in the mail” approach isn’t saving your business time or money. And that’s exactly what your investment properties are –a business. So, you should be running it like one. If you intend ...
Home Price Insight Report for January 2017
CoreLogic’s Home Price Insight Report for January 2017 showed a 0.7 percent for the national single-family combined tier which included distressed sales over the prior month. The report recorded a year-over-year gain of 6.9 percent nationally for the single-family combined tier to include distressed sales. The U.S. has experienced 60 ...
Landlord and Tenant Respect: A Two-Way Street
We, as landlords, have certain expectations of the people who rent from us. These expectations include timely rent payments, prompt notifications of repair issues, and responsiveness to our attempts to contact them. It’s only fair that a tenant is entitled to their own expectations of us, as landlords. The right ...
