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5 Reasons Why Commercial Real Estate Should be a Core Component in Your Portfolio

5 Reasons Why Commercial Real Estate Should be a Core Component in Your Portfolio

| Harmel Rayat | Article | Topics
“No recovery for U.S. property markets until 2017” was the headline Reuters ran on June 22, 2009. At the time, commercial real estate values were expected to fall 50 percent from their peak in 2007. Building prices could take as long as six to eight years to recover, observers predicted ...
A Closer Look at a Hot Rehab Deal with a Huge Upside

A Closer Look at a Hot Rehab Deal with a Huge Upside

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
In Episode 13 of our video series Real Estate Deal Talk, we’re on site at a property in the Morningside community of Atlanta that should net us a nice profit after some rehab and remodeling. The backyard, as you can see in the video, is huge and beautiful. One main ...
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Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments

| Kevin Guz | Article | Investment Strategy, Operations
Should you focus your attention on big deals or smaller ones? This is a question that applies not only to part-time real estate investors, but full-time investors as well. Let’s take a look at how you can determine which one is best for your circumstances. To provide some perspective, I’d ...
The Habits of Highly Successful Investors: Responders versus Reactors

The Habits of Highly Successful Investors: Responders versus Reactors

| Kevin Guz | Article | Topics
There are definite habits and traits that separate part-time and beginning real estate investors who are successful from those who are not. There are so many, in fact, that we won’t be able to cover them all in one blog post.  But I want to start that discussion now, focusing ...
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Real Estate Roller-Coaster Expected to Keep Heading Up in 2016

| Shay Wright | Article | Market & Trends
To say the housing market has seen a few ups and downs over the past decade would be an understatement at best. Even with a couple of good solid years under the belt in 2014 and 2015, many people are still feeling a little uncertain when it comes to the ...
The 20% of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before

The 20% of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before

| Larry Arth | Article | Operations
Did you know that 20 percent of investors succeed while 80 percent do not? So says the Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, and it applies to everything we do in life. For example, do you know that you wear 20 percent of the clothes in your closet ...
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Real Estate Housing Market Roller-Coaster Expected to Keep Heading Up in 2016

| Shay Wright | Article, Topics
To say the housing market has seen a few ups and downs over the past decade would be an understatement at best. Even with a couple of good solid years under the belt in 2014 and 2015, many people are still feeling a little uncertain when it comes to the ...
The 20 Percent of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before

The 20 Percent of Investors Who Succeed Do So by Learning From Those Who Went Before

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Did you know that 20 percent of investors succeed while 80 percent do not? So says the Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80-20 rule, and it applies to everything we do in life. For example, do you know that you wear 20 percent of the clothes in your closet ...
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Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business

| Kevin Guz | Article | Market & Trends
Here it is, mid-March of 2016, and right around the corner is next month’s NFL draft. You have owners, coaches and managers working diligently and strategically to pick their team members for the upcoming fall football season. The level of intensity and effort and diligence that they use is no ...
Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business

Selecting Your ‘Dream Team’ to Support Your Real Estate Investing Business

| Kevin Guz | Article | Topics
Here it is, mid-March of 2016, and right around the corner is next month’s NFL draft. You have owners, coaches and managers working diligently and strategically to pick their team members for the upcoming fall football season.   The level of intensity and effort and diligence that they use is ...
Would You Have Done These Real Estate Deals and Struck Gold?

Would You Have Done These Real Estate Deals and Struck Gold?

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
In Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 10, pulled from our archives, we take a look at two possible deals in Cabbagetown, a really, really nice area of Atlanta. Actually, I’m a pretty big fan of it. As you can see in the video, the first property is in total disarray, ...
Are You Making Good Offers But Not Getting the Deals?

Are You Making Good Offers But Not Getting the Deals?

| Kevin Guz | Article | Topics
An often-heard concern from beginning or part-time real estate investors is: “I am making great offers, so why am I not getting the deals?” In answering that, let me start with a quote from the late motivational speaker Zig Ziglar that I find to be so true and that has ...
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Top Reasons to Walk Away From a Rental Purchase

| Steve Rozenberg | Article, Topics
I have purchased many rental properties during my time as a real estate investor. Some were mistakes that I should have walked away from, and others were good deals. How do you tell the good from the bad? There are lessons I have learned, both from making bad deals and ...
Think Realty Magazine March/April 2016

Think Realty Magazine March/April 2016

| Think Realty | Magazine | Investment Strategy, Market & Trends, Operations
+ WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture |  More Choice, More Control • Riches in Niches • A Strategy for All Seasons • Buying By the Numbers • More Foreigners Investing in U.S. • Senior Housing is an Emerging Asset Cover Feature |  Quest to be the Best Up Close & ...
A Missed Opportunity on a Rehab Deal Worth $100,000-plus Profit

A Missed Opportunity on a Rehab Deal Worth $100,000-plus Profit

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
In Episode 8 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” I show you a property on Esten Street in Atlanta that could have potentially have netted us $135,000 to $145,000. But unfortunately, we heard about it too late. So that’s very frustrating. The house looks like a piece of ...
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3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Over the years I have been involved in hundreds of investment property purchases, which prompts a lot of how-to questions. Perhaps the most highly sought-after answer is to the question of where to find the best properties. Wow, that question has lots of different answers, but there is one that ...
Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments

Big Rocks or Small Stones: Where to Focus Your Real Estate Investments

| Kevin Guz | Article | Topics
Should you focus your attention on big deals or smaller ones? This is a question that applies not only to part-time real estate investors, but full-time investors as well. Let’s take a look at how you can determine which one is best for your circumstances. To provide some perspective, I’d ...
Investing in Real Estate? You May Have More Capital Available Than You Realize

Investing in Real Estate? You May Have More Capital Available Than You Realize

| Realty Shares | Article | Topics
In the midst of the U.S. housing market’s rebound and ongoing stock market volatility, real estate has become an increasingly attractive asset class for individuals looking to invest for retirement. Investing in real estate can provide portfolios with much-needed diversification as well as the potential for capital gains. However, many ...
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3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor

| Larry Arth | Article | Operations
Over the years I have been involved in hundreds of investment property purchases, which prompts a lot of how-to questions. Perhaps the most highly sought-after answer is to the question of where to find the best properties. Wow, that question has lots of different answers, but there is one that ...
Taking A Cue From Real Estate Investors’ Long-Term Focus

Taking A Cue From Real Estate Investors’ Long-Term Focus

| Lawrence Fassler | Article | Topics
Investors often try to profit by betting on short- and medium-term shifts in stocks and bonds. The real money, though, often comes from anticipating long-term trends, the kinds of changes that take place over many years. It’s a strategy with which real estate investors are well-acquainted. Real estate by its ...
Why We Passed on this Renovation in a Sizzling-Hot Area

Why We Passed on this Renovation in a Sizzling-Hot Area

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
In Episode 7 of my video series, “Real Estate Deal Talk,” we take a firsthand look at a property that was brought to me by a wholesaler. It is a street or two east of Atlanta Medical Center in a community called the Old Fourth Ward. The Old Fourth Ward ...
Capture equity when you buy rental property blog by Kevin Guz

Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby, So Treat it Like One

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
As you hear so often—and you’ve heard it from me, too—in order to be successful in real estate investing, you have to treat it as a business. But what exactly does that mean? From my experience as a real estate investor and a HomeVestors franchisee in Dallas, I’ll share some ...
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Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby

| Kevin Guz | Article | Operations
As you hear so often—and you’ve heard it from me, too—in order to be successful in real estate investing, you have to treat it as a business. But what exactly does that mean? From my experience as a real estate investor and a HomeVestors franchisee in Dallas, I’ll share some ...
3 Things to Consider When Selling an Investment Property

3 Things to Consider When Selling an Investment Property

| Larry Arth | Article | Topics
This week I have been conversing with an investor who 10 years ago had bought a newly constructed single-family home in the Tampa market. He managed to buy during the market’s “up” cycle and place a good tenant with cash flow.  The cash flow was light, but he was considering ...
What’s So Exciting About Investing in Residential Real Estate? Let Me Tell You!

What’s So Exciting About Investing in Residential Real Estate? Let Me Tell You!

| Kevin Guz | Article | Topics
What is it about investing in residential real estate that is so exciting to so many people?   I think most people, whether they are interested in real estate or not, would probably agree there is a tremendous amount of energy, enthusiasm, even hype, right now around residential real estate ...
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