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Understanding Equity Real Estate Investments Through Direct Participation Vehicles

Understanding Equity Real Estate Investments Through Direct Participation Vehicles

| Lawrence Fassler | Article, Topics
Some real estate crowdfunding companies offer equity real estate investments through “direct participation” investment vehicles such as limited liability companies (LLCs).  These entities, together with similar vehicles at the property title-holding level, allow for the “pass-through” of depreciation, interest expense and other deductions that can reduce or defer investors’ taxable ...
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The Essential Commercial Property Checklist

| Harmel Rayat | Article, Topics
One of the main goals for any long-term investor is to enjoy a financially secure retirement. That being the case, it stands to reason their nest eggs should ideally generate above-market returns with below-market risk along the way. But with today’s tough market environment, what’s the best way to do ...
Bad Deals Come From Bad Decisions, and We All Make Them

Bad Deals Come From Bad Decisions, and We All Make Them

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
If you have never experienced a bad deal, consider yourself very, very lucky. But luck can hold out only so long, and unfortunately most of us do fall victim to a bad deal—the result of our bad decisions. I have experienced this myself, and I painfully share my insights with ...
How You Can Score Free Tickets for the Long Beach Think Realty Expo April 23

How You Can Score Free Tickets for the Long Beach Think Realty Expo April 23

| Editorial Staff | Article | Topics
In real estate investing, your network matters.  Whether you’re brand new to the real estate industry or you’ve done 100 deals in a year; you need a solid, trustworthy network of contractors, lenders, lawyers, agents, and more to get the most out of your investments.   If you want good ...
Outside Appearance is Only Half the Story in Evaluating a Rehab Deal

Outside Appearance is Only Half the Story in Evaluating a Rehab Deal

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
Episode 15 of Real Estate Deal Talk finds us on-site in Roswell—about a 20-minute drive northeast of Atlanta—at a property we are considering rehabbing.  The neighborhood is really nice, judging by the other surrounding homes.  We just met the lady next door.  She has two really nice dogs.   The ...
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How to Tell a Good Rental Investment from a Bad One

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
When you look at a residential property, how can you tell if it will be a source of recurring income and make a worthwhile investment for you? There are some techniques that can help you do that, but when I was first starting out as a part-time real estate investor—as ...
Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own

Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own

| Kevin Guz | Article, Fundamentals
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
8 Reasons Behind the Single-Family Home Investing Phenomenon

8 Reasons Behind the Single-Family Home Investing Phenomenon

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Wow, it is hard to read an article on investing or on real estate in general without seeing headlines about the single-family home being in such high demand. Over the past several months I have read many articles on this topic to try to determine if this is simply a ...
My Sad Tale of a Deal-Gone-Bad, and an Important Lesson: Do Your Due Diligence

My Sad Tale of a Deal-Gone-Bad, and an Important Lesson: Do Your Due Diligence

| Abhi Golhar | Article | Topics
In Episode 14 of my video series Real Estate Deal Talk, the subject is a deal gone bad. The lesson is: Do your due diligence. It is massively, massively important. The question comes from Cisco, via Twitter. It’s an awesome question – Would you please talk about a deal that ...
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Create Your Own Lifestyle and Succeed On Your Own Terms

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
In my experience as a real estate investor – first starting out part-time while pursuing a corporate career, and now as a full-time investor and HomeVestors franchise owner in Dallas – I have observed one underlying trait in those who succeed and stick with real estate investing. And this applies ...
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 ...
Investing Strategies Big or Small

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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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