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3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor
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
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
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 ...
3 Reasons Why You May Want to Buy Property from a Passive Investor
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
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
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 ...
Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby, So Treat it Like One
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 ...
Real Estate Investing is a Business, Not a Hobby
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
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 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 ...
Pick Up These Golden Nuggets from Atlanta’s Top Investor’s Agent
Johnny Gonzales, aka “Johnny Intown,” is one heckuva great real estate agent in Atlanta, Ga. He’s a top “investor’s agent,” and in Episode 6 of my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” he sat down with me and shared several “golden nuggets” about dealing with investors, what sets a great ...
Are You Stuck? Try ‘Wholetailing’ to Jumpstart Your Investing in 2016
Here it is the first weekend in February already, and if you are a new or part-time investor, you may been hit with the realization that, “Hey, I have already lost a month of this year.” And those months will continue to fly by, as we all know they do ...
U.S. Home Sellers In 2015 Realized Biggest Price Gains Since 2007
RealtyTrac’s Year-End 2015 U.S. Home Sales Report shows that U.S. home sellers in 2015 realized an average price gain since purchase of 11 percent ($20,378), the biggest average price gain for U.S. home sellers since 2007 — an eight-year high. The 11 percent average price gain in 2015 marked the ...
Do You Want to be Rich or Do You Want to be Wealthy?
There is a profound difference between being rich and being wealthy, and there are differences—plural—with regard to part-time real estate investing. And it is not merely a semantic difference. So let me ask you: Do you want to be rich or do you want to be wealthy? Well, I’ll tell ...
Alternative Financing Solutions: Why Crowd Investors are the Financiers of the Future
I’ve hinted in recent articles at how real estate crowdfunding (and crowd investors) may well become the primary financing source for active real estate investors. Why? Because it better fills the needs of both those active investors and the thousands (maybe eventually millions) of ordinary “passive” investors who want to ...
Seasoned Investors See It Big and Keep It Simple
Over the past decade many investors either won big or they lost big because of the Great Recession. The losers included rehabbers who got stuck with properties for which they paid too much and then could not sell. Buy-and-hold investors saw their tenants move out to share housing with friends ...
Do These Numbers Look Good for a New Build?
In Real Estate Deal Talk Episode 5, I’m going to share the basic details for a project involving a new build on a lot where only the bare bones of the previous structure still remain. The lot is located on Stokeswood Avenue in Atlanta, and as you can see in ...
John and Corinne Tesh’s distinct and complementary skills have made Citygate Homes a leading turnaround specialist. Teaming up with HomeVestors has turbocharged it. By LINDA WIENANDT John Tesh started out the way many real estate investors do—as an “accidental” landlord. As a professional photographer back in the ’90s, he was ...
A Quick Tale of Two Profitable Options
In Episode 4 from my video series “Real Estate Deal Talk,” I discuss two options for a real estate deal from last year that will help other real estate investors understand a few ways to think through a deal. The property, at 361 Kendrick in Atlanta, was under contract and ...
Magical Returns from Mobile Home Investing Are No Illusion
As a child, I was always fascinated with magic. I was enthralled by the mystery and thrill of the event. There was always a build-up and then an unbelievable outcome. When I was younger—as many of us do—I even went through a phase of trying to perform the typical magic ...
Locking Down Real Estate Investment Success in 2016
One of my favorite parts of real estate investing involves the planning. How, at the beginning of a new year, can you “lock down” what it will take to ensure you meet your goals for the year? At the same time, I should acknowledge that most people consider this—planning around ...
5 Benefits You Get From an Owner-Occupied Investment
As an investor and a person who loves the water, when I read about an open house for a duplex that has water access and a deeded dock for $109,000, I sit up and take notice. When I read on to see it has a double attached garage and a ...
Not All Retirement Accounts Are the Same
A simple understanding of how they work. Most people in America don’t have enough money for retirement. That’s a fact. Many people have retirement accounts, but they are lax with their own personal oversight of their investments. Self-directed retirement accounts allow you to invest in real estate and real estate ...
Real Estate Investing in 2016: Not Easy, But Definitely Worth It.
I have spent a lot of time over the past several weeks reflecting on my business in 2015, as many of the rest of you probably have, regardless of your profession, or whether you’re an investor or not. The end of the year is always a great time for me ...
Using IRAs to Invest in Real Estate
Your Self-Directed Retirement Account Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.” At Think Realty, we celebrate real estate investment as an asset class that embodies appreciation or compounding value ...
