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Real estate investor question of the week: What should my offer be on this property?

Real estate investing question of the week: What should my offer be on this property?

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
Reader Question: I am looking at making an offer on a REO. It is a two-bedroom, one-bath, 710 square foot single family home. There is a $127,900 asking price, which is $180.14 per square foot. It sits on a 10,019 square-foot lot that has fire damage. The comps in the ...
3 traits that will clear the air about turnkey real estate investing

3 traits that will clear the air about turnkey real estate investing

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
G’day, Mates! It’s Engelo Rumora, your favorite Australian, today sharing my opinion on the key traits that any genuine turnkey real estate company should possess. As I’m sure you’re aware, turnkey investors have a quite a stench about them. And by that, I mean there is a well-known stigma about ...
The Art of Creating a Good Deal

The Art of Creating a Good Deal

| Sonia Booker | eBook | Investment Strategy
| 10 pages | 2,945 words | 15 minute read | Excerpt 4 Ways To Create A Good Deal “Good deals are often created, not located. You should always be looking for a good investment deal. Opportunity is all around you!”  I have been investing in real estate for over ...
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Hard money lending: What is it and why is it misunderstood?

| Jason Van Steenwyk | Article | Topics
A Conversation With Carrie Cook, President of Ignite Funding Since joining Ignite Funding in 2004, Carrie Cook has risen through the ranks to become one of the most influential leaders in real estate investing’s “asset-based lending” realm. As president of a trust deed investment firm, Cook has an all-encompassing role ...
Teresa Bitler 10 ways a property manager can save you money

Are you using a self-directed IRA to help your real estate investing?

| Teresa Bitler | Article, Topics
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.” This magazine celebrates real estate investment as an asset class that embodies appreciation or compounding value as a property that is almost ...
The millennial generation represents the largest group of home buyers in new study

Millennials represent the largest share of recent home buyers, new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The millennial generation represented the largest share of recent buyers, despite the economic and financial challenges young adults have faced since the recession, according to a release from the National Association of Realtors. The 2015 National Association of Realtors Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study, found that an overwhelming majority ...
Foreclosures down 33 percent in the past year according to CoreLogic

Foreclosure inventory down 33 percent in the past year

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Foreclosure inventory declined 33 percent year over year according to the latest research in a release from CoreLogic. "Job growth and home-value appreciation have worked to push the serious delinquency rate to the lowest since mid-2008 and foreclosures down by one-third from a year ago," Frank Nothaft, chief economist at ...
Doug Duncan chief economist for Fannie Mae says consumers are not yet ready to move on housing

Consumer confidence toward homeownership continuing to grow, new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article | Market & Trends
Most consumers expect home rental prices to continue to rise in the next year, but 43 percent still think it is too difficult to get a mortgage, according to a release of the Fannie Mae February 2015 National Housing Survey. "Continuing improvements in consumer attitudes in this month's National Housing ...
Investor with low credit score asks financing question

Investor with low credit score asks financing question

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
Reader Question: I have two rental properties free and clear but having hard time borrowing money using these properties because of low credit score. It is 620. Any suggestions or lender who may work with me? -Shalaish Pathak Monty's answer to the real estate investor question of the week Monty’s ...
6 reasons online lenders may be easier to work with blog by Lawrence Fassler

6 reasons online lenders may be easier for investors to work with

| Lawrence Fassler | Article, Topics
Many banks are just not focused on investment property loans, as I discussed in my previous blog for Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine. For rehab investors, a good alternative can be the new online “peer-to-peer” real estate marketplaces, which are often focused on rehab situations. These companies (and I would ...
How to maintain 100 percent occupancy without any advertising

How to maintain 100 percent rental occupancy without any advertising

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
This kind of came to me out of the blue this past weekend. I had a prospective tenant contact me on Saturday afternoon and ask, “Hey do you have any rental properties available. I am looking for a home.” And I did not have anything available. But I asked how ...
3 ways to adjust to today's changing market cycles in real estate investing

3 ways to adjust to today’s changing real estate investment market cycles

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Are you one of the many frustrated investors looking for real estate investment properties but finding very little from which to choose? You search far and wide and the cash flow just is not as strong as it used to be? The cap rates are being reduced because of the ...
Real estate mistakes I have made: Taking the low big blog by RJ Palano

Real estate mistakes I made: Taking the low bid

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
You get what you pay for – sometimes. Did you ever get multiple bids from contractors and one of them came in really low? If an estimate by a contractor is way out of line, that is, it is really low and you can’t see how the guy is going ...
10 principles and actions that show you are a good landlord for your tenants

10 principles and actions that show you are a good landlord to your tenants

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
Dear Monty: My husband and I own about 75 units in 25+ buildings. He has a good day job, and I manage the apartments. We have been expanding slowly for over 20 years. This is not easy work. Over the years we have had tenants occasionally complain about different things, ...
Think Realty Magazine's digital content usage guidelines

Think Realty Magazine’s digital content usage guidelines

| Editorial Staff | Article, Topics
Thanks for your interest in sharing or republishing our content! Here are some ground rules ... What Think Realty Magazine content can you use? And how? Feel free to share links to any of our content on thinkrealty.com  by email and social media. We'll love you for it! Please be sure ...
Real estate question and answer of the week

South Jersey contractor asks, “How do I find out who owns these REOs?”

| Dear Monty | Article, Topics
The Real Estate Investor Question and Answer of the Week Question: Good morning, I'm a contractor in South Jersey and I see hundreds and hundreds of homes with stickers on the window that are abandoned. I'm thinking they are REOs bank owned properties. How is it possible to get the ...
3 guiding principles to remember when the phone rings

3 guiding principles for investors to remember when the phone rings

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
One of the scariest aspects of the business to new real estate investors is when they get that first call generated from their marketing. It can also be scary to experienced investors because marketing is typically their single biggest expense. When your marketing starts generating leads, or incoming phone calls, ...
David Blitzer

Home prices up moderately in the West, but housing recovery continues to falter new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
San Francisco, Denver and Miami were the strongest, but overall nine cities reported monthly home price increases in the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price data for December 2014, according to a release from PRNewswire. The 10-city composite gained 4.3% year-over-year, up from 4.2% in November. The 20-city composite gained 4.5% year-over-year, ...
Getting the money to finance your rehab property Lawrence Fassler blog

Getting the money to finance your rehab property

| Lawrence Fassler | Article, Topics
Real estate investors are often surprised when their borrowing process hits roadblocks in the finance area. Many banks are just not focused on investment property loans. They often want plain-vanilla, owner-occupied mortgages. That’s their usual business. It’s certainly possible for investors to establish a relationship with a smaller bank that ...
How I bought it for myself: 5 benefits of an owner-occupied investment blog by Larry Arth

How I bought it for myself: The 5 benefits of an owner-occupied investment

| Larry Arth | Article | Topics
One Saturday morning I was reading about open houses in the neighborhood and ran across a duplex for sale that had water access and a deeded dock for $109,000. It was open for a Saturday tour. A deeded dock and water access for a duplex did not seem like a ...
8 ways to work better in business and life with your significant other

8 ways to work better in business and life with your significant other

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
G’day everyone! Engelo here, your favourite Australian! On this week’s blog I’m giving it a twist by getting down and personal. You see, quite often I’ve been asked how do I do it? And my answer simply is: because I’m awesome. Haha- ok, ok jokes aside. How am I able ...
HomeVestors announces top performing franchisees for 2014

Winners of HomeVestors 2014 top performance awards for franchisees announced

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
HomeVestors, with more than 540 franchises in 42 states,  has announced the accomplishments of franchisees with top performance award for the 12-month ranking period in 2014 in a release. HomeVestors franchises bought 5,000 houses with a total sales volume of $474,000,000. HomeVestors is the number one buyer of houses in ...
5 reasons this is a great year to grow your rental investment business

5 reasons this is a great year to grow your rental investment business

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Investors often call or email me all excited or perhaps disappointed by a headline or an article they have read on real estate investing and want to know my thoughts. Before you move past the headlines you want to ask yourself if this is local news, county news or national ...
4 key elements that eliminate the fear and excuses that real estate investing is risky

4 key elements eliminate fear and excuses real estate investing is too risky

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine in the office and he asked me, “How is your business going?” I told him how many homes I bought that week and how pleased I was. Then I was met with a look of concern on his face. He ...
Fed sending signals for rate hike in June Lou Barnes blog for real estate investors

Fed sending every possible signal of rate hike in June

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
After a wild six weeks from Christmas forward, the 10-year T-note stone-falling from 2.35% to 1.65% and then rebounding to 2.00%, global anxiety rising... this week’s news is an extended sermon from The Church of What’s NOT Happenin’ Now. Interest rates did not move. Low-fee mortgages stayed just under 4.00%, ...
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