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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%, ...
Sam Khater deputy chief economist for CoreLogic

Completed foreclosures continue to decline, new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Completed foreclosures continued to decline in December 2014 to 39,000 for the month, down 5 percent from November and down almost 14 percent year-over-year,  according to a a release of a new study from CoreLogic. The 12-month sum of completed foreclosures for 2014, at 563,294, is at its lowest point ...
5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

| Think Realty | Article | Operations
A caution on real estate investment scams, typically spread by word-of-mouth, has been issued in a release by The Florida Office of Financial Regulation. “Real estate investment scams typically spread by word-of-mouth and require consumers to invest large sums of money in investment properties. This type of scam promises a ...
5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A caution on real estate investment scams, typically spread by word-of-mouth, has been issued in a release by The Florida Office of Financial Regulation. “Real estate investment scams typically spread by word-of-mouth and require consumers to invest large sums of money in investment properties. This type of scam promises a ...
Brad Long, president of apartments.com, renters will not pay more despite increasing rental rates

Renters say they will not spend more on rent despite increasing rental rates

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
While rents continue to rise around the country, the rate of growth is slowly decreasing. According to CoStar, the real estate industry's leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces, the average cost of rent nationwide increased by 0.64 percent to $1,194 a month in the fourth quarter of 2014—down ...
The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate RJ Palano blogs about mistake no. 4 and contractors

The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate investing: mistake No. 4

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
When it comes to contractors and my real estate investment business I live by the following statement: “Don’t expect what you don’t inspect.” This is true in all areas of business but especially with contractors. I used to think that all contractors started out good but after a while they ...
This house is one of three properties north of Seattle that Lawrence invested in using peer-to-peer lending or crowdfunding blog by Lawrence Fassler

How crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lending, can help the active real estate investor

| Lawrence Fassler | Article | Operations
In my last article, I talked with you about how crowdfunding, or the use of peer-to-peer marketplaces, is beginning to change the way accredited real estate  investors can participate in real estate projects. Peer-to-peer marketplaces, and crowdfunding,  also affect how regular real estate investors can get financing for their own ...
How crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending can help the active investor blog by Lawrence Fassler

How crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lending, can help the active real estate investor

| Lawrence Fassler | Article, Topics
In my last article, I talked with you about how crowdfunding, or the use of peer-to-peer marketplaces, is beginning to change the way accredited real estate  investors can participate in real estate projects. Peer-to-peer marketplaces, and crowdfunding,  also affect how regular real estate investors can get financing for their own ...
4 reasons someone would sell you their house at a discount blog by Kevin Guz

4 reasons someone would sell their house at a discount to you, a real estate investor

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
Why would anyone sell you, a real estate investor, their house at a discount? Every real estate investor will face this question at some point. Those thinking about investing in real estate will all have this question posed to them, if they have not already. If they are not being ...
Mortgage rates remain unchanged in latest Bankrate survey

Mortgage rates remain steady, but worry over increase remains

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Mortgage rates were little changed, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate holding at 3.80 percent, according to a release of Bankrate.com's weekly national survey. The 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.30 discount and origination points. The survey is complemented by Bankrate's weekly Rate Trend Index, in which ...
Downward pressure on mortgage interest rates remains strong

Downward pressure on mortgage interest rates still strong

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Parts of this report will seem like an April Fool. The US 10-year T-note has jumped a quarter-percent in four days, half of the springboard Friday morning on wild news from the job market. Mortgage damage is limited, low-fee deals still just under 4.00%. The first Friday each month brings ...
Texas housing has second best year in 2014

Second best year on record in 2014 for Texas real estate

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The Texas housing market closed out 2014 with one of the highest fourth-quarter single-family home sales volumes in Texas real estate history, according to a release from the Texas Association of Realtors. "A dip in mortgage interest rates below four percent in the last half of 2014 created an ideal ...
Doug Duncan chief economist for Fannie Mae says consumers are not yet ready to move on housing

Economy will drag housing upward in 2015 says Fannie Mae

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Driven by strengthening private domestic demand, economic growth is expected to accelerate modestly this year and drag last year's unspectacular housing activity upward, according to a release by  Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The economy is expected to climb to 3.1 percent in 2015, up from the ...
5 things landlords and investors need to know about renting to Millenndials

Why Millennials are important to landlords and 5 things you need to know

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Talking with my daughter, who is a Millennial, has provided important insight to me as I have studied this group and its rental and housing needs and written about that for other investors. It has been almost a psychological journey into my daughter’s era, shedding light on many past conversations ...
3 ways to make money on every real estate lead blog by Kevin Guz

How to make money on every real estate lead

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
There are a lot of new real estate investors, I imagine, who have just hit the market. They are hot and excited and want to go out and buy every house that they can. One of the lessons they will quickly learn, and that I learned as a new investor, ...
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