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Lending on Former Big Box Stores
Before the 1970s, Americans shopped downtown. In both rural towns and urban neighborhoods, the shops and professional services anyone needed were all lined up in a neat walkable row. Most of those buildings were multilevel, with shops and offices at ground level and residential units above. This is the era ...
Best Ways to Maximize your Rental’s ROI in 2022
If you’ve taken the leap into single-family rental property ownership, chances are that you have one main goal in mind: to make a profit. And while investing in rental real estate can be a very lucrative way to go, to make it pay, you’ve still got to use smart strategies ...
Buying a Home at Auction? These Tips Will Help You Prepare Yourself.
Buying at auction can be a lucrative mode of acquiring a home, but it can also be an overwhelming experience for first-time buyers. House auctions are not as scary or complicated as they look. Even though real estate auctions are confusing, they give a quicker result. Auctions may be exciting, ...
Think Realty Podcast #237 – Bridging the Gap!
Technology is an essential part of our everyday life, but did you know it could help you close a deal faster and more efficiently? Pamela Blakes from Bridge Loan Network teaches how their software will allow lenders and investors to speak to their borrowers more effectively and make technology work ...
Partnering With a Lender You Can Trust
The most productive and sustainable relationships are premised on a strong foundation of mutual trust. You trust your attorney to provide objective, well-researched legal insight. You turn to your physician for dependable, effective medical treatment. What about your private money lender? For many Americans, one of the most significant financial ...
Bridge Financing for Commercial Real Estate
Bull Funding provides bridge financing for real estate investors with commercial and residential financing needs. We offer fast approvals and funding, competitive rates, and reliable service for direct bridge loan financing. A private bridge loan can be funded within a short time for investment property. Private bridge loans from hard ...
A common thread running through Kemra Norsworthy’s career is that she doesn’t like to lose. From her time selling cars to many years in the mortgage and private lending industries, her outlook is “if there’s a will, there’s a way.” She taps that determination as founder and CEO of Bull ...
No More Keeping Up with the Joneses
Back in the early 2000s, a former insurance executive was just cutting his teeth in house flipping and real estate investing, which had been his dream since high school. He was searching for deals on the real estate market and looking for ways to finance them. He met “Manny,” a ...
Investing in Florida hosted by Romney Navarro
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How to Build Trust with Your Investors and Borrowers
Private equity investing is appealing, and it’s also risky. To build trust with investors and borrowers, you must offer total transparency. Transparency with Investors There are several ways you can use software to demonstrate transparency with investors. Investors like to count their money 24/7, so give them a portal that ...
Revolutionary or Evolutionary?
There are usually two strategies when it comes to growing a sales team: hire experienced talent or grow new talent. But there’s another way of thinking about your sales team: It should really be a revolutionary or evolutionary strategy. You’re captivated, right? Well, hold on to your seat! We are ...
Think Realty Podcast #236 – The Silver Tsunami is Coming… Are Your Investments Ready?
With the “silver tsunami” on the rise, Isabelle Smith and her team at RAL Academy have found their niche within real estate investing. By focusing on senior housing in a residential setting, Isabelle goes into detail on how she can teach an investor during a 3 day training program how ...
Think Realty Webinar: Turnkey Investing: How to Start, Scale, Diversify & Build a Portfolio
Think Realty is providing you with another FREE WEBINAR! On August 10th at 11AM (CST), Zach LeMaster from Rent to Retirement will be speaking about "Turnkey Investing: How to Start, Scale, Diversify & Build a Portfolio." From this webinar you will learn: How to use Turnkey investing to get started, ...
Bill Tessar fell in love with lending early in his career. During his freshman year of college, he worked as an originator—and he hasn’t looked back since. “The whole ‘love at first sight’ type of thing that people talk about—I think that applies to me and the business,” he said ...
Think Realty Webinar: Investing in Florida
Think Realty is providing you with another FREE WEBINAR! On June 22nd at 2PM (CST), a panel of experts will be speaking about “Investing in Florida.” This webinar will be moderated by Romney Navarro from Streamline Funding and panelists include: John Cate with Finance of America Robert Knight with Whitestone ...
3 Ways First Time Homeowners Benefit From Government-Backed Mortgages
Government-backed mortgages are essentially loan accounts guaranteed and maintained by the federal government. Applicants for loans serving the State or employed by the State are typically eligible to get it. Lenders look favorably upon this type of loan accommodation due to the certainty of its payback. There are many mortgage ...
What Does the New Normal Look Like?
It’s the question at the forefront of every real estate investor’s mind: When will the housing market stabilize? On any given week, you might answer that question very differently. Just a few short months ago, no one would have predicted the impact of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and its ...
What’s Ahead for the Multifamily Sector in Texas? June
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5 Important Facts About Quitclaim Deeds for Real Property Transfers
If you are a real estate investor, you are always looking for properties that look attractive with an even more attractive price tag. Let’s say that a family member has offered you a quitclaim deed for their property. What should you do in this case? Should you take it or ...
Optimize Your Real Estate Portfolio with PlanOlabs
“Our mantra at PlanOmatic is to help our clients win. We help them think through challenging issues. We have data from our other clients and vendors, and with that, we can come up with some answers to their challenges,” said Tim Rose, data and integration manager at PlanOmatic. PlanOmatic recently ...
Think Realty Podcast #235 – Shared Housing: Profitable AND Innovative!
With the demand for affordable housing so high right now, there is a profitable alternative for an investor that you may not have thought of. Our guest, Atticus LeBlanc from Padsplit.com is solving multiple industry issues at once by turning one home into multiple streams of revenue using the shared ...
Insurance for Your Perfectly Designed Investment Property
You’ve decided on your first, third, or hundredth new investment property, and now the real work begins. Is the property turnkey ready for tenants? Does it need some cosmetic rehab, or maybe some more extensive work? Is it a ground-up construction project? The answer to those questions will help you ...
How to Write Compelling Rental Property Descriptions
In its most recent Rental Housing Finance Survey, the census bureau counted 48.2 million individual rental units in the United States. With new apartment buildings going up seemingly every month, that’s stiff competition for your clients’ rental units. Some real estate agents are going the extra mile to fill rental ...
PlanOmatic Increases 3D Virtual Tours for SFR Properties
PlanOmatic, a national provider of quality photos, floor plans, and 3D for the single-family rental (SFR) industry saw a 270% increase from 2020 to 2021 in its number of 3D virtual tours for SFR properties across the country. It also experienced a 187% increase in the number of SFR homes ...
Will Surges in Home Prices Last?
The surge in home prices that’s affected almost every market in the country won’t last forever—it probably has only another year. After that, will higher prices stay higher? In the long run, higher prices are dependent on income, which hasn’t surged anywhere. Or will they crash as they did in ...
