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RealtyTrac® Data Shows Increase in Share of Real Estate Investor Purchases
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2022 – Real estate investor purchases accounted for 16.4% of all home purchases nationally in Q3 2021 compared with 11.7% in Q3 2020, a year-over-year increase of just over 40 percent, according to the RealtyTrac® Investor Purchase Report. The report measures the share of all single-family home sales purchased by investors, ...
Think Realty Podcast #220 – Rent to Retirement – Turnkey Investing
When you think of making money with your investment properties, do you think of picking up a hammer and doing DIY projects? You don’t have to do that anymore thanks to turnkey investing! Our guest, Zach Lemaster from Rent to Retirement, teaches how turnkey investing works, how to make your ...
Instagram-Worthy Staging and Photography
House staging and well-composed photos go together like peanut butter and jelly. A single ingredient just doesn’t hit the spot the same way. A perfectly-staged house without photos — or photos of a cluttered home — won’t cut it if you’re looking to sell a property quickly or start a ...
What Does Leadership for a Property Manager Look Like?
We’ve all attended leadership keynotes, workshops, and webinars. We are motivated by the presentations but in practice what does leadership look like in the real world? In the book Good to Great they outline the attributes of a good leader which include being humble, supportive, a good communicator, coach, caring, ...
Growing a Strong Leadership Team
Having a successful venture in the real estate field is rarely done alone. With such a variety of strategies, asset types, and investment styles, only a fool would assume they could win long term, without a team. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is ...
The Stage and Sell Partnership
Preparing a house to sell takes teamwork to do it right! With all the “Home Buying Televisions Shows'' having such a big influence on how people view homes now, it’s no wonder more real estate agents are teaming up with staging companies to help market their clients’ homes better. However ...
The Atlanta real estate market has had steady growth over the past several years making it a great place to live as well as invest in. Located in the state of Georgia, the city of Atlanta is a hotspot for any type of real estate investing. It is a city ...
As your business grows, you talk business with the right person, or opportunities present themselves, every business owner contemplates bringing on a partner to take them to the next level. There are so many advantages to partnerships that can be formed in the business and real estate world, but before ...
Contractual Unity in a Volatile Market
In today’s market, unity amongst construction personnel has never been more important. Construction projects have always been susceptible to shifting parameters like weather delays, shortage of skilled workers, and supply chain issues. In the current market, construction personnel also must factor in certain safety requirements ushered in by the pandemic ...
Think Realty Podcast #219 – Self-Directed IRA’s: Congress is Watching, Now What?
Using capital through a self-directed IRA is a beneficial strategy, but now that Congress is cracking down, what does that mean for you? What are the risks to using checkbook control? Our guest Derreck Long from Quest Trust Company discusses the strategies to make self-directed IRA’s work for you! To ...
Think about partnerships a little differently. Instead of thinking about a partnership between you and someone else I want you to think about a partnership between you and your future you. The work and sacrifice you do today will be felt and appreciated by your future self. This partnership can’t ...
During this year, it has been difficult to figure out which local markets have the best potential for real estate investors. The pandemic not only cut growth in all markets but also changed how the economy is structured. Some sectors, like healthcare, government, and restaurants, seem to have lost jobs ...
Considerations for Selling or Renting Your Commercial Property Investment
If you’ve invested in commercial real estate, you might be experiencing a tough time renting or selling your property while getting the full return on your investment. Namely, the current pandemic had a drastic impact on the commercial real estate (CRE) market, and real estate forecasters predict the pandemic-centric concerns ...
Think Realty Podcast #218 – Strategies of Section 8
If you haven’t thought about investing in a Section 8 property, you could be missing out on a HUGE opportunity! Our guest Joe Asamoah has been successfully investing for over 30 years and is sharing his strategies on why Section 8 properties are beneficial, when to invest and how to ...
6 Real Estate Closing Gifts That Clients Will Actually Use
Being a real estate agent is a rewarding and exciting career. You get to help people make life changing purchases, upgrade or downgrade their homes, buy commercial properties, and sell their existing ones. Part of building those relationships so that people will keep coming to you and send their friends ...
Think Realty Podcast #217 – Interest Rate Forecast
Rates HAVE to go up… but what does that mean for your real estate investment? On this episode, guest William Tessar of Civic Financial Services digs in about what the next few years of investing could look like when rates do increase. If there is another “black swan” on the ...
How to Pay Yourself Now and Pay Yourself Later with Partnering
When you think about creating wealth, you’re often thinking about your future. Questions like “how can I retire comfortably?” and “what investments will help me reach my goals?” may float around in your head. A common thought would be to shovel a bunch of money away in a savings account ...
No matter how much time you’ve spent in real estate, chances are you have logged some serious hours staring at a computer screen, trying to make numbers work on a spreadsheet and making sure you haven’t made any mistakes. If you have a team, you’re only as good as your ...
Why is the Southwest Florida Real Estate Market So Hot?
The real estate market nationwide is seeing unprecedented surges. One of the hottest markets in the US is Southwest Florida. As of November 2021, Southwest Florida is showing 0.3 months of inventory in Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties, which is down 80% of where we should be for a balanced ...
Real estate investing is very rewarding. But the last thing you want to happen is to have all that success and lose one of the most valuable assets you have—your relationship with your spouse. Throughout the last five years, my husband Chris and I have worked together in different real ...
Things to Check Before Investing in New Property
Investing in real estate is a smart way to acquire one or more assets whose value will more than likely continue to increase in the coming years. Rather than leaving your money sitting in a bank account, you can instead invest in real estate that you can then use to ...
Think Realty Magazine January/February 2022
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Local Real Estate Investors Improve Communities One House at a Time • A Woman to Watch: Eboni Killian Fundamentals | The Power of Partnerships • Instagram-Worthy Staging and Photography • What Does Leadership for a Property Manager Look Like? • Contractual Unity in a ...
I have lived in every major city in Texas. It’s all great! But there’s just something about Houston that draws me in. After living in Austin and other cities, we finally moved back to the Houston area in December 2011, and in the short amount of time that we were ...
Have you ever worked with or thought about working with your spouse in your business? There are a lot of benefits to doing this. When you are both on the same page striving for the same goals, you can accomplish those goals much quicker. You have someone you know that ...
Driving through the mountain, over the Ohio river with houses all around and the skyline of Cincinnati ahead, the view can be quite breathtaking. I remember driving through the city as a kid with my parents and being mesmerized by its beauty. My mom was born in Cincinnati and grew ...
