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5 Tips for Growing Your Real Estate Business

5 Tips for Growing Your Real Estate Business

One of the most appealing aspects of the real estate business is that there are no limits to your performance or earnings potential, as there will always be clients who really need your services. Whether you need to purchase or sell a property, new people who come to the region, or perhaps ...
Understanding the Pros and Cons of Investing in Real Estate

Understanding the Pros and Cons of Investing in Real Estate

Investing in real estate involves the purchasing of properties to increase your assets and possibly profit from this action. Since it is considered to be less risky compared to other investments, real estate acquisition can be a great addition to your investment portfolio. It is also known to be a ...
4 Smart Ways To Become A Successful Real Estate Investor

4 Smart Ways To Become A Successful Real Estate Investor

Real estate brings tremendous profit if the investment game is played tactfully. Real estate is not a happy-go-lucky kind of investment venture, you need to plan and play your game with close observations and strategize your every move. A single investment may make or break your entire investment game. If ...
How Investors and Renters Should Assess a Neighborhood in New York

How Investors and Renters Should Assess a Neighborhood in New York

You’re living the dream now. A respectable figure in the bank, an arguably good number of choices to find a sense of solace in a place like New York—but wait. Since you have come so far, you would want to make the most of your money and space now, wouldn’t ...
International-Note-Investing

Why Market Price is the Right Price in Dubai

The performance of Dubai’s property market in 2021 has been nothing short of phenomenal, with transaction levels of Dh88.12 billion ($23.99bn) in the first 8 months - surpassing the entire volume of 2020’s transactions by 22.6% according to data from real estate portal Property Finder. It is an incredible rebound ...
6 Tax Breaks for First-time Investors

6 Tax Breaks for First-time Investors

| Contributor | Article | Fundamentals
Real estate can be a lucrative long-term investment for your portfolio. It can also provide you with tax breaks and deductions along the way. But real estate tax law can be tricky, particularly for first-time investors. It’s important to do your research and understand all of the codes and breaks ...
10 Things You Can Outsource for Your Property as an Investor

10 Things You Can Outsource for Your Property as an Investor

| Contributor | Article | Fundamentals
Managing an investment property is a huge commitment. It takes a lot of time, money, and dedication to be successful. Luckily, you don’t need to do everything on your own. For example, owning a long-term rental or an Airbnb takes a lot of upkeep, but property managers, online platforms, and ...
Think Realty Magazine December 2021

Think Realty Magazine December 2021

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories |  Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton • Presidents' Circle Featuring Marco Santarelli Fundamentals |  The Social Impact of Real Estate • Tax Benefits with Short-Term Rentals • 5 Factors for Real REI Success • Commercial Review • How to Buy or Sell a Property Management ...
December 2021 Commercial Review

December 2021 Commercial Review

+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review |  Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage • Multifamily Investors Venture Beyond Gateway Markets • Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022 • Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021 • Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID ...
3 Steps to Flip Houses for Quick Profits

3 Steps to Flip Houses for Quick Profits

One of the most significant changes in the housing market over the last decade has been house flipping. In this real estate transaction, a home is quickly bought and sold to make a profit. When flipping, an investor buys a property to sell as soon as possible, generally within 12 ...
5 Ways Rental Management Software Can Save You Time and Money

5 Ways Rental Management Software Can Save You Time and Money

Managing your property entails repetitive administrative tasks that are time consuming and monotonous. Thankfully, there are numerous software available that enable you to streamline these rental tracking and property management tasks. Key time-saving features to look out for include income and expense tracking, with bank feed connection capabilities document storage, ...
Why It’s Time to  Move Beyond BRRRR

Why It’s Time to Move Beyond BRRRR

| Andrew Syrios | Article | Sponsored
Back in April of this year, I saw a statistic I would have never believed possible. In Jackson County, Missouri where I live, the months of inventory on the market was a mere 0.6 months! This means for every 10 sales in April, only six properties remained on the market ...
Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021

Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021

Economic downturns, like the one caused by the pandemic, have ripple effects that are felt at every level of the economy—and the real estate market was no exception to this rule. The effects of work-from-home mandates and reduced consumer spending were felt in commercial real estate, though some asset classes ...
Benefits of Buying Multifamily Properties

Benefits of Buying Multifamily Properties

| RCN Capital | Article | Sponsored
When it comes to real estate investments, there are times where investors are unsure if they are ready to take on the challenge of owning a multifamily property. Although the management and costs of these properties may seem daunting, there are numerous benefits of buying and owning multifamily properties. Passive ...
Global Real Estate Investing

Global Real Estate Investing

With current U.S. real estate prices surging out-of-control, let’s look at five reasons why global real estate investing in Panama can be a great way to diversify your portfolio. Many U.S. properties are being sold for 10-22 percent over the asking price. On top of this surge, many buyers are ...
Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage

Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage

Did you notice how the government didn’t place rent restrictions, moratoriums, etc. on self-storage during the pandemic? That’s because they not focused on someone’s stuff that has been collecting dust for years sitting in a metal box. While single and multi-family landlords have been feeling the heat, self-storage is gaining ...
5 Factors for Real REI Success

5 Factors for Real REI Success

Many real estate investors tend to get caught in the trap of believing that since we have been investing in real estate for years that we have that many years of experience. “How many years of experience do you have?” “I’ve got 18 years of experience in real estate investing,” ...
Political Advocacy in the REI Industry

Political Advocacy in the REI Industry

Every year in every state capital and every day in Washington, D.C. and your local town, politicians get together to pass laws. The simple truth is that most Americans blissfully go about their day with no knowledge that elected officials meeting behind closed doors are in the process of “goring ...
Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022

Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022

| John Chang | Article | Sponsored
Summer vacations jump-started recovery. The U.S. lodging sector entered the autumn season having made up substantial ground during the spring and summer months. Loosened capacity restrictions, vaccine availability and pent-up travel demand led to a marked increase in trips taken and rooms occupied. By the end of July foot traffic ...
The Abstract Side of Real Estate

The Abstract Side of Real Estate

What does it even mean to invest in real estate? Historically, you buy a building. You develop. You occupy. You rent. You manage. Real estate has always been, literally, something real and tangible, something you can touch. But over time, as with every other investment type, real estate has become ...
Bursting the Real Estate Bubble Concerns

Bursting the Real Estate Bubble Concerns

While it might feel like we’re in a similar housing market bubble circa 2006, it’s not the same. In order for there to be a bubble in the first place, there has to be a catalyst that causes the housing market to crash. Historically, there are a variety of factors ...
The New Think Realty Government Relations Committee

The New Think Realty Government Relations Committee

| Editorial Staff | Article | Profiles
Earlier this year, Think Realty started its own Government Relations Committee (GRC) to help spur REI-friendly legislation in state legislatures and Congress. The Why Behind the Movement Tackling issues like these often starts with semantics. In Think Realty’s Realty Matters article series last year, contributor Brian Wojcik spoke about the ...
Short-term Rental Regulations

Short-term Rental Regulations

With travel picking up again, short-term rental hosts are fully engaged to capitalize on the excitement. But in the rush to attain some semblance of new normalcy, it’s important that owners take a moment to understand new efforts to enforce marketplace legislation around lodging, lest they trip into the myriad ...
Luxury House Equity Right Properties

Add Value to Your Home With These Upgrades

| Contributor | Article | Fundamentals
Timing for an upgrade to your home, or even home improvements, might never be perfect, but now is as good a time as any to begin the projects you want to complete. While you might have no interest right now in selling, that doesn’t mean you need to put that ...
Think Realty Podcast #216 – Future of Short-Term Rentals

Think Realty Podcast #216 – Future of Short-Term Rentals

Do you know what Lodging Tax is? Also known as occupancy tax, this show explains the taxes people pay when they stay in any type of lodging, like hotels and vacation rentals. If you’re a short-term rental owner, learn why you should consider automation for this potentially industry-changing development. Plus, ...