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Increase Rental Property ROI With These Upgrades
With property values at record highs and homeownership out of reach for millions of people, it’s a great time to be a landlord. However, given the number of rentals available and the limited number of reliable renters, landlords are under increasing pressure to spruce up their properties to make them ...
Finding the Perfect Neighborhood for an Investment Property
So, you want to buy a house to rent out. It’s important to look at a variety of factors as you make your decision. Picking a house and community you want to live in is very different from choosing a house for someone else to live in. While many people ...
Think Realty Podcast #212 – Bridge the Bank
Need capital for your next deal? This episode covers lending options that will cover many deals in many states. You might be surprised about the short-term funds available! Plus, where are the growth markets coast to coast? And which secondary and tertiary markets should investors take a hard look at ...
Empty Downtown Offices: America’s Next Hot Apartment Trend?
During the pandemic, U.S. workers turned their homes into offices. Now, office buildings turned into homes could be a major real estate trend. Remote work emptied office buildings across the country. Commercial vacancy rates are higher than they've been in years. Developers are ready to convert vacant office buildings into homes ...
Think Realty Podcast # 211 – The Lion’s Share
This show is all about opportunity, forward thinking, and learning how to be rockstar investors. Think Realty Multifamily Investor of the Year, Robert Martinez, is here to dissect the multifamily asset class, breaking it down benefit by benefit. Plus, why is depreciation an investor’s best advantage? What is the #1 ...
Think Realty Honors the Life of Gene Guarino
Think Realty honors the life of an industry icon, Gene Guarino, who passed away last week. Gene was instrumental in creating investment opportunities in senior assisted living and truly made an impact on the real estate investing industry. Founder of IMPACT Housing Group, he also created RAL Academy, an educational ...
Why Investing in Real Estate Is Better Than Stocks
When it comes to growing your investment portfolio, investors have two solid options for building their wealth: real estate and stocks. Both investment opportunities offer potential. The real estate and stock markets have performed well throughout 2021. After the global pandemic took a toll on the markets in 2020, they ...
5 Loans to Help You Buy a House
The economy is still recovering from the constraints of the pandemic, but the housing market is booming. With people around the country relocating and the real estate industry thriving, there are many families looking to buy a home. If you can afford to buy a property but don’t know what ...
How Outsourcing Property Listing Management Benefits Realtors
Going by the predictions, the global stock of institutional-grade real estate may grow from $29 trillion in 2012 to $69 trillion in 2030. To add to that by 2050 the world's population will be up by more than 50% vastly affecting the real estate demand. This massive growth calls for ...
Think Realty Podcast #210 – Chasing Multifamily
If you’re thinking to get in the multifamily race, the starting line is not your first deal. Before you invest in this asset class, first consider your goals. What is your definition of wealth? What is your ideal lifestyle? This show addresses the pros and cons of multifamily, how to ...
Investing in Real Estate for Senior Citizens
Senior citizens (people over the age of 65) currently make up 16% of the population in America according to the US Census Bureau. That’s a revealing statistic in terms of your potential real estate investment success. Why? Because if you consider there are over 70 million seniors making decisions about ...
FREE WEBINAR! The Secret World of Real Estate and Crowdfunding
Learn how to benefit from the biggest change in real estate investing for 80 years If you are a real estate investor or want to be one, then this webinar is for you. In it, Dr. Gower debunks the myths surrounding real estate crowdfunding and reveals how it has come ...
Think Realty Podcast #209 – Where to Play and How to Win!
In order to make the most money, you need to strategize! In this episode, Abhi speaks with Rick Melero of HIS Capital Group to find out what possible courses of action need to take place now to make you the most money later. For more information from Rick Melero, visit ...
Cities Where Apartment Living Best Supports the Work-from-Home Reality
Remote work has been an option for some workers in the past few years, but the pandemic has pushed the movement into the mainstream. As a result, the home took center stage for those workers that could carry out their job duties remotely. This meant that for renters — who, ...
As the Pandemic Persists, Renter Preferences Continue to Shift
The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated multifamily trends that were already in place prior to the virus’s arrival – work from home (WFH), migration away from expensive gateway markets, and increasing investor interest in apartment properties. Now, more than 18 months into the pandemic, it’s obvious that those trends have accelerated ...
Commercial Real Estate Investors Follow Migration Trends
Housing shortfall back in the spotlight. Employment growth, reopening economies, and the revival of population mobility in the first half of 2021 led more people to search for residences after being locked in place during much of last year. This amplified the ongoing housing shortage in the U.S., a storyline ...
Managing the Lifecycle of a Storage Facility
An interesting part of investing in self-storage is managing an asset through the various stages of its lifecycle. Great success may be achieved in purchasing value-add facilities—properties where the operations are significantly lacking. This can be a daunting task for a new buyer but are a lot of fun after ...
The Passive Investing Lifestyle
The Real Estate Bug I had read an investing book years ago called Rich Dad’s Prophesy by Robert Kiyosaki. The only thing I remember about the book was to “stay out of the stock market” and “invest for cash flow”. Real estate was going to be the ticket to freedom ...
With housing prices skyrocketing as they currently are, it’s understandable that most real estate investors are fixated on price appreciation as the benefit real estate investment has that far and away exceeds any other. If another benefit competes with price appreciation in the minds of most investors, it’s cashflow. Indeed, ...
The Short-Term Bridge Loan Breakdown
When investing in real estate, it is important to know all the options that are available. The two most common loan products that are offered are long-term rental loans as well as short-term loans for purchase and rehab (fix and flip). However, at RCN Capital we have a few more ...
The Ins and Outs of Real Estate Wholesaling
If you’re familiar with the word “wholesale,” then you’re halfway to understanding what real estate wholesaling is. A real estate wholesaler is someone who looks to buy a home directly from the owner then turns around and sells it to an investor for a slightly higher cost, pocketing the difference ...
Smart Tech for Build-to-Rent Investors
The real estate boom hasn’t been kind to everyone, and many people who were saving to buy homes have found themselves unable to afford anything — even in smaller, lesser-known markets. For example, Boise, Idaho, Wichita, Kansas, and Dayton, Ohio, have seen median housing prices increase year over year by ...
Lessons in Diversification from COVID-19
Investors regularly reassess their portfolios and rebalance in order to achieve diversification. And many view this process as a way to tweak their portfolios, making small changes. But the last year has shown us how quickly macro-sized changes can occur. These events should encourage us to broaden our concept of ...
Big Tech Will Disrupt the Real Estate Business
Believe it or not, there was actually a time in which people who wanted to buy or sell a home needed to know a Realtor—or at least know someone who did. There was no internet, and besides the real estate section of the newspaper, there was no place where you ...
How to Diversify Your Marketing Strategy
We all remember those days when marketing focused on a select number of options. A company could buy an ad in a local newspaper, rent billboard space, or purchase a commercial slot on the radio or television, maybe even toss some bandit signs out. Marketing was simple wasn’t it? But ...
