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Being Creative with Wholesale Deals
Wholesaling is a great way to get started in real estate, capitalize on deals that you are not going to be buying yourself, and provide other investors with properties they need while making some decent money. Your typical wholesale deal consists of a vacant property that the seller needs to ...
Creative Marketing for Real Estate Investors
As Real Estate investors, the goal is to find the motivated sellers before the competition does. One thing many sellers are looking for is answers to their situation. Content is rapidly becoming one of the most basic forms of marketing. Not only does consistent content marketing positively impact customers’ experience, ...
CEO of Bull Funding, Kemra Norsworthy, has been in the real estate lending industry since 2003. For the most part, she has remained on the lending side of REI but plans to buy a multifamily building soon and has had a couple rental properties in the past. But no matter ...
Three Reasons to Sell Your Real Estate for Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin has risen from $6,700 per coin to $58,000 in the past year. That’s an 860 percent annual increase and, frankly, that’s the average for what Bitcoin has done over the past five years. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that? And Bitcoin is not unique in its out-of-this-world appreciation ...
Creative Real Estate Investing Strategies
Back when I was first getting started in real estate investments, I had two strategies available to me. I could buy-and-hold or fix-and-flip. That was it. Thankfully, these days, there are a bunch of new out-of-the-box strategies for investing in real estate that fall into the new category of “creative ...
Market Spotlight: Charlotte NC
The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC market is the 22nd largest metro in the U.S., the 2nd largest metro area in the Southeast, and second largest banking headquarters in the U.S. after NYC. Charlotte is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. and has one of the fastest-growing Millennial populations. Many great universities around ...
The Next BIG Wave: Motel to Multifamily Conversions
One of the biggest lessons I learned early on in my career is that an entrepreneur gets paid in relation to the size of problems he or she can solve. One of the major problems happening in the U.S. economy today is the lack of supply for affordable housing. Home ...
Sometimes that next great home to renovate may just be the home other investors are passing up. Often these are the homes that have bigger problems than kitchen updates or a new roof. It may take creativity to solve these more difficult investment property problems. As a real estate investor, ...
How SFR Investors Can Streamline Due Diligence to Acquire Properties Faster
The single-family rental (SFR) market is one of the fastest-growing asset classes for investment, with SFR home rents and occupancy rising by 5.7% last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. With increased demand and dwindling supply, the market continues to heat up with SFR investors facing increased competition and scrambling ...
10 Home Projects to Improve Your Kitchen
Are you satisfied with the way your kitchen looks like? If not, then do not worry. You are not the only one. Many people have trouble planning out their kitchen and tend to either make it look way too cramped or disorganized. Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem! ...
Luxury Real Estate Trends in 2021
The luxury real estate world never stops growing. New trends are constantly popping up, while some of the old ideas are making a surprising comeback. This constant fluctuation of ideas makes real estate one of the most exciting industries to observe. Whether you are a real estate agent or a ...
How To Scale From a Duplex to a 670-Unit Deal
00:58:00 |Scaling a multifamily portfolio takes a lot of focus, hard work and resilience. Liz Faircloth and her husband Matt started their real estate investing journey in their 20’s with no money, no experience, and no knowledge of investing. 16 years later, they control over 1500 units of multifamily real ...
Think Realty Podcast #189 – The Burn Zone
Often, the best life lessons happen when your back is against the wall. Today’s show is about turning failures into your biggest successes. Find out what distressed mortgage investing is and how you can gain access to assets nationwide! For more from Jorge Newbery visit www.Prereo.com ...
Can You Still Find Deals on the MLS?
The real estate market is really hot right now and has been for some time and finding good deals is not nearly as easy as it once was. Back around 2011, for us it was as simple as driving around and looking at one bank owned property after another. Nowadays, ...
Will There Be a Buyer’s Market in 2021?
The coronavirus pandemic hit real estate hard in 2020. Initially, existing and new home sales nosedived. And then they rebounded to new heights as the industry learned to deal with the virus and COVID-weary buyers avidly sought larger houses with dedicated working and schooling areas. In the ashes of the ...
New Service That Could Ease Evictions
In an effort to ease the national eviction crisis, a new partnership between fintech company Esusu and Goldman Sachs will allow rent payments to count toward credit scores, a result that will help build credit for tenants and incentivize on-time rental payments. The result could be a win-win for tenants ...
Kathy Fettke’s Mid-Year Real Estate Market Update
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7 Tips for Keeping Your Roof in Top Shape
The roof is one of the most important parts of any house. After all, it serves as a barrier against hail, ice, snow, and rain, as well as branches and debris. Unfortunately, it is not indestructible, and if you want it to serve its purpose for many years to come, ...
Top 6 Cost-Effective Home Improvement Projects
Do you want to make your home a better place to live but feel like you do not have enough money to do that? If that is the case, then you are not the only one. Many people out there give up on home improvement projects out of fear of ...
Why Buy and Hold Is So Powerful
Anyone who has watched the real estate market of late (and by that, I mean the last decade) knows that owning real estate at any time since the crash of 2008 bottomed out was a great investment. And while real estate can certainly go down in value like any investment—as ...
Think Realty Podcast #188 – Pockets of Activity
What are gateway markets and why should investors like them? This show covers co-ownership opportunities and how investors can hit their targeted cash yields without too high of risk. From generations to geography, the boomerang effect to a mass exodus, this episode dives into social trends that are affecting real ...
The self-storage industry has grown significantly in recent years, with developers regularly finding profitable locations for new facilities. Also, as it provides vital services, it has a reputation for riding out challenging times relatively well. Add to this the comparative ease with which a self-storage business can be started, and ...
Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions
As a real estate investor, incorrectly identifying a deal can potentially cause catastrophic losses, while proper identification of a deal can set you up for long-term success and wealth creation. In a competitive marketplace, real estate investors must combine a boot-on-the-ground qualitative analysis with data-driven quantitative research. It is the ...
Suburbanization Unveils Growth Opportunities
Urban And Suburban Tradeoff Accentuated by the Health Crisis The drastically different lifestyles of quarantine and the shift to remote working are having an immediate impact on renter preferences, with implications for multifamily properties and investors. Living space is taking priority over location for many who are currently searching for ...
Protecting Multifamily Investments
In the midst of this pandemic-induced economic recession, a new president was inaugurated and the balance of power in the House of Representatives and the Senate shifted. This provokes an additional degree of uncertainty. Will the new administration authorize additional economic stimuli? When will the eviction moratorium end? Will the ...
