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How Teamwork and Leadership Leverage Business Success
The success of a business is contingent upon many factors. A strong business plan, efficient organizational processes, and effective marketing are a few of those. However, the most significant element of success is having the 'right people' who can streamline business operations as per their organizational goals. These include an ...
Think Realty Magazine June 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Contributor Corner Featuring Michele Van der Veen • Presidents' Circle Featuring Arianne Lemire Fundamentals | 3 Critical Areas of Risk Management • Vetting Deals • The Ultimate Risk Management Playbook • Managing Rental Properties of Foreign Owners • Commercial Review • Noteworthy Risks Commercial ...
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review | Creating a New Breed of Multifamily Real Estate Company • The $5 Billion Plan for Your Apartment Syndication Business • Self Storage Real Estate: Risk vs. Reward • Industrial Real Estate: The Bright Point of CRE • Expectations of Strong Post-COVID Recovery Bolster Competition ...
Creating a New Breed of Multifamily Real Estate Company
My career in real estate started with a “red pill, blue pill” moment. It felt like a whole new world had been opened up to me, one that had been right under my nose my whole life. I grew up in McAllen, Texas and followed the advice that everyone gets ...
When it comes to being successful in your chosen career path or business venture it is always important to understand that there are levels to achieving your goals. There is no quick fix, no get rich quick scheme, and certainly not one path that must be followed. Investing in real ...
It doesn’t matter if you are looking to finance a home loan or a commercial real estate development, everyone wants to pay the lowest rate possible on borrowed money. It’s no secret that traditional institutions, such as small, medium, and large banks, are typically able to offer much lower rates ...
The Need-to-Knows About Hard Money Lending
The word “hard” in hard money lending may seem off-putting, but don’t let the term scare you off from considering it a viable option when looking to scoop up property. Often used for real estate transactions, a hard money loan comes from a private lender instead of a bank and ...
Foreclosure Properties: Which One Is Right for You?
Buying a foreclosure property often delivers greater returns than buying a traditional property. But not all foreclosure properties are alike. Which one makes the most sense for your investment strategy? Pre-foreclosure properties—homes in the earliest phase of the foreclosure process—are the least risky but have the lowest discounts. Investors negotiate ...
Expectations of Strong Post-COVID Recovery Bolster Competition for Commercial Real Estate Assets
Price discovery remains challenging. Multiple factors point to an economy that is firmly in recovery as a critical mass of the U.S. population becomes vaccinated. Stimulus checks have bolstered personal savings, consumption has surged to record levels and reviving air travel suggests that both business and leisure travelers are back ...
Industrial Real Estate: The Bright Point of CRE
The pandemic put a massive damper on many industries — in particular, travel and tourism, hospitality and entertainment, and commercial real estate. As other asset classes like office and retail struggled with stay-at-home orders and virtually no traffic, industrial real estate likely advanced even further into the future than it ...
Self Storage Real Estate: Risk vs. Reward
Wayne Gretsky, the famous ice hockey player once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Investors, have a lot on our minds; where will interest rates go, will our tenants pay, will the economy hold up, etc. While there are many ...
The $5 Billion Plan for Your Apartment Syndication Business
In late 2020, I achieved one of my original long-term apartment syndication goals: $1 billion under management. A large portion of that $1 billion (a little under $300,000,000) was added in 2020. At the same time, the podcast I created, Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, and the Best Ever ...
There are many plateaus real estate investors often reach as they build their businesses. And each can be difficult to climb out of. The first, of course, is to buy your first property. Then it may be to quit your day job and become a full-time investor. Ten properties is ...
3 Critical Areas of Risk Management
Ask a real estate investor about risk management and you are likely going to get a long discussion about entities, land trusts, and other vehicles to protect oneself from the potential liabilities of being a housing provider or an investor. While these are critical topics, I believe they miss the ...
Understanding the pitfalls of real estate investing is critical to building your real estate portfolio and longevity whether you are investing in residential or commercial real estate. One of the best ways to protect yourself is to be proactive and educate yourself as to where the risks may lie and ...
Most investors will evaluate potential investments and account for scenarios that would negatively impact their investment returns. They describe this as risk assessment or risk management, though technically it is a threat analysis (see my article in Think Realty in June 2020 for a more thorough explanation). Real estate investors ...
Real Estate: A People Business
The term ‘Risk Management’ in real estate often brings three things to mind: have good insurance, have a great attorney, and document everything in writing. It would have been easy to just focus and write about those three things, but you can find that anywhere. As an active real estate ...
Typically, the terms “risk taker” and “cautious” are not applied to the same person, but Ryan Robson had made a career out of assuming both of these traits when it comes to his real estate career and business decisions. Robson has owned Rocket Lister since November 2020. The multi-state company ...
If you haven’t heard by now, the Boise, ID metro housing market is absolutely blistering hot. The COVID pandemic has created new and unforeseen demand trends for the Boise-Nampa metropolitan area, also known as Treasure Valley. The rise of remote working amid the pandemic has allowed many folks to relocate ...
The Ultimate Risk Management Playbook
In the real estate market, many rightfully worried the COVID-19 pandemic would lead to another crisis. But we didn’t see the 2008 housing collapse play out again, as some predicted. From January 2020 to January 2021, CoreLogic research shows the average home price jumped 11.21 percent, with total home sales ...
One of Think Realty’s Women to Watch this year, Arianne Lemire is proving she is worth watching in the real estate investment industry. In our March issue, she shared her REI journey and that although she has amassed wealth from her investment strategies, her passion is educating others on how ...
VoIP Phone Systems: The Latest Communications Tool for Realty Investors
Today, investors of real estate are experiencing a variety of issues given a global pandemic, the state of the economy, and a seller’s market. One challenge they face is what communications tool they should be using for today’s busy on-the-go times. For many investors, switching to VoIP (voice over internet ...
Modern Office Space Features that Support Workplace Health and Wellness
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, most working adults were clocking in from home. Now, many of them are heading back to the office, but not without some concerns about health and safety. In fact, 50% of employees in the U.S. are worried about returning to work. The good ...
Should Investors Focus More on Cashflow or Equity?
“Why not both?” might be your retort to this article’s title, and I would surely agree that a real estate investor should seek both cash flow and equity. There’s no reason to settle for just one or the other, of course. That being said, “focus” is the key word here; ...
If you’re new to real estate investing, you’ve probably discovered that it’s not as easy to break into as, say, the stock market. There is no Robinhood for rental property, and you can’t start with just $1. But there is a way to get your foot in the door — ...
