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Investing in Real Estate with Your IRA with Jason DeBono
00:42:56 | This session explains how investors can use self-directed Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to diversify their portfolios by including real estate. The summary covers the benefits of using an IRA for real estate investments, such as tax advantages and the potential for higher returns, while also addressing the rules ...
5 Steps Landlords Must Take After Evicting a Tenant
Evicting a tenant from a property is one of the most unpleasant tasks for landlords. Unfortunately, getting the tenant out of the property is not the end of it. There are many steps a landlord must take to secure the property and prevent future tenant evictions. Changing the locks, clearing ...
Why it’s Imperative to Invest in Opportunity Zones with Sonia Booker
00:43:40 | This session highlights the benefits of investing in designated Opportunity Zones, which offer tax incentives to spur economic development in underfunded areas. Sonia discusses how these investments can deliver substantial financial returns while positively impacting communities, creating jobs, and revitalizing local economies. Other Replays for this Event ...
Think Realty Podcast #158 – Color Clarity for Your Properties
Make your properties pop with the right paint colors! This episode explains all the reasons why real estate investors should care about color! When you find out upcoming color forecasts, you’ll be at the forefront of relevant real estate trends. Sue Wadden, color expert from Think Realty partner Sherwin-Williams, is ...
Landlord or Tenant: Who Fixes What?
Conflict between landlords and tenants over repairs can easily be avoided if each party knows who is responsible for fixing what. Some tenants mistakenly believe the landlord is responsible for fixing most problems because it’s their property. Unscrupulous landlords, on the other hand, may deliberately ignore problems and hope the ...
Multifamily Investing During Current Events with Bruce Petersen
00:55:25 | This session explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multifamily real estate, addressing key challenges, opportunities, and strategies for investors navigating this unique landscape. It covers shifting tenant preferences, evolving market trends, and how government policies and economic changes are influencing investment decisions in the multifamily sector ...
Seller Financing is an awesome tool that can put more money in your pocket when you sell a property. Do you know how and when to use this tool? And what it can do for you? In declining markets or uncertain times, banks and traditional lenders become more conservative and ...
The Risks of an Onsite Property Manager
If you own a multiunit complex, chances are you have an onsite property manager. Typically these arrangements consist of base pay and free rent, where the amount of pay is commensurate with the number of units and the amount of work. If living onsite is a perquisite to being a ...
Ahead of the Curve: Tech Resources for Investors
Though still traditional in many ways, the real estate industry has wisely been embracing the use of modern technology over the last decade. The on-the-go lifestyle of many industry professionals and casual homebuyers has necessitated newer, faster, more convenient ways of doing business. These changes in consumer behavior, along with ...
Never Fear What You Can Support
So you’re in business ... Okay, now what? That story is more involved than 500 words could ever explain. Rather, let’s look at one item that strikes terror into every business owner—the I.R.S., Uncle Sam, your silent partner … some might say The Grimm Reaper. The IRS has a specific ...
It’s easy to assume that just because a property looks good from the outside that the same is true of the inside. But it’s important not to be fooled by great curb appeal. As a rental property owner, you need great tenants. These folks are the ones who will pay ...
Five Factors for Choosing Your Self-Directed IRA Company
You’re convinced. You know a Self-Directed IRA is a powerful way to build wealth, using its protections to help you get the most out of investments like real estate. But there’s a catch: you can’t move forward unless you have a Self-Directed IRA administration firm in your corner. And you’re ...
Tough news for first-time homebuyers: availability of affordable homes is declining. According to the National Association of Realtors, availability of homes under $200,000 declined by 19 percent year-over-year from January 2019 to January 2020. The average sale price of a home is nearing five times the income of the average ...
Using Fear as the Green Light for Action
Many of us fear that which does not exist. Much like the boogie man, we all are afraid of some things that are only made up in our minds, or we fear things that, in reality, have little chance of happening. The sad thing for most of us is that ...
Think Realty Magazine September 2020
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Contributor Corner: Meet Bruce McNeilage Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Romney Navarro • Titan Talk: Tom Meade Engagement | Realty Matters: Sustainability is Opportunity • Easy Answers Fundamentals | The True Cost of Homeownership • Using Fear as the ...
RentRange®, an industry leader in market data and analytics for the single-family rental (SFR) housing industry, found in its recent data report that the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area (Atlanta MSA) is a large-sized market that has been steadily growing within its means. The market is one of the ...
“You’re quitting your job to do what?” This was the most common response I received when I mentioned I was starting a land investing business. Of course, my friends and family were just trying to look out for me, but their reaction was common even among investor circles. Vacant land ...
7 Reasons to Diversify Your Portfolio in Panama
While many investors focus on accumulating positive cashflow through rental properties and/or investing in stocks, sustainable agriculture is a great way to diversify your portfolio in 2020 as part of a “Plan B.” Based on teaching international real estate investing for decades and being a “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Elite ...
Building an Elite Organization
It may be tempting to think the post-COVID world will look much like the pre-COVID one. The reality is the landscape has changed. That’s why experts list COVID-19 as the top issue affecting real estate going forward. Uncertainty remains, and the aftermath of the pandemic will test our priorities, resilience, ...
A New Housing Development: Container Home Villages
Communities in Central Appalachia and the rural Midwest are quietly facing a crisis when it comes to cost-effective living. Currently, the choice that the families have in the region is to either live in substandard housing or leave the region. Furthermore, the lack of investment in the region has left ...
Presidents’ Circle Featured Member: Romney Navarro
The Think Realty Presidents’ Circle is an elite group of real estate investors and private lenders who meet throughout the year to discuss and share ideas, insights, business practices, and more. This month, we turn to member Romney Navarro who shares the number-one invaluable resource that has helped him navigate ...
Tax Lien Investing For Real Estate Agents with Chantelle Owens
03:48:56 | Learn how to leverage tax lien investing for your investor buyers and yourself. Learn the following: The significance of getting started investing in tax liens GA tax lien process overview The difference between tax liens, tax lien certificates, and tax deeds Tax lien type by state Interest rate ...
No one could blame RealInvestors® Chief Visionary Sherman Ragland if he had shied away from real estate after his first introduction to the industry. When Ragland was in junior high school, he begged his mother to take him to a real estate seminar that someone he saw in an infomercial ...
7 Benefits of Using Real Estate Management Software
Owning property and having a place to live in is one of our fundamental needs as humans. Maybe this is why the real estate sector is always buoyant and growing. This is also why this sector is a major indicator of economic strength. Many realtors and real estate brokerages are ...
Are Your Short-Term Rentals Ready for a Safety Reckoning?
While hotels have been dealing with regulations like zoning ordinances, state guidelines, and tax laws for decades, private accommodation short-term rentals largely have been left to their own devices — aside from a few local guidelines and taxes. On the one hand, this lack of regulation made it possible for a new ...
