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Should You Pay Off Mortgage Points for Your Rental Property?
One way to lower the rate on your next mortgage is to buy mortgage points. But while buying points might make sense for some investors, for others it may not be the right way to go. The question of whether to buy points for your rental property or not is ...
Presidents’ Circle: Robert Knight
Presidents’ Circle member, missionary, real estate investor, and business owner Robert Knight has been purchasing and rehabbing buy-and-hold single-family rentals since 2009. In 2016 he pivoted to new construction in the sunshine state. He shared his real estate story and a few other fun facts with Think Realty, including business ...
Co-star recently reported that Blackstone Group out of New York just launched a $5 BILLION distressed debt real estate fund in hopes of capitalizing on assets affected by the lack of liquidity due to COVID-19. Am I personally worried about competing with a $5 billion dollar fund? Should you be ...
Talking Loudly: Listen to the Lenders
It is undeniable that COVID-19 heavily impacted the real estate industry, creating a high degree of fear and uncertainty. The pandemic and accompanying shutdown hit the lending market hard, with mortgage delinquencies surging by 1.6 million in April to peak at 6.45 percent. While it now seems like we are ...
Realty Matters: Influencers in Real Estate
Trends are not easy to predict in any industry. To understand industry trends, you must first understand who influences trends and why trends change. Is it simply fashionable? Has a new technology usurped an existing popular system? Maybe a rising ethos toppled an old stereotype? Looking at existing trends to ...
As a real estate investor, you can’t get around the fact that you need people. You need sellers, you need buyers, and you need everyone in between in order to make deals happen. People are the lifeblood of every good business. People can make or break your success, and investing ...
Meet Think Realty’s newest supplier partner, Batteries Plus! Since 1988, Batteries Plus has grown to over 700 stores nationwide. We are the fastest-growing battery, light bulb and smartphone/tablet repair franchise with a nationwide network of stores. With access to more than 60,000 types of batteries, light bulbs and accessories, we ...
The Cost is Worth the Coverage
Choosing insurance to protect your investment projects can be tricky – after all, you don’t plan to own this for long, so why opt for additional coverage? Read below for some of the common “cost-saving” insurance missteps: Inadequate Coverage Amounts One of the most common mistakes when selecting an insurance ...
Midwest Market Garners Global Attention
Part of my job as the CEO of an established turnkey company in Kansas City is setting the vision for our business. To do this well, I have to be looking at the big picture, the overarching trends, the high-level view. I take this seriously. I want to earn my ...
The real estate industry has been somewhat slow to embrace technology when it comes to transactions, but for the past five years, Roofstock has been there for those who have been ahead of the game. Oakland, CA-based Roofstock specializes in bringing real estate buyers and sellers together. Investors can use ...
Kansas City: Some Metrics on the Mid-size, Midwest Market
Kansas City is a mid-size metropolis that spans two states: Kansas and Missouri. Let’s take a look at the Missouri side of this former fur-trading post that lies on the banks of the Missouri River. With a population of 463,202 people and 147 constituent neighborhoods, Kansas City boasts a mixed ...
How to Save on Utilities During Tenant Turnovers
One of the biggest costs of owning single-family rental properties is tenant turnover. A vacant rental home, even one that’s empty for just a few weeks or months, will need repairs and maintenance, utilities paid, and a new tenant found and screened. In such situations, any little bit you can ...
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, household incomes were showing steady growth. From 2016 to 2018, for example, household incomes rose 2.2 percent, from $61,779 to $63,179. It was a positive sign that the economy was making good progress. Consumers still faced a challenge finding affordable housing, however. From June 2016 ...
Scale Safely with Private Money
Leverage. OPM. Financing. Capital. Funding. For a real estate investor, the ability to scale comes down to money. Banks and credit unions will only complete so many transactions with an investor before closing the door — if they will fund an REI deal at all. So, most investors looking to ...
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 Kansas City, KS-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Kansas City MSA) is a mid-to-large sized market which has been steadily growing within its means. The market is one ...
In March, every sector and every business scrambled to understand how COVID-19 could and would impact their operations and what paradigm shifts, if any, would occur. A diversified real estate investment company called outlier, based in Washington, DC, has $100 million of co-living projects in various stages of operations, construction, ...
Hot Housing Market Predictions
According to the research of my friend Marco Santarelli of Norada Real Estate Investments, as of April 2020, “There is probably no hotter market right now than Kansas City, Missouri. A large, prosperous, self-sufficient, and culturally rich city, which has seen a continuous rise in its employment, directly impacting the ...
How COVID Has Affected Office Space
In March, when our world changed in a way unlike anyone living as experienced before, The Great Adaptation began. And as Think Realty published months ago, uncertainty creates a need to be fulfilled. You, as real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners can fill that need, and can capitalize from ...
Self-Directed Investing – The Journey
Looking back to 2005, it’s hard to believe that a college internship expo would be one of the most pivotal moments in my career. Like every other young and eager college student at the event, I stood in long lines at all the “brand” name firms just to hand over ...
Think Realty Podcast #151 – DO Quit Your Day Job
Have you thought about trading your desk job for another career? Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit? If the thought of investing in real estate excites you, but you’re afraid to quit your day job, then you’ll want to listen to this! DON’T let market selection, cap rates, due diligence, ...
Technology Revolutionizing Real Estate Document Processing
Technology is a key lever, and its penetration in operations can prove to be a decisive factor for an organization’s strategic success. Accurately capturing data, inputting it to appropriate tables, keeping the data integrated in a database, and employing robust security measures; all these aspects can be handled efficiently by ...
Rural and Suburban Property Values Rise
If you are looking for a new place to live these days, the odds are good you have at least considered taking the “country mouse” route and buying a home in a rural area. The odds are also pretty good that a year ago, you would never have spared the ...
Think Realty Podcast #150 – Showing Up
Where do you rank in search results? Are you showing up locally? Why does hyper-local matter when it comes to advertising your business? On this episode, learn about why your online presence matters and how you can be the authority in your backyard. From content marketing and generating leads to ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the U.S. economy, from healthcare costs to the job market. After the initial lockdowns in March, even the housing market, which had been on a pronounced upswing for several years, looked to be trending downward. After a brief plunge, the housing ...
Think Realty Podcast #149 – Hurry Up and Wait
If you could see it, everyone would be doing it. When it comes to REI, anticipation is key. But how do you know when the fallout will come? It’s all about understanding markets. Learn how to dive into real estate market research, how to time the market, and what information ...
