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Automate. Outsource. Scale. This business-building lingo is all the rage, but savvy investors do these things, usually with the help from virtual assistants. Think Realty Supplier REVAGlobal provides outsourcing solutions utilizing virtual assistants. Founded in 2016 by CEO Bob Lachance, REVAGlobal is currently the solution for many of the country’s ...
Helping You Protect What You’ve Built
Cover your investment properties with top carriers in any stage of occupancy (tenant-occupied, vacant, rehab) across all 50 states. Think Realty Supplier National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) has an unmatched program that allows you to insure all your properties on one schedule, with an online portal and helpful client ...
Our regular ways of comparing real estate markets are pretty much out the window because EVERY market is now beset with heavy job losses, and jobs drive demand for real estate. Instead of jobs as they are now, let's think about jobs a couple of years down the road. Which ...
Think Realty Podcast #142 – Navigate to Capital
It’s no secret that investors need capital. But when it comes to the pathway to private money, sometimes you might need help navigating the process. If your rehab is going sideways, there is help out there to guide you to profits! If you are buying, fixing, and flipping or buying, ...
Crucial Mistakes When House Flipping
Flipping homes—the process of purchasing a home, remodeling it, and then immediately putting it back on the market—can be a way to quickly build wealth. Yet, it’s not without its risks and potential pitfalls. Every veteran flipper has a horror story of that “one” property they worked on, or can ...
How a Great Kitchen Makes a Happy Home
With the plethora of recipes available online, many people want to engage in at-home cooking activities. In order to do so, they need to invest in proper kitchen instruments ingredients, and interior design. Even though high-quality kitchen essentials cost more than inferior alternatives, they are ultimately worth the price. While ...
Think Realty Podcast #141 – Tech That Works
If you’re a landlord looking for technology to help you leverage your time, then listen to this! Investors with nine doors or less are the target audience for technology from Chicago-based company, Avail. From tenant screening to data security, this is technology you should be using! Avail bundles everything you ...
Most Single-Family Renters Current with Payments
Single-family renters continue to be current with their June rent payments, according to a nationwide survey released today by the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®). The survey was conducted among NARPM’s 6,000 members with 462 responses. Nearly 70 percent of property managers who responded reported that 91 to ...
Think Realty Podcast #140 – Are You Ready to Diversify?
Are you ready for something different in your REI? A different market? A different country even? On this episode, we dive into Panama and discuss why investing in agriculture could be the next big thing. After all, smart farming is as important as smart investing. Learn how this not-so-common niche ...
Rediscovering Buildings: Honeywell and SAP Announce Cloud Partnership
On June 11, SAP hosted a press roundtable to focus on a connected building solution from SAP and Honeywell that enables real estate owners of corporate and commercial buildings to get a 360-degree view of their real estate holdings, including financial and occupant insights. The webinar, moderated by Patrick Moorhead, ...
6 Hot Real Estate Markets in the U.S.
The real estate market in the United States has continued to do well ever since the Great Recession, which saw a significant amount of foreclosures and declines in property values all over the country. Ever since the 2008 lows, markets have continued to rebound and property owners have seen prices ...
Renovating Your Rental Home? Here Are Tips to Do It Right
You’ve made the plunge into the rental market and all has been well for the last few years. But as of late, you’ve begun to wonder if you should renovate your property. It could and probably will help draw in new tenants and you could make more money in rent ...
Outside the Box: Marketing Different Properties
Real estate professionals in 2020 may benefit from rethinking their listing marketing strategies. Here’s the traditional flow: The agent signs a listing and enters it into the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). On the appropriate date, she saves the listing as active. The agent then initiates--sometimes this is handled by an ...
Think Realty Podcast #139 – Bridge the Gap
This episode has the information YOU need to be a smarter real estate investor! If you are a Commercial real estate investor, where should you start looking? Will suburban office space thrive in a post-COVID world? And, let’s talk Millennials – why is this generation such a big topic for ...
Given the current status with Covid-19 and Maryland restrictions on how many people are allowed at gatherings, we have made the decision to again postpone the Baltimore conference until October 24-25, 2020. We originally thought that by pushing into July we could avoid having to reschedule again, but unfortunately that ...
Think Realty Podcast #138 – Multiply Your Opportunity
Start small before you go big? Not necessarily. On this episode, learn about the long-term profitability of having hundreds of doors in one property and why investing in multifamily assets might be right for you. Also, what is the number one reason going bigger is better? And, what is the ...
How to Keep Calm and Pivot Your Fix and Flip During COVID-19
What a difference a few short months can make. Back in February of this year, mortgage applications reached an 11-year high and it’s safe to say that no one in real estate, or any industry for that matter, foresaw what was about to happen. By April, sales of existing homes ...
How to Virtually Showcase Your Rental Property
Now more than ever, renters are making leasing decisions virtually. According to research conducted in a partnership between Apartments.com and Kingsley Associates, virtual tour mentions in email leads increased over 140% from March to April 2020, making it that much more important that your property is equipped to handle such ...
Titan Talk with Glenn Stromberg hosted by Eddie Wilson
Glenn Stromberg has become the authority in turning mobile homes into real wealth in the real world. In nearly four decades working in the real estate market, Glenn Stromberg has realized that the misconceptions surrounding mobile homes has kept most investors and hedge funds out of that niche market ...
Outdoor Living: Summer’s Big Value-Add in Real Estate
As summer begins and most states initiate some form of economic reopening, there are many signals indicating that outdoor living is going to be the “big boost” for real estate this summer. With slow spring sales pushing many buyers’ home-seeking activities into the summer months, this probably would have happened ...
Think Realty Podcast #137 – Data Drives Decisions!
How do public records play a role in real estate? The golden goose of real estate is that every customer and potential customer is already in public records with lots of data about them. You can know every future customer’s name, equity, home sale prices, and more … but this ...
Mitigate Risk with Build-for-Rent
In early April, I read a well-known real estate website and came across an article that discussed potential ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis on the real estate market. In one scenario, the article stated that potential listings will remain low, interest rates will remain low, and homes are likely to ...
Think Realty Podcast #136 – Let’s Play IRA
You probably already know that IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account. Or does it? Maybe it really means Investing Rules Apply. If investing with your IRA were a game, playing it is similar to many games in life: Learning the rules is important. But knowing the roles of everyone involved ...
How to Leverage Your Network to Grow Your IRA
01:11:11 | In this webinar, you will learn: - What is a Self-Directed IRA & why you should have one Types of Plans How to use your network Case Studies Borrow/Lending Partnering ...
Equality: A Human Right for All
Think Realty is deeply saddened by the current events in our nation. We believe that all people are created equal and that every person — regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or religion — deserves respect and common decency. Equality is a basic human right that all people ...
