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Foreclosures to Increase Despite no Recession
Most default servicers expect foreclosures to increase in 2020 despite no economic recession, according to a recent Auction.com survey. Auction.com announced the results of its 2020 Default Servicing Insights report, based on a survey of more than 40 of the nation’s largest bank and nonbank default servicing clients along with ...
You may have heard the saying, “Sit with winners. The conversation is different.” It basically means that the company you keep defines the type of conversations you have, and the results of those conversations can determine whether you “win” or “lose” in your personal or professional life. Being part of ...
Presidents’ Circle: Greg Slaughter
Not many young high schoolers know what they want to do with their life after graduation. But Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member Greg Slaughter did. He knew he would have a career in real estate. What he didn’t know is how long he’d have to wait to make it happen. ...
Steps to Closing You Need to Know
As a seasoned real estate investor, you’re probably well aware of the home closing process and that longer closing times are the new normal. If you’re buying, you submit an offer, get the home inspected, get approved for your loan and then do any final negotiations before handing the seller ...
Real estate acquisition and sale has traditionally been a slow-moving process. When I purchased my first home in 1987, a typical home-buying process took 30 days. Today, with modern technology, electronic communication, searchable databases, and the ability to execute contracts online, a typical home-buying process takes – 30 days. How ...
Chicago: The Rise of Silicon Prairie
The overall demand for multifamily housing in Chicago is strong, but the market’s performance is bifurcated. A steady increase in high-paying jobs has boosted the number of households earning more than $100,000, while the number of households earning less than $100,000 has declined. As a result, Lifestyle units are performing ...
How many times have you heard about the latest technology or new company “disrupting” an industry? The real estate industry hasn’t seen any significantly disruptive innovation; the edges of existing processes have evolved, a bit. Did We-Work “disrupt” leasing? Nope. They simply added some Silicon Valley sizzle to an existing ...
The use of color in home design is evolving as we enter a new decade. 2020 promises to be an empowering year of change, focused on colors that bring joy, serenity and clarity. Homeowners continue to move beyond how spaces look and toward how they make them feel. Sherwin-Williams 2020 ...
Think Realty Podcast #103 – Demetrios Barnes from Smart Rent
On this episode, we’re talking how to take intelligence from home to community. Demetrios Barnes from SmartRent talks about expansion beyond just the smart home with smart delivery, parking, maintenance, amenities, and more. And that’s just the beginning! Learn about SmartRent’s Alloy Fusion Hub launch, which assists residents with controlling ...
From the Designer Growing up assisting my father building and investing in strip malls, it was clear at an early age that real estate investing was a natural path for me to take. I received a formal education in design from the Interior Designers Institute of Newport Beach, California, and ...
Think Realty Magazine February 2020
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty Supplier: Sherwin Williams Paint Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Greg Slaughter • A Different Path to Success • Get Smart Engagement | Easy Answers • Realty Matters: Technology Fundamentals | Quick to Close • The Morals of ...
The Possibility of Real Wealth
I want to show you how to make $100,000 in five short years on just three properties. Let me illustrate. Start by buying three $90,000 properties each requiring a 25 percent down payment for a total of $67,500. Can we make at least $100,000 on this $67,500 down payment and ...
Urban redevelopment can open new opportunities for single-family rental home investors. But could it also guide your investing strategy? As increasing numbers of entrepreneurs have entered the single-family rental home market, savvy investors are looking for new ways to expand their portfolios. Long popular with house flippers, starting or joining ...
I am often asked about what options we as a company offer to the real estate investor. What methods do I use to aid in the rapid success of the real estate investor? I encourage people to set aside previous thoughts associated with acquisition of real estate from the consumer ...
With over 2.5 billion people on social media, potential customers are more accessible now than ever. Social media allows business owners to reach and target desired audiences, regardless of physical location, at little cost. A real estate investing company’s goal with social media should be two-fold: increase its following and ...
From food stamps to millions… We all have a story. A history of life’s highs and lows. No matter our unique qualities and differences, we all share these similar threads with each other. These similarities allow us to see ourselves in others. It’s what makes sharing our life’s story and ...
The start of a new year is traditionally a time of reflecting on the past and setting goals and intentions for the future. One of the most common resolutions people make is to take better care of their finances — and this is especially true for real estate investors. If ...
Protecting Your Assets, Part 2
Last month’s article discussed how a separate tax-paying entity can help the real estate investor appear more bankable. Here are two more important considerations. #2 Using Disregarded LLCs to Hold Multifamily or Commercial Real Estate It’s tempting to set up an LLC for asset protection and at the same time ...
Technology is all around us. The second you think you’ve secured the next great breakthrough, there’s a new version, new roman numeral, new 2.0, 3.0 and so on. And, I’m not just talking about the Holy Grail otherwise known as the iPhone or equivalent. Technological advances today run the gamut ...
Lucas Haldeman started his career as a software developer at one of the first companies to put a database of apartments online. Today, he leads a cutting-edge PropTech firm, SmartRent, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. SmartRent is an enterprise home-automation company developing software and hardware that helps owners, property managers, and ...
Technology and the Modern Investor
Every day, mobile technology becomes more ingrained in the real estate space. Consumers and industry professionals alike benefit from the tech tools that are rapidly changing the way property owners buy, sell and invest at auction. In 2019, smartphone usage increased, with 90% of smartphone time being on mobile apps ...
Is Your Private Lender Technologically Ready for 2020?
Real estate in 2020 will exist in a unique environment: a market in which private capital is clamoring for placement. In 2020, most experts agree that institutional money will reach new levels of desperation when it comes to generating the yields its investors demand. This desperation will drive many “mega-funds” ...
It isn't glamorous, and it's not met with intrigue or fervor at social gatherings. It sounds quite dull. However, if you saw the bank accounts of most mobile home investors, you might be compelled to find out more about this profitable investing method. Many investments are risky. I've even heard ...
When the absolute truth seems too good to be true, how do you know whom to trust? That statement is the most-often-cited reason investors give for why real estate investors have not yet gotten involved in tax lien and tax deed investing. Many aspects of this strategy just seem too ...
"If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” - Warren Buffett Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie. These modern-day activists promote human welfare and social reforms and help to save lives across ...
