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Taking Low-Value Property to New Heights
The process of renovating groups of low-value properties into higher-value properties is known as gentrification. As older urban neighborhoods decline, they often become less desirable to buyers and result in lower property values. Through the process of gentrification, these neighborhoods experience a renewal of more affluent homeowners and renters, sometimes ...
Virtual Assistants Help Time-Strapped Investors Conquer Leads, Social Media
You’ve probably heard the phrase “less is more.” While it’s usually applied to aesthetics, the idiom can also help with the management of your real estate investments — in particular, delegating task-oriented work to free you up for more business growth. For more than five years, REVA Global has helped ...
Though some may debate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment, most scientists agree that the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the “greenhouse effect.” As a small business owner, it’s easy to feel powerless to take action in the face of ...
Lowering Barriers, Startup Roofstock Offers Investors Shares of Homes
Proptech startup Roofstock is aiming to create more real estate investors with their platform that allows people to buy shares of homes for as low as $5,000. The Oakland-based tech firm created a marketplace that offers its users a lower barrier to entry to become investors in single-family rental homes ...
As Polar Vortex Arrives, Protect Your Home from Extreme Temps
Frigid temperatures spurred on by what’s known as a polar vortex have Midwestern real estate investors and homeowners scrambling to prepare their properties for the extreme weather. As the polar vortex pushed temperatures in Chicago to 21 degrees below zero on Wednesday, homeowners would be wise to take precautions against ...
Five Proptech Data Platforms to Help Real Estate Investors Make Smart Decisions
Continuing our series on innovation in real estate to help investors, we now look at the proptech data tools within this booming industry. As a refresher, proptech — otherwise known as property technology that aims to improve the real estate market — is rapidly expanding throughout the U.S. In fact, ...
Insight and Assistance on All Things Rental-Related
Real estate investors working in the rental housing industry know there are a plethora of things to keep track of. While tenants probably take up the biggest portion of your bandwidth, it’s important to stay informed. It’s vital that you monitor changes in policies affecting your portfolio and practices, stay ...
When JoAnna Anderson found out she was pregnant with her second daughter in 2005, she was a full-time biology teacher pursuing her passion for educating others. Like all mothers, she already knew the value of cherishing the time with her little one, but six months later, time took on an ...
Better Property Management Through Better Expense Management
When was the last time you rifled through your wallet or the glove compartment of your car looking for a receipt you needed to complete an expense report? If you are a business owner, you may have not-so-fond memories of waiting for an employee to submit expenses, only to have ...
Don’t Let Travel Deter Your Long-Distance Investments
There are real estate opportunities in nearly every corner of the world today. Luckily, you’re no longer confined to your local area as you might have been 15 or 20 years ago. Online resources and real-time technologies now connect buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants from hundreds or even thousands of ...
Alert: Credit Bureaus Decide to Remove Tax Liens from Credit Reporting
When Transunion, Equifax, and Experian PLC sent out information on credit scores in April, some risky credit applicants may have appeared more creditworthy than they really are. Thanks to a decision to remove tax liens from credit reports, potentially risky borrowers will have a better chance at getting approved for ...
3 Money-Saving Strategies Hands-On Investors Miss
When you think about all the in’s and out’s of managing a fix-and-flip project or other renovation, you probably immediately leap to the processes of keeping the timeline on track, managing the inevitable budget adjustments as new issues come to light during the process, and building enough “cushion” into the ...
Kitchen Construction and Design, 84 Lumber
Fix-and-flip investors know better than anyone just how important the kitchen is to overall investment returns, but knowing how and at what level to do the right kitchen remodel is vitally important. According to Remodeling Magazine, minor kitchen remodels return roughly 93 percent at resale in a home, making them ...
Think Realty Radio & Benefits for 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – December 20, 2017 – Think Realty is a membership-based resource platform developed exclusively for real estate investors. Since launching in 2016, investors across the nation and around the globe have signed up at thinkrealty.com to become Think Realty members, with an 81 percent increase in membership ...
How to Attend a Real Estate Conference Like a Pro
Every gathering of real estate investors is a highly concentrated area of opportunity. Perhaps the most popular venue of all is the real estate investing conference or expo event, wherein educators, vendors, and hundreds of investors converge in one location to learn, connect, influence, and, hopefully, do some deals. Doesn’t ...
Think Realty Event Prep Checklist
Networking Be prepared to make the best impression possible and accomplish your personal networking goals. Familiarize yourself with speakers and sponsors/exhibitors Identify individuals or organizations that you want to be sure to meet Make sure you have plenty of business cards Identify any events, physical and digital, where you can ...
Navigating Wholesale Paperwork
Resident Expert Abhi Golhar has released Navigating Wholesale Paperwork, a new course available to Think Realty members. The lessons in this course, taught over six episodes, provide plenty of material to make note of. Golhar gives tips that are actionable, and imparts knowledge that can quickly impact an investor’s portfolio ...
The latest course from Think Realty Resident Expert Abhi Golhar is now available. Finding Wholesale Deals provides invaluable lessons over 11 episodes. The course introduces numerous tactics for investors to add to their arsenal and reminds viewers of the work they must put in to find deals. Since deals are ...
Get a Marketing Boost with Think Realty
An advertorial supplement in Think Realty Magazine can give your real estate business an effective marketing boost. Just ask Greystone Residential, one of three clients (along with Platinum Investment Properties Group and Fast Home Solutions) to take advantage of this advertising resource in the upcoming November-December 2016 issue of Think ...
New Multi-Sourced National Property Data Warehouse Unveiled
RealtyTrac, the nation’s leading source for comprehensive property data, has just unveiled the ATTOM Data Warehouse, a new multi-sourced national property database. It will be curated by ATTOM Data Solutions, a newly created parent company operating a rapidly expanding property data licensing business along with existing consumer websites RealtyTrac.com, Homefacts.com ...
Foreclosure Filings in First Six Months of 2016 Drop 11 Percent from a Year Ago
RealtyTrac’s Midyear 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows a total of 533,813 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions—in the first six months of 2016, down 20 percent from the previous six months and down 11 percent from the first six months of 2015. The report, ...
As Residential Real Estate Investing Continues Its March Toward Mainstream Acceptance and Maturation, Can 'Investment As A Service' Be Far Behind? Software as a Service, or SaaS, is the term given to software applications that are sold as a Web-based subscription service. The previous generation of application sales required a ...
A Guide to Choosing a Self-Directed IRA Provider Chances are, you’ve been hearing about self-directed individual retirement accounts ever since you started investing in real estate. On the surface, self-directed IRAs seem cumbersome and complex. When tax rates are low, self-directed IRAs may not seem worth the trouble. But any ...
MSAs in South Region Rank at Top of RentRange List of Markets with Largest SFR Rent Increases from Q4 2014 to Q4 2015 Markets in the South region in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee account for eight of the top 10 places on RentRange’s list of the 25 MSAs with ...
Using IRAs to Invest in Real Estate
Your Self-Directed Retirement Account Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.” At Think Realty, we celebrate real estate investment as an asset class that embodies appreciation or compounding value ...
