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4 Smart Ways To Become A Successful Real Estate Investor
Real estate brings tremendous profit if the investment game is played tactfully. Real estate is not a happy-go-lucky kind of investment venture, you need to plan and play your game with close observations and strategize your every move. A single investment may make or break your entire investment game. If ...
5 Ways Rental Management Software Can Save You Time and Money
Managing your property entails repetitive administrative tasks that are time consuming and monotonous. Thankfully, there are numerous software available that enable you to streamline these rental tracking and property management tasks. Key time-saving features to look out for include income and expense tracking, with bank feed connection capabilities document storage, ...
Why It’s Time to Move Beyond BRRRR
Back in April of this year, I saw a statistic I would have never believed possible. In Jackson County, Missouri where I live, the months of inventory on the market was a mere 0.6 months! This means for every 10 sales in April, only six properties remained on the market ...
Benefits of Buying Multifamily Properties
When it comes to real estate investments, there are times where investors are unsure if they are ready to take on the challenge of owning a multifamily property. Although the management and costs of these properties may seem daunting, there are numerous benefits of buying and owning multifamily properties. Passive ...
Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022
Summer vacations jump-started recovery. The U.S. lodging sector entered the autumn season having made up substantial ground during the spring and summer months. Loosened capacity restrictions, vaccine availability and pent-up travel demand led to a marked increase in trips taken and rooms occupied. By the end of July foot traffic ...
Top 3 Property Management Solutions Perfect for DIY Landlords
Being a self-employed landlord can be challenging. Although many newbie landlords are still collecting paper applications and receiving payments by check, it is much simpler to use helpful digital tools to manage rentals more effectively and save more time to expand businesses, grow portfolios, and spend quality time with their ...
3D tour technology allows providers of single-family rental homes the opportunity for future residents to view their homes via immersive, three-dimensional tours that make the viewer feel like they’re right there, inside the property. But two of the most popular options, Matterport and Zillow 3D, are very different platforms with ...
One of the most important aspects when it comes to real estate investments is picking the right loan program for yourself and the property. Each lender will offer multiple programs so navigating through the different options and choosing the right one is essential. Don’t be afraid to ask a representative ...
How Industry Booms and Strong Local Economies Can Spur Investment Strategy
Any investment decision should be decided upon and executed strategically, and really, is there anything more iconic in real estate strategy than location, location, location? It’s for that reason that cities viewed as hotbeds for certain industries – tech startups, especially – tend to face rapidly growing real estate markets ...
Ready to start flipping houses?
Let’s talk frankly at the outset—flipping houses is a huge undertaking. It will require hard work and determination. It will also be one of the most (potentially) lucrative business ventures you’ve undertaken. Success in real estate, as with all success, isn’t guaranteed. But with the right approach and a few ...
Successful Lenders Solve for Exits, Not Payments
The chief concern for lenders servicing an existing loan is to create a positive experience for the borrower. That begins at the application process, but it doesn’t end with the funding of the loan. In fact, the borrower experience doesn’t end until the loan is paid in full. The first ...
5 Loans to Help You Buy a House
The economy is still recovering from the constraints of the pandemic, but the housing market is booming. With people around the country relocating and the real estate industry thriving, there are many families looking to buy a home. If you can afford to buy a property but don’t know what ...
With housing prices skyrocketing as they currently are, it’s understandable that most real estate investors are fixated on price appreciation as the benefit real estate investment has that far and away exceeds any other. If another benefit competes with price appreciation in the minds of most investors, it’s cashflow. Indeed, ...
The Short-Term Bridge Loan Breakdown
When investing in real estate, it is important to know all the options that are available. The two most common loan products that are offered are long-term rental loans as well as short-term loans for purchase and rehab (fix and flip). However, at RCN Capital we have a few more ...
The Ins and Outs of Real Estate Wholesaling
If you’re familiar with the word “wholesale,” then you’re halfway to understanding what real estate wholesaling is. A real estate wholesaler is someone who looks to buy a home directly from the owner then turns around and sells it to an investor for a slightly higher cost, pocketing the difference ...
Essential Tips for First-Time Property Investors
The property market is one of the most lucrative investment opportunities for people looking to grow their wealth. But it's not always easy, especially when you're a first-time investor. You need to have a thorough understanding of what you can and cannot afford before making the jump into property investing ...
6 Ways to Pay Off a Mortgage Faster
With housing prices continuing to skyrocket across the country, current homeowners find themselves in an envious position. Watching the value of their homes increase every year, many are eager to sell and cash in. Others want to utilize the value of their home for borrowing purposes. Whether looking to sell ...
6 Real Estate Investing Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss
Real estate is a multi-faceted investment playground. Investors from all walks of life can get in on the fun. Most traditional mindsets think that you can only invest in real estate if you have a lot of money. The truth is that there are also investing options with low input ...
The Eviction Tsunami That Won’t Be
As the federal eviction moratorium continued to linger, headline after headline screamed hysteria such as the following: “According to one study, as many as 40 million people in 17 million households risk eviction by the end of the year.” - The New York Times “Mass evictions are a looming threat ...
Rental properties more often than not guarantee you a steady return on your investment. This, alongside forming a fairly strong protective hedge around your financial future. The two most important benefits of rental properties are that they can provide cash flow and generate value from appreciation. Rental property investment continues ...
Workarounds and Exceptions When Working with a Lender
When applying for a loan in hopes of securing a real estate investment property, there are always lender guidelines to keep in mind. These guidelines are crucial as they allow lenders to set a baseline of expectations for borrowers to meet when starting the application process. However, it can often ...
Five Ways SFR Investors Can Optimize Operational Efficiency
For single-family rental (SFR) investors, owners, and operators, running an efficient operation is crucial when acquiring, renovating and leasing large portfolios of homes across the country. Acquiring large portfolios of SFR properties has become commonplace in today’s red-hot market, but in order to survive and turn a profit, SFR investors ...
For real estate investors, fixing and flipping property is an attractive way to diversify their portfolio and make a relatively fast profit off a property. There are certainly various advantages to fixing and flipping, as there are pitfalls to also be wary of, especially as a first-time flipper. In this ...
The Pros and Cons of Forging an Investor Partnership
Whether you are just starting out as a real estate investor or have been in the game for a while but want to continue growing, there are various reasons to consider whether to partner with another investor. From the opportunity to be surrounded with experience, to having access to seed ...
The Best Markets for Real Estate Investors in 2021
For investors looking to venture forth beyond their backyards in search of the ultimate investment opportunities, where are the ideal locations to invest in real estate? RealtyTrac’s parent company ATTOM Data Solutions has released two reports that identify some of the best markets in the country for real estate investors ...
