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Veterans Buy America: Marine Juan Cristales
Like most men who joined the Marine Corps during the relatively peaceful 90s, Juan Cristales couldn’t have envisioned the hardships and sacrifices that awaited him. Cristales originally enlisted in 1996, and the Marine Corps recognized his leadership potential and selected him for the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program. Receiving his ...
Managing the Business Risks of Animals
There are two Ps that can cause property damage: People and Pets. If you are a property manager, then you deal with both daily. Pets are animals but animals are not always pets. This is demonstrated when dealing with Assistance Animals (e.g., service/companion/emotional/therapy/etc.) These animals are not pets, but rather, ...
Research has shown that when people are faced with too many options, they sometimes experience what is known as “analysis paralysis.” This term refers to a situation in which an individual is trying to make the best choice out of an overwhelming number of options, resulting in overthinking and, ultimately, ...
Focusing on Millennials for Real Estate Investors
Millennials make up the largest group of homebuyers, according to a National Association of Realtors report, but so far their home ownership is at a lower rate than their parents and grandparents. However, this may be changing. A study from Chase Home Lending reported that 52 percent of first-time Millennial ...
Strike Gold with Proven Opportunities, Not Flashy Substitutes
The problem with shiny things is that people chase them without much thought. During the Gold Rush of 1849, people like Levi Strauss made more money outfitting gold miners than many miners made finding gold. The lesson? Don’t get distracted by shiny real estate trends: mobile home parks, lease ...
I am a very simple person and use basic principles in all facets of life and business. Wanting to find a more elementary way to evaluate I started looking at the very basic numbers on a potential investment property purchase. I believe the 30-year fixed loan to be the greatest ...
Investors Edge University: The Real Estate Rock Stars
Diversity is the key to being a successful Real Estate Investor. Investors Edge University is a family-owned business that prides itself on helping people. Our motto is: People Before Profits! Whether we are teaching you on the national speaking arena or sitting down over coffee, we teach this business so ...
Where Can You Find Funding You Can Trust?
We at the American Association of Private Lenders field hundreds of emails and phone calls monthly asking for referrals to lenders that real estate investors can trust. We’ve heard the bait-and-switch stories, the haphazard and stressful closings, the exhausting search of shopping a deal around. Real estate investors are looking ...
Norada Real Estate Investments
Marco Santarelli started investing in real estate at the age of 18. He purchased, renovated, leased and managed a simple townhouse by himself. Over the years he continued building his real estate portfolio with over 84 out-of-state units including single-family homes, duplexes and small apartments. Founded in late 2003, Santarelli ...
James E. Glasgow, a real estate investor for more than 35 years, has successfully connected the growing opportunity for Mobile Home Parks (MHPs) with the growing senior population in the U.S. Mr. Glasgow has created a Mobile Home Park Investment Fund, dedicated towards the development of a class “A” senior ...
The 7 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Joining a Mastermind
Real estate investors educate themselves in many different ways. Some take the traditional route of attending college, while others read hundreds of books, attend seminars, and listen to podcasts as they self-educate and network their way to the top. There are as many routes to success in real estate as ...
Residential Assisted Living Academy
The Residential Assisted Living Academy is America’s #1 source for senior care home investment and business education. Headed by leading national expert, Gene Guarino, the RAL™ Academy has trained thousands of people throughout the United States how to… “do good and do well”. We teach you in a real-world, step-by-step ...
Investing in Vacation Rental Properties
Getting a mortgage loan for a short-term rental property to list on sites such as VRBO and AirBnB can be tricky – especially if you don’t plan to use it as your primary residence. You may require a different kind of financing and fortunately hard money lenders like Constructive Loans ...
Did you know the cost of a manufactured home is, on average, less than HALF the cost of what a site-built home cost to build? And, what may be even more surprising, it’s NOT because you’ve sacrificed quality. In fact, that is a misguided concept that some less-than-scrupulous site-built contractors ...
The non-performing note (NPN) is the nucleus of real estate investing, and Become the Bank™ is the Road to Wealth. The note business in real estate starts with a mortgage, or a promise to pay. When a financial institution does a loan modification or a reinstatement, the loan process starts ...
Many real estate investors are looking for properties that can be renovated for a profit. Finding the right property at the right price in a condition that can be easily updated can be a real challenge. However, if you can find the right property, money can be made in renovating ...
5 Must-Have Investor Fundamentals
It’s no secret that many markets are beginning to overheat. This is not a time to invest without knowledge about core real estate principles. While you want to avoid bad deals passed off as great deals, you do want deals in the right markets that continue to outpace other investment ...
A Hard Money Loan (HML) is an effective financing tool for many real estate investors. Many investors have heard of these loans but may not understand their benefits or proper use. When most people hear the term HML they believe it is only for people with poor credit. Others that ...
When a real estate investor experiences the shift in mindset from consumer to business owner, the investor becomes vastly different from the average home buyer. Your new or expanding business is based on the ownership of cash-flowing assets. No longer are you spending money for a commodity. No longer are ...
Renting an investment property that you own, or finding the perfect single-family house to rent requires making some big decisions, and the help of a professional property manager is critical either way. First, there’s expert knowledge of the market to think about. What are the current rental rates? Will the ...
All investing carries a certain amount of risk. But diversification helps mitigate the risks that are specific to the industry or place. Portfolio diversification works by spreading your investment dollars across different markets, which may include geographical, asset class, or risk profile diversity. Common methods of diversification include buying property in different ...
When it comes to success in the United States military, training is certainly imperative. However, some of the most inexplicable acts of gallantry displayed throughout the history of war have occurred when motivated individuals followed their instincts and took the initiative. The same can be said of those who have ...
Military service requires every individual who takes the oath a certain willingness to embrace service and sacrifice self. For many, dreams of a college education are put on hold while they embrace the rigors of life in uniform. Others postpone entrepreneurial aspirations in exchange for low pay, mediocre food, and ...
Making it clear that the United States would care for its veterans, Abraham Lincoln coined what would later become the Veterans Administration motto by saying, “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and for his orphan.” With these words in mind, veterans who ...
From sea to shining sea, rural America has taken its hits over the past century. Often, when economic times are hard, citizens will move to cities looking for work and higher wages. Moreover, the lure of new adventures is often enough to take the best and the brightest from rural ...
