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Tips For Lending During a (Possible) Downturn
If you are a real estate professional, investor, or even casual onlooker, at some point in the last seven or eight years, you must have asked yourself, “When is this run going to be over?” Since the Great Recession of 2008-2010, real estate has been on fire just about everywhere ...
4 Tips for Buying Commercial Property for the First Time
Commercial property is at the top of many people’s wish lists, and for a good reason: It has proved to be a profitable venture time and time again. The right investment can leave you with a valuable asset that you can rent out, creating a steady monthly income stream. However, ...
Lending on Former Big Box Stores
Before the 1970s, Americans shopped downtown. In both rural towns and urban neighborhoods, the shops and professional services anyone needed were all lined up in a neat walkable row. Most of those buildings were multilevel, with shops and offices at ground level and residential units above. This is the era ...
Buying a Home at Auction? These Tips Will Help You Prepare Yourself.
Buying at auction can be a lucrative mode of acquiring a home, but it can also be an overwhelming experience for first-time buyers. House auctions are not as scary or complicated as they look. Even though real estate auctions are confusing, they give a quicker result. Auctions may be exciting, ...
Partnering With a Lender You Can Trust
The most productive and sustainable relationships are premised on a strong foundation of mutual trust. You trust your attorney to provide objective, well-researched legal insight. You turn to your physician for dependable, effective medical treatment. What about your private money lender? For many Americans, one of the most significant financial ...
Bridge Financing for Commercial Real Estate
Bull Funding provides bridge financing for real estate investors with commercial and residential financing needs. We offer fast approvals and funding, competitive rates, and reliable service for direct bridge loan financing. A private bridge loan can be funded within a short time for investment property. Private bridge loans from hard ...
A common thread running through Kemra Norsworthy’s career is that she doesn’t like to lose. From her time selling cars to many years in the mortgage and private lending industries, her outlook is “if there’s a will, there’s a way.” She taps that determination as founder and CEO of Bull ...
No More Keeping Up with the Joneses
Back in the early 2000s, a former insurance executive was just cutting his teeth in house flipping and real estate investing, which had been his dream since high school. He was searching for deals on the real estate market and looking for ways to finance them. He met “Manny,” a ...
How to Build Trust with Your Investors and Borrowers
Private equity investing is appealing, and it’s also risky. To build trust with investors and borrowers, you must offer total transparency. Transparency with Investors There are several ways you can use software to demonstrate transparency with investors. Investors like to count their money 24/7, so give them a portal that ...
Revolutionary or Evolutionary?
There are usually two strategies when it comes to growing a sales team: hire experienced talent or grow new talent. But there’s another way of thinking about your sales team: It should really be a revolutionary or evolutionary strategy. You’re captivated, right? Well, hold on to your seat! We are ...
3 Ways First Time Homeowners Benefit From Government-Backed Mortgages
Government-backed mortgages are essentially loan accounts guaranteed and maintained by the federal government. Applicants for loans serving the State or employed by the State are typically eligible to get it. Lenders look favorably upon this type of loan accommodation due to the certainty of its payback. There are many mortgage ...
What Does the New Normal Look Like?
It’s the question at the forefront of every real estate investor’s mind: When will the housing market stabilize? On any given week, you might answer that question very differently. Just a few short months ago, no one would have predicted the impact of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and its ...
5 Important Facts About Quitclaim Deeds for Real Property Transfers
If you are a real estate investor, you are always looking for properties that look attractive with an even more attractive price tag. Let’s say that a family member has offered you a quitclaim deed for their property. What should you do in this case? Should you take it or ...
Optimize Your Real Estate Portfolio with PlanOlabs
“Our mantra at PlanOmatic is to help our clients win. We help them think through challenging issues. We have data from our other clients and vendors, and with that, we can come up with some answers to their challenges,” said Tim Rose, data and integration manager at PlanOmatic. PlanOmatic recently ...
With REI Nation, Mitigate the Risks of Investing Remotely
REI Nation is all about empowering investors with practical tips for maximizing their passive income by profiting in markets beyond your backyard. That’s how they’ve become the premier turnkey real estate investing company in the nation, making it easy for investors from across the country to purchase the right property, ...
Surging Prices and Sales Drive the Market in Southwest Florida
Every year at the Market Trends conference, Southwest Florida real estate experts get together to share valuable insights and give their outlook on the current climate and future forecast when it comes to property acquisitions in one of the fastest growing areas in the country. This year the theme was ...
The Ins and Outs of Real Estate Investing Insurance
Real estate investing moves fast. Especially in today’s market with rising interest rates, and supply chain issues, you don’t have time to waste. If you find a deal, you need to close—yesterday. Understanding the ins and outs of investment real estate insurance is one way you can avoid delays and ...
How to Protect Yourself from the Housing Bubble
Just when you think housing prices couldn’t get any higher, they have. In January 2022, home prices skyrocketed again as home inventories reached record lows. The bottom line is this: When there isn’t enough housing, the price increases drastically. What you’re left with is what we call the housing bubble ...
Why Buying Into Access and Noise Can Lead to Poor Investments
If you’ve ever vacationed overseas, you know that the most interesting spots to visit and the best places to eat aren’t the tourist traps where the masses go. The best spots are usually the ones the locals recommend. They are off the beaten path and away from the crowds, offering ...
Is Wall Street Buying Up Main Street?
There has been a lot of talk in the last few years (and increasingly since the pandemic) that large institutions such as BlackRock and Zillow are buying up the housing stock in the United States. These purchases are driving prices up and making homeownership unaffordable for the regular Jack and ...
The 7 Keys to a Successful Rehab
Flippers and would-be landlords want a magic tool that will estimate renovation costs and tell them exactly what to fix every time they find an opportunity. Unfortunately, such a tool doesn’t exist (yet). But there are steps you can include in your overall process to help you approach your projects ...
How to Choose the Best Real Estate Agent
If you’re looking to move, you can look on the internet to research a new area you might be interested in, but that’s only the beginning of your investigative journey. Without having first-hand knowledge of an area, it’s difficult to really get a sense of what it’s like to live ...
Certified Asthma and Allergy Friendly Means Healthier Indoor Air for Everyone
If the global pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that good air quality, especially good indoor air quality, is paramount. In fact, a recent report in The Lancet predicted that climate change events like wildfires, rising pollen, ill health due to rising humidity, and the presence of harmful particulate matter ...
The World Economy Is NOT Your Economy
The global economy inevitably impacts the real estate industry. It is also true that many investors have been using it as a crutch to avoid starting to invest in real estate—or move to the next level. Leveraging the current reality is the key to growing your portfolio, regardless of market ...
Designing Your Entrepreneurial Life
You invest time into the design of your real estate properties, but what about the design of your business, and your life as an entrepreneur? How much time and care do you put into the systems that promote your development—and eventually determine your success? As with anything in life, there ...
