Expanding your portfolio from single-family homes to multi-family deals is a great step … but there are other paths to an even bigger deal! Commercial real estate investing means bigger properties and bigger opportunities … and it could yield BIG benefits for savvy investors. From retail storefronts to office space to industrial warehouses … commercial […]
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If you can rehab a house, why not a hotel? After all, anyone who’s played Monopoly knows the BIG money is in the big red hotels. Like any income property, hotels come in all shapes and sizes. And some have cosmetic or management issues. And just like houses, apartments, retail centers or office buildings …
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Houses aren’t the only properties in need of a little facelift. Hotels often need their own dose of tender loving care. Like any investment property, resorts come in all shapes and sizes … and some have major management issues. When a hotel is poorly the managed the result isn’t pretty … it’s often downright ugly.
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You’ve probably heard the expression … “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” We’re not sure why anyone would want to skin a cat… that sounds gross and cruel. But the idea is there’s often more than one way to get something done. In this case, we’re talking about wealth re-distribution. We realize
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Real estate investors tend to like low interest rates. After all, low rates mean lower payments for the same size mortgage … or a bigger mortgage for the same payments. Nice. The current Wizard of Rates is Fed chair Jerome Powell. And he just showed up on 60 Minutes and told everyone … “‘We don’t
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A very big real estate story splashed across mainstream news recently, but got buried underneath (insert the sensational political headline you’re sick of) … Oregon Okays First Statewide Mandatory Rent Control Law Associated Press, 2/28/19 Okay, we admit this is a government policy … so it’s political. But politics is easy to laugh at when
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People, businesses, and their money move around for lots of reasons. As they do, it affects the supply and demand for real estate in both the markets they move into … and the markets they move out of. Savvy investors track these migration patterns and take proactive steps to capture opportunity and avoid risks. So
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When the 2008 financial crisis hit, the mortgage industry was at the epicenter … and the disruption of funding feeding real estate crushed housing values. But it’s important to remember, the problem was NOT real estate. After all, people still needed and wanted places to live. So the demand for housing remained stable. It was
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People, businesses, and their money move around for lots of reasons. New jobs, better opportunities, tax incentives, high returns … the list goes on and on. Savvy investors monitor these constant migrations. They look for patterns and take action to capitalize on opportunities and avoid risks. All this movement affects supply and demand … especially
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