Image from Pixabay Live Auction Raises Total of $50,000 for Multiple Charities United Country Real Estate affiliates raised more than $50,000 during a live auction at their annual Training and Awards Convention on March 11. The company is pledging $25,000 of that to aid the people of Ukraine Continue Reading
Financial Freedom: Embracing Passive Income Investing
Image from Pixabay By Dr. Chandra Mishra Financial freedom is crucial at any age. The genre of intelligent millenniums knows how to create variable income sources to gain financial freedom as soon as possible. Passive income is the top contender for financial freedom which means no more Continue Reading
Breaking News: Proposed CA Bill Would Impose 25% Gain Tax, Plus Time Restrictions on House Flippers
Image from Pixabay By Stephanie Mojica Alleging that house flipping is preventing average people from buying a home, a California Assembly member has proposed a law that would require short-term real estate investors to pay a 25% gain tax, according to CBS 8. If passed, the California Continue Reading
Higher Chicago Foreclosure Activity Not A Problem
Image from Pixabay By Gary Lucido I'm going to stay out on this limb that I crawled out on but apparently I'm not alone out there. According to ATTOM Data Solutions February Foreclosure Market Report the nation saw a 129% increase in foreclosure activity from a year ago. However, that Continue Reading
Tokyo’s Urban to Suburban Migration
Image from Pixabay By Priti Donnelly For years, Japan has tried to prevent its population from being overly concentrated in Tokyo, a city sprawling with nightlife, work life, and a tourist hotspot. Economic and social shifts of the pandemic developed into the start of a natural progression of Continue Reading
BEWARE: Social Media Fakes Make Poor Tenants
By Stewart Levine Image from Pixabay Are unprecedented legal changes and scam tenants making it time to rethink rentals as investments? Even for long-time real estate investors with decades of experience, things have changed. Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram seem to be Continue Reading
Strength in Numbers: Victor Cuevas Gives us Advice About Crowdfunding as a Tool for Investments
By Victoria Kennedy An important caveat to real estate investment, quite simply, it’s expensive. It requires more capital upfront to get going, and for a lot of potential investors, it just isn’t feasible. But Victor Cuevas, founder of Griffin Crowd and Capital, just might have the answer, and Continue Reading
How Much a Home Equity Loan Can be Useful to Pay Off Credit Card Debts?
Image from Pixabay By Catherine Burke You are not alone if you have recently faced financial challenges, such as a loss of employment, significant medical bills, or a tragic incident. The majority of the world's population is affected by the COVID scenario. Over 57% of American adults, for Continue Reading
The Non-Owner, No Income (NONI) Loan Solution
Image from Pexels By Rick Tobin Are all loans second to NONI (Non-Owner, No Income) for cash flow purposes? Does your investment property give you a positive annual cash flow with or without significant vacancy rates, repairs, nonpayment of rents due to tenant moratoriums or other reasons, and Continue Reading
New In-Person & Virtual Events
Image from 123rf.com Celebrate Real Estate Investing with In-Person & Virtual Events We have exciting news regarding our national In-Person and online Virtual events. Our one-day conferences will host incredible educators from around the country who are ready to share their years of Continue Reading
Have You Considered Adding Brownfield Development to Your Real Estate Portfolio?
Image from Pixabay By Patricia Gage, Principal,RE Solutions It’s understood that having a real estate component within your investment strategy is a tried-and-true way to diversify your risk and increase your investment returns. And while most people and companies find real estate Continue Reading
The Capitalization Approach to Income Property Valuation
Image from Pixabay By Dan HarkeyReal Estate & Finance Consultant Definition of capitalization of earnings: The concept of the capitalization approach is a method of estimating the fair value of an asset such as income-producing real estate by calculating the net present value (NPV) of Continue Reading
Multiple Properties in One Land Trust
Image from Pixabay By Randy Hughes, Mr. Land Trust Many investors think, “I’ll put multiple properties into one Land Trust! That should be easy.” They could assume that managing one trust will be a breeze compared to managing multiple Land Trusts. They may also think that there is no Continue Reading
Did Biden’s Tax Proposal End Up Affecting 1031 Exchanges?
Image from Pixabay By Clinton Lu, TFS Properties Earlier this spring, Biden proposed a number of tax law changes in regards to his Build Back Better program. Aimed at freeing up more money for the little guy, the program divided itself into various parts, one of which was the American Rescue Continue Reading
