Category: Real Estate
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Rent Inflation Shows No Signs of Letting Up
Landlords keep cranking up rents, with annual increases far outpacing price growth elsewhere in the economy, according to recent data released this summer. Rents…
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Market Spotlight: Cash Flow in Kansas City | Podcast
In this episode we take a look at Kansas City, MO and why it’s such a great market for real estate investors. Most investors…
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7 Steps for Picking a Strong Real Estate Market (Part 2)
In part one of 7 Steps for Picking a Strong Real Estate Market we discussed the first four litmus tests required for investing in…
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Asset Protection for Real Estate Investors | Podcast
The number one problem most real estate investors face today is knowing “how to protect” not “what to protect.” Caught between attorneys, tax professionals,…
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7 Steps for Picking a Strong Real Estate Market (Part 1)
A rental property is only valuable to you if there is a person willing and able to use your property and pay you rent.…
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How to Retain Your Good Tenants
Good tenants are hard to find. Add to that the cost of advertising for new tenants, the cost of cleaning and restoring the unit,…
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Rental Growth Where You Least Expect It
Take a drive through the urban portion of any major city and you will likely see cranes and construction crews dotting the landscape, building…
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The Main Reason You Should Not Wait to Invest…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University recently released their 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing report. The report concentrated on the…
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Announcing our NEW Podcast!
We’re excited to announce the launch of our highly anticipated new podcast: Passive Real Estate Investing. This is the show where BUSY PEOPLE like…
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Choosing Your Market
Many investors frequently make the often damaging (or fatal) mistake of buying property with little to no consideration of the neighborhood and market the…
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101 Resources for Connecting with Potential Tenants
As real estate investors we need tenants to occupy our rental properties so that we continue to receive the cash-flow we love each and…
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How to Predict Population Growth
I’m currently reading Dr. Peter Linneman’s “Real Estate Finance and Investments” and it includes some great information on how to predict population growth —…
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Choosing the Right Neighborhood
Classifying a neighborhood by “type”, or what many investors refer to as a “grade”, is typically nothing more than a subjective description. Although most…
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99 Reasons You Shouldn’t Rent To That Tenant
If you’re looking for a reason to reject a potential tenant because of a gut feeling, here are 99 reasons to do so. If…
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Powerhouse Job Markets
Three powerhouse metropolitan areas — New York, Los Angeles, and Houston — together accounted for one of every seven new jobs created in the…