In any business — real estate included — we benefit from a plan. While we might regard having an exit strategy as planning for failure, this is not the case. As real estate investors, establishing this “way out” of an investment not only allows you to more clearly define your measures of success but build the best portfolio possible.

This week’s Transformation Tuesday comes from St. Louis, Missouri! From floral wallpaper from centuries past to a mauve bathtub, this home suffered from a severely antiquated interior and an aging exterior. To see how our expert team of contractors transformed this single-family home into a modern haven, keep reading!

Renovations are an essential part of success in single-family real estate investment. You know the drill — buy a property in need of some TLC at a reduced cost, then utilize the services of skilled contractors, inspectors, and tradesmen to get your property in tip-top rental shape.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: every investment comes with some level of risk. This isn’t a surprise. Our risk tolerance varies based on personality, financial circumstances, goals, experiences, and our foundational knowledge of how to invest and manage money.

This week’s Transformation Tuesday comes from the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. Inside this single-story property, mountains of trash towered to the ceiling. Years of neglect left the home in dire need of an interior overhaul. That’s where we came in. Keep reading to see how our team transformed this hoarder’s retreat into a welcoming paradise.

Since the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. housing market has been on the rebound.

It should come as no surprise that the U.S. has long suffered from a housing shortage. This has been a trend for over a decade as the Great Recession effectively slashed construction activity in half. In the 2010s, the residential construction industry lost over 260,000 jobs. Firms closed or consolidated. New construction lagged, continued to lag, and could not compete with America’s pent-up housing demand.

This week’s Transformation Tuesday comes from our hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. This fashionable, throwback property needed a modern refresh. New floors, bright lights, and a whole lot of love. We had our work cut out for us on this one. To see how we succeeded with the transformation, keep on reading!

Through the ups and downs of the pandemic, one real estate asset class has emerged on top: single-family rental properties. In the past, commercial real estate investors have looked down on the humble single-family home. After all, they were only familiar with management horror stories and the headaches of a bad HGTV fix-and-flip.

Motley Fool recently published a piece that declared real estate one of the most ethical forms of investing. We have to agree! As the article suggests, real estate investing has garnered a bit of a bad reputation throughout the pandemic. This isn’t because investor experiences have been particularly bad, but because the people they serve have been in increasingly bad situations.