With the market favoring selling so thoroughly, you might consider selling one or more of your investment properties. After all, it seems like a prime opportunity! But before you prepare that listing, wait. There are compelling reasons to hold your properties for the long haul – even when conditions make selling an attractive prospect.
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10 Compelling Reasons to Keep Holding Your SFR Properties
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Sep 19, 2023
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The Real Advantages of Buy and Hold Investing
By Chris Clothier on Fri, Sep 13, 2019
Out of all the ways to invest in real estate, buy and hold is the one that we champion as the best way to invest at any skill level. But why? After all, there are so many different strategies available when it comes to real estate investment. Even within a buy and hold model, there are different types of properties to invest in and sub-strategies to consider: like turnkey real estate.
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Why Buy-and-Hold is Ideal in Real Estate Investment
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Oct 10, 2017
Recent studies from CNBC and Housingwire lament the returns on real estate flips. For three quarters, returns have been dropping, largely due to increased competition with buy-and-hold investors in the search for properties priced under market value.
As markets nationwide experience rising prices, such deals are harder to come by and the need for traditional financing has caused many flippers to purchase properties at full market value, which has hurt their returns.
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Memphis Investment Premier Property Management
By Chris Clothier on Mon, Oct 10, 2011
One of the biggest topics in real estate investing today revolves around property management and the struggles landlords have with either managing their properties themselves or hiring quality property management. It stands as one of the biggest and sometimes most confusing and hard decisions for a real estate investor to make.
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Memphis Real Estate | Investment Property - 1st Quarter Numbers
By Chris Clothier on Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Chandler Reports, the local real estate information aggregating company, released their monthly tally last week which included 1st quarter totals for all things related to real estate in Memphis and the surrounding areas. Memphis Invest is interested in many of the numbers including total sales, days on market, average sales price and number of transactions as each of these data points is very important to the over-all health of a market. But we are also extremely interested in the over-all sales numbers for the area and for the 8th quarter in a row, MemphisInvest.com was the leader in local company home sales.
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Real Estate Investing - What Cash Investors really want
By Chris Clothier on Mon, Mar 28, 2011
As I was reading a report last week on the status of real estate investing in different markets around the United States, one number kept jumping out at me - the percentage of real estate investors paying cash was huge! In some markets around the country, real estate investors paying cash made up more than 75% of the transactions. Since real estate is a hyper-local industry, with each individual market able to vary wildly from the next, keeping an eye on the trends of investors before making assumptions is a huge task.
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Memphis Investment Real Estate | January & February by the Numbers
By Chris Clothier on Fri, Mar 11, 2011
Memphis, Tennessee - Chandler Reports, the leading provider of real estate data, research and consulting information in the West Tennessee area, released the final numbers for real estate transactions in the Memphis area for February 2011. After leading the Memphis greater metropolitan area for home sales in 2010, Memphis Invest has started 2011 strong leading both January and February in home sales.
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Memphis Real Estate | Taking the Temperature of the Water
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Mar 10, 2011
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Buying Discount Foreclosure Properties | Shadow Inventories
By Chris Clothier on Sat, Jan 15, 2011
So I wrote an article about the phenomenon going on with real estate owned by banks. With an increase in the number of bank foreclosures in Memphis and the country and 2011 expected to have more foreclosures than any year on record, banks are being inundated with the need to sell property at discount pricing. Unfortunately, they are choosing instead to...
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Real Estate Investors Taking Action on Memphis Cash Flow Properties!
By Chris Clothier on Mon, Nov 22, 2010
Memphis Invest was in Dallas, TX. on November 20th and found a room full of investors ready to take action! After announcing that Memphis Invest and Fortune Builders would be in Dallas for a one-day event at the Embassy Suites in Grapevine, the room quickly filled up with 72 investors confirming their seats and getting ready to learn about Memphis real estate investing.