The state of the U.S. real estate market may have you questioning whether or not investing in real estate is worth it. Let’s get this out of the way: every stage and season of the market carries distinct challenges and advantages. It doesn’t benefit your portfolio to wish for a bygone era.
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4 Factors Keeping Investors on Board with SFRs
By Chris Clothier on Thu, May 18, 2023
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5 Ways Real Estate Investing Wins Against the Stock Market
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Jan 4, 2023
We’re always evaluating the best way to secure our best financial future. There are countless strategies at your disposal – a hundred different assets to invest in and even more strategies to utilize. One of the most popular avenues of investment, however, is the stock market. While the S&P 500 has been on a rapid upward swing since 2020, 2022 saw a turn.
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Is Turnkey Real Estate Investing Really Worth It?
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Sep 28, 2022
You’ve heard the billionaire success stories, and you’ve seen the statistics. You know that real estate is the best way to build lasting, inflation-resistant wealth.
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WHITEPAPER: Real Estate Appreciation Trends & Maximizing Your Property’s Worth
By Chris Clothier on Wed, May 11, 2022
At one time, it was thought that owning a home was a great investment. While this is true in a sense thanks to real estate being a hedge against inflation, your home alone isn’t something to hang your financial hat on. The truth of the matter is more complex: appreciation rates shift based on national, even global, economics, market-specific characteristics, and individual property qualities.
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5 Reasons to Retire as a Buy-and-Hold Real Estate Investor
By Chris Clothier on Wed, May 4, 2022
By the time you retire, you should be a real estate investor. You aren’t required to retire early to be successful. In fact, your investments don’t even have to totally unlock the coveted “financial freedom” raved about by the top voices in the industry.
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These Key Qualities Indicate Long-Term Investment Potential
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Jun 3, 2020
Recently, Forbes published a list of “booming” housing markets amid the COVID-19 crisis. In this case, “booming” means “more quickly recovering” than other housing markets around the United States. These markets share a few things in common.
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Manage Risk By Investing in Real Estate Long-Term
By Chris Clothier on Fri, Feb 7, 2020
When you decide to take on the role of real estate investor, you are faced with a slew of choices to make and questions to ask. The strategies you employ as a real estate investor are extremely significant in terms of future opportunities, risk management, and how hands-on you have to be. For the new real estate investor, the first choice you make is whether or not to invest in the short-term or in the long-term.
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Should You Sell Your Property in a Seller's Market?
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Dec 9, 2015
Real estate investor’s aren’t always buying. Even as a buy-and-hold investor, sometimes, you want to sell. Maybe a property isn’t working out for you, maybe your goals are changing. Maybe you just want to streamline your portfolio. Either way, there will come times—especially with many markets seeing returning and accelerating home values, when it becomes tempting to sell. But should you?
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What Strategy Is Trending Up In Real Estate Investing?
By Chris Clothier on Sat, Sep 14, 2013
At this point, there really are very few 'new' techniques, strategies or markets to take advantage of when investing in real estate. With reality T.V. highlighting the buy, fix-up, sell to a retail buyer trend, many investors identify this as the best way to get involved in real estate. With so much news right now about rising interest rates, rising home prices and fewer properties on the market, it is no wonder that the retail sales strategy is getting a lot of attention. But, if you really dig into the numbers and pay attention closely, you will see that many savvy investors are taking advantage of what some think are the later stages of the best reo-to-rental market in history. Many investors are buying up properties quickly while the prices remain low and planning to ride the wave of rising inflation as it pushes rents higher.