With the 2024 Paris Olympic Games underway, we’re enamored with the Olympian spirit. Truly, fewer people are more resilient and dedicated on the planet! But as hard as these athletes train with blood, sweat, and tears, not everyone will win the gold. There will be failure and heartbreak.
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10 Ways Real Estate Investors Benefit from Failure
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Aug 27, 2024
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This is the Wisdom Behind Holding Real Estate Long-Term
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Aug 15, 2024
Morgan Stanley recently called homeowners “strong hands” in the real estate market. Strong hands refer to those with the financial means and capacity to hold onto their assets long-term. They withstand market volatility and downturns.
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4 Reasons to Bet on SFRs Despite Market Challenges
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Jul 16, 2024
This year, you might have heard some discouraging things about the real estate market. Naysayers have debated the feasibility of SFR investing when real estate prices are at an all-time high. Various legislative efforts might change the real estate landscape. Here’s the thing – it’s not that real estate investing is a bad idea. It’s more about perspective.
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Smart Ways to Secure Lower Property Insurance Premiums
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Jun 20, 2024
Insurance is one of society’s necessary evils. So many times, paying our premiums seems like a waste…until we have to make a claim, that is! Whether we like it or not, property insurance is an unavoidable expense in real estate investing. And with insurance premiums set to hit a record high in 2024, investors are feeling the cash flow squeeze.
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Avoid Your Own Turnkey Horror Story
By Chris Clothier on Tue, May 21, 2024
If you search the Internet for “worst renter stories” or terms like it, you’re bound for hours of jaw-dropping, stomach-churning entertainment. It’s like watching a train wreck. And while as fun as a bit of schadenfreude can be, no real estate investor goes into this business wanting their own horror story.
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Worried About the Real Estate Market? Here’s the Secret to Investing
By Chris Clothier on Thu, May 2, 2024
If you want to lose your mind, try to keep up with all the predictions being made about the real estate market. Doing so is exhausting. Even if some interpretations and predictions have merit, they’re just that – predictions. In many ways, the headlines are designed to scare us. Navigating news on the real estate market is frustrating: full of mixed messages and emotionally charged rhetoric.
And for every opinion you see, you’ll find one to counter it.
So, how do we move forward without fear as real estate investors? After all, we don't have time to be paralyzed by every doom-and-gloom headline. You're in luck - here are the secrets to fearless real estate investing.
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How Long Should You Keep Your Investment Property?
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Nov 16, 2023
Maybe you’re new to this real estate investment thing. You’ve heard about a “buy and hold” strategy, and you’re wondering… how long do you really have to hold a property? Many of our investors are in it for the long haul, but even buy-and-hold investors know the value of a good exit strategy.
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Why Remote Real Estate Frees Investors to Dream Big
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Sep 5, 2023
Traditionally, investors have looked upon owning far-away rental properties with suspicion. It seemed impossible to own and manage a property that was hours away from you. In today’s hyper-connected world, these impossibilities have disappeared. If work can be done remotely, why can’t investing in real estate?
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4 Fundamentals That Unsuccessful Real Estate Investors Ignore
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Aug 22, 2023
How would you describe yourself as a real estate investor? We’d hope you’d use descriptors like diligent, ambitious, successful, and driven. Unfortunately, though, not all investors have such sterling reputations. While there are many things you can be as a real estate investor, the one descriptor you want to avoid is sloppy or careless.
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Are BTRs the Solution to Declining Housing Market Inventory?
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Jul 6, 2023
The build-to-rent (BTR) model has gained momentum over the past several years for good reason. This strategy, which builds new properties with the explicit intention to rent them out rather than sell them to homebuyers, helps bridge the affordability gap between would-be homebuyers and new construction.