Investing in real estate for the first time can be a daunting venture. After all, buying an investment property is far more involved and costly than say, casually buying and trading stocks. However, the results of this investment strategy are undeniable.
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6 Principles Every New Real Estate Investor Should Follow
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Nov 10, 2021
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We Weigh in on Forbes Real Estate Market Predictions
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Sep 29, 2021
Forbes recently published an article from their Real Estate Council, detailing eleven predictions about the future of the real estate market for the remainder of 2021 and through 2022. In the tumultuous real estate market we’ve experienced, a lot of us are looking for clues as to what’s next.
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4 Ways to Maximize Potential in Turnkey Real Estate Investment
By Chris Clothier on Fri, Dec 25, 2020
In real estate investment, there is a constant tension between scaling one’s portfolio and maximizing the potential of your current holdings. We all want to scale — after all, growing your portfolio grows your streams of income.
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What Passive Investors Can Learn from Project Management
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Aug 28, 2019
Project managers are an often overlooked and under-appreciated group of people. If you’re unfamiliar with project management, you may not even realize what they do, or how important they are to the success of businesses in every sector! What do they do, exactly?
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Mark Lattimer & Baypointe Capital Share Real Estate Investing Data
By Chris Clothier on Thu, Oct 9, 2014
Memphis Invest had the pleasure of interviewing Mark earlier this week and spending some time going through his slides on the economy, real estate investing, passive income, long-term borrowing and leverage.
Mark has a background in finance and was a Sr. level director with Freddie Mac from 1989 to 1994. He has a deep knowledge of financial markets, models and how leverage works in and effects the housing industry.
This is a fantastic 45 minutes and I urge you to watch and take notes. Mark has a wealth of knowledge and the presentation is both quick and informative.
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Great Books for Successful Real Estate Investing
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Dec 7, 2011
Heading into a new year is always a great time to take stock of where you are and start preparing for any changes or adjustments you need to make. It's also a great time to educate yourself and real estate investors are not immune to continuing education!
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Real Estate Investing | 4 Advantages of Self Directed IRA's
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Apr 19, 2011
Every day, regular people and seasoned investors alike are looking for ways to diversify their investments and investing in real estate has always been a favorite alternative. With Self Directed Individual Retirement Accounts coming into favor with investors, investing in discount properties has never been easier. MemphisInvest.com has put together a quick list of some of the advantages to using Self Directed IRA's:
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Investment Property News | Memphis 'A Most Undervalued' Market - CNN
By Chris Clothier on Tue, Apr 5, 2011
Many of the recent articles you read on the housing market seem to convey almost polar opposite messages. Markets are up, other markets are down and no two pollsters, spinsters or prognosticators seem to agree on exactly what is happening. Real Estate Investors have to get past all the white noise of the national housing market and get down to the fundamentals of particular markets that provide quality, stable investment opportunities.
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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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4 Keys to Real Estate Investing Success in Memphis, Tennessee
By Chris Clothier on Wed, Dec 8, 2010
I spent some time in Colorado in the early 2000's and was pretty active in the real estate market at the time. One of the comments that we regularly heard was that "there is no more land being manufactured". Being land locked by the mountains, real estate was at a premium and investing was considered to be a sound long term investment.