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The number one priority when searching for an investment property is whether or not it has a positive cash flow. Without a positive influx of money, the investment becomes a drain on funding and will eventually become a burden rather than a blessing. You may find that you even have to sell the …
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The State of the DFW Real Estate Investment Market 2019
As an investor, you want to make sure you buy property in an area that’s going to give you the best ROI—and be a profitable investment for years to come.There are plenty of factors to take into consideration when choosing where to invest, from home values to rental prices to inventory. But if you …
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6 Real Estate Investing Tips for Out-of-State Investors
Investing in real estate can be a complex process — but when you add in the additional challenges of investing in property out of state, it can get downright confusing.There are so many unknowns when you’re investing out of state. You don’t know the market. You don’t know the different …
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Do Your Rental Properties Satisfy the 1% and 5% Rules?
There are a few different metrics you can use to determine the “success” of an investment property, but there’s none that’s more critical than cash flow.Owning and managing a rental property isn’t cheap. There is a significant number of costs (like loan payments, maintenance, repairs, …
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The 6 Ways to Make Money with Rental Properties & Maximize Your ROI
Making money in any business — including real estate — means maximizing your ROI in every possible way. If you want to build your wealth, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to make money that’s available to you.Can You Make Money With Rental Properties?Thankfully, real estate …
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Buying Probate Properties: A Uniquely Profitable Way to Invest in Real Estate
There are a lot of different routes you can take when scouting potential properties to add to your real estate portfolio, but there’s one under-utilized route that can be a major moneymaker for your investment business — and that’s probate properties.The term 'probate real estate' refers to …
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Is It Too Late for You to Start Investing in Real Estate?
In the real estate world, there always seems to be some new “whiz kid” who started investing at 18 years old and retired with a multi-million dollar portfolio before graduating from college. With that kind of emphasis on the correlation between youth and success, it can be easy to feel as though …
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How to Use the Like Kind Exchange (1031) for Rental Property
As a real estate investor, you’ve probably heard the term “like kind exchange” come up in conversation.A like kind exchange (also known as a “1031 exchange”) is a real estate transaction that allows you to sell a property and reinvest the profits into a new property without paying capital gains …
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Use The Real Estate Professional Loophole To Reduce Your Tax Liability
There are plenty of benefits to being a real estate investor; there’s the opportunity to build wealth, to explore new markets, to create autonomy in your work. But there’s another serious benefit to being an investor that you might not know about: the real estate professional loophole.Many people …
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Top 25 Real Estate Investing Blogs of 2018
2017 has officially come to a close, which means it’s time to look at the year ahead and start compiling our list of the top blogs that real estate investors won’t want to miss in 2018. If you're interested in trying your hand at real estate investing this year, here are 25 real estate investing …
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