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How Being A Licensed Agent Makes You A Better Real Estate Investor
Real estate investing involves a lot of moving parts: you need to learn how to estimate rehab costs, find and manage good contractors, secure financing, understand your market to accurately determine your resale value … and more. It’s a lot of expertise in a host of...
What To Look For During A Contractor Walkthrough
Evaluating The Rehab Costs For A Potential Fix & Flip One of the best things you can do for your rehabbing career is learn how to accurately estimate repairs. You’ll maximize your profits, find more opportunity, and have peace of mind. As you gain experience,...
Real Estate Investing Report 2019: What To Watch For
Executive Summary The real estate markets are likely to be more challenging to negotiate in the coming year. Interest rates are higher and recent stock market volatility is possibly signaling slower future economic growth than in the recent past. That being said, the...
7 Ways To Hack Your Fix & Flip
Everyone knows the maxim that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses. They’re important, high traffic areas that often distinguish one house from another and cause buyers to "fall in love" or not. But what about other avenues to increase your ROI while still being prudent...
8 Ways Technology Makes Real Estate Investing Easier
Remember the days when the MLS was a hard copy book that came out once a week and real estate agents had to flip through the pages looking for listings? Anyone? Today’s real estate world barely resembles that one, and life moves a lot faster now. And although there’s...
How To Succeed With A Hoarder House Fix & Flip
If you’ve been a fix and flip investor for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen every manner and condition of property. A typical foreclosure often has some “junk” left behind, as well as damage, from holes punched in walls to graffiti or even more serious issues...
Buying A Fix & Flip From Wholesalers: The Good, Bad & Ugly
If you’re a real estate investor, buying a fix and flip property from a wholesaler may seem like a great idea. There are clearly advantages to letting wholesalers do their due diligence and hand deliver to you discounted property deals. However, it may not be as black...
Top 10 Fix And Flip Tips: Advice For A New Real Estate Investor
No matter the economy -- and probably in no small part due to the popularity of HGTV -- the fix and flip is always one of the most popular options in real estate. Investors and would-be investors get excited by the potential for low purchase prices during down times,...
An Introductory Analysis Of The Buy Rehab And Rent Market
Rental Market Introduction This summer, rents reached at an all-time high. Rent increased in 88% of the 250 biggest US cities, stayed the same in 10%, and dropped in only 2%. The average rent in June 2018 was $1,405 - a 2.9% YOY increase from June 2017. However, the...
Should You Include Smart Technology in Your Fix & Flip?
Although smart tech is not yet expected in homes on the market, that shouldn’t deter you from making your next investment property smart enabled. Once upon a time, energy-efficient dishwashers and A/C were also considered luxuries in homes. Today, they are the...
Meet Asset Based Lending’s New Jersey Team
For our New Jersey borrowers, we’ve assembled a brand new, all-star loan officer team with over 15 years of combined real estate experience and three languages spoken between them! Read on to meet our three highly qualified New Jersey loan officers and get to know the...
Fix And Flip Hacks: Painting Tricks To Modernize an Old House
Styles change, but homes don’t. When you purchase an older investment property, it can seem like the house needs a complete design overhaul to appeal to modern buyers, even if the quality is still great. Fortunately, there are simple ways to revamp your fix and flip...
How To Set Up and Open an LLC For Real Estate
What is an LLC? A limited liability company (LLC) is a distinct legal entity that can provide legal protection and tax benefits to company owners. LLCs can be owned by a single individual or by multiple individuals, so you can use an LLC whether you are investing on...
New Jersey Fix And Flip Report 2018
NJ Real Estate Market Overview [su_row][su_column]Although national foreclosures are at an all-time low, NJ foreclosures are the highest they’ve been in eleven years. Just last year, the total number of bank-owned homes jumped from 1,448 to 2,308. Part of the reason...
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Fix & Flip Cheat Sheet: Targeting Millennial Homebuyers [Infographic]
Making up 35% of the homebuyer market, millennial homebuyers outnumber those of every other generation. Gen X comes in second with 26% of the market. That means that your most likely target demographic as a seller is the Millennial generation. Read on and check out...
Tips For Real Estate Investing For Busy Individuals
Real estate investing can provide a steady source of passive income while you build the value of your assets and overall wealth. But when your professional or personal commitments already leave you wishing for more hours in a day than are available, it’s hard to...
Fix And Flip Investor Spotlight: Jenee Anderson
Our featured borrower in this Fix And Flip Investor Spotlight Interview is Jenee Anderson. Jenee is a repeat ABL borrower with a background in sales and design as well as a degree in Business Management and Fashion Merchandising. Jenee is the owner of her own fix and...
The Connecticut Fix And Flip Report
Connecticut Market Overview [su_row][su_column]While the total home sales in Connecticut are decreasing, the median sale price is increasing in 6 of 8 Connecticut counties as the supply of desirable homes shrinks. The houses that attracted buyers last year went for...
The Benefits Of Investing In Single-Family Rental Properties
Whether you consider yourself a seasoned real estate investor or are still debating if the life of a landlord is one you want to pursue, investing in single-family homes may offer a number of financial benefits over multifamily properties. Here’s a look at some of the...
10 Quick And Easy Tips For New Landlords
Rental property investments offer real estate investors a host of potential upside, including recurring revenue and (hopefully) asset appreciation. However, rental properties all have one thing in common: the need for a landlord. If you aren’t ready to hire a third...
Pros And Cons Of Rental Property Investing
While investing in fix and flips is great way for investors of all experience levels to build wealth and knowledge, there may come a point in your career when you want to expand your arsenal and take advantage of different investment opportunities. One other common...
Are You Ready For Your Own Fix And Flip Project?
Working in real estate investing has a lot of upsides: you get to choose your own projects, make your own schedule, and be your own boss. Not to mention the fast turnaround times and huge profits that roll in when you do it right. For a savvy self-starter, the fix and...
Tips For Flipping A Historic Home
If there's an old house that you want to flip, how will you reconcile the trends of the past with the needs of today's renters or buyers? Making a profit on a historic home is possible by following these guidelines. Add the Right Modern Amenities Historic homes have...
How To Find Promising Neighborhoods For Real Estate Investing
Real estate investing is equal parts strategy, vision and educated guesswork. Though even savvy and seasoned real investors can’t predict every area that’s ripe for a boom (or sell before one is headed for bust), there are some telling indicators that can help you...
5 Tips For Building The Ultimate Draw Schedule
Putting together a draw schedule can be daunting, especially since a well-formulated draw schedule is one of the earliest and most important components of a profitable flip. These five tips on how to build a draw schedule and construction draw schedule examples from...
