#investing strategies for beginners
How to Interview a Real Estate Agent
Whether you’re a first-time homebuyer, investor, or looking for your forever home – choosing a real estate agent is an extremely important step in the home buying process. Having a personable, communicative, patient agent can make or break your experience. Interviewing agents can help you narrow down who will be the best fit for you.
3 min read5 Ways Real Estate Investors Can Use Marketing to Boost Their Business
While there’s no denying that the demand for real estate properties is on the rise, your business as a real estate investor will not flourish unless you know how to set yourself apart in this overcrowded market. In fact, as the need increases, so does the necessity for optimizing your marketing strategy that will ultimately…
5 min read5 Pro Tips for Rookie Landlords
So, someone has convinced you to self-manage your rental properties. Glad you found me. I will not try to persuade you that managing your properties is a bad idea, but I hope that after you read this article, you will fully grasp how much work it is getting started. Feel free to learn from my…
6 min readMarket Focus: A Rising Tide: Economic Growth and the Port of Savannah
Economic Growth of the Savannah Real Estate Market The perpetual bears among us have been forecasting an imminent recession and corresponding crash in the housing market since about 2015. Those bears have missed out on considerable asset appreciation since then, but eventually, the bears have got to be right — right? No, at least not…
6 min readMember Success Spotlight: Real Estate Investing at Any Age
Can You Start Real Estate Investing at Any Age? Every so often I get the question, “How did you get your start in real estate?” The start for me was when I was very young, I then let it idle, and started again 30 years later. In the beginning, my mom separated from my father…
5 min readHow Rental Real Estate Can Pay for Your Child’s College Tuition
Going to college is extremely expensive these days. In general, having children is an expensive 18+ years. It is something my wife and I are about to face with complete joy and overwhelming anxiety. Once senior year rolls around, most parents have to figure out a way to pay a massive college tuition bill, not…
5 min readUsing Solar Leasing for Passive Income
How to use Solar Leasing to Create Passive Income? From 2013-2016, I worked at a factory called Kleer-Fax. During the second half of my tenure, I was the National Sales Manager (sometimes called Chief Marketing Officer). While seeking out ways to increase sales with current customers and getting new ones, I also found other money.
6 min readHow to Use a TSP to Invest in Real Estate
TSP to Invest in Real Estate: Military members are accustomed to significant challenges. Combat tours, deployments, and frequent transfers are a few of the difficulties they face frequently. Because of this stress, many military members experience significant struggles when it comes to getting ahead financially. Possibly one of the greatest benefits to U.S. government or…
5 min readJumping Into Multifamily Investing
How to Get Started in Multifamily Investing? Meet John and Jessica: I met them at a local real estate investment association (REIA). John and Jessica are a young married couple that hustled their way into multifamily investing. They started by spending a considerable amount of time learning about multifamily investments. They then developed a strategy…
12 min readAirbnb Lessons
Airbnb Education There I was – thinking that my wife, Christina, and I were both active duty Marines, part-time real estate investors, and new Airbnb hosts, but apparently, we were also exterminators! Saddle up for a few lessons that I learned when we started using Air BnB to house-hack our way one step closer to…
7 min read3 Efficiencies to Save Serious Time & Cash
Building Efficiencies Why are real estate investors called investors in the first place? What’s the difference between folks like us who buy low and sell high and John Smith who buys a nice home for his family and sells for appreciation 30 years down the road? On the surface, the concept is the same. Most…
7 min readHow to Stop Sucking at Life (and Real Estate)
How to Stop Sucking at Life? Everyone Sucks Your day is finally here. You’ve made it to the Big Show. Coach taps you to close the game out in the bottom of the 9th inning with the bases loaded. The pressure is palpable as your team is only up by one run. Here’s the problem,…
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