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Do’s and Dont’s for Optimizing Your Rental ROI
It may surprise you to learn that optimizing your rental ROI isn’t all about juggling the numbers. Sure, dollar signs are a big piece to the puzzle; what you pay, cost of repairs, comparables, direct expenses like maintenance and indirect expenses like overhead. Obviously numbers matter. But they aren’t everything. It goes without saying that…read more
Why Women Make Great Real Estate Investors
“Recognize your strength, leverage your natural abilities and believe in yourself. You have everything in you that it takes to be successful as a real estate investor.” Laura Alamery In 1987 when I got started in real estate in Honolulu as an agent, I went to work for Dolman and Associates. Vi Dolman, the owner…read more
Why Real Estate Investing is Still a Great Niche Market
How could investing in real estate possibly be a profitable venture anymore? Well for one thing, there will always be a need for housing; it’s a given. Even when the housing and mortgage crisis of 2007-2010 was responsible for dropping prices to record lows in a matter of months, people still had to have a…read more
7 Tips for Organizing Your Real Estate Office
One of the things that real estate investors get overwhelmed with is organizing their business for better productivity; which tools, equipment and set up should they have in their real estate office. Over the years, what has helped me in growing my real estate investing business is keeping things simple. I am also a very…read more
Student Investor Series: Diane Johnson
I was recently inspired to create a new Student Investor Series, in order to allow some of my students to express to you their own thoughts on how they have achieved success as a real estate investor. My hope is that you will hear their stories, and see that it really is possible to dream…read more
Is Real Estate Entrepreneurship Your Beacon of Hope?
Times are difficult all around, though reinventing yourself is nothing new to the female gender. In fact, solving problems on the fly and changing horses in the middle of the street is something quite familiar to women. And, how does that translate to a successful real estate entrepreneurship? Well, by definition a real estate entrepreneur…read more
The State of the Real Estate Market
The real estate market is one of America’s strongest sources of wealth – and it drives many aspects of our economy (like consumer spending) while keeping financial institutions profitable. Given the importance of the real estate industry to our country’s financial health, logic would dictate that professional analysts…read more
Reinvent Yourself!
If you’ve been in any kind of business for long enough, it might be time to reinvent yourself – real estate investing included! It may seem like a daunting task, especially if you are set in your ways, but it doesn’t have to be scary or difficult; even the smallest change can help boost your business…read more
What is Wholesale? The Beginner Strategy in Real Estate Investing
What is wholesale? Real estate wholesaling can be described as similar to flipping except that the time frame is much shorter, and as the wholesaler you don’t do any of the actual rehabbing required before being able to put the house on the market. In fact, as a real estate wholesaler, you act as more of a middle…read more
Mindset Definition – Changing Your Mindset is Half the Battle
The mindset definition can be stated as a self perception or set of attitudes that people hold about themselves – attitudes and perceptions that can breathe life into your actions and beliefs and determine your success in building up a business in real estate investing.A positive mindset definition is universally…read more
