Home Depot’s Frank Blake Will Never Stop Building by Carole VanSickle Ellis Frank Blake will be the first to tell you he’s extremely grateful for his team. In fact, that is the mantra you will hear over and over in conversation if you speak with him for any length of time. “You are only as good as your team,” the Bronze Star recipient and current Home Depot general manager for
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Foreclosure Moratorium Extended to 2021 ATTOM Data Solutions, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (realtytrac.com), a foreclosure listings portal, released its November 2020 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 10,042 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions—in November 2020, down 14 percent from a month ago and down 80 percent from a year ago.
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Utilizing Technology and Data to Optimize Marketing Performance by Robert Rakowski Lead generation and financing are likely the two most challenging aspects of real estate investing. HomeVestors®, the We Buy Ugly Houses® people, is America’s #1 Homebuyer and generates more motivated seller leads than any competitor in the discount homebuying business. Enter Charlie Calise and Imaginuity Charlie Calise is the Chairman of Imaginuity, an integrated marketing agency located in Dallas,
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A Legal Perspective on Benefits, Requirements and Criticisms by Jenny Connors The opportunity zone (“OZ”) tax incentive, which was enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, has been a major catalyst for real estate investment over the past three years. Initiated as a bipartisan effort for economic growth and job creation, the incentive was intended to promote long-term, private investment in America’s low-income communities. The incentive, however,
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The “Crossroads of the West” Boasts Enduring Strength at the Core by Carole VanSickle Ellis With a housing market holding strong in both single-family and multifamily sectors, an unemployment rate under half the national average in the last quarter of 2020, and an emerging trend in interstate “near-shoring” as West Coast businesses move operations inland to avoid high taxes and stringent health policy restrictions, the Salt Lake City real estate
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A Unique Strategy Keeps American Homes 4 Rent Ahead of the Curve by Carole VanSickle Ellis American Homes 4 Rent is a relatively young company. First conceptualized in 2011 when national indices were ranking “improvements” in housing based on the degree to which a market was losing in the single digits instead of double ones, the company was the first Wall Street institution to snap up single-family homes during the
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