Generate Income and Have a Place to Vacation By Jennifer Stoops Investing in real estate is becoming a very common strategy among those looking to build wealth and diversify their investment portfolio. Single family residential assets have long been the key target of real estate investing with multi-family assets coming in at a very close second. In more recent years, a new player has joined the real estate investing strategy,
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Sound Government Policies Are Needed to Create Favorable Market Conditions By David Howard As members of the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) prepare to gather in Nashville this month for the annual SFR Industry Leaders Conference, intensifying headwinds continue to swirl around the global economy. Rising interest rates, a weight on the housing market for the better part of the past year, have now started to curtail growth across a
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The Queen City Remains One of the Fastest-Selling Markets in the Country By Carole VanSickle Ellis When a multitude of large, urban markets began cooling off with the advent of 2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, just kept getting hotter. The midwestern city, also often referred to as “The Queen City” thanks to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1854 poetic reference to it as “The Queen of the West,” was ranked as one of
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Take Action and Find Good Leaders As an independent business owner with HomeVestors® of America, Inc., Vee Le has achieved enviable success in the real estate investment industry. In just nine short years, Vee has already accomplished more than most other real estate investors accomplish in their entire career. She has purchased 250 properties in this short time and is the owner of a property management company. And she’s not
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The Rebranded Conference Made a Splash in Key Biscayne, Florida By Carole VanSickle Ellis Last month, a private-lending industry tradition went through an exciting evolution, making waves at one of the biggest conferences for private lenders in the country. On March 27, 2023, the first Pitbull Conference of 2023 started out with the announcement that new ownership would be renaming and repurposing the 21-year-old event. The Pitbull conference will move
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In a Global Economy, Every Financial “Ripple” Matters By Carole VanSickle Ellis In early March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a major bank in Silicon Valley that had made its name catering to venture-backed tech startups, was taken over by federal regulators. The SVB collapse was the start of the second-biggest bank failure in history and was instigated by a run on deposits after the institution announced it had sold
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