The Five Features Renters Crave

The Changing Landscape of Single-Family Rentals By Kori Covrigaru Zillow recently released its 2022 Housing Trends Report, and, boy, have renters evolved. Renters are going on fewer in-person tours, are more likely to have pets, care more about floor plans, and put a higher value on amenities than in previous years.  As the rental market continues to change, property managers and single-family rental investors need to know what renters are

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Home Prices In Opportunity Zone Redevelopment Areas Fall During Q4

Drop-off Matches Broader Nationwide Downturn By ATTOM Staff ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its fourth-quarter 2022 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (see full methodology below). In this report, ATTOM looked at 4,119 zones around the United States with sufficient data to analyze, meaning they had at least five

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The Benefits of Relying on Real Estate to Fuel Your Retirement

One of the biggest misunderstood strategies for investing is investing with a Self-Directed IRA. In the United States, taxes are one of the biggest things business owners and entrepreneurs try to avoid at all cost. So how can you be smart, and invest legally but avoid taxes? On the episode we bring on John Bowens from Equity Trust Company to give us the breakdown of what Self-Directed IRA’s are and

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Breaking Down Lease Options and Creative Finance

John Jackson is considered the nation’s premier authority on real estate lease options, and is often referred to as the “King of Lease Options.” Other nationally recognized real estate educators refer their students to John to learn his lease option systems. John started his lease option company, Leasing To Buy®, in 2003, and has since done over 600 lease option transactions, with his students having done hundreds of lease option

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The Startling Future of Generational Wealth and Rent Cycles

Lacey Brutschy is one of the most influential real estate investors on social media today. She is a real estate development and residential sales expert based in the DFW area, and she is on the show today to help us better understand what’s happening in today’s market. Listen now to learn more about Lacey, the DFW market, and what we should be expecting based on what’s currently happening in the

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Mortgage Delinquency Improvement Across the Board in January, Uptick in Foreclosure Starts

Black Knight, Inc. reports the following “first look” at January 2023 month-end mortgage performance statistics derived from its newly enhanced and greatly expanded McDash loan-level data set representing more than 60% of active mortgages nationwide. Loan-level detail on more than 200M active and historical mortgages has already made McDash the industry’s leading repository of servicer-contributed performance data. The vast population of active mortgages in the data set, now coupled with Black Knight’s eMBS agency securities

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