2025 – REI INK

Redfin Reports New Listings Rise 8%, Giving the New Year’s Buyers More Homes to Choose From

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Supply increased from a year earlier to close out 2024, while pending home sales posted a small decline as mortgage rates remained near 7% New listings increased 8% year over year during the four weeks ending December 29, while the total number of homes for sale rose 10%, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Redfin is taking a break from analysis this week, but please see the tables below for the latest housing-market data. Redfin will be back with full commentary next week. For Redfin economists’ takes on the housing market, please visit Redfin’s “From Our Economists” page. Leading indicators Indicators of homebuying demand and activity Value (if applicable) Recent change Year-over-year change Source Daily average 30-year fixed mortgage rate 7.07% (Jan. 2) Down from 7.14% 2 weeks earlier Up from 6.7% Mortgage News Daily Weekly average 30-year fixed mortgage rate 6.91% (week ending Jan. 2) Highest level since July Up from 6.61% Freddie Mac Mortgage-purchase applications (seasonally adjusted) Down 13% from 2 weeks earlier (as of 2 weeks ending Dec. 27) Down 17% Mortgage Bankers Association Redfin Homebuyer Demand Index (seasonally adjusted) Essentially unchanged from a month earlier(as of week ending Dec. 29) Down 1% Redfin Homebuyer Demand Index a measure of tours and other homebuying services from Redfin agents Touring activity Down 52% from the start of the year (as of Dec. 28) At this time last year, it was down 55% from the start of 2023 ShowingTime, a home touring technology company Google searches for “home for sale” Up 30% from a month earlier (as of Dec. 28) Down 4% Google Trends Key housing-market data U.S. highlights: Four weeks ending Dec. 29, 2024Redfin’s national metrics include data from 400+ U.S. metro areas, and is based on homes listed and/or sold during the period. Weekly housing-market data goes back through 2015. Subject to revision. Four weeks ending Dec. 29, 2024 Year-over-year change Notes Median sale price $383,750 6.4% Biggest increase since October 2022 Median asking price $373,500 5.6% Median monthly mortgage payment $2,515 at a 6.91% mortgage rate 8.1% Pending sales 54,357 -1.1% New listings 48,705 7.7% Active listings 905,822 9.7% Months of supply 4.2 +0.5 pts. 4 to 5 months of supply is considered balanced, with a lower number indicating seller’s market conditions. Share of homes off market in two weeks 23.7% Down from 26% Median days on market 47 +6 days Share of homes sold above list price 22.9% Down from 24% Average sale-to-list price ratio 98.3% -0.1 pt. Metro-level highlights: Four weeks ending Dec. 29, 2024Redfin’s metro-level data includes the 50 most populous U.S. metros. Select metros may be excluded from time to time to ensure data accuracy. Metros with biggest year-over-year increases Metros with biggest year-over-year decreases Notes Median sale price Milwaukee (17.4%)Cleveland (14.3%)Philadelphia (13.5%)Chicago (11.9%)Nassau County, NY (11.8%) n/a Increased in all metros Pending sales Detroit (11.9%)Anaheim, CA (10.4%)New Brunswick, NJ (7.5%)San Francisco (7.3%)Los Angeles (4.7%) Orlando, FL (-12.4%)Houston (-9.3%)San Antonio (-9%)Fort Lauderdale, FL (-8.9%)Indianapolis (-5.8%) Increased in 16 metros New listings San Francisco (48%)Oakland, CA (36.6%)Seattle (21.6%)Virginia Beach, VA (21.6%)San Jose, CA (21.5%) San Antonio (-12.7%)Detroit (-9.5%)Austin, TX (-8.4%)Orlando, FL (-6.2%)Nassau County, NY (-4.6%) Declined in 8 metros To view the full report, including charts, please visit:https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-new-listings-rise-pending-sales-fall

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Charlotte and Phoenix are also leading metros, while Ocala (Fla.) is the No. 1 growth city for the second time in three years The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, better known as the DFW Metroplex, is the leading U-Haul Growth Metro of 2024. Charlotte, Phoenix, Lakeland and Austin complete the top five U.S. growth metros, meaning they saw the largest net gains of U-Haul® customers taking one-way equipment into and out of metro areas last year. This marks the first year that metros have been part of the do-it-yourself moving company’s annual growth reports and rankings. The U-Haul Growth Index is compiled from well over 2.5 million one-way truck, trailer and U-Box® portable moving container transactions that occur annually in the U.S. and Canada. “We are seeing unprecedented growth in the Dallas metro area, both within the city and also suburbs like McKinney, Plano and Addison,” said Sean Fullerton, U-Haul Company of South Central Dallas president. “The cost of living is also extremely reasonable throughout the whole metro. Job growth has led to wages and earnings going up, and tax breaks have led to a lot of people moving to the area.” Press release: U-Haul Ranks Top 50 Growth States of 2024 Florida boasts seven of the top 25 growth metros, with Lakeland joined by Palm Bay, Jacksonville, Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers and Daytona Beach. Texas had five metros make the cut. North Carolina had three, all in the top 14. 2024 Top 25 U-Haul Growth Metros 1. Dallas, TX 2. Charlotte, NC 3. Phoenix, AZ 4. Lakeland, FL 5. Austin, TX 6. Nashville, TN 7. Raleigh, NC 8. Palm Bay, FL 9. Houston, TX 10. Greenville, SC 11. Jacksonville, FL 12. Tampa, FL 13. Charleston, SC 14. Wilmington, NC 15. Sarasota, FL 16. Fort Myers, FL 17. Boise, ID 18. Richmond, VA 19. Bend, OR 20. Indianapolis, IN 21. Brownsville & McAllen, TX* 22. Tyler, TX 23. Daytona Beach, FL 24. Spokane, WA 25. Springdale, AR * The metro areas of McAllen and Brownsville are combined for U-Haul analytic purposes. Ocala Tops Growth Cities List U-Haul also announced its top 25 U.S. growth cities to recognize city propers (outside the leading growth metros) that are netting the most one-way U-Haul customers. Ocala tops that list for the second time after ranking first in 2022 and second in 2023. It is the fifth consecutive year a Florida destination has headlined the U-Haul growth city rankings. “There are two main reasons people are moving to Ocala,” said Brady Rome, U-Haul Company of Gainesville president. “The primary reason is cost of living, simply being that it’s lower than almost anywhere in the state. It allows housing to be a more affordable option for families packing up their U-Haul and moving to central Florida. The second reason is the job market, which remains strong with the addition of so many manufacturing jobs. The healthcare industry has also seen massive growth in the past year and is a driving force of employment. And you can’t go without mentioning Ocala is the ‘Horse Capital of the World.’ The equestrian center is huge and continues to bring people here.” The Sunshine State has five of the top 25 growth cities. Tennessee, Washington and Alabama each have three. Virginia boasts two of the top four cities, Fredericksburg and Lorton, both located within 50 miles of Washington, D.C. 2024 Top 25 U-Haul Growth Cities (city propers outside the top metros) 1. Ocala, FL 2. Fredericksburg, VA 3. Kissimmee, FL 4. Lorton, VA 5. Myrtle Beach, SC 6. College Station, TX 7. Knoxville, TN 8. Tukwila, WA 9. Johnson City, TN 10. Foley, AL 11. Spartanburg, SC 12. Auburn, AL 13. Cookeville, TN 14. Huntsville, AL 15. Clermont, FL 16. Iowa City, IA 17. Tacoma, WA 18. Port St. Lucie, FL 19. Vancouver, WA 20. Missoula, MT 21. Panama City, FL 22. Madison, WI 23. Corvallis, OR 24. Concord, NH 25. Kingman, AZ While U-Haul rankings may not correlate directly to population or economic growth, the U-Haul Growth Index is an effective gauge of how well states, metros and cities are attracting and maintaining residents. U-Haul is the authority on migration trends thanks to its expansive network that blankets all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The geographical coverage from 23,000-plus U-Haul rental locations provides a broad overview of where people are moving like no one else in the industry.

End2End Solutions

A Single Point of Contact During the Eviction Process by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Barry Owens, founder and CEO of end-to-end default management servicer End2End Solutions, decided the time had come to solve the “evictions problem” in real estate once and for all, eviction processes were nearly at a standstill. That is because Owens started his company, which he describes as a “true one-stop-shop for the entire lifecycle of an eviction,” when 2020’s global COVID-19 pandemic was in the process of changing that particular element of real estate in lasting and dramatic ways. For example, between March and December 2020, eviction filings alone fell by 65%, and the actual number of evictions was even lower. Although many entrepreneurs might have paused their startup efforts in the face of numbers like these, Owens viewed the entire situation as an opportunity to solve a major problem for residents and property owners alike. “When we initially started the company, there were no evictions going on,” Owens said. “Ironically, that meant we were able to come in [to the space] fresh and go out and hire people whose talents otherwise might not have been available. The timing really played in our favor.” The founder’s first hire was Tonya Willis, a leading subject-matter expert on the eviction process and, today, COO of End2End Solutions. She was essential, Owens explained, because the biggest stumbling block in the eviction process was a lack of communication from one stage to the next. This opacity occurs naturally in the process because different specialists have traditionally handled different elements of eviction, largely in order to ensure that the rights of the resident are fully protected. Residents’ rights vary not only from state to state, but also from city to city, making it imperative that a lien-holder or landlord initiating the eviction process work with service providers familiar with local regulations. “It made it very hard to track things,” Owens said, citing one property owner who spent hundreds of dollars re-keying a lock only to find they did not have the right code for the door. “I sat down and looked at all the processes together and thought, ‘Wow, this is really broken,’” he continued. “That is when it dawned on me we could create one communication portal to be a single point of contact.” That portal concept, which ultimately became the End2End Solutions platform, essentially enabled the company to bring all elements of the eviction process in-house without sacrificing important “boots-on-the-ground” insight and experience. “I had been in mortgage servicing for my entire career to that point, and, in the early days, we were doing all of these things using index cards and phone calls,” Owens recalled. “In 2020, however, the technology was available that enabled us to make a change for the better.” Bringing the Right People & the Right Technology Together Owens and Willis got to work delineating every part and process that goes into an eviction, including elements revolving around resident welfare, such as helping tenants facing eviction identify resources that can support them through the process of identifying a new place to live. The two also laid out a detailed timeline of the eviction process and all the individual steps involved, including working with legal professionals, tracking court schedules, proceedings, and verdicts, coordinating with law enforcement, and bringing property preservation service providers on board quickly to protect the asset. “We knew how important it was to bring in the right people and build out the right technology at the same time,” Owens said. “We were very fortunate to land the best person in the eviction world [from a servicing perspective] when we hired Tonya [Willis], and then, during 2020, we had the time to build out an application that truly policed the entire process and made sure everyone involved in the eviction was on the same page.” By the end of the development stage, the company’s senior management team boasted more than 100 years of accumulated experience and End2End Solutions was ready to launch its suite of services. Those services included working with residents on “Cash for Keys” solutions, which became extremely popular during 2020 and afterward, legal evictions, property preservation, service of process, vacant property registration, and placement assistance. “We understood that fragmented processes within a multifaceted task [like eviction] lead to communication breakdowns, lack of continuity, and time management problems that resulted in financial losses for property owners,” Willis said. “When we entered the market, we did so with a total understanding of all default processes and in a position to eliminate the fragmentation.” The key to avoiding that perilous fragmentation is End2End’s communication platform, which places local providers in contact with each other and the owner of the asset associated with the eviction. End2End Solutions maintains a network of local vendors and subject-matter experts in all 50 states, enabling complete coordination of the entire process and incorporating feedback and updates for clients at the same time. “This is important in every market, but particularly in nuanced markets like Baltimore, Maryland, or the state of Massachusetts,” Owens said. “We use our system to corral information and make effective decisions about the eviction process very quickly because we know the nature of the market environments across the nation.” The company soon discovered that the concept of “remote work,” now ubiquitous, but, at that time, a foreign concept to many, would contribute significantly to its ability to achieve goals revolving around continuity and timely communication. “A big part of our success is we have people all over the country, working in all time zones, that have their ears to the ground and know what is going on politically, what types of changes may have occurred in the law, and how things are going in their local markets,” Owens said. Reworking the Process to Reduce Costs & Confusion One of Owens’s mantras in business is, “Just because we have been doing something a certain way for decades does not mean we have been doing it the

Niche Markets

3 Specialized Markets & Sectors to Watch in 2025 by Carole VanSickle Ellis In late 2024, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its annual forecast for “The Top 10 Housing Hot Spots” for 2025. Not surprisingly, most of these markets were located in relatively affordable areas of the country, had posted job growth in 2024 appearing likely to continue into 2025, and showed positive net migration into the area. NAR evaluated these and other markets based on ten performance factors relative to national levels, and the predictions were relevant, likely accurate for the most part, and, naturally, generally optimistic – particularly where retail homebuyers were concerned. “Home buyers will have more success next year,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said. “The worst of the affordability challenges are over as more inventory, stable mortgage rates, and continued job and income growth pave the way for more Americans to achieve homeownership.” Interestingly, the association also predicted at the same time that national median home prices are likely to reach heights exceeding $410,000 in 2025 and observed, “The national housing shortage remains.” For real estate investors, most of this information is nothing new, which is why REI INK has decided to focus our 2025 forecast on areas of the market that are a little more, well, “uninspected” in today’s economic commentary. With the cost of labor and supplies pushing developers out of their traditional comfort zones and traditional fix-and-flip or rehab-to-rent investors to investigate new variations on historically tried-and-true strategies, the New Year is the perfect time to examine niche markets where innovation and creativity are still rewarded with solid returns. Niche Market #1Senior Living A little over a decade ago, the term “silver tsunami” began to emerge in real estate investing circles. At that time, the oldest Baby Boomers, those born in 1946, were nearing retirement age and entering retirement. Statisticians and economists avidly announced nearly 10,000 Baby Boomers would turn 65 ever day while innovative real estate investors began coming up with new types of senior living assets that would cater to a generation projected by the Federal Reserve data to be “the wealthiest generation that has ever lived.” Today, Baby Boomer movements and trends directly and dramatically affect the nature and health of the markets into which they migrate while their needs and preferences have a direct and significant impact on real estate trends. “Senior housing has ‘better-than-expected’ momentum [in 2025],” wrote The Street contributor Edward Fernandez in December 2024. He explained, “The decline in the construction of assisted living facilities since 2018 has resulted in an inadequate supply nationwide…. This imbalance underscores the investment potential in the senior housing sector, where investors can leverage the rising demand for investment in quality accommodations for seniors.” The shortage in senior housing options in many markets creates natural opportunities for investors, but that is just the beginning. Because Boomers are likely to live longer in retirement than earlier generations and have expressed not only the intention of “aging in place” but also demonstrated they have the financial wherewithal to do so; factoring in their preferences and desires when renovating existing assets or constructing new ones is an easy way to broaden your appeal to potential buyers. According to the SIMS Luxury Builders “What Home Buyers Really Want” report, senior buyers’ sentiments about [desirable and undesirable] features “tend to be stronger than other sub-populations.” This means, for example, the presence of outdoor living space, garage storage (vs. attic), and a full bath on the main level of a property can make or break a property’s appeal for this generation of buyers. Boomers also expressed a desire to purchase homes that enable them to live on a single level and aversion to two-story family rooms and properties with elevators. While not all investors are renovating properties with an eye toward appealing to senior residents, eliminating such a large portion of the population could be dangerous. Monitor senior migration trends in your markets of interest, and rehab with their preferences in mind if they are a major force in your area. For example, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and the surrounding Grand Strand area posted a 23% increase in its 65+ population in 2024, and that trend appears likely to continue in 2025. Analysts at the Wall Street Journal cited the presence of distinct (but “not extreme”) seasons, a coastal region that is not “all the way south,” and Myrtle Beach’s international airport as factors in the population growth. “There are multiple hospital systems and nationally ranked medical institutions within driving distance,” added local agent Melanie Hellmer. She also noted the market supports a variety of retirement lifestyles, including living near the ocean, golfing and tennis, and inland residences for “more privacy and space.” The market is also more affordable than many in retiree-inundated Florida, making it a good place to retire and representing opportunity for investors serving this population. Niche Market #2Airbnb “Refugees” are Turning to Mid-Term Rentals Since its debut on the market in 2008, Airbnb has disrupted the short-term rental (STR) market in a variety of ways. Criticized for alleged negative impacts on affordability and neighborhood quality of life, the company has also provided a life-changing opportunity for many real estate investors to diversify and grow their portfolios via vacation-rental strategies that would have been largely unheard of just a quarter of a century ago. However, that prosperity and success has become a double-edged sword, with Airbnb “hosts” recounting nightmare scenarios in which the platform has banned their user profiles and properties, sometimes with little warning or recourse, and devastated their investment portfolios. For these investors and others who may balk at the increasingly high fees associated with using the Airbnb platform or the unreliable nature of many guests, the “mid-term rental” could be a solid alternative to STR. “If you have a property on Airbnb that is a strong performer and is generating serious income, that property is likely generating far more revenue than it could as a long-term rental

A Niche Opportunity for Real Estate Investors

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Transforming Travel, One Guestroom at a Time REI INK had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Kevin Bidner, President & CEO of the Hotel Communication Network at the National Private Lenders Association Conference in Austin, TX. Below is an excerpt from the company’s Executive Summary which outlines the concept, strategy, and business plan of the company. It was only natural to include this in our January 2025 “Niche Markets” issue as it represents a unique investment opportunity that real estate investors may be interested in exploring. Travel is one of the world’s largest industries, comprising 10% of the global GDP. The Hotel Communication Network’s (HCN) founders identified the travel industry as an opportunity for a digital platform that had not yet been established and set about applying their considerable experience in this sector to the evolution of a strategy to establish a digital platform by penetrating the heart of everyone’s travel experience, the guestroom. This launch strategy is the installation of tablet computers into guestrooms creating a billboard with ‘push’ messaging, as well as a fully interactive portal, aggregating hotel, city, and meeting/convention content as well as transactional opportunities. The tablet also enables communication through the guest’s own mobile device, based on a system of scannable QR codes delivered to the screen. There is an obvious industry-wide ‘technology vacuum’ in today’s guestroom. With 85 million millennials now outspending all other demographics in the travel industry, Hoteliers, traditionally late adopters of technology, are overdue for a communication upgrade. It is quite clear: having a book and a land-line phone in the guestroom simply won’t do for the millennial generation. The upgrade of communication technology has been tried on the television (failed), and on guest’s own devices with mobile apps, also with similarly disappointing adoption results (JD Power reported under 10% adoption in 2019). In contrast, a guestroom tablet reaches every guest on property with proactive in-room ‘Billboard’ type communication, which is un-missable. Even more convincing, 85%+ of guests pick up the tablets on every day of their stay, entirely solving the hotel’s communication problems, updating the communication technology in the guestroom to conform with the demands of today’s generation of travelers, and making the guestroom tablet the natural next major rollout in the hotel industry. A guestroom tablet replaces all the old ‘junk’ littering up the guest experience, replacing the paper hotel directory and city magazines, the land-line phone, clock radio, TV remote and even the thermostat, with a single device that becomes the room controller, while at the same time creating a cutting-edge communication and transactional capability in the guestroom. The winner of the guestroom technology platform becomes far more than just the ‘guestroom tech company.’ As the installation grows to critical mass in the industry, this guest-facing, connected network becomes a ‘digital marketplace’ and eventually a travel industry marketplace. To that end, HCN’s founders, with two globally successful digital platform plays in their resume, created a strategy to win the industry from the top down by investing their time and technology to become the company that would one day win the multi-million room major accounts, starting with Hilton, then Marriott and IHG (Holiday Inn, etc.) With that leadership, the rest of the industry will follow, triggering a multi-million room rollout to the 3, 4 and 5-star category hotel tiers worldwide. “Win the Guestroom, Win the Guest” There are over 17 million guestrooms in 187,000 hotels worldwide. Of those, 16.9 million of them are devoid of smart room technology and HCN has created a smart room platform that can be deployed on a global scale. It is cloud based, multi-lingual and built on the latest technology stack that can adapt to any hospitality segment in the marketplace. Global hotel revenue hit $198.6 billion in 2020. In addition, the hotel room is the nexus of the tourism industry, the convention industry, and the hotel related food service industry in every downtown core. Placing a proactively broadcasting tablet right at the point of purchase (75% of all travel spending decisions are made in the guestroom), gives these stakeholders direct access to this incredibly valuable customer set. HCN’s mission is the establishment of a critical mass of tablets in every major city, creating a global ‘digital marketplace’ in the travel sector. Important to note, the tablets are only the starting point, by getting millions of guests per day using the marketplace, this launches the “HCN Passport” mobile platform, that the guest can take with them all through their stay, with an AI concierge to accompany them and assist them with their every need. The Global Launch Begins Now HCN is well on the way to launching its global rollout along two strategic pathways to achieve rapid expansion and reach throughout the hospitality industry. Plan A targets the installation of 100,000 tablets in Hilton Hotels worldwide within the next 12 months. With a global Master Service Agreement secured with Hilton, this planned rollout is more than achievable. The zero-cost installation model for hotels, paired with a revenue-sharing arrangement, offers strong incentives for adoption and accelerates scalability. The second pathway focuses on high-density installations in major metropolitan areas to further accelerate market penetration. This approach includes collaboration with city visitor bureaus to place HCN tablets in guest rooms as dedicated “Visitor Guides.” Starting with 30,000 units in Chicago, this model will expand rapidly in cities like New York City, Las Vegas, and Orlando, where installations could reach 100,000 units per city. Globally, this model has the potential to reach millions of rooms, tapping into the 17 million rooms worldwide within the hospitality industry. Either of these — Hilton’s adoption, or penetration into city markets, paves a clear path for HCN to enter IPO territory. With no competitors able to match their pace, they have a solid path to success ahead. In the chart below is a breakdown of their projections, per revenue unit, per room, per month in the various revenue categories. Note the tablet cost is $145 each. Synergistic rollout to the

Becoming a Real Estate Success

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“Always Do it Right” Eddie Gant is an independently owned and operated franchise business owner with HomeVestors® of America, Inc. (HVA) in the Houston and Austin markets. He started his first franchise, Advantage House Buyers, in 1999 and subsequently started A2 Housebuyers, which focuses on the Austin real estate market. Today, he is a leading real estate investor in Texas. Mississippi to Texas and Engineering to Real Estate Born and raised in Mississippi, Eddie attended Mississippi State University before continuing his education at the University of Texas – Arlington, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering. He worked in the field engineering department for Hilti for 4 years before moving into multiple sales positions. Eddie was later promoted to regional sales manager over South Texas and Louisiana. Becoming a HVA Business Owner Based on his experience and success with Hilti and later Structural, Inc., Eddie realized he loved the sales process. He left the engineering field and bought a HomeVestors franchise in June 1999, after seeing an ad in the Houston Chronicle and attending a HomeVestors seminar. “At the seminar I met Ken D’Angelo, the founder of HomeVestors, and also Ken Channell, who was a former partner of D’Angelo’s and who would later become the co-president of HomeVestors,” Eddie explained. “I was the last person to leave the room that night…I wanted to do this and do it big right from the start.” From June through December 1999, Eddie bought 15 houses. Throughout Eddie’s second, third, and fourth years as a HomeVestors franchisee, he would buy approximately 40 houses each year, before increasing to over 100 houses per year. Over the course of his real estate career, he has purchased, rehabbed or sold over 1,800 properties. “The HomeVestors culture is based on the mantra, ‘Always Do It Right.’” Today, Eddie also works as a HomeVestors Development Agent (DA) to help train and support new franchise owners in the Houston and SanAntonio markets. The Future Looking at 2025, Eddie is adamant that interest rates need to come down to the 5% range. He predicts they will come down, albeit slowly and not in “leaps and bounds.” As for his own business, he says his ventures will see growth because typically, any market does not like “unknowns,” and many of the “unknowns” have been removed. Quotable Quotables “Always do it right!” “A real estate investor should only work a half a day…they just have to figure out which 12 hours to work.” “In two years, we will have another discussion on how real estate has changed due to technology. One thing that will not change is that real estate will always be a ‘people’ business.” Advice from an Expert “My advice for anyone getting started in real estate investing is simple, and that is to become a HomeVestors independent business owner. They have the best lead machine, mentoring, and coaching available. I would not be here after 25 years if it were not a great system. If you choose another avenue, get an education so you do not become a ‘one-and-done.’” HomeVestors Whether you are curious about real estate investing or you have dabbled in it and want to make it a full time job, HomeVestors helps entrepreneurs from all walks of life build their own real estate business. Our franchise owners enjoy independence while also benefitting from the famous We Buy Ugly Houses® brand and our best-in-class real estate investing tools, software, and mentorship. If you are interested in a franchise, call 866-249-6932, email Sales@homevestorsfranchise.com or visit www.homevestorsfranchise.com. Each franchise office is independently owned and operated.