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U.S. Foreclosure Activity Continues to Increase Despite Government Moratorium

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Number of Homes Flipped by Investors Decreases for First Time Since 2014 ATTOM Data Solutions, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (realtytrac.com),  released its Q1 2021 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 33,699 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions—during the first quarter of 2021, up 9% from the previous quarter but down 78%

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Single-Family Rentals Have More Runway Ahead

Institutional Investors Reconsider the ‘Get Out’ Portion of Their Initial ‘Get In, Get Out’ Purchase Strategy by Steven Katz These days, it is rare to pick up any real estate publication and not see a single-family rental (SFR) headline near the top of the page. Industry attention and institutional participation are seemingly growing by the minute. Naturally, where there are advocates, there are also devil’s advocates, and they have raised

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Investor Profile

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Jeffrey Hotz From Musician to Real Estate Entrepreneur As the son of a real estate agent mother, Jeff Hotz always had a passion for real estate. He also had a passion for music. After graduating high school, Jeff joined the United States Marine Corps with the express goal of being a musician in the Corps. He did that and much more for six years, from 1998–2004 (as a musician in

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Scaling Your Residential Real Estate Portfolio Through SFR Properties 2021 could be the ideal year for investing in SFR properties. Here’s where to find the support you need to grow your residential property portfolio. “More U.S. households are renting than in any point in 50 years.” When Pew Research Center made headlines with its analysis of Census Bureau Housing Data on renting versus homeownership in 2017, the broader public was

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Q&A with Jennifer McGuinness, President of Invigorate Finance

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Starting a New Chapter and Looking Ahead REI INK had the opportunity to interview Jennifer McGuinness, the president of Invigorate Finance, a newly formed partnership between Mortgage Venture Partners and Fay Financial. McGuinness brings over twenty-five years of lending and aggregation, banking, asset management, servicing, securitization, and structured finance experience to Invigorate Finance. Most recently, she was the Founder and Head of Aggregation & Structured Finance for Mortgage Venture Partners.

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Savannah, Georgia

The “Hostess City” is Primed for Growth, Perfect for Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis In March 2020, the outlook seemed uncertain for the Savannah, Georgia, economy. Analysts looked at the city that is host to the largest and fastest-growing container terminal in America, the Port of Savannah, the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts USA, and home to the famous Savannah Victorian Historic District and

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