Unpaid rent happens — but it doesn’t have to happen often.Collecting unpaid rent from a former tenant is never fun, and it’s often avoidable. Sure, sometimes people skip out on rent during their lease term or for that last month before their contract ends. But at LEAP we’ve kept our delinquency rate …
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Is It Too Late for You to Start Investing in Real Estate?
In the real estate world, there always seems to be some new “whiz kid” who started investing at 18 years old and retired with a multi-million dollar portfolio before graduating from college. With that kind of emphasis on the correlation between youth and success, it can be easy to feel as though …
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Dallas-Fort Worth Housing Market 2017 Comparison [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Dallas housing market (and surrounding areas) are filled with unique opportunities for real estate investors. A growing job market, top-ranked schools, and affordable housing all make the Dallas-Fort Worth area a great choice for investment properties.But the metroplex is expansive, and choosing …
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How to Use the Like Kind Exchange (1031) for Rental Property
As a real estate investor, you’ve probably heard the term “like kind exchange” come up in conversation.A like kind exchange (also known as a “1031 exchange”) is a real estate transaction that allows you to sell a property and reinvest the profits into a new property without paying capital gains …
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Building Wealth Through Real Estate: The Snowball Rental Property Investment Strategy
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in the world, with a current net worth of nearly 80 billion USD. When people ask him the secret to his success, he always says the same thing: start investing early and stick with your investments. In his own words, “all there is to investing is …
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Become a Successful Real Estate Investor by Adopting These 5 Traits
Ever wondered why some people make it in real estate while others don’t? They just aren’t making as much money as they thought and seem perpetually stressed? Meanwhile, the best investors always seem to be ahead of the curve — knowing what properties will pay off and what’s not worth their time. And …
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Use The Real Estate Professional Loophole To Reduce Your Tax Liability
There are plenty of benefits to being a real estate investor; there’s the opportunity to build wealth, to explore new markets, to create autonomy in your work. But there’s another serious benefit to being an investor that you might not know about: the real estate professional loophole.Many people …
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5 Must-Know Real Estate Investing Metrics for Evaluating Your Portfolio’s Performance
There’s no arguing that investing is a numbers game. So it makes sense that when it comes to investing in real estate, there’s nothing more important than understanding real estate metrics.Having a firm understanding of the key metrics in real estate investment is a crucial part of building a …
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How Texas Landlords Can Protect Themselves From Fair Housing Complaints
There were 28,181 reported fair housing complaints last year — and 91.5% of those happened in rental transactions. Sounds like a lot, right? But these are just the reported cases. The National Fair Housing Alliance estimates 4 million instances of discrimination happen each year in the rental market …
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Rental Property Accounting: 9 Tips to Keep Your Finances in Order (and the Tax Man Happy)
As a real estate investor, there are a lot of things you need to stay on top of to ensure the success (and profitability) of your investments; you need to keep your properties well maintained, you need to find responsible and trustworthy tenants, and you need to hire the right property management …
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