Welcome to the LEAP Property Management DFW Rental Market Report for 2018! In this report, we’ll take a look at the current DFW rental market trends and, since it’s the beginning of a new year, take a look back at key trends in 2017 that stand to influence the rental market in the coming …
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Do Your Rental Properties Satisfy the 1% and 5% Rules?
There are a few different metrics you can use to determine the “success” of an investment property, but there’s none that’s more critical than cash flow.Owning and managing a rental property isn’t cheap. There is a significant number of costs (like loan payments, maintenance, repairs, …
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Don’t Get Swindled: How to Read a Real Estate Pro Forma Cash Flow Report
No matter what kind of investment property you own, the most important metric for measuring success is cash flow. You need to make sure the properties you’re investing in will generate a profit — otherwise, you’ll quickly find yourself with a portfolio that’s draining your bank account instead …
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The 6 Ways to Make Money with Rental Properties & Maximize Your ROI
Making money in any business — including real estate — means maximizing your ROI in every possible way. If you want to build your wealth, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to make money that’s available to you.Can You Make Money With Rental Properties?Thankfully, real estate …
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How to Find Private Money Investors for Your Real Estate Financing
As an investor, you want to build a profitable real estate portfolio. But unless you have a significant amount of cash on hand, you’ll need to find the financing to make that happen.Sometimes, the best option is to go to a bank. But other times — and more often than you’d think — there’s …
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Buying Probate Properties: A Uniquely Profitable Way to Invest in Real Estate
There are a lot of different routes you can take when scouting potential properties to add to your real estate portfolio, but there’s one under-utilized route that can be a major moneymaker for your investment business — and that’s probate properties.The term 'probate real estate' refers to …
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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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