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10 Powerful Tips When Selling Your Home With a Trusted Listing Agent
Selling a home often feels tiring. The cleaning, endless showings, and waiting for the right offer test anyone's patience. Some buyers love the photos...
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Flipping Real Estate: An Overview
Are you looking to invest in Real Estate? One common way people invest in real estate is by flipping a house. Our guide to fixing up a house covers wh...
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Fixing Up A House
Whether you are renovating a home to prepare it for sale or just want to improve it, renovations can be expensive so it's important to find a contract...
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Harrisonburg REI February Meetup with Steve Stein
How to Avoid and Handle Difficult Tenants with Steve Stein This month we had Steve Stein with Realty Asset Management, Inc guest speaking on his busin...
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Harrisonburg REI November Meetup with Rob Iten
Private and Hard Money Lending with Rob Iten This month we had Rob Iten with Anchorbolt Lending, LLC guest speaking on his business which specializes...
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Harrisonburg REI and How To Invest in Rental Property
October's Meetup This month, Chase Louderback & Mattias Clymer covered how to invest in rental property. Whether you are a new real estate investor or...
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How To Estimate Renovation Costs
Harrisonburg REI September Meeting Last week, Harrisonburg Real Estate Investor Network hosted a virtual meeting to review all the ins and outs of…
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Harrisonburg REI June Meeting
Analyzing Multi-Family Properties with Cassidy Burns We will be having our first in-person meeting again in over a year! Guest speaker Cassidy Burns,...
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April REI Meeting: Part One of Real Estate Investing
Diving into Real Estate Investing I am excited to announce that Chase and I will be reviewing the full process on how to buy your first, or next, inve...
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Harrisonburg Real Estate Investors Network- February Meeting
A little bit about my real estate background... I got my license in 2014 and since then I have had the honor of being named a Top Agent by Virginia Li...
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Harrisonburg Real Estate Investors Network- January Meeting
Who is Evan Mayo? Evan Mayo is a trial attorney and real estate investor located in Charlottesville, Virginia. He began investing in real estate in…
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Paul Moore's Journey: Newbie to Commercial Real Estate Mogul
Harrisonburg Real Estate Investors This month we are excited to announce that we have Paul Moore guest speaking on his journey from Newbie to Commerc...
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7 Steps to Prevent Pipes from Freezing
Winter time and cold weather bring with them added responsibilities for homeowners. Winterization can be especially challenging for new homeowners, wh...
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How Long Does It Take to Buy A Home?
The short answer is that it takes on average about 4.5 months to buy a home. However, different aspects of buying a home happen at different times. He...
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Short Term Rentals - What you need to know
The city council of Harrisonburg has recently changed the laws surrounding short term rental properties, or “Airbnbs.” Unless previously approved by t...
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Real Estate Investors' Number One Trick: 1031 Tax Exchange
The 1031 tax exchange had earned it's name rather unimaginatively: it comes from tax code. This section of tax code mostly revolves around investment...
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Why Real Estate Investors Leverage Their Investments
Why do real estate investors leverage their investment properties? The most obvious answer is that the more they leverage, the more properties they ca...
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Cash on Cash Return Defined
Cash-on-Cash Return is what you would use to compare your investment to other types of investments, like stocks. To calculate Cash-on-Cash Return, tak...
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Cash Flow Defined
Most buy and hold real estate investors agree that cash flow is the ultimate goal. To calculate cash flow, you take the NOI and subtract it by the Deb...
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Debt Service
Debt service is simply the mortgage payment associated with a property. This can be annualized by multiplying one payment by 12. If you are considerin...
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Net Operating Income (NOI) Defined
The net operating income is the income minus the expenses excluding the mortgage. The NOI is used to help determine the profitability and value of a…
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Effective Gross Income Defined
Effective Gross income is also known as EGI. This number is one of the first things you will want to look at when determining a property's income pote...
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Vacancy Rate Defined
Vacancy rate is the percentage of vacant units in comparison to all the units in the property. Vacancies Total Units An example would be if a hundred...
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Why you Should Invest in a Rental Home
Investing in Real Estate Real estate is often one of the first things people think of when they consider investments. Why is real estate such a great...
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Cash Flow or Equity: 15 Year Vs 30 Year Mortgage for Rentals
Many investors will argue different sides on this topic. Some investors will say that more cash flow with a 30 year mortgage is more advantageous beca...
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Flipping Real Estate: An Overview
Are you looking to invest in Real Estate? One common way people invest in real estate is by flipping a house. The basic concept of flipping real estat...
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Investing for Cash Flow or Appreciation?
If you are new to investment real estate, you may not know that there are a lot of different opinions and strategies. Ever since the real estate bubbl...
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Capitalization Rate Defined
Capitalization rate, commonly known as Cap Rate, is the Net Operating Income divided by the sales price. The Cap Rate tells you how well your invest…
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What Colors Should You Choose to Help Resell Your Home?
You don't have to be ready to sell your home to be thinking about keeping your home resell friendly. If you are like us, most of the painting occurred...
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The Top 10 Terms of Commercial/Investment Real Estate
Welcome to the list of the top 10 terms used in commercial/investment real estate. If you are thinking of getting into investing and/or commercial rea...
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Harrisonburg To Require Noise Permit for Large Gatherings
Starting on September 15th, Harrisonburg will require residents to acquire a permit 15 days in advance for any gatherings held outside with 100 or mor...
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Will Selling Your House For Sale By Owner Save You Money?
According to this article by the NAR, you will not save money. Who will look at your home is a factor that most For Sale By Owners (FSBO) don't think...
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How Much Can Your House Rent For?
Keep Your House as a Rental Have you considered buying another house and renting your current residence? Have you wondered how much cash flow you woul...
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Vacancy Explained for Purchasing Investment and Commercial Real Estate
First of all, no apartment complex, for sale, is going to advertise their vacancy like the sign above. Why? Vacancy is any units that are not occupied...
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Construction Rates at a 7 Year High
Construction rates have been steadily increasing since 2010. In April 2015, construction spending reached a significant milestone by passing the trill...
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Real Estate Tax Deferment
This is part three of a series. Click here to go back to "An Overview of the Three D's of Real Estate Tax" Being able to defer paying taxes and inste...
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Real Estate Depreciation Tax Benefits
Click here to go back to An Overview of the Three D's of Real Estate Tax. The IRS understands that overtime, your house costs money to maintain. They...
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An Overview of the Three D's of Real Estate Tax
As we wrap up tax season, I think it's important to address what tax benefits are available through home ownership. For more information on each topic...
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The Four Ways to Make Money with Rentals
Have you been thinking about making a Real Estate investment? Is having rent come in once a month the only benefit to having an investment? Below I ou...
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Real Estate Investing: Exit Strategies
Exit Strategies Developing exit strategies before you purchase a property is an important step to help ensure that you have options. You will want to…