Real Estate

Fundrise eREIT™ Review: Real Estate Investing For All Investors

After publishing my post, Focus On Trends: Why I’m Investing In The Heartland Of America, a couple readers pointed out that Fundrise, one of the leading real estate crowdfunding platforms, offers various eREITs. Further, on February 13, 2019, Google announced they are investing $13 billion in heartland real estate to expand their offices and data

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A Successful Real Estate Crowdfunding Investment: Key Lessons Learned

This article will profile a successful real estate crowdfunding investment. Real estate crowdfunding started in 2012 and is therefore a relatively new investment alternative. However, real estate has been one of the longest investment classes in history. In October 2016, I decided to invest $10,000 in my first real estate crowdfunding investment. It was a

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Include Primary Home When Calculating Net Worth Or Not

There’s a perpetual debate raging whether one should include their primary home when calculating net worth or not. I think it’s absolutely fine to include your primary residence as part of your net worth. It’s also fine not to include your home as part of your net worth. You should calculate both because there is

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How Real Estate Gets Impacted By A Decline In Stock Prices

Are you wondering how real estate performs when stocks sell off? This article is a deep-dive look at how real estate gets impacted when there is turmoil in the stock market like we saw most recently in March 2020. The post was originally published in March 2020 and has since been updated to reflect the

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Property Sellers: Only Accept All Cash Offers To Maximize Profits And Happiness

Are you selling a property and nervous about the process? If your local real estate market supports it, only accept all cash offers in order to maximize profits and happiness. Once a mortgage is involved, things can get really hairy. The percentage of homebuyers paying all cash is rising. We’re talking roughly 34% of homebuyers

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Tax-Free Profit Exclusion: Prorate For Long Term Rentals That Turn Into Primary Homes

Unfortunately, sometimes dreams don’t come true. In my quest to simplify life, I was blinded by the belief that the rental property I bought in 2003 would also be eligible for the full $250,000 / $500,000 tax-free profit exclusion if I moved back in tomorrow and lived in it for the next two years before

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