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Some – Property Management
Some – Market Updates
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Fundamentals
How to Buy Homes Like the Ultra Wealthy
How to buy a second home without selling the first https://youtu.be/lTQtHB2DXDQ This Video Covers it all! Buying a Second Home is Actually Prudent Keeping up with the Jones's requires not just more income, but growing your wealth. One of the best ways to grow wealth...
AZ’s Water Drought Plan
How Water Scarcity is affecting the housing Market Across the Southwest. Housing developments are being halted due to the scarcity of water across the southwestern region. This situation is affecting various locations, from major cities like Phoenix Arizona and Las...
How To Get Clients in Real Estate for Beginners (How I Became a Top 10 Agent)
How To Get Clients In Real Estate for Beginners If you’re a new real estate agent looking for a place to start building your own real estate business—you’ve come to the right place! I will teach you some simple concepts to implement today that I have used to...
How to Flip a House with No Money
Flipping A House With No Money Flipping houses can be tough, especially if you don't have any money and you're a total beginner. But lets say you've found a great home, duplex, fourplex, etc and you want it to flip it. The first step is you're going to need...
Participation Trophies in Millennial Real Estate
Being a millennial in real estate can be tough. But you don’t have to collect a million participation trophies to make it as an agent in Phoenix, Arizona or anywhere else really. What matters most is actually making deals and then showing off the great things you...
Calculating Cap Rate P.2
Alright, so to the calculation. There's a few main variables I'm going to focus on here in Phoenix: Vacancy: By vacancy I don't mean actual. I mean effective vacancy. I'm talking effective vacancy because that's the average vacancy you can expect over a year. SO even...
The Concept Of Cap Rate
Cap rate is an incredible little calculation that is used by anybody who's anybody in real estate. In Phoenix Arizona we use this a lot. We focus on property management in Phoenix, but we still have to use this calculation in order to help our clients budget...
3 More Things Every Agent Should Know
This is part 2 of everything a new agent needs to know! This segment focuses on more macro things every new and young agent needs to begin wrapping their mind around as they make their push into the real estate world. So lets begin: Study the big wigs. You probably...
3 things all new agents need to know
So there's a lot you new guys need to think about. Here are three main things that will effect all of you: Energy Confidence Depth of Knowledge Energy: You need it. It's what moves you. But how do you make it? You make it from within. I'm talking about passion guys....
Leveraging Reviews
Who is ready to talk about Real estate reviews? I know I am. It's the end of summer but Phoenix is still hot and what's keeping the temperature up are the smoking new reviews my company has been getting. But how should I use these reviews? How do I maximize a review's...
Market Updates
Q3 2023 FLR Quarterly
Phoenix and Tucson Rental Market Conditions - Q3 2023 Lots going on in the world and so, as always, real estate is responding in kind and so must we. Overall, while the market is still healthy, it is important to realize the updrafts from the market are coming to a...
Rental Housing Market Update: August 2020
Will Tenants Not Make Rent? Rental Housing Market Update for August 2020 In order to predict how much rent collection may be affected, we will cover the following subjects: HEALS Act stimulus bill, tenant mentality towards paying the rent, landlords’ ability to...
Rental Housing Market June: It’s Looking Good (For Most)
Rental Housing Market June: It’s Looking Good (For Most) Where does the rental market stand in June? It seems there’s positivity in the market overall but does that translate to the housing market? Will housing crash or will it stabilize and eventually grow?...
Housing Market Holds Steady
Housing Market Holds Steady: Why It Hasn't Collapsed. It seemed the real estate market would tank along with the stock market. However, the fundamentals of the real estate market are far more solid than they were in 2008. Here's the key fundamentals that have kept...
New EIDL Grant and PPP Funding: Improve Your Odds of Getting it! (Stimulus)
New EIDL Grant and PPP Funding There’s a new Stimulus bill doubling the amount of EIDL Grants available to $10 billion. IThis bill is adding an additional $310 billion dollars to, essentially, the Cares Act. Of that, specifically $60 billion is going...
How Will Corona Virus affect Real Estate? (Facts and Fundamentals)
Coronavirus and Real Estate How might the corona virus affect real estate specifically? It has definitely affected the stock market and the chances of a recession on Wall Street seem possible, but does that translate to real estate? The outbreak of the virus has shown...
Updates: EIDL, PPP & Stimulus. Things Are Coming Together
Updates: EIDL, PPP & Stimulus The major theme with the EIDL, PPP, and Stimulus Checks overall is the notable progress across the board, and that you need to know a few key things on each of these programs to stay ahead of the curve. It’s also looking like not...
Management Focused
Rental Assistance Program Step By Step
Rental Property Rent Assistance We are going to talk about how you can easily avoid eviction even if you’re unemployed due to the Crisis. Here at Fort Lowell Realty we’ve directly helped many of our tenants prevent eviction by zeroing out their debts to the...
Tips on How To Lease A Property
Tips on How To Lease A Property Knowing how to lease your home or investment property is essential to getting that cap rate you (should've) calculated when buying the property. In this video I go over the main stages you need to go through in order to attract...
Should You Sell or Lease Your Home? (Rental Property Guide)
Should you Sell or Lease Your Home? It can be tough deciding whether you should sell your home in this housing market or maybe instead you should rent your home and have a property management company oversee it. I have sold hundreds of properties that were real...
Renting Your Property – Max-Out Your Income Property
Max Out Your Income Property Getting passive income through your real estate investments is a great way to build your wealth. In this video I go into how you can not only get rental income, but how you can maximize your rental property income. ...
Hundreds of Our Tenants Can’t Pay Rent – What We Did
Rent is due and millions of tenants can't pay due to the outbreak. You can't evict so how will the landlord and tenant work together to ensure neither fall into a contract breach, forcing the other side to request specific performance? Many tenants...
Out of The Box
Real Estate Historic Highlights
History is not just for the textbooks! These stories from the past can make for interesting conversations, revealing valuable insights that can enhance your approach to the real estate industry.
Crazy Real Estate Projects from the Past
The past is rich with stories for great conversations, and on the topic of real estate projects, it does not dissapoint! Here are a few real estate projects that have become immortalized into the world we know today.
Real Estate Flops
Sometimes, great real estate investments just don’t work out. Was it due to lack of research, or were they simply ahead of their time? Let’s find out so we don’t make the same mistakes.
Homeowner Traditions
You’ve paid off your mortgage. Now what? As property managers, we understand the greatness of this accomplishment and appreciate all of the traditions that have arisen from the pride that comes with sending that last mortgage payment.
Unique Real Estate Developments
Unique & Unconventional Real Estate Developments From Courtroom to Court On the fifth floor of the Supreme Court building, there is a gym with a basketball court, known as "The Highest Court in the Land," located literally above the Supreme Court's...
Real Estate Scams
How to Avoid Real Estate Scams Rental Scams Searching for a new rental home can be daunting and stressful, especially if you are on a tight schedule or looking to rent in a hot market area. Unfortunately, this can make it easy to fall for rental scams. By doing...
Cool Business Models
Real Estate Business Models Buy & Lease Back Agreement Let's say you own a building, in addition to owning the company that occupies that building, but then you sell the building to an investor and become the tenant. This earns you a lot of cash and provides the...
Behind the Scenes of ‘Love It or List It’
Behind the Scenes of 'Love It or List It': A Deeper Dive Unmasking the (Perhaps Deceptive?) Production Strategies of Popular Home Makeover Reality TV https://youtube.com/shorts/i9HotiDE0qc Unveiling the Show's Modus Operandi "Love It or List It", a popular home...
The ‘Freedomplex’: America’s Answer to 3 Construction Challenges
The Broker Bob Blog The Rise of the Freedomplex The Rise of the Freedomplex America's Answer to Three Major Construction Challenges: Did we go too far? Read Read Modern American Apartment Complexes: Subtle Echoes of Soviet Principles. As America's urban and suburban...
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