The View From Temple View

If you have real estate investment plans for the coming year, here's a helpful guide to calculating your return on investment (ROI).

For any real estate investor, finding a reliable, honest, efficient, and resourceful lender is often just as critical as finding the right property to acquire.  Reputation is everything, as is a positive track record of successful projects taken on .  But how can you spot the great lenders from the crowd of financing partners?

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Real estate investment can be a daunting option for wealth building, but the prospect of short-term rentals – or vacation rentals – is becoming increasingly popular routes for investors to take. When researching prospective locations, these are four boxes worth checking off before committing to any property.

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There are both pros and cons to owning a vacation rental property; ultimately, it’s dependent upon what your long-term goals are and then making an informed decision on whether a vacation rental property can get you there.

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While much of the individual components of real estate investing – long-term vs. short term business plan, strategy, and individual assets and qualifiers – can be determined by an investor, there are times when certain decisions or processes are out of the investor’s hands and dictated by basic things like what state they live in. How a property is closed on is one example. Enter dry funding and wet funding.

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Ground-up construction can offer new avenues for investors who are having a hard time with the current state of inventory, as well as the private lenders who want to stretch the boundaries of what they can finance.