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How to Modernize an Outdated Rental Property

February 28, 2020 by Marco Santarelli

As a property owner who struggles to find tenants and receives few applicants, there might be several factors and reasons. But one of these reasons could be that your rental property is outdated. Being outdated can mean that the kitchen appliances look like they’re on their last life, or it can mean you have a strict screening process or stipulations for would-be renters. 

So, to spark more interest to potential tenants, you need to make some updates–whether it’s to the interior spaces or the lease itself. Here are a few tips on how to modernize an outdated rental property and bring it into the new age. 

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Filed Under: Flipping, Real Estate Investments, Rehabbing

How to Sell Your Home Fast: A Visual Guide

September 6, 2017 by Marco Santarelli

How to Sell Your Home FastHow to Sell Your Home Fast

If you’re a real estate investor, you know how important it is to be able to sell a house fast. Anything can happen in a short period of time, and you don’t want to risk losing value in your property just because it takes a long time to find a buyer to meet your asking price.

When you’re flipping a house, you need to make sure that you do the proper renovations to increase the value of your property, but timing is of the essence because you need to be selling homes just as fast as you’re buying them. There are always a variety of changes you can consider to make your house more marketable.

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Filed Under: Rehabbing, Selling Real Estate

Where to Start with a Fixer-Upper

March 28, 2017 by Marco Santarelli

When you buy a fixer-upper, you know that there will be hours of work ahead. But it can be hard to know where to start. Not everyone is born a Joanna Gaines — the design mastermind behind HGTV’s Fixer Upper — but that doesn’t mean you’re doomed to a dilapidated dwelling. Here’s a handy list of initial steps to ensure that your DIY approach to home-ownership is a success.

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Filed Under: Getting Started, Real Estate Investing, Rehabbing

5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Flip Homes

July 6, 2016 by Marco Santarelli

5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Flip Homes

When I tell people that I am a real estate investor, or that I work at a real estate investing firm, one of the first questions they ask me is: “oh, do you flip houses?”

The question gets a little annoying after a while but I understand why people ask it – it’s because most people’s knowledge of real estate investing comes from what you see on television, and flipping shows are everywhere on TV.

So when I tell people what kind of investing I really do, I get a lot of blank stares as they try to fit what I do into their paradigm of “real estate investing”.

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Filed Under: Getting Started, Real Estate Investing, Rehabbing

Routine Repairs vs. Capital Expenditures (CapEx)

February 24, 2015 by Marco Santarelli

For some residential investors, capital expenditure terminology — CapEx for short — is unfamiliar.  Capital expenditure reserves are common in the commercial real estate sector but lesser known in the residential real estate space.

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Filed Under: Financing, Property Management, Real Estate Investing, Rehabbing

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