Real Estate Journal
Spring 2017
2. Crowdfunding - The Time Has Come: The Promise
7. Let's Take the Opportunity to Reform HUD
3. Success Will Never Be a Place for Us, it is a Path
8. A Crystal Ball
4. Four Simple Things You Can Do to Grow Your Business in 2017 5. NREIA Legislative Update "Vacation with an Education" on National REIA's 19th Annual Cruise
How to Buy Good Investments, Not Trophy Houses
10. 7 Reasons Why Online Real Estate Leads are Like Gold $$ 11. Prepare Investment Properties for Winter Weather
6. Managing the Information Barrage
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Member Take Control of Your Retirement Spotlight Savings with a Self-Directed IRA
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discussion about self-directed IRAs and how beneficial they can be for real estate investors. It doesn’t take much searching to come across recent news articles lamenting the fact that an alarming number of Americans have little to no retirement savings. A fact that, while very concerning, doesn’t have to be everyone’s situation especially real estate investors! Imagine for a moment if you could use your retirement accounts to invest in real estate – utaka Maseba’s real estate journey started in 2014 similar to what you’re currently as a way to diversify his doing, but also within the confines investment portfolio. Having no of an individual retirement prior knowledge, he enrolled in account, or more specifically one a local junior college and ended that’s “self-directed.” up getting his real estate license. His next goal was to attend every meeting of several REIA’s for half a year. He paired it down from seven groups to two, and is now an active member of the LA South REIA and LAREIA in Los Angeles, California.
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We know that real estate investors to accept. That’s why National know the value and importance of REIA has teamed up with longtime putting their money to work in local-REIA supporter Equity Trust ways they choose and for the risk continued on page 17 and rewards that they’re willing
Key Economic Trends to Watch in 2017
Please tell us a little about By Chris Kuehl, Ph.D. who you are and what you nd now the Trump era good as the economies of either go up at least twice more in the did before getting into real begins – at least formally. Reagan or Clinton. coming year to end up somewhere estate investing: I work in the international entertainment industry. My
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What kind of shape is the economy in as he takes over – as compared to what other Presidents before him faced? What are the chances his goals will be met and what are the factors that will make accomplishing these goals tough and perhaps even impossible? In the most general terms he inherits an economy that has clearly started to recover from the grinding recession that started in 2008 and it is in far better shape than when Obama took control. It is not as
As the term starts Trump will be facing at least three trends that started in 2016 and are expected to be a major factor in the coming year. The expectation for interest rates for most of the last eight years has been that they would stay low. This is a policy that doesn’t have all that much to do with the President and has developed over the course of two Fed Chair terms (Bernanke and Yellen). They rose in December and the current assessment holds that they will
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between 1% and 1.5%. The second development is inflation – mostly driven by higher wages in select sectors. The rate now is close to 2% at the core level and is expected to continue inching up. Nobody is expecting hyperinflation or anything even close. For now, this level will actually be a good thing and stimulative to a degree. It will also help convince the Fed rate hikes remain a good idea. The third development is the strong dollar continued on page 18