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Real Estate Investor: Is Flipping or Renting Better in 2020?

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Real estate investing in 2020 brings new challenges and also new opportunities. Many commercial real estate investors are caught in a tight spot due to Covid-19 shutdowns and consumer fears keeping people away from the restaurants, bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, and shopping out...

Landlords: Any Silver Lining for Amid CDC’s National Eviction Ban?

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, September 15, 2020

The CDC’s National Eviction Moratorium went into effect on September 4, 2020.They slapped this new ban down – something the Center for Disease Control has never done before – after the original CARES Act moratorium on evictions expired at the end of July.After t...

Baltimore Real Estate is On Fire Amid Pandemic Fallout

By Jenni Utz Thursday, September 3, 2020

Baltimore real estate sales are red-hot despite Covid-19. As the number of cases approaches 15,000 for the city, and exceed 6 million for the nation, reports show that residents were snatching up so much single-family property that the city hit a 10-year record pace for the month...

How to Balance Your Day Job With Your Real Estate Side Hustle

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, August 18, 2020

For many aspiring real estate entrepreneurs, “Quit my day job!” is high on the list of reasons why they started their real estate side hustle in the first place. Maybe even a little too high. Some would-be tycoons, smelling millions around the corner, jump t...

How to Calculate Real Estate Investment Returns

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Real estate has the reputation as a “good investment.” But how good? Better than stocks? Bonds? Gold? The answer is always “it depends.” If you buy the right property at the right time, real estate investments can run circles around those other invest...

Top 5 Benefits of Real Estate Investing in Westminster Maryland

By Jenni Utz Thursday, March 12, 2020

Let’s face it.There’s far too many options out there that all claim to be great vehicles for accumulating wealth and providing an early retirement for the investor.Every single one of the plethora of investment instruments out there all promise the world. But sadly, m...

How to Get Private Lenders for Real Estate Deals

By Jenni Utz Monday, February 17, 2020

A private lender is a person who uses their own financial investment for a return on a real estate transaction.A private lender can be a friend, a neighbor, a coworker, a family member, or a person you meet in search of investors for real estate deals. The most important thing ...

New Credit Scoring Model ‘FICO 10’ Will Likely Impact Your Score Soon

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Have you heard about the new FICO 10 credit scoring model coming soon?That’s right. There’s a new version of the FICO credit scoring model that’s expected to instantly drop millions of credit scores for Americans.The company behind the FICO scoring system, Fair ...

Looking Ahead to 2020: Rental Price Trends Investors Should Know About [PART 2]

By Jenni Utz Monday, January 20, 2020

Part 1 Part 2Rent rates rose in 2019 and will continue to rise in 2020 because people are renting more and renting longer than they did before.On a national level, median rental rates rose from 4.1% for one-bedroom units, reaching $1,078 per month by the close of 2019. In the sam...

Looking Ahead to 2020: U.S. Trends in Real Estate & Rental Property [PART 1]

By Jenni Utz Tuesday, January 7, 2020

It’s a new year and heck…it’s a new decade!2020 is here and there’s money to make as a real estate investor.We’ll take a look at some of the top trends happening in real estate as reported by Realtor.com.A good question at the macro-level every rea...