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Welcome to the Team Christopher Johnson out of Orange County, CA

About ChristopherPurchasing property is a major decision and it is important that you choose an agent who you have confidence in and feel you can trust. There are many issues to consider when selecting an agent but few as important as your agent's dedication. Our view is simple – clients count!Successful investment is comprised of three main factors – long term capital growth, maximum rental yield achievable and near constant occupation. Long

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REALTORS: How to Win Over More Instagram Followers

Instagram boasts more than 200 million active monthly users. It has quickly emerged as one of the most popular social media platforms. How can you use it to grow your own network? Forbes.com columnist Tom Ward recently offered a few tips, including:Create a theme for your page. Figure out what you are trying to promote on Instagram and stick to it, Ward writes. Have a separate account for your personal posts, if necessary. “You can’t expect

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Top 10 ZIP Codes for Rental Returns

More Americans are renting homes today than at any time in the past 50 years, and more investors are looking to cash in, newly released data shows.HomeUnion, which helps investors find single-family rental homes, released a list of projections for investors looking to rent out and hold properties for the next five years. Researchers considered factors like vacancies, rent appreciation, permitting activities for both apartments and single-family

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Best Year for New Construction in a Decade?

A shortage of homes for sale combined with growing buyer demands will likely spark home builders to construct the most homes this year than in the last decade, economists told HousingWire.“Most likely a result of the trending imbalance between homes for sale and demand for new homes to purchase, housing starts finally edged up in the month of June to 8.3 percent,” says Greg Parsons, Semper Capital Management CEO. “The need to balance the g

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22 Offers But No Guarantee on Appraisal

After Dallas-area real estate pro Laura Barnett put a listing on the market three weeks ago, it quickly received 22 offers. But Barnett didn’t take the highest bid.Instead, she took the cash offer because she wanted to ensure that there were no hang-ups along the way toward closing, she told CNBC. Appraisals, she says, are not keeping up with the sales prices. If the appraisal doesn’t match the contracted price, buyers usually can’t get

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Welcome to the Team Brian Milligan out of the Bay Area

About BrianRaised in South San Jose- Almaden ValleyAttended College in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo @ Cal Poly University. 25+ years of Business/ Sales Experience. Short Sales, REO's and Investment/ Flipper Properties. Licensed Realtor since 2004 Licensed Contractor Since 1997iPro currently deals throughout the states of California and Texas with new offices in New York and Florida. We continue to strive to broaden opportunities for real

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REALTORS: Keys to building your real estate reputation

Key Takeaways Effective online and offline marketing must be consistent. Recognition is built over time and multiple channels.In the pre-digital age, marketing was straightforward: You placed an ad in the newspaper and sent out postcards. All marketing was physical.Enter the internet, which now dominates consumers’ attention as they toggle from their desktop to their smartphone, amid their daily life. Today’s marketing needs to reflect these

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Where It’s Toughest for Builders to Add Homes

The Los Angeles beachfront neighborhood of Venice may be one of the most in-demand areas in the nation—but it hasn’t gained a single housing unit in the last 15 years.Venice was ranked as the country’s toughest place to build new homes, according to an analysis by contractor website BuildZoom.com. In fact, the neighborhood had about 700 fewer housing units in 2015 than it did in 2000. Apartment development has come to a standstill there, an

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Consumers Vote for Housing as Top Investment

Consumers voted for real estate as their top long-term investment choice for a third year in a row, according to the latest Bankrate.com survey. No-risk cash investments came in second, and stocks came in third.“If you have a long time horizon, you will win in real estate,” Abhi Golhar, a real estate investor in Atlanta, told Bankrate. The housing market has bounced back from its bottom in 2011, and during the last 12 months ending in May, ho

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Most Renters in 50 Years

More Americans are choosing to rent than at any other point in the last 50 years, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. In 2016, 36.6 percent of households rented their homes, just shy of the 37 percent recorded in 1965, data shows.Overall, the number of U.S. households has increased by 7.6 million over the past decade. But while the number of homeowner households has remained relatively flat over that time period, the number of rente

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