THE SPARK INVESTMENT GROUP BLOG
In these articles, you’ll find fresh and relevant content designed to help you make savvy and informed investment decisions. With these tips, you’ll be on your way toward creating the life you want to live.
How Passive Investing Can Save You Time and Money
What do you want your next investment to do for your financial situation? Do you want to preserve capital and receive a healthy return on your investment? A common answer is "I need...
Tax Strategies For Real Estate Investors
Taxes aren't the most exciting aspect of real estate investing, but they’re important to understand nonetheless. As a real estate investor, it’s much more fun to focus on great returns and upgrading...
Why Investing In Real Estate Is A Great Hedge Against Inflation
Inflation is defined as a general increase in the cost of goods and services and a corresponding decrease in value of the dollar. In the U.S., we’re currently experiencing record high inflation, the...
From Single-Family Rentals to Multifamily Investor: Making Moves
It’s no secret that many real estate investors start out investing in single-family homes. Whether one goes for doing fix and flips, rents out their original primary residence as they move up to a...
TRUST, BUT VERIFY: HOW TO VET A SYNDICATOR
OWNING REAL ESTATE WITHOUT THE HEADACHE So you believe that you need to invest in Real Estate…You understand the value of diversification in your investment portfolio by real estateinvestment……...
How To Make Real Estate Passive Income And Have Financial Peace of Mind
Most people focus only on and only know about active income. Active income involves trading your time for money. While simultaneously, active income is taxed at the highest rate out of any income...
Everything You Need To Know About Real Estate Professional Status (REPS)
Selling residential real estate as a broker and or agent is a time-consuming process - lots of phone calls to make and properties to be shown and or prepared for sale - followed by a hundred details...
What Passive Investors Need To Know About IRR
As a new passive investor or someone interested in becoming one, you’re likely hitting a steep learning curve. There are many terms, deal structures, and markets to learn about along your journey...
Understanding The Fees In A Real Estate Syndication Opportunity
Think back to the last time you bought a home or a car and you can quickly recall the mind-boggling amount of fine print and fee disclosures you waded through and agreed to. Well, when it comes to...
Return on Capital vs Return of Capital: What You Need to Know as a Passive Investor
If you invest in real estate, it is important to understand the concepts of “return ON capital” and “return OF capital”. As a passive investor, fully understanding these concepts and their...