Alternative Investing
170 pieces, newest first. The longer reads are up top; everything is listed by year below.
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- 2025Uncle Sam Needs Property ManagersWith more than 500 million square feet of real estate, federally-owned property creates opportuniy, security, and challenge. Managing a federally owned real property portfolio efficiently…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2024Tiny Homes, Big ReturnsHere’s what you need to know about investing in the micro-living trend. If you’re one of the 52% of Americans who think the economy is poised for a big rebound next year, you’re probably…Article, Alternative Investing
- 20244 Pros and Cons of Investing in an Airbnb vs. a Traditional RentalReal estate investors are always on the lookout for their next big venture. With occupancy rates soaring, now may seem like a good time to invest in an Airbnb. What’s the difference between…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2023The Secret Weapon of Alternative InvestingBank unsecured business lines of credit offer investors many advantages in today’s dynamic marketplace. In the world of alternative investing, opportunities are abundant. But to seize them,…Article, Alternative Investing
- 202310 Strategies for Investing in Real Estate During an Economic DownturnThe period of robust and consistent economic expansion since the pandemic seems to be coming to an end. Consumer prices continue to rise, but the annual inflation rate dropped to 5% in…Article, Alternative Investing
- 202317 Ways You Can Make Money Investing in Real EstateInvesting in real estate is a solid way to build generational wealth. Here are 17 ways you can make money investing in real estate—plus eight ways to get started with less money than you…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2022The Holiday Short-Term Rental “Host with the Most”From big cities to small towns and rural destinations, short-term rentals have continued to rise in popularity post-pandemic. This demand looks poised to continue into the 2022 holiday…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2022Short-Term Rentals on the Ballot: The Long-Term Considerations of Short-Term Rental RegulationsAcross the country, cities large and small will be deciding the future of local short-term rental operations and compliance via ballot measures on Tuesday, November 8. The topic of…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2022Purposeful Design—Container-Based Homes to the RescueDesign touches almost all aspects of our experience—from how something looks to how it feels. Interestingly, design also changes how we feel when we experience it. Design in housing is no…Article, Alternative Investing
- 2022Is Real Estate Education Still Needed?As an 18-year veteran and third-generation real estate investor, I feel like I have seen it all. I have seen the market cycles, both the ups and the downs. I have seen people make hundreds…Article, Alternative Investing
Everything, by year
20259
- Think Realty Magazine September-October 2025
- Deals Don’t Wait for Wednesdays
- Uncle Sam Needs Property Managers
- Think Realty Magazine July-August 2025
- Are You Lending Across State Lines?
- Think Realty Podcast #345: Scaling Wealth Through Real Estate & Beyond
- Your Shortcut to Energy Asset Ownership
- Dig Deeper: Unearth the Wealth of Mineral Rights
- Think Realty Podcast #338 – Cash Flow Is Money in Motion
202425
- Think Realty Podcast #337 – Inside Constructive Capital’s Success: Michael Fuller on Lending Trends, Brokers & Leadership
- Think Realty Podcast #335 – Is Vacant Land the Key to Building Wealth? Insights from 28-Year Real Estate Pro, Michael Poggi!
- 2025 Investment Opportunities in the Oil and Gas Sector
- +WORKSHOP: How to Earn Tax-Free Income by Investing in Quarter-Acre Vacant Lots in Resort Areas
- Infinite Banking with Rental Properties – Increase Your Cash Flow and Wealth Fast with Gary Pinkerton
- Build Wealth & Passive Income From Investing in Vacant Lots in Fast Growing Resort Communities with Michael Poggi
- Lock Down Investments at a Glance with Derreck Long
- Diversify Your Real Estate Portfolio With Mineral Rights with Derreck Long
- Cashflow 10k+/Month off one Single-Family Home with Residential Assisted Living
- Put Your Money to Work in Three Places at the Same Time with Tom Laune
- Beyond Fix & Flip: Diversify with Alternative Investments
- Infinite Banking – OPM Powering Your Rental Portfolio with Gary Pinkerton
- Why Your Investments Are Failing With Derreck Long
- Tiny Homes, Big Returns
- Can Real Estate Fund Your Travel Dreams? How to Use Property Investments for More Vacations
- Think Realty Podcast #313 – BYOB – Be Your Own Bank
- Think Realty Podcast #311 – Mineral Rights 101 with Derreck Long
- “This Is an Actual Crisis in Our Country That Will Affect Every Single Person We Know for the Next 20 Years.”
- Think Realty Podcast #307: Revolutionizing Real Estate – Unveiling Padsplit’s Game-Changing Model!
- How Mineral Rights Work
- 1031 Exchanges for Mineral Rights
- 4 Pros and Cons of Investing in an Airbnb vs. a Traditional Rental
- How to Make Your Money Work in Three Places at the Same Time!
- Think Realty Podcast #299 – Rock On!
- Think Realty Webinar: How to Make Your Money Work in THREE Places at the SAME TIME
202340
- Think Realty Webinar: Retire Your Way: The Solo 401k Strategy for Entrepreneurs
- Think Realty Podcast #293 – Do Better, Invest Better With Land Betterment Corporation
- The Secret Weapon of Alternative Investing
- Think Realty Podcast #293 – Get More Income Out of the Properties That You Already Have
- How to Transform a Home or Building Into a Senior Assisted Living Center, Creating Unlimited Cash Flow
- 10 Strategies for Investing in Real Estate During an Economic Downturn
- Think Realty Podcast #286 – Conserve Your Cash With Bulletproof Wealth!
- Think Realty Podcast #282 – Freedom Investing for Freedom Living!
- Think Realty Podcast #280 – Learn, Invest, and Grow Your Future!
- 2023’s Trending Alternative Investment Strategies
- Oil and Gas Cash Flow
- Think Realty Podcast #278 – Investing in Oil & Gas, It’s Easier Than You Think!
- Using a Family Bank to Support Your Rental Portfolio with Gary Pinkerton
- Think Realty Webinar: Oil and Gas Cash Flow
- Module 1 – Introduction to Mobile Home Investing
- Module 2 – Construction Standards
- Module 3 – The Competition
- Module 4 – Analyzing Market Stability for Mobile Homes
- Module 5 – Analyzing Demand for Mobile Homes
- Module 6 – Personal Property vs. Real Property
- Module 7 – Key People for Your Mobile Home Business
- Module 8 – Finding the Right Real Estate Agent
- Module 9 – Positioning for Private Money
- Module 10 – Best Sources for Private Money
- Module 11 – Goodbye
- Course Addendum – About Glenn Stromberg
- Course Addendum – Primer on Manufactured Homes on Land
- Learn How to Turn a Single-Family Home into a Monthly $5K-$15K Cash Flow with Isabelle Guarino
- 2023’s Trending Alternative Investment Strategies
- Think Realty Webinar – Oil & Gas: The Missing Piece to Your Alternative Investment Portfolio
- Residential Assisted Living
- Infinite Banking with Rentals: Other People’s Money with Gary Pinkerton
- Corporate Housing
- 17 Ways You Can Make Money Investing in Real Estate
- Is Affordable Housing a Wise Investment?
- The Stock Market Versus Real Estate
- Short Term Rental Investments: A Compact Guide
- Make Money in Any Market with Government-Backed Notes
- Think Realty Podcast #259 – Corporate Rentals: Are They Worth the Investment?
- Revolutionizing the Assisted Living Industry
202230
- Think Realty Podcast #257 – Break the Chains and Find Financial Freedom
- Generating More Than Wealth
- The Holiday Short-Term Rental “Host with the Most”
- Short-Term Rentals on the Ballot: The Long-Term Considerations of Short-Term Rental Regulations
- Think Realty Podcast #248 – Self-Storage: A Steady and Smart Investment!
- Think Realty Podcast #247 – Don’t Judge an Investment by it’s Name!
- Know When to Shift to a Property Manager for Your Short-Term Rental
- Real Estate Investing Versus 401(k)
- What Is Legacy Investing?
- Become a Strategy Savvy Investor
- Freedom Thru Private Banking and Florida Rentals with Gary Pinkerton
- Take Quality Care of Grandma For FREE & Say Good-Bye to that Pit in Your Stomach with Isabelle Guarino
- Alternative Investment Strategies Trending in 2023
- Think Realty Podcast #239- Cut the Strings and Take Back Control!
- Vacation Rentals: A Blueprint for Success
- Infinite Banking – Basics, and Funding Rentals with Gary Pinkerton
- Think Realty Podcast #236 – The Silver Tsunami is Coming… Are Your Investments Ready?
- Think Realty Podcast #235 – Shared Housing: Profitable AND Innovative!
- Think Realty Podcast #232 – Understanding the Wealth Pyramid
- Purposeful Design—Container-Based Homes to the Rescue
- Learn How to Create a Professional Income by Converting One Single-Family Home into an Assisted Living Home with Isabelle Guarino
- Infinite Banking, Funding for Your Rental Portfolio with Gary Pinkerton
- What Alternative Investment Strategies are Trending for 2022?
- The Best Kept Secret In Real Estate Investing “Manufactured Homes on Land” with Glenn Stromberg
- Leveraging Notes to Grow Your Retirement
- Is Real Estate Education Still Needed?
- Earn Real Estate Rental Income without Being a Landlord
- How To Earn From Airbnb; Learn The Art Of Real Estate Arbitrage
- Contractual Unity in a Volatile Market
- A Demographic Shift Prime for Investment
202132
- Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage
- The Abstract Side of Real Estate
- Global Real Estate Investing
- Short-term Rental Regulations
- Think Realty Podcast #216 – Future of Short-Term Rentals
- Wholesaling Integrity
- Managing the Lifecycle of a Storage Facility
- Smart Tech for Build-to-Rent Investors
- Create Wealth and Confident, Financially Educated Children
- Generating Income From Your Guest House
- 6 Real Estate Investing Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss
- Think Realty Podcast #208 – You Want to be the Bank!
- Impact Housing is More Than Just Investing with Emmanuel Guarino
- Think Realty Podcast #204 – The Storage Strategy
- Why Storage is a Great Investment Asset Class with Ryan Gibson
- Higher Rental Portfolio Returns with Infinite Banking Featuring Gary Pinkerton
- Alternative Financing for Buy & Hold Real Estate Investors
- Be Your Own Banker While Creating Generational Wealth
- How to Diversify Your Portfolio with Real Estate
- Building a Wholesale Business
- Self Storage Real Estate: Risk vs. Reward
- Think Realty Podcast #190 – Secure Your Financial Future
- On the Radar: Accessory Dwelling Units
- Three Reasons to Sell Your Real Estate for Cryptocurrency
- Self-Storage Sector Holds Up
- Using Data to Drive Self-Storage Acquisitions
- Think Realty Podcast #187 – The Secret Source
- Think Local, Learn Local
- How to Structure Notes for Maximum Value
- Think Realty Member Training
- Free Webinar! Tax Liens: The Secret Billion Dollar Wealth Building Blueprint
- Tips to Investing in Vacation Properties
202020
- Think Realty Podcast #171 – Not Robin Hood
- Lies Your Stockbroker Told You
- Farmland: An Under-the-Radar Investment
- Tax Liens: The Secret Billion Dollar Industry with Chantelle Owens
- Land Investing Facts
- 7 Reasons to Diversify Your Portfolio in Panama
- A New Housing Development: Container Home Villages
- Think Realty Podcast #147 – Helping Humanity with REI
- Think Realty Podcast #146 – Recharge Your Rentals
- Think Realty Podcast #144 – Start with the End
- Create Your Own Note
- Tiny Homes, Large Profits
- Think Realty Podcast #140 – Are You Ready to Diversify?
- Think Realty Podcast #135 – The Sticky Factor
- Impact Investing
- Think Realty Podcast #122 – MeiLani Hock with Why Not Me AirBnB
- Perspectives: Coronavirus and the Short-Term Rentals Industry
- Build-to-Rent
- The Future of Airbnb Investing
- The Power of Mobile Home Rentals
201912
- Cryptocurrency: Inherently International
- 12 Myths of Real Estate Note Investing
- Cryptocurrency: A New Asset
- The 3 P’s of Real Estate Note Investing
- Become the Bank: What is Wealth?
- The Wholesaler’s Dilemma
- Online Travel Agencies
- Unlock Additional Wealth
- Cryptocurrency and Real Estate
- Building a Bigger Portfolio
- How to Build Continuous Cash through Noteworthy Investments
- Invest from the Couch: 7 Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms