Month: October 2020

Buy and Sell Digital Property

That’s right, not all properties are made of bricks and mortar, these days, properties can be made with zeros and ones as well.

In many ways digital property is just like real estate, that’s why some even call it digital real estate. You can buy or sell it just like a house a flat or land.

In the light of the pandemic, digital property has skyrocketed in popularity – and it makes perfect sense. With many people either out of work or working from home having an online business seems the obvious solution. But what exactly is digital property and how can you earn money with it?

What is Digital Property

Digital property basically includes all sorts of data– anything you could have in a digital format. Data are the files that are saved on and used by computers – such as text files, pictures, audio files, movies…etc. In most cases those files are saved remotely and accessed over the Internet. Some examples of digital property are: websites, blogs or YouTube channels.

In this article we will focus on digital property that – similar to real property – can generate income for you.

How digital property is generating income

There are many different ways to earn money with your online business. The most common and easiest ways is to earn money from ads that are displayed on your website, blog or YouTube channel. In this case you would allow a third party to display ads on your website, blog or in between movies that you have in your YouTube channel. Usually you will be paid every time a visitor clicks on these ads.

It is very easy to apply for it, but some advertiser would only agree to display ads once your online business has a certain “popularity” or better if it has more than a specific number of visitors per month. The most popular “Pay Per Click” Advertising is through Google AdSense.

Other ways of monetizing your website/blog/channel would be the following.

Affiliate marketing/links

You recommend a service or product to your audience and provide a link where they can purchase it. Once they do so you get a share of the sale.

Sell your own product, ad space or service

Of course, you can sell advertising space directly to brands if you like. Or you could have your own online shop or sell a digital product… there are many possibilities.

Flip your website

You can create an income generating website and then sell it.

How to get a digital property

There are two ways to get your hands on a digital property: you either create it yourself (maybe with some help of a programmer, web designer or a nerdy friend) or you can buy it.

There are great marketplaces out there where you can snoop around to find a good deal.

The value of an online businesses has its own way to be calculated. Depending on the monthly income, age and how stable the income is, as well as how many visitors you have. The average monthly income will be multiplied by 12, 24 or maybe even 36. Best is to leave this to the experts who can also verify the information given by the seller. This again can be compared to buying or selling real estate. There are agents out there that will guide you through the entire buying/selling digital property process.

These agents have the means to verify if all the numbers ad up and if the digital property you are interested in is genuinely what is being advertised. They will also help you to pick the right digital property within your budget, expertise and amount of time you can dedicate to it.

From our own experience, one of the best digital property Marketplaces out there is Trustiu – if you want to buy or sell a website, blog or YouTube channel this is a great place to start. They have a dedicated team of experts ready to help you buy or sell your digital property.

Conclusion

Earning money with your own online business is a great way to support yourself from the comfort of your own home. It is not as difficult as it seems – anyone can do it.

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Essential tips on how to purchase a home

Looking for a new home is exciting, but sometimes, when you go out in the hope of finding your next big home, you are shown nothing but pigeonholes with zero to no amenities. You might think that the patch leading to your perfect home is full of rocks and holes. But in reality, its far from true. Finding your perfect home is easy if you keep the following points in mind.

In this article, we have made a list of points that will help you find your perfect home so that you can avoid making expensive mistakes:

Know your budget

You should start the process of looking for a new home by evaluating your bank accounts, cash flow, assets and liabilities. The most common mistake made by people is that they set their eyes of a house that is beyond their budget. Yes, you can apply for home loan to cover the difference, but you also have to pay the high EMIs that come with the loan. This will throw your budget out of the window.

Know your loan amount eligibility

You can check how much loan amount you are eligible for in few simple steps using home loan calculator. Though the amount presented is only the estimate and not the final word from a financial institution. To get the proper estimate, you need to contact your bank before making any final deal.

There is a possibility that the difference between the estimate and what you get is quite significant. Even a slight difference can affect your budget. So, make sure you know the amount of loan approved by your bank before you make your final budget.

What about the other costs?

People think that, once they purchased the property, they are done with all the expenses. But that is not true, as soon you make the final payment, you have to take care of EMI, spend money on personalization and maintenance, pay utilities bills and more. Plus, you might need to buy new furniture and appliances as well.

Be open to change

Finding a home exactly like you dreamt of is next to impossible. For example, you want a big garden and big parking space. but when you visit the property, you find that the house only has parking space but no garden. The house has all other things that is perfect for your family. So, it is best to keep an open mind, otherwise you will miss out the deal if you are too picky.

Don’t get carried away

People often overspend when they move in to a new home just to personalize it. You don’t have to spend extra money if you look for a house that is already furnished. This way you will be able to save a lot of money that will help you in paying off the loan.

See-through the drama

Builders offer cosmetic changes to changes the look of the house, obviously, for extra money. These changes do make your house look more attractive, but the main question is, do all these changes are worth it?

If you survey the market, you will be able to find much cheaper stuff. So, why pay the premium cost when you can find the same thing at half the price.

Pick and choose

Keeping an open mind doesn’t mean you have to make bad decisions. If you have a big family, you need a house that has 3-4 bedrooms. You don’t want to feel cramped in your own house just because you wanted to save few dollars.

Make the list of things that you can and cannot sacrifice while looking at home.

Keep an eye out

Builders usually promises to finish work early, but that is far from truth. They take ages to complete a project. If you have made the payment for the house, make sure you contact the builder regularly and visit the property to see the progress of the project. If you sense something is not right, contact the local authorities immediately to ensure your money is safe.

If you want to buy a constructed property, make sure you conduct a proper survey. For example, if you are looking for homes for sale in centennial hills Los vegas, make sure you check single aspect before you make any payment.

Find your own agent

It is important that you hire an agent that knows all the secrets of the property you are interested in. You will have to pay a fee to the agent, but in return you will get guidance that will be true.

Author: Eernesto T Felder

Opportunity Costs (rent vs. buy)

Everything regarding the Industry of real estate is rising, especially home prices and interest rates. But the real question that you must ask yourself is that which would be better for you, to rent or buy your next property? There are different aspects that you need to put into consideration if it is better to rent or buy. One of the most important factors would be how long are you planning to stay in that specific property, how high is your credit score and income now? How about we take a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages to this very common question.

BUYING

Regardless of what you might hear, there are many benefits to home ownership. Always put into consideration that the value of your home can increase through time which makes it a proper investment regardless if you are planning to keep the property or not in the long run. To most people, having a home to yourself and not having to deal with a landlord is a blessing of its own. You can choose to renovate and change up your own house in your own way without having to think about when the contract might finish or not. The disadvantages of buying your own property is knowing enough that you are responsible for all that needs to be repaired and that is not an easy thing to keep in mind so you will be watching out for everything and being alert knowing your next fall can be costly to the property. When purchasing a house you might require a chunk for the down payment to be paid which would make it harder for you to qualify for any kind of insurance for the mortgage or even property taxes.

RENTING

Renting makes life easier and much more sense for many people. For example, you can be living alone in a nice area where the home prices are too high for your budget so it would be better off renting a one-bedroom location that is the logical choice for that person obviously not including his/her occupation and preferences.

The best advantages of renting is knowing that the repairs are not on you but rather part of the deal and knowing that it would be easy to relocate if there are any problems to arise. But the disadvantages of renting are actually more annoying than you think because it’s like you are living in someone else’s home knowing that you can’t make any long-term adjustments and at the same time you earn no return on your payments as monthly rates are rapidly increasing. Most people don’t have this knowledge but renting doesn’t help with your credit score either and knowing that the homeowner is just renting the place to others, they aren’t so motivated to make changes to the house unless it’s necessary.

To most people who have the money to afford buying a house, they know in the long run that buying their home will become an investment and that it would be cheaper to purchase the home now rather than renting and sending away rent money that you can be using elsewhere productively. But to others who cannot afford buying a house at the moment, renting to them would obviously be cheaper than purchasing anything at the moment. Just put into consideration which one might fit your lifestyle the best such as:

RENTING WOULD BE BEST IF:

  • Planning to live in the same area for less than two years
  • Planning to maintain flexibility and mobility
  • Working on repairing past credit history
  • Planning to save money for a proper down payment

BUYING WOULD BE BEST IF:

  • Planning to live in the same area for more than two years
  • Wanting to build investment equity through time
  • Looking for better ways for tax deduction
  • Having the feeling of stability

The real answer to this question of having to buy or rent is actually quite easier than you can imagine. It comes down to five questions that you need to ask yourself for making such a difficult decision which are:

  • The time that you plan to stay in the future home?
  • Do you want something to be stable or something to remain flexible?
  • What can you afford and what does your budget help with?
  • Can you currently afford to be responsible for home repairs if you plan to purchase the house?
  • What is your career path and what are your family goals?

But when it comes to rental properties you need to remember that it requires a security deposit just in case of damages and ability to assure the person renting won’t bail under any circumstances without having to pay upfront as well. Just put into consideration about the location of property as well as the location of your workspace or schools if children are involved.

Conclusion

In conclusion, try to consider all the places that you have chosen to rent in the past, For each place that you have lived, try to make a list of the things that you didn’t really enjoy about the place or the service of the landlord so that you won’t have to put up with the same issues again. Although there are some renters who actually don’t have to ask and do what they need to regardless if they are renting long-term or short-term because some people just can’t handle staying in a place and having to wait for someone else to change it for them. But when you have your own place and you are not renting, then obviously you can do what you want when you want without having to put up with anyone or dealing with anyone about your own personal matters in the household.

Author Bio

Mohamed El Zaafarany is a digital marketing consultant with interests in the travel and real estate industries who loves to connect businesses with their target audiences.

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Property in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic

In line with our recent blog post series about Real Estate Agents during the COVID-19 pandemic, we like to share this email we received from Turkey.

Hello respected everyone 

Hope you are doing well 

To everybody who is interested in buying property in turkey on investment and stay purpose, you are most welcome.

I’m personally being at this Real Estate business from my father since decades.

After the earthquake at Istanbul, the ruling government is helping the Real Estate with new projects and renewing old properties, this helps a lot.

Property in Turkey

As of the last decade it has risen really high and the law amendment from the government of spending 250000$ for becoming a Turkish really helped becoming very profitable for Real Estate Agents and the investors who wished to invest at turkey. Apart from İstanbul being very rich in culture and history, other cities also had the same situation.

Real Estate in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic

The recent covid19 upraising had an effect on the Real Estate a little. It affected Turkish nationals as well as foreigners who wished to invest but as we all know that was for a couple of months as of now it’s going the way it has: it is increasing day by day. Hopefully this will be good for both, Real Estate companies as well as investors.

Apart from all that, I personally thank so much the “FREEPROPERTY FAMİLY” for getting us connected through all around the world with different people and also helping us in growing our business, it helped us a lot. 

This really helped us get connected with different people too.

Really much appreciated, keep up the good work hopefully will reach many people and let us stay connected.

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