Realty411 Magazine The Future of Real Estate is Here | Page 29

this way allows us to help drive profits
for our advertisers, and more important-
ly keep the website free to our loyal and
active users.
Q: You actually were on the cover
of Realty411’s alternate cover, Real
Estate Wealth, when the site went live
back in 2012. How has the site grown
since then and what are you looking
forward to in the coming year?
A: Yes, it actually is a bit sentimental to
me being in this issue because the very
first piece of media/advertising we did
when we went live was with Linda’s al-
ternate cover, Real Estate Wealth. Since
then while we have had some ups and
downs I am so thankful to say we have
grown at one of the fastest paces in the
real estate sector, had literally thousands
of transactions take place as a result of
the site, and I am really thankful to have
gotten to meet some of my heros and
icons in real estate and tech.
Also I am really
thankful to great
members that have joined
the team in the last year and
provided such amazing talent
and have been such a huge part
of our success. In the coming year I am
excited about where we are going because
I feel like the first year we built our brand,
built our base, and learned what we are
and how to execute. I feel that we are now
ready to put it all in place. In 2014 we
are going live with the 2.0 main version
of the site, which is going to have some
simply UNREAL features that the world
has never seen before. This will help us
as we also transition more to focusing on
having a major presence in the auction and
the real estate sector and focusing on high
level transactions and allowing users to
truly buy real estate in a better and more
effective set up.
Q: Any other thoughts you’d like to
share with a fellow property investor?
A: I think that this is an exciting time
to be a real estate investor, and perhaps
even more so to be an agent. The lack
of inventory, combined with low interest
rates and the basic sense that this is an
exceptional hot market has created a
consistent rise in the market as we had
projected. I think the market should
continue to rise the next 2-3 years, how-
ever I do believe that at some point when
interest rates start to go up that we could
see another small crash in the market.
To me it is simply a race between rapid
inflation and the interest rates, to see
which of the two catalysts stands to im-
pact the market the hardest. You could
see the prices continue to rise not be-
cause homes are worth more but because
the dollar is worth less. That would mean
the more leverage that you buy with, the
better you can capitalize by paying off
your loan balance with cheap dollars in
the long term. Either way, whatever you
do you better do it on ListedBy.com, and
we hope to see you there soon.