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The multifamily industry has made a lot of people a lot of money, but the tides have turned over the last couple years. The rise in interest rates and inexperienced operators drawn to potential riches including exorbitant acq...

Finding under the radar Real Estate niches is extremely difficult, especially with the amount of information readily available online. One exception in today’s market is RV Parks. There are 1.2 million people that live full-t...

Getting higher than 10% cash-on-cash returns is close to impossible with most real estate investments. One exception to this is short term rentals. Short term rentals are a hybrid between owning typical residential housing an...

As market rate apartments have become cost prohibitive to acquire over the past several years, ground up construction has become a more economically feasible option, especially with various federal, state, and local governmen...

Trade globalization has created immense prosperity for the U.S. and the global economy. It’s literally lifted millions of people out of poverty over the past several decades. The Chinese economy, in particular, has transforme...

The U.S. single family home market is worth $43.5 trillion. Much of the country's wealth is concentrated in homes, making it the biggest asset class in the world. Over the years, investors have compiled portfolios of homes in...

Despite the escalation of asset prices over the past several years, there’s still great value In Midwestern tertiary markets. In multifamily, you can still buy properties for under $100,000 per unit that generates strong cash...

Amongst the many benefits of owning real estate, the ability to depreciate the assets and show a loss for tax purposes, is unique. With depreciation, and the option to further defer taxes through tax-efficient exchanges, you ...

Operating in your own backyard creates operational scale, competitive local knowledge, and access to better deals. All of these significantly reduce risk for operators and investors. Long-term holds of well-located propertie...

Multifamily is an easy business to understand, but hard to run. It’s a low margin business, so efficiency is critical, and lack of efficiency can bury you. Just barely moving the needle in leasing, for example, can translate ...

When deciding who to invest with, experience is what matters most, starting with the number of deals someone has done. Forty percent of Multifamily operators have done fewer than five full cycle deals. Like anything else, Rea...

Although the market for multifamily has taken a big hit over the last two years as interest rates have risen, lenders are extending loans and sellers are still holding out. Over the next couple years, this will change as lend...

One of the little discussed sectors of multifamily investing is townhomes. Townhomes are easier to build than large apartment complexes, and they have strong appeal to certain segments of renters. Townhomes appeal more to fam...

Over the past two years, multifamily has faced major challenges that’s resulted in price reductions of 25-35%. Class C in particular has taken a major hit in several markets, but Inflation has recently been tamed and expenses...

As demographics and lifestyles change, so do the requirements for where tenants choose to live. This is why architectural and design components for living spaces increasingly impact the desirability and value of residential p...

Although much of the hospitality industry has rebounded from Covid, many hotels are stiff facing headwinds. What compounds this challenge is the requirement national brands place on operators to invest large sums of money int...

AI will change the world even more than the internet, with profound implications for all aspects of society. It will impact most aspects of commerce, including Real Estate. Amongst other implications, AI is creating an insati...

Although asset prices have declined over the past couple years, we still may see further reductions, especially with the possibility of another recession. If oil prices spike, or we have another major stock market correction,...

The national debt has climbed to nearly $35 Trillion dollars. Many economists believe this will produce unavoidable inflation and increased interest rates. As of this year, however, U.S inflation has been largely tamed and co...

There are many investment opportunities to generate cash flow, but few are as safe as low leverage Hard Money Loans against single family homes in strong markets. As long as you have an experienced operator who knows how to v...

In the past decade, Credit Unions have become more mainstream and a common source of commercial lending. As consolidation in the banking industry as depleted the number of community banks, Credit Unions have been filling the ...

Getting the right price and the right terms is the ultimate hedge against the inevitable unknowns and challenges of operating multifamily properties. Class C properties, in particular, can present great buying opportunities, ...

50% of multifamily property management fees are generated through maintenance work. Property management firms markup maintenance as high as 50%, and don’t provide clients itemized expenses. Some companies even charge vacancy ...

Despite headwinds that have buffeted the multifamily industry over the last couple years, certain markets have continued to flourish. New England, for example, has continued to excel because there’s been an influx of new resi...