August, 2023
Where do you find education? There are countless places to find it but there’s only so much time in the day. Do you go to a conference to learn? That might feel like spending a weekend and learning just one thing that you could have read in an article. Or training? I always recommend to […]
July, 2023
Are you as much of a cash flow hog as I am? I always have been but I have grown to appreciate the benefits of being an appreciation-focused investor. Fortunately in multifamily real estate investing we can be both, but it is important that we make our choices from an informed perspective. Investing in multifamily […]
May, 2023
The question most often asked in real estate is how do I get started. I’ve shared several options for people with funds and without funds, using examples of successful investors. They all require getting yourself out there and talking with people. It is not like investing in stocks where you sit at your computer and read […]
April, 2023
This feels like 2010 to me. No one knows if we’re out of the woods, if economic signs are going to be pointing up, but the bad news with inflation and interest rates has been out for over a year. We just had bank failures and we might have more, and many are predicting a […]
March, 2023
Protecting your Capital GainsA friend told me about someone they knew who had a capital gain of $1M after sale of a multifamily property. Big celebration, but unfortunately in these circumstances that person was not able to plan for deferring the taxes on that gain. Have you had a real estate gain you decided to […]
February, 2023
An economy like today’s reminds me why I favor multifamily real estate. Stocks down, then up, now heading down. Inflation untamed. Came down some but is stubbornly holding on. Fed rate bumps all done? Or wait, not all done. New expectations as of three weeks ago of three more hikes, to be 75 basis points higher in […]
January, 2023
Real estate investors are excitable people. It’s hard for me to contain my excitement for upcoming opportunities in the market. I was for the most part an investor through the 2008 great recession, although I didn’t actually invest prior to that. I intended to, had partners lined up, and actively looked for multifamily properties, but […]
December, 2022
Where are you finding opportunities in multifamily today? I’m reading that deal volume has dropped off a cliff. Clearly the buy sell dynamic has changed. Is it that owners who want to sell are holding properties off the market? Or do sellers still have expectations that buyers will pay for proforma? Does the property need […]
November, 2022
Does email reach you? Here I am, sending emails out to everyone but I’ll be the first to acknowledge that not everyone prefers emails, or even reads them. My kids are in their 20’s and do read their emails but don’t usually use them for most communications like I do. In fact, they treat emails […]
October 2022
What will your investments be worth in five years from now? Waitaminute … five years? Who wants to wait that long? We all do. Because that’s the real question real estate investors should be asking. Not “Can we 2X this property in 2 years”, which is what many of us have been asking. It is what we’ve […]