November 2021
In-person real estate conferences are back. Halleluiah! They are one of my favorite real estate activities, more so now because we’ve been homebound. No place else can you begin to understand the people you might want to work with. Zoom is great but nothing replaces the visual and personal experience for sincerity, connection, mutual interest, […]
October 2021
In-person real estate conferences are back. Halleluiah! They are one of my favorite real estate activities, more so now because we’ve been homebound. No place else can you begin to understand the people you might want to work with. Zoom is great but nothing replaces the visual and personal experience for sincerity, connection, mutual interest, […]
September 2021
How has the Covid resurgence affected your thinking? If you think it hasn’t, you’re not being honest with yourself. Regardless of your stance on vaccinations, masks, the reality is that our lives have changed, and our real estate business has to adapt to these changes. For one, and this has been agonizing for me, we […]
July 2021
Where do your investors fit in to your hierarchy of real estate priorities? Are you relieved they decided to invest, ecstatic that they helped you and your team close, or do you hold the belief that they should be grateful they got into your deal? Sure, they are getting a great deal and you’re as […]
June 2021
I’ve become a big fan of podcasts, specifically for apartment investing. They’re a great distraction when I’m working out or spin-cycling. They always seem to provide me with at least one insight on virtually every episode, some more than others. I tuned into one on BiggerPockets recently about gift-giving in the business world – phenomenal […]
May 2021
It is absolutely incredible how today’s bidding wars for houses has become so out of hand. Twenty, thirty offers? Twenty percent over asking? Where are these people coming from? And no longer just San Francisco and Seattle. But look at what’s going on in U.S. markets today. People are fleeing the pandemic, moving out of […]
March 2021
Time to travel to your markets. Planes are safe, businesses are opening, and except for some late-winter snows and storms, the coast is clear. I have spent some time in recent weeks making site visits to properties I’m interested in. One in particular was right after the big freeze that swept through south-central U.S. I […]
February 2021
What does late winter, early spring mean to apartment owners? Time for optimism? Turning over a new leaf? I have seen three major events I can consistently look forward to each year at this time. Landscape improvements is one. Planting flowers and bushes and refreshing beauty bark, pool preparation. Maybe not in February but it […]
December 2020
December always seems to be a time of waiting. Whatever happened during the year, we think it will change in January. This year many of us have that feeling even stronger than in the past. New election, vaccine, end of eviction moratorium. Come on January, February, March, we need the changes you’re bringing. Don’t extend […]
November 2020
Are you seeing more properties become available? We have, and it is encouraging. Owners still want more than the properties are worth, but with options come opportunities. Love it! A little bit of improvement in clarity on the future after an election helps, and a feeling of plans put on hold for too long helps […]