Author: Rodney

Real Estate Investing For Working Professionals

Did you know that it is possible to invest in real estate while working your day job? And without being a stressed out fix and flipper? There are various strategies and niches that support those just like you and I whose primary focus in their professional field. If you are a busy professional, you want […]


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Comparing The Various MultiFamily Housing Class Categories

When acquiring multifamily assets, there are general subjective categories of housing that are based on demographics, age of build, quality and rents that they command. The industry generally categorizes them from Class A through Class D, based on those aforementioned characteristics. Various Housing Classes Class A – Class A housing are the most desirable. Typically […]


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The Biggest Financial Threat To Working Professionals

As working professionals, we have much to manage: our current work responsibilities, staying on top of our professional growth, family life at home and a changing world. Most of us work daily as a means to provide for our families and living needs. Especially now, due to rising values and surplus money we may feel […]


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The Most Important Lesson I Learned from Real Estate Investing

I want to share with you the most imporant lesson, one that caused me to rethink my approach to real estate and wealth building altogether. Next Level Investing Involves Teamwork To get to the next level, in addition to creating systems, planning for scale and working through the discomfort, I learned that I must stop […]


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Managing Income in MultiFamily Operations

Income is so essential to multi-family investments that without it, there is no return. The primary source of income in multi-family operations is rent. In many cases there are other smaller sources of income such as storage, laundry use and other add-on luxuries. It is great to identify additional sources of income where possible. However, […]


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It Took Me 3 Years to Complete My MBA and This is What I Gained

I finally did it in 2021. I embarked on this journey in August of 2017. I charted the course: when would I get this thing done if I took one class per semester. Wonderful: May 2021. That’s an eternity from now, I thought. But what was the rush? I was moving up in my jobs […]


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The 3 Largest Expenses In Multifamily Operations

When it comes to multifamily operations, management of net operating income is key to creating value. Aside from optimizing income by increasing occupancy and getting to market rent levels, management of expenses is also key. Below are the three largest expenses in management of multifamily assets. Repairs/Maintenance Repairs and maintenance can be costly, especially when […]


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Networking With Other MultiFamily Real Estate Investors

Making Friends Online With the creation of the internet, a world of opportunity has been created for learning new topics, sharing ideas and meeting like-minded individuals. Especially when it comes to niches such as horse breeding, Mediterranean diets or multi-family real estate investing, the internet affords people opportunities that they would not have in real […]


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The Mindset of a Successful Investor

What does it take to invest well and achieve great wealth? Talent, know-how, resources? Of course. However, my argument is that more critical to investment success is mindset. Mindset governs everything else.Mindset governs the behaviors that lead to believing bigger, deciding to invest, and maintaining discipline. Believes Bigger Any entrepreneur or wealth builder eventually comes […]


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Financial Freedom vs. Debt Freedom

I like Robert Kiyosaki. I also like Dave Ramsey. Both want you to be successful, but share very different definitions and paths to that success. Most people need to hear Dave Ramsey’s message. It is one of discipline, getting out of debt and living life unconstrained to financial burden. To accomplish this is to live […]


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The Great Investment Alternative of Apartment Syndications

The Trade-Off With Stocks For those who invest in stocks, often in choosing your alternatives you are faced between a high-growth company and a mature company. The high growth company offers much upside potential at the price of a higher Price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple, whereas the mature company has less growth potential and its P/E multiple […]


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5 Ways Real Estate Performs Well Against Inflation

Marcus and Millichap just released a special video that discussed 5 ways that real estate is the perfect hedge against inflation, an inevitable force we should all pay attention to, especially considering that the money supply is 26% above pre-pandemic levels. This timely video is important for any active or passive investor to understand real […]


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The Importance of Cash Flow In Wealth Building

Cash We have often heard it stated that “Cash is King.” This is logical thinking in that cash is a resource that allows us to obtain other resources that are essential for life: food, shelter and other needs. Without this liquid resource, we cannot quickly trade for other important life essentials. If all of our […]


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Cash Flow Versus Appreciation In Multifamily Real Estate Investing

As a real estate investor, one should appreciate and desire both appreciation and cash flow, two powerful wealth-building tools of real estate. Often times, in your investing you will notice a trade off between the two and it is wise to identify which takes priority as part of your investment strategy. Appreciation and Cash flow […]


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What is IRR and Why Is It Used In Apartment Investing?

What is the IRR? The Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is widely used as a metric in Apartment Syndications as a common way to describe the returns to both active and limited partner investors. Similar to the Average Annual Return (AAR), IRR takes into account the sale/refinance of the property asset and measures the return […]


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Marketing and Building Your Platform For Your Real Estate Investing Business

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to join Pinny Lubinsky on the Real Estate Ventures Podcast to discuss my apartment investing business and the importance of building a platform and marketing yourself wherever possible. You can check out the full interview here! For anyone who aspires to scale his or her real estate investment […]


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How To Create Your Real Estate Investment Criteria

Any experienced investor knows the importance of having and maintaining an investment criteria. If you ask ten people, they may have ten different metrics and even more variation among with regards to what is minimally acceptable.Even as as a working professional who seeks to passively invest in real estate opportunities, it is extremely important to […]


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The Passive Investor Startup Guide

I have been writing about multifamily investing for over a year. If you search this blog you will find plenty of content that can help anyone achieve the mindset that leads to financial growth, take the first step in real estate investing, become educated in the multifamily asset class and learn about apartment syndications. Many […]


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The Low-Risk Approach To Acquiring Multi-Family Assets

Multi-family assets cover a wide spectrum of niches, such as apartments and mobile home parks, and investment strategies, such as new development, acquiring stabilized assets, seeking value-add opportunities, or repositioning of highly distressed assets. Each niche has its own unique characteristics and each strategy has its own risk factors. Balance of Risk and Reward One […]


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6 Important Things to Consider When Refinancing Your Real Estate Asset

In Tapping Into Appreciation in A Growing Market, I shared why anyone with equity in their home may want to consider converting that equity into cash in a great market so that equity could be used and reinvested, rather than sitting idle or even worse, lost altogether due to cyclical declines in the market. I […]


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What Drives Cap Rates In Multifamily Real Estate?

Interest rates influence decision making Investors select among asset classes such as stocks and real estate Demand rises within that asset class, raising prices Prices investors are willing to pay for NOI are reflected by cap rates Many people miss the fact that cap rates (see real estate terms resources page) are not necessarily the […]


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How To Overcome Your Largest Obstacle

What do you think is holding you back?Lack of money.Lack of support.Your introverted personality.Your disadvantaged upbringing.Your busy life and family responsibilities. There are so many reasons we can give ourselves for why we are not where we want to be or can never get to where we hope to achieve. Are you more comfortable with […]


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How to Conservatively Underwrite Multifamily Investments

Especially in this economic cycle, the assumptions we make in our underwriting can lead to very critical miscalculations if we are not prudent and conservative. Below are two very important considerations in conservatively underwriting multifamily investments. Rent Growth Both experienced and inexperienced investors alike may be inclined to project rent growth in year one. While […]


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