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Who is the Customer in Real Estate Investments?

Who is the Customer in Real Estate Investments?

I was recently thinking to myself about operating my personal investments as a business: maintaining systems, gaining efficiencies, automating as...
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The Importance of  Trustworthy Investment Firms for Your Passive Investment

The Importance of Trustworthy Investment Firms for Your Passive Investment

For those who are new to private investing and passive investing in syndications, it can be overwhelming to consider each...
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The Characteristics of A Great Multifamily Investment

The Characteristics of A Great Multifamily Investment

The multifamily asset class is proven to beat inflation, provide cash flow and outsized returns from the increase in equity...
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How To Use Gross Rent Multiplier In Real Estate Investing?

How To Use Gross Rent Multiplier In Real Estate Investing?

What is GRM? A common metric in multi-family investing is Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM), which measures the price being paid...
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3 Red Flags with Potential Property Managers

3 Red Flags with Potential Property Managers

You may have heard, but in case you haven’t, when it comes to your real estate investment portfolio, your property...
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4 Reasons Stocks Are No Longer My Primary Investment Strategy

4 Reasons Stocks Are No Longer My Primary Investment Strategy

Like many, my foray into investing began in college after a gaining an appreciation for the stock market. I was...
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How To Identify and Live With Risk

How To Identify and Live With Risk

The word “Risk” has become such a scary thing; in fact, we do not even treat it like a neutral...
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Solve for X – An Investor’s Relentless Pursuit of Problem-Solving

Solve for X – An Investor’s Relentless Pursuit of Problem-Solving

On this investment journey, we encounter many obstacles, ranging from speed bumps to mountains. To overcome takes knowledge and experience,...
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Operational Value Add In Multifamily Investing

Operational Value Add In Multifamily Investing

One of the most attractive aspects of the multifamily asset class is the ability to grow the value of the...
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Managing Loss-To-Lease In A Value-Add Multifamily Investment

Managing Loss-To-Lease In A Value-Add Multifamily Investment

Loss-to-Lease Loss-to-lease is an economic vacancy line item that describes how much the operator is losing by charging rents below...
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How Working Professionals Can Track Their Passive Income

How Working Professionals Can Track Their Passive Income

If the goal of freedom through passive investing is to generate enough passive income to meet or replace your earned...
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What is Loss-to-Lease in Multi-Family Investing?

What is Loss-to-Lease in Multi-Family Investing?

There are endless terms in real estate investing with which to familiarize yourself. To help, I have created a resources...
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The Attractiveness of Class C Multifamily Properties

The Attractiveness of Class C Multifamily Properties

In the multifamily investing world, there are various classes of assets that are subjectively categorized based on the following characteristics:...
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Two Types of Problems for The Middle Class

Two Types of Problems for The Middle Class

As the American middle class, we most likely can look around our lives and we see that we have been...
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An Explanation of Risk Aversion and Investing

An Explanation of Risk Aversion and Investing

Those who do not invest outside of traditional asset classes such as stocks and 401k plans may consider non traditional...
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Why Most Working Professionals Do Not Want To Flip Homes

Why Most Working Professionals Do Not Want To Flip Homes

When we are just getting started into the world of real estate investing, we run across volumes of strategies and...
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Applying Buffett’s Margin of Safety to Passive Investing in Multifamily Assets

Applying Buffett’s Margin of Safety to Passive Investing in Multifamily Assets

“Price is what you pay. Vale is what you get.” - Warren Buffett We all recognize Warren Buffett, the Oracle...
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2 Options for Achieving Targeted Rents on New Acquisitions

2 Options for Achieving Targeted Rents on New Acquisitions

One key fundamental of multi-family syndications is rent growth. The appeal to investors of a new acquisition is the potential...
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What is Break-Even Occupancy Ratio and How it is Used?

In order to mitigate risk, one must first identify it. When it comes to apartment investing, a great risk to...
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What is the Equity Multiplier in Real Estate Investing?

What is the Equity Multiplier in Real Estate Investing?

What is the Equity Multiplier? As passive investors, it pays to have a complete understanding of the menu of metrics...
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