Episodes

To be successful in any niche, you need to find a market inefficiency and a discernible differentiator. Too many sectors within commercial real estate have become commodities as unprecedented volumes of capital have been depl...

With so much information available, it’s easy to get educated on an asset class or an opportunity before investing. Although there’s no substitute for hands-on experience, you can still reduce risk through education. Steffany...

Despite some of the challenges that have faced multifamily in the past few years, some markets have been affected less than others. The Midwest in particular has fared better than most other parts of the country. There are ma...

Over the past several years, most of the returns in real estate have been generated because of declining interest rates and cap rates. If you just held on to properties long enough, even without successfully executing on a bu...

Not only has commercial real estate been faced with escalating borrowing costs and lower rents, but it has also been challenged by rising expenses, especially taxes and insurance. In this environment, it’s become essential fo...

The world of alternative investing can generate diversification, cash flow and tax efficiency. It can also be opaque and risky and has created massive losses for uninitiated investors. Unlike public companies, there’s a far l...

One asset class that still has great deals on sub-institutional properties is Mobile Home Parks. Although larger parks near major metros are being acquired by REITs, Private Equity, and other institutions, parks with fewer th...

Although the margins are thin in Multifamily, there are niches that provide outsized returns without undue risk. One example is government-sponsored affordable housing. By creating public-private partnerships, it takes a lot ...

Real Estate is a block-to-block business, especially multifamily. There are too many nuances involved to manage multifamily without boots on the ground. This is where a lot of operators went wrong over the past several years....

Like many other markets, the Dallas-Ft Worth market got oversaturated with new apartments over the last couple years. As the torrent job and population growth continues to flourish, however, new supply is getting absorbed, ev...

Even though the Real Estate market has contracted significantly as a result of interest rate hikes and rising operating expenses, it’s still difficult to find great deals, especially in large metros where there’s still a lot ...

Anyone who’s been following the trajectory of commercial real estate over the past few years knows there’s a lot of distress in the market. If you’re in the enviable position to deploy capital, however, this can be good news....

Passive investing in private offerings can yield above market returns, it can also be a complete disaster. Apart from evaluating proforma numbers, it’s critical to evaluate the General Partner and the team. The numbers are ge...

The multifamily business has been brutal for most operators over the past few years, especially for ones who took on bridge debt. There’s been too much new supply, and skyrocketing interest rates caught most operators off gua...

The multifamily space has many niches and myriad ways to maximize invested dollars. One of the more specialized multifamily niches is government voucher programs, otherwise known as Section 8. These can be great properties t...

One asset class within commercial real estate that many people don’t think about is luxury Short-Term Rentals. Houses that cost between $2 and $5 million typically rent for $500-$1,500 per night and generate $200,000 or even ...

Investing in private real estate deals can be fraught with pitfalls, so you need to get to know who you’re investing with before investing. In the past five years, many multifamily operators in particular, paid too much for p...

Investing passively is a great way to generate cash flow and appreciation, without having to deal with day-to-day operations. You just need to develop the skills at vetting operators and specific deals. David Shirkey, a fello...

Over 90% of U.S. businesses generate less than $5 million profit per year, yet these businesses are the backbone of our economy. Although the majority of Private Equity investments are in larger companies, many smaller compan...

In the last several years, industrial Real Estate has become a highly favored asset class, largely because of ecommerce. A thriving subset of this category is Industrial Outdoor Storage, a 2 billion asset class. Industrial Ou...

In certain markets, you can buy suburban office property for as low as $10/ft where it costs $200/ft to build. What’s more, you don’t have to go through the toil of finding off market deals, they’re listed publicly on LoopNet...

If you’re entrepreneurial and looking for a way to generate a lot of income with little initial capital requirements, flipping homes is an age old, timeless formula. It just requires courage and tenacity that many don’t have....

In Real Estate, and multifamily in particular, you need to have boots on the ground to ensure things are running as expected. It also helps to live in the market in order to have intimate knowledge of the investment. This is ...

The forecast for industrial real estate is bullish in growth markets for the foreseeable future. As long as you can buy the right properties, and don’t overpay or overleverage, it’s a recipe for success. Single-tenant propert...