Episodes

Leverage has helped a lot of multifamily operators generate great returns over the past five years, but many newer operators are now paying the price for too much leverage and higher interest rates. When underwriting deals, i...

Most real estate asset classes are efficiently priced and hard to find great deals. With land investing, however, you can buy land for literally 50 cents on the dollar with little competition. You basically just need to follo...

In the world of multifamily, few operators are scaling with 2-15 unit buildings. These are too large for most ma and pa operators and too small for larger syndicators. Ray Heimann, Managing Director of Terra Capital, is acqui...

If you’ve been looking to make passive investments in hard assets but are finding it difficult to get the returns you’d expect, there are other great vehicles that can generate 10 % or higher with relatively conservative risk...

There aren’t too many asset classes within Commercial Real Estate right now where you can generate 10% or more cash-on-cash returns before creating extra value and executing a new business plan. One exception to this is campg...

In supply constrained major metro markets with large employment bases, there’s always a strong rental market of young professionals who crave quality amenities. After the first Covid waves, we’ve seen rents come back in major...

When it comes to underwriting, stick to your guns and don’t compromise or you may regret it. Even when you make conservative assumptions, expenses tend to rise and occupancy and rents typically contract when the economy goes ...

Today’s investing environment is fraught with many pitfalls. Over the last couple years, many multifamily sponsors in particular took on super high leverage with variable rate loans. These same sponsors are now encountering s...

Real Estate can be an amazing investment to grow wealth. It has cash flow, appreciation, and tax advantages, but most Real Estate operators only allow accredited investors and request high minimums to boot. Accredited investo...

Not every mortgage is held by a traditional bank. There are a number of extenuating circumstances where banks won’t make loans to solid borrowers so borrowers need to find other alternatives. In these cases, there are private...

Many people don’t know you can invest directly into a large cash-flowing apartment building without having to be involved with the operations of the property. Until the past few years and even more recently, several high-inco...

Not everyone that flips single family homes ends up flipping more than 3000 of them, and not everyone that gets into multifamily acquires over 7000 units within their first five years. Gideon Pfeffer, CEO and Managing Partner...

Everyone has a plan, but rarely do things go exactly the way we expect them to go. In multifamily Real Estate, there are so many variables when it comes to financing, interest rate fluctuations, property management, capital s...

After many years of a massive upward trajectory, multifamily real estate is facing headwinds, especially for older C and B class properties. In many markets, occupancy is starting to fall and rents along with it. In addition,...

Many operators specialize in a specific asset class, some operators specialize in a given geographic market, but invest across different asset classes. When you focus on one geographic area, it’s easier to build out a network...

Interest rates are higher than anyone expected a year ago and they’re continuing to rise. As a result, many purchasers of multifamily properties with high leverage bridge debt will not be able to get the extensions on their l...

The West Coast is home to several multifamily markets but it’s becoming more onerous to be a landlord in these markets as a result of increasing regulatory restrictions. That’s why Max Sharkansky, Managing Partner of Trion Pr...

Taking a piece of land, envisioning a purpose for it, and bringing that vision to fruition is a large but exhilarating undertaking that also entails real risks. Even before you get the land entitled, you have to invest money ...

The biggest inhibitor to growing wealth is taxes. That’s why the best investing opportunity to-date is in Opportunity Zones where you can defer capital gains taxes plus avoid depreciation recapture, not to mention making grea...

As interest rates have risen, prices have come down, sometimes significantly. Although sellers were initially reluctant to lower prices, they’re getting more realistic over time and concessions in the millions \ are being mad...

90% of Alternative Investments are directly or indirectly placed in Real Estate. They can be great cash-flowing investments with high long-term appreciation. What they don’t provide is liquidity. You can’t get your money out ...

In the world of Real Estate finance, property owners can end up in arrears on their existing payments. In these cases their debt may be sold off to other lenders. In other cases, borrowers may not be able to obtain convention...

Even with the market changing with respect to debt challenges and interest rate increases, there’s still opportunities in the Value-Add apartment space long-term prosperity. As prices come down 10-15% and possibly even more o...

Higher quality assets appreciate more in the long run, especially in supply constrained markets where it’s hard to build and there’s no more developable land. It’s simple, scarcity produces value. Even in recessions, quality ...