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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 …

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 ...

There’s no secret we have a housing shortage in this county and the problem will persist as it stays prohibitive to build new housing units for a number of reasons. This is one of the factors that’s contributed to the …

The biggest aggregate asset class in the world is the U.S. single family housing market. That’s why the health of this asset class has such a large impact on the broader U.S. economy. Over time, single family homes in most …

As interest rates have risen dramatically, asset prices have declined. The question on everyone’s’ mind is how much more they’ll fall and what’s the best investment strategy to be positioned for capital preservation and growt...

For investors in single family homes, auctions can be a great place to find deals. When homeowners can’t pay their mortgages, lenders will take back the properties and often put them up for sale at auction where investors can...

Real Estate tends to go up over time and most newer investors have never experienced a downturn. There are periods, however, when Real Estate has come down in value and we’re quite possibly heading into a contracting environm...

The short-term rental space has exploded and turned into a formidable industry. Many successful owners are getting cash-on-cash returns in excess of 20%. At the same time, some markets have gotten over saturated, especially w...

In the world of multifamily Real Estate, the returns can be lucrative in heavy value-add projects. These opportunities also comprise the highest level of risk. Sometimes, the best opportunities are steady, workforce Class B a...

When looking for yield, money from the coasts often winds up in other parts of the country. Great markets like Chicago offer better yields, and still offer very strong fundamentals for investors that provide cash flow and app...

A 3 or a 4 cap in one market is not always equal to a 3 or 4 cap in another market. The risk profile is greater in markets where there’s fewer regulatory challenges and lower barriers to entry in …

If you know how to manage lower income tenants and how to optimize the management of older properties, you can do extremely well. Many of these properties have ma and pa owners with under market rents and bloated expenses. On...

In the last five years, value add multifamily deals have abounded where you can buy a building at under significantly market rent, put $5,000- $10,000/unit into rehab, and sell within 12-24 months at a huge profit. As more an...

When things go wrong in a smaller apartment deal, it can wipe out all the Net Operating Income and profit in the deal. On bigger deals over 100 units, the property can absorb a lot more unexpected costs or mistakes …

After owning three Assisted Living homes in Phoenix, entrepreneur Gene Guarino created the Residential Assisted Living Academy in 2013 to train others to prosper like he had from the mega-trend of senior Assisted Living. The ...

With all asset classes priced at historically high levels, you may need to be open to different opportunities to find the right deal. When you expand your criteria, you’ll have more deals presented to you. The more deals that...

According to The Family Office Real Estate Institute, a Family Office is a family with $250 Million to deploy in investable assets. There are 7500 in the U.S. and 16,000 in the world. 70% of families lose their money by …

It’s hard to achieve economies of scale operating multifamily apartments with fewer than 100 units, but if you buy smaller buildings close to each other, you can gain operational efficiencies that translates into more profit....

What is a Family Office? The term “Family Office” has become more common over the past decade and the number of Family Offices is growing at a fast clip. A Family Office is a private wealth management advisory firm founded …

In this environment, certain multifamily housing markets are seeing an 80% decrease in transaction volume vs. a year ago. Even though interest rates have increased way more than anyone predicted as recent as 6 months ago and ...