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2024

2024 Reflections And Annual Update

As I reflect on 2024, I wish you a peaceful and joyous Holiday Season filled [...]

30
Dec

Top Strategies To Find An Operator That You Know Like And Trust

In prior articles we discussed top questions to ask the deal sponsor(s) and how to [...]

15
Dec

Six Key Steps To Getting Started As And Becoming A Successful Passive Investor

The world of real estate can be overwhelming, with so many paths and strategies one [...]

30
Nov

Key PPM Sections To Review Before You Get Into A Syndication

In a prior article we outlined the six key component of a private placement memorandum [...]

15
Nov

What To Do If Your Passive Investment Failed

Today the media is dominated by news of capital calls and foreclosures (e.g. Tides Equity, [...]

30
Oct

Diligence One Can Do As A Passive Investor

Syndications give you the benefit of investing in real estate without doing the heavy lifting. [...]

15
Oct

Real Estate Funds vs Individual Investment Opportunities

As a passive investor, one is often faced with many investment choices. A common question [...]

30
Sep

Four Underwriting Sins I Have Observed Lately

I feel fortunate to have access to many deals. However, I ultimately choose to join [...]

15
Sep

Lessons Learned From A Now Troubled Investment I Passively Invested In

It was a beautiful day in May. The sun was shining, birds were chirping. Life [...]

30
Aug

My Key Takeaways From A Recent Family Office Mastermind Event

I recently had the pleasure of attending The Family Office Club Mastermind event in Los [...]

15
Aug

Key Lessons Learned From My Experience Investing Out Of State

I am often asked why I do not invest in my backyard and how I [...]

30
Jul

Top 5 Strategies To Scale Your Passive Income

We are often asked how one can scale his/her passive income, once they decide to [...]

15
Jul

The Pros And Cons Of Real Estate Investing

2022-2023 have been very eventful years thus far marking a lot of peaks and troughs [...]

30
Jun

Top 5 Attributes Often Overlooked By Passive Investors

In prior article, we discussed key questions to ask when vetting a sponsor. In a [...]

15
Jun

Additional Tax Deferral Strategies For Real Estate Unveiled

Tax deferral is one of the aspects of real estate investing that make it a [...]

30
May

The Passive Investor’s Guide To Understanding The K1s

There is this time of the year…once a year…every year…when you feverishly scramble to put [...]

15
May

What Is A Real Estate Professional And Why Does It Matter To You?

In a prior article we discussed the various tax advantages of real estate investing. In [...]

30
Apr

My Key Takeaways From The 2024 Best Ever Conference

In today’s snippet, I will be sharing my key takeaways from the 2024 Best Ever [...]

15
Apr

Why We Like Secondary And Tertiary Markets (And What Are The Risks We Consider And Mitigate Before Investing In One?

Investing in secondary and tertiary real estate markets can offer several advantages over primary markets, [...]

30
Mar

1031 Exchange In Syndications

We are often asked how one can 1031 exchange a property they own into a [...]

15
Mar

Top Three Strategies For New Investors To Implement Before Investing In Their First Syndication

I am often approached by aspiring or new investors and asked what steps they can [...]

28
Feb

How To Become An Accredited Investor

A question that we are often asked is – what is an accredited investor? Accredited [...]

14
Feb

Top Five Amenities Tenants Are Looking For In 2024

With many apartments having undergone stage one of the value add and interior upgrades, we [...]

30
Jan

Breaking News In The Banking Industry! Are You Ready And Prepared?

(Detailed charts supporting the comments herein are in the Appendix below) Among many other events, [...]

15
Jan

2023

Annual Personal Update

As I share this annual update, I wish you a peaceful and joyous Holiday Season [...]

30
Dec

Why I Declined These Investment Opportunities And Our Go To Market Approach For 2024

The last few weeks, after closing on our 158-unit investment in Savannah, GA have been [...]

15
Dec

My Key Takeaways From Two Recent Commercial Real Estate Conferences

I recently had the pleasure of attending two commercial real estate conferences (The Advanced Commercial [...]

30
Nov

How To Evaluate A Commercial Real Estate Investment Opportunity In Five Minutes Or Less

Once you have educated yourself on the basics of multifamily investing, how to get started, and begin to [...]

15
Nov

The Path From Financial Security To Financial Independence

It all starts with a dream of who you want to be, what you want [...]

30
Oct

How To Use Your Retirement Account To Invest In Real Estate

I often receive a surprised look when I mention to people that they can use [...]

15
Oct

How We Protect Your Capital

How We Protect Your Capital Real estate investing is a great tool to build generational [...]

30
Sep

Understanding The Various Debt Structures

For the typical real estate investor, the lender is their biggest partner, often contributing 60% [...]

15
Sep

Cash Flow vs. Appreciation vs. Tax Efficiencies – Why Not Both Or All?

Cash Flow vs. Appreciation vs. Tax Efficiencies – Why Not Both Or All? You cannot [...]

30
Aug

Top 10 Strategies On How To Avoid A Scam

“SEC Halts $155 Million Fraudulent Oil and Gas Offering Scheme” “A real estate guru peddling [...]

15
Aug

Should You Invest In A Volatile Market

We are often asked when a good time to buy real estate is. Our response [...]

30
Jul

Should I Buy A Home Or Should I Wait?

(Supporting charts and data referenced herein are included as an Appendix to this snippet) In [...]

15
Jul

Limitless Financial Freedom 2023 Key Takeaways

I had the pleasure of attending the Limitless Financial Freedom Expo in Phoenix, AZ earlier [...]

30
Jun

Crowdfunding Investing Demystified

In a prior article, we briefly mentioned other alternatives to real estate syndications. A few [...]

15
Jun

How To Avoid Making A Bad Investment

How do I avoid making a bad investment or buying a bad property? This is [...]

30
May

A Passive Investor’s Guide To Capital Calls

A capital call is a provision in the real estate investment structure that allows the [...]

15
May

Small vs. Large Multifamily – Top 4 Pros and Cons

In a prior article we discussed the benefits of investing in multifamily (vs. other commercial [...]

30
Apr

Interest Rate Hedge Strategies Demystified

I was speaking to a colleague of mine recently. Unfortunately that individual had just received [...]

15
Apr

Someone Got Upset With Me…Here Is Why

I had a conversation earlier this week with a few people – some were curious [...]

30
Mar

2023 The Best Ever And Multifamily Investment Network Conference Key Takeaways – Expect The Unexpected

Today’s snippet will be a bit longer than usual. However, in an effort to keep [...]

15
Mar

Other Commercial Real Estate Asset Classes To Consider

One of the beauties of real estate is that there are not only various business [...]

28
Feb

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should NOT Invest In Syndications

In prior articles we discussed the benefits of investing passively in syndications. In an effort [...]

14
Feb

And Just Like That…A Dream Came True

It started with a simple thought, followed by saying the words out loud, followed by [...]

30
Jan

Understanding Different Distribution Types and Waterfall Structures

As noted in the preceding real estate snippet articles, distributions is how investors and operators [...]

15
Jan

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