Apartment investing: art of the deal or down to a science?
Monday, May 14
Investing in and managing apartment real estate reflects both creative and logical opportunities to build success. One of the most successful apartment real estate entrepreneurs is now the President of the United States. Donald Trump wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ in 1987 that chronicled his incredi...
Handling major risk events when syndicating deals
Sunday, May 06
What do you do when a major risk event occurs? Typically, it’s brace for the impact then do your best to control the damage. Alternatively, you can take a proactive approach and break down your response into a series of actions that minimize the overall impact and mitigates further events from oc...
Retiring with real estate while managing risk
Tuesday, May 01
Traditionally, we have been taught that saving for a rainy day is the way to retirement with the objective of saving as much money as you can so that you can live from the interest. The big question is ‘how much is enough’? I remember the Fidelity commercials where everyone was walking around wit...
Overcoming unknowns in apartment investing
Monday, April 30
It is natural of us to fear the unknown. This fear is one way we use our instinctive behavior to measure risk. The more fear we have, the more risk we perceive. This fear also directs us away from making a potentially profitable decision. So how do we conquer that fear?The more we know about a de...
Applying Engineering Principles to Apartment Deals
Monday, April 30
What kind of person do you think of when you hear engineer? I haven’t really paid much attention to what others think or say about engineers, but from what I read on the stereotype, I guess that’s part of being an engineer.I searched for engineer stereotypes and found some interesting comments. O...