Real Estate Terms: How you Talk Says a lot about Your Knowledge
Tuesday, February 09
Commercial real estate has its own language and knowing it is critical to your success. When you speak with people in the industry such as brokers, mortgage professionals and property managers you will hear a lot of different words thrown around. If you are new to the commercial real estate world...
Investing in a Multi-Family Deal: Step by Step on Syndications
Sunday, February 07
Let's talk about multi-family syndications. Most people don't seem to know too much about the space but are interested in multi-family itself. First lets define syndication.A syndication is when several investors get together to complete a real estate transaction. They all combine their skills, r...
Invest in Real Estate using a Self Directed IRA (SDIRA)
Thursday, January 28
*Disclaimer: I am not a finance or tax professional, contact your own tax professionals before attempting to do this or any other investing strategy. Before getting into syndication I was in real estate. I knew what syndication was but hadn't dealt with it specifically, to learn more about it I t...
Value Adds & Why They Need to be Part of Every Deal
Tuesday, January 19
I've compiled a short list of value add techniques that we have used on our properties, let me know if you have used these too!If you have been involved in real estate, or any business for that matter, for any length of time, you have probably heard the term “value-add”. Maybe you knew right away...
So You Want to Manage Your Own Properties
Wednesday, January 13
Maybe You Shouldn't.So you own some properties. Maybe 3 duplexes, a 6 unit and 12 unit building, or maybe just a duplex, possibly you went bigger and you started with a 20 unit property. The point is you own these unit(s) and you decided “I can save some money and do a good job managing my own pr...
What You Need to Get Into Real Estate
Thursday, January 07
You Don't Need Everything, Just Something.Some things take time, some things take money, some things take skill and some things take persistence. In order to take on real estate and begin to build an empire, you don't need all 4 of these things but you need a combination of at least two of them. ...