What is the difference between a $100k 6% loan and a $125k 4% loan?
Tuesday, July 29
A single tall latte; or in other words, three bucks. That is the difference in monthly payments on the two thirty year home mortgages which is a key to understanding why what the Fed has been doing since the financial crisis hasn't restarted the housing market, in fact a pretty good case can be m...
The Silicon Valley Success Story Every RE Investor Should Know
Monday, July 21
You've probably heard of the Silicon Valley legends; Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs. You've definitely heard of their companies and the others that started and grew there; Intel, HP, Apple, Google, AMD, Cisco, eBay, Netflix, Facebook, on and on. But ther...
The Future of Single Family Rentals?
Saturday, June 21
MultiFamily Executive (MFE) was out this week with a piece called Homing In: Single-Family Rental Firms Ponder End Game exploring the business plans of the big institutional players to shed some light on where the sector is going. It's a great read for anyone in the sfr space... and...
Are poor expectations killing the housing recovery?
Wednesday, June 11
Grant Williams over at Mauldin Economics was out with his latest 'Things That Make You Go Hmmm...' piece Monday and it had this chart: Showing the percent of people who think the economic situation in their country is bad. Done late last year the Pew research shows that nearly 2/3s ...
Interest Rates 'Must' Be Going Up Soon, Right?
Tuesday, June 03
Responding on a thread about multifamily (5+ unit) financing options this morning and wanted to share it here as well. The conversation was about different fixed rate periods and loan terms: One thing to consider is that while we're almost hard wired to believe that rates must be goi...
Are you in the landlord business or the apartment owning business?
Friday, May 23
I was thinking about that this morning when I was watching the latest video report by Mike Scott of Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors called Who gets quantity discounts. The main point of the report was about sales pricing between the different sizes of properties but one chart caught my eye:...