All Forum Posts by: Parker Eberhard

@Darius Ogloza good call on Mercer Island. It’s where I live and definitely opportunity here

If you were looking to diversify your total investment portfolio and had $1million to put into real estate, what would you do? Interested in both passive and active investment ideas.

@Scott Mac the bigger issue, and the article alludes to it, is if you are a smoker or not. Many Asians, especially middle aged men, are smokers

@Josh Nigh you have any idea what you’re talking about?

@Kevin Lefeuvre something I am interested to see is how the ‘Work from home’ policies of many companies will fare? The virus has forced many of the largest companies in the world (Amazon, Apple, Google, etc) to send their employees home for a month. If this experiment is successful, and companies realize that they don’t need every employee coming to a desk everyday, imagine what the ramifications for building out more office space will be?

If that is the case, and Amazon (for example) no longer needs a new 50,000 person urban campus in Seattle, imagine how property values and rents would be effected. Also, how would this effect all of the commercial / food service rents now that there aren’t 50,000 people in a centralized location anymore?

With people working remotely now, how will properties with a home office command a premium? How about properties that are 5g ready?

@James De Stefano what makes you think that most deaths will occur outside of the US? We are comically underprepared for this, and have a clown calling the shots right now who is more concerned with his own personal optics than the welfare of our country

@Jay Hinrichs stock market, yes

@Jay Hinrichs one of his major concerns is that due to its longer incubation period (around three weeks before people start experiencing symptoms) as well as some of the cases that appear to have been ‘isolated’, many more people are currently carrying it than we think. Additionally, the genetic strains of many of the cases around the world are the same, even though scientists haven’t been able to trace the actual person to person paths of the strains (if that makes sense), further supporting the theory that there are many more carriers that haven’t shown symptoms yet.

Additionally, he thinks the markets are going to fall way further than they have thus far, creating even better buying opportunities than we have seen in recent weeks

@Tyler Volk it will need a source of heat (as well as being insulated), a legal means of egress, and probably a closet (to be counted as an additional bedroom for resale). Will also need to have a smoke / co2 director and drywall for fire rating.

@Tyler Tiblier is it an attached or detached garage? I would check with the building department about what their requirements for ADUs are (if you're going to make it a legal ADU).