Dividends give you cash flow but usually very little.With Real Estate, you make money 4 ways:- Appreciation (forced vs natural).

Albuquerque is home to Sandia National Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base, the University of NM, Presbyterian Health Care, Abq Public Schools, Amazon, Netflix, Intel, HP, T-Mobile, several large call centers, among many others.

I have continually preached (since 2018) that cap rate compression (and interest rates) is what landed the historic 20+IRR returns, not operations, which is why so many people have been, and are still, in hot water right now with being forced to perform via strong operations.Today, we find ourselves in a much different situation.

As soon as anything is done in the house that involves electrical,  it all becomes no bueno, and any good inspector will force the owner/contractor to upgrade completely.

And they’re telling me that we have to create one main shut off for both panels which would force us to completely redo and upgrade all meters, panel, and go to 400 amp from 200.

Duration of an NDASome NDAs state the period for which the confidentiality agreement will be in force while some do not.

The city taxed the owner out of business, charging $21k a year in taxes, and all potential buyers were aware of this tax burden.We had other bidders, many of whom were churches, but they couldn't secure financing due to the high purchase price of the building.If folks like Former City Councilor Sarai Rivera were so worried about what would become of the building, they should have come forward before the sale.Personally, I'm glad they didn’t because it's one thing to be forced out of business and have your selling options limited by the city's burdensome tax policies.

By sheer force I've learned the hard way where you can, cannot and should consider purchasing a permittable vacation rental on the Oregon Coast. 

I have looked at forced-placement insurance but the ones I have found only cover commercial properties.

I find distressed multi families, renovate them increase rents and pay myself the 20% down in the form of force appreciation.