Unlike single family houses, apartments are commercial properties and are therefore evaluated using CAP rates rather than comps.

A few tips that may be helpful to you here on the BP website as you build your portfolio:You can set up keyword alerts so anytime someone posts about York, Baltimore or any of the other markets you're evaluating, you'll be notified.

Additionally I like to evaluate the financial health, capital reserves, and property condition of the association to try to understand whether a large assessment is looming.  

The trick to modeling retail is centered around evaluating the current leases.

In theory they spread out costs instead of having big ones possibly hit you at once.Other risks are burnout, running out of money (usually because of outside issues, personal issues, etc).For me, I've been thinking/evaluating a lot lately the 'opportunity cost' risk of stepping away from engineering and business career to do the real estate stuff. 

I'm evaluating a RealtyShares.com common equity investment offering for Twin River Commons in Binghampton, NY with target return 14%. 

It is making me evaluate what the motivation behind my decision making is, and how best to make those decisions.

Be careful when evaluating your rental properties.

You have to learn how to evaluate the deals yourself.

In the spirit of the latest BP podcast, I am curious as to how I evaluated this deal incorrectly.