I'm considering passively investing in new Class A apartments, 1,000 units, $230m, in Tampa, Daytona Beach, and Dallas, ORA fund that is just getting started that focuses on light-value-add Class B and C, with a goal of up to 50 complexes, maybe about a billion dollars of total value.

Columbus has witnessed remarkable growth in recent years, largely attributed to the presence of tech giants such as Intel (with a $20 billion investment), Meta, Amazon, and Google, all of which have established warehouses and data centers in the area.

Columbus, Ohio-top appreciating city in USA-tech companies moving in and bringing thousands of high paying jobs ($20 Billion)

Microsoft is building a one billion dollar data center just south of Milwaukee, but that will only require a small crew to run.

We have heard it a billion times, "I'm super excited to invest/ reach FIRE/ make a career change, but my partner isn't on board."

With some rough math I get 2-3 billion dollars in assets and 300 million in annual rent.

My parents have a decent amount of friends that acquired apartment complexes for dirt cheap in Koreatown decades ago back when K-town was considered a dangerous place...before the billions of dollars came pouring in from overseas and all the insane amount of development that is currently still going on here. 

That's not the million dollar question, that's the billion dollar question.

I'm honestly not sure why this happens so much.My uncle owns a billion dollar real estate company and just took it public, and I guarantee you he's not 'teaching' anyone.

While specific figures for the entire period are not available, the GDP of the Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes Durham, Orange, and Chatham counties, was approximately $57 billion in 2019, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.