I cut my teeth in the war zone-ish eastside Harvard Place.

Maybe not a Great Dane but at least a Lab with some pretty sharp teeth.

This episode helped me bond with my potential seller on the other property.

Hi Tate:  Compounding interest is an amazing thing and it applies to all investments : stocks, bonds, real estate.   

for some reason REITs have never been a sexy asset class, older investors look at REITs as a weird-bond and wonder why own something with 4-5% dividend when they can own Investment Grade corporates at 5-6% or even recently US treasuries at 5%, and young investors don't even know what they are.yet they acquire class A real estate, the kind you and I can't due to price, the kind that has the best capital appreciation in great areas long term, and they have access to credit at lower rates than us, or they can just print shares and get new capital for free that way, to buy more great properties, They can pay for the best management, they don't ever pay brokerage fees either in or out (have everything in -house), and they generally have much lower risk as most of their portfolios are leveraged at only about 30-40% LTV, and we have zero personal liability when owning them as opposed to the litigation headaches we get with direct RE, and right now they collectively are on sale about 25-50% below their NAVs at lowest valuation since 2008, as opposed to SP500 at all time highs.

Consider purchasing additional investment properties such as rental homes, commercial properties, or even shares in real estate through investment trusts.Consider investing in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds through a broker or online investing platform.

Is he licensed and bonded?

This week (jobs week), markets have been volatile.Negative news (tending to make bond prices fall; bond yields and mortgage rates rise):A stronger than expected employment report from ADP, including an apparent reacceleration in wage growth for job changers.Commentary from Fed members Raphael Bostic, Loretta Mester, and Neel Kashkari suggesting that there was “no rush” to cut rates unless unemployment rates began to spike.Positive news (tending to make bond prices rise; bond yields and mortgage rates fall):Fed Chairman Jerome Powell saying that — despite the recent “bump” in inflation — rate cuts were still likely this year.Weekly jobless claims came out at 221,000 for the week ending March 30, a bit higher than expectations.As always, everything could change today (Friday) with the release of the BLS jobs report for February.

This marks the highest level of housing bond sales in over a decade.The 57% year-over-year growth in housing bond issuance has been partially facilitated by comparatively lower borrowing costs in the municipal market.

I come from the world of stock and bond investing, and am looking to diversify with fractional trust deeds purchased from a HML.