The way I see it, I don’t want to be on the sidelines rooting for someone else to make money for me or more often, hoping they don’t lose it, steal it or mismanage it to my certain demise.With the way I approach real estate, it is a 100% guarantee every single time that I am going to outsmart, outwit, outperform, over deliver and under promise to the point that I crush my competition.

This brings us to a key point about retail trends and their effect on commercial real estate: As e-commerce keeps growing, the retail sector’s need for commercial real estate isn’t disappearing, but rather is shifting as industrial real estate – namely, warehouses and distribution centers – play an ever-bigger role in the retail industry.Indeed, commercial real estate industry observers like PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, which publish an annual report on commercial real estate trends, have singled out the industrial segment as the top-ranked property type for 2018 as well as the previous four years, while Colliers recently found the industrial sector far outperforms all other segments.

I ultimately decided to pay off the loans in the previous category, as most investments (stocks, RE, etc) will out perform 4% if you place your capital correctly.

Having a common goal is the only way to have the property outperform.

You can not buy true cash flow .As for the question, fixed or variable.......historically variable has always out performed fixed rates.

There will be times when the stock market will out perform the real estate market and when real estate will out perform stocks.

Maybe up to $60K of some funds outperform.

In my case, the properties almost always receive major renovation or new construction, so they outperform median rents ... and the market has of course given far more than 3% recently.Any additional revenue (renting out garages, STR use, whatever) is a bonus.

What it found is that unleveraged residential properties outperformed everything else on a risk-adjusted basis in both the historic and modern eras.

Ok, here are a few more thoughts on the subject: If you market to niches that you really understand and even sub-niches within the larger categories, you can become the dominant player, irrespectively of your size and relative access to capital.If you have expertise in solving specific kinds of problems, as a hard money originating lender, you can close faster.If you actually have you own money (or at least a credit or warehouse line) you can close still faster if you so choose, and outperform other wouldbe competitors.