I, personally, favor Equity's model, although full disclosure: I am biased because my company does a good amount of business with their Seattle portfolio.What they are doing currently, is shedding their outlying, sub-urban properties and concentrating on maintaining/upgrading their high-rise, urban core buildings.

Don't rely too much of pro formas and fancy models.

:i dont know alot but i would say to these people- lower the cost of your living expenses.you are saying they should work 11 hours labor for $60 and in order to compete with workers that justify the employer's illegal behavior and outdated business model?

While some rehabs, transactions and experiences are similar, you never know which one will be the project that skewes your model.

Martin Armstrong's economic confidence model is an interesting theory, check it out.Your nervous nellyPeter

I no longer aspire to be a speculator.

In addition, at least in my business model, I don't have to speculate and leave my investment up to others, with flipping RE, I control the market and investment by controlling my acquisition price relative to actual value and control the market by getting in and out within 3 to 4 months which drastically reduces potential for devaluation over time.I can not do that with gold investments and I can not live inside of gold either.

A friend of mine works for an Architectural company and they're developing a Tiny House concept and their model home is almost complete, but they need a structural person to look at their design.

I am an aspiring real estate syndicator looking to invest in apartment buildings around major universities, and renting them out to a niche group of university students.

I'm a new hire at property management company and I was wondering what people thought of our model.