After spending the past 11 years helping to transform Las Vegas, I'm looking to start a new project based in the Northern California/Southern Oregon region, reforming RV Parks into flexible RV/Cabin resorts and utilizing my personal connections with AirBNB and various celebrity tastemakers in order to raise the profile and profits of these properties.

I'm at the front-end of my real estate investing journey, and I don't have any huge wins, but I do have some small wins that have been encouraging, and I wanted to share.I spent about a year getting educated--attendin...

,@Becca Summers, @Rob Green, @Alison Kovac, @Jed Alsup, @William Hochstedler, @Brian Christensen, @Taylor Harris, @Mark Kemp, @Ron Lopez, @Brad KoivuWanted to let all of you know about a Utah meetup on Thursday, December 3rd at 6:30 pm at the Huddle (Ft union Blvd and about 2600 E.) in Cottonwood Heights. 

It's the holiday season, and perhaps we're all celebrating too early!  

Last night, while I was out "celebrating", I happened to chance upon an real life inspector.

Last night, while I was out "celebrating", I happened to chance upon an real life inspector.

Milwaukee Is A Hot City For Skilled WorkersWhen it comes to jobs, Wisconsin has much to celebrate.

They celebrate paying off their outsized mortgage because for them it's a great life-changing accomplishment.They mourn when they have to leave the house that they spent so much of their lives in, like their cheap ticky-tacky tract-built place is an ancestral estate handed down from time immemorial and their lives are bound up with the soil it rests on.They fill their houses with just ungodly amounts of their crap, trying to own it more fully.They hire people to do the simplest jobs in their house because they're worried to death about structurally compromising the joint: "Oh no, if I replace this faucet and the faucet leaks there will be massive damage and a contractor will have to give me a quote and I'll have to file a claim with my insurance, and, and, and..."

Much like managing a celebrity.

Investors are celebrating rent increases left and right but ignoring the fact that, while their tenants can "afford" the increased rents on a rent-to-income analysis, they cannot afford the rents on an income-to-expense analysis, when you include their cars, credit cards, etc.