REITs are just a little too close to classic mutual funds for my comfort. 

The classic advice is somewhere around 50/50 split between stocks and bonds and you adjust that ratio based upon age/risk tolerance. 

To your point where is the real estate slice of the pie (or art, or gold and silver, or classic cars - trying to talk my wife into that one).  

Hello BP members , Past Friday, I bought a foreclosure home with hard money financing , classic 12% interest with 10% down.

This is the classic "chicken or the egg" scenario but there are ways to work around it.

The classic lying landlord is the small to medium sized landlord who has a problem, a likely nonpaying tenant on their hands and wants to palm them off on some other unsuspecting landlord so easing the tenant's exit from the current landlord's property.

Remember that the term of interaction between a landlord and tenant is of much longer duration than that between a merchant and customer.A landlord is permitted to ask for proof of disability and proof the dog is trained as a service dog as a condition of entering into a rental agreement.The classic case on this point is Bronk v.

Greetings,This case may possibly be one of those classics, but doesn't seem to come as common, so I'm asking for posterity:- I have an ongoing flip in terminal stages backed by an 80% rehab interest-only loan due in 3 months.

@Craig Curelop@Joshua LevineWell I think the classic value add strategy is to buy a property and use your business acumen to increase the property value by increasing NOI, not increasing Cap Rate:- Cap rate is market driven, investors can not control (i.e. increase/decrease) cap rate.

Have a throw back week where in addition to Trending posts, you add "Classic" posts.