With uncertainty lurking in the future, how have yall changed your portfolio in terms of leverage to prepare what lays ahead? Have yall increased or decreased leverage? What is the percentage you are aiming to achieve...

Around the beginning of 2020, I decided I wanted to learn more about ways to protect and grow the money my wife was making for us and become much more financially and economically savvy.

It was very common just before the financial crisis in 2009.

If it’s tourist centric, see what the secondary economic driver is.

But you can focus on buying in markets with sound economic fundamentals.

Also, most syndicators are offsetting COVID with conservative underwriting for the next one to two years.( for example, higher economic vacancy, bad debt, higher exit cap).4.

The longer they keep the moratorium, the worse the economic damage from it.

It’s getting closer to the end of the year and that means economic and market forecasts are starting to show up on the internet.

Economic Update Monday, December 14, 2020)Emotional intelligence, an important concept for investors to understand, is loosely defined as being able to recognize the feelings of others— and then leverage that insight to manage relationships and decisions.

The National Bureau of Economic Research classifies a recession as “a period of declining economic performance across an entire economy that lasts for several months.”The residuals of lost jobs, unemployment, and consumer behavior caused by COVID-19 and subsequent “lockdowns” are still being felt across the U.S. — with numbers in April 2020 reflecting largest declines.During this month we saw both job loss claims and unemployment rates — 13.5% and 14.5% respectively — the highest since the 1929 Great Depression. (2)For recent contrast, the peak of the 2007 Great Recession saw job loss and unemployment rates at 6.5% and close to 10% — that’s a difference of 7% and nearly 4% and with a population of nearly 330 million those are big numbers.We are also seeing signs of a recovery taking shape and forming into what economists call a “K-Shaped Recovery”.This article aims to clarify the type of Recovery we find ourselves in, identify who has been most affected, how these changes reflect in the Austin Real Estate market, and review what key economic indicators to watch in Austin and Texas.Why Does It Form a "K"?