According to Yardi Matrix, revenue was down year-over-year in nearly every major market they track due to increased competition and new store openings.

I requested a Redemption of my funds from fundrise back in January and they won't release them.Here is what they said:Fundrise Advisors, in our capacity as Manager of the eREITs and eFunds, has determined that it is necessary at this time to suspend the processing and fulfillment of redemption requests.While under normal market conditions, we seek to provide investors with the ability to redeem their investments on a regular basis, during times of financial crisis or extreme uncertainty, it is absolutely critical that we suspend redemptions in order to protect the interests of all our investors.As Manager, we have an obligation to make decisions based upon what is best for the entire Fundrise investor community and must always put the priorities of the whole above any one individual.Fundamentally, Fundrise investors own real property, which is simply not liquid. 

We just spent 10 days doing our typical "Spring upkeep"We sanded down solid wood kitchen cabinets, primed and painted them.Had a bulb burned out under the microwave.Fixed some screens on the screened back porch.Touched up some paint on the dock.Cleaned out flower beds.Steam Cleaned CarpetsFixed a bedroom door that wasn't latching properlyEtc.For those of you using a PM:Does you PM regular inspect to catch small things like a microwave light burned out?

@Matt Lorentsen have you looked at running regular doorbells? 

New and learning is good.There are different types of mortgage money, different sources of mortgage money and different ways mortgage money is amortized or calculated.There is regular Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac money. 

She called to say I need to get over and clean up the garage which had spiderwebs and Mice droppings.She said she needed to store some Antiques and the garage was too dirty.She then complained that she can barely afford to live in the house and needs to sell out of the garage.

We also have a large community of 100+ local investors who chat regularly to share ideas, best practices etc. via a GroupMe and Slack chat so if you’d like to get plugged in let me know!

My wife just read Apple is shutting down their stores outside of China, restaurants are having fewer people going out.

Many people actually say if it's more of a regular person rather than an investor it's easier to sell them on 8% than 16% because they assume at 16% if must be risky.

Should I AirBNB my current space or regular rental?