Mike Smith
How to forecast demand in multifamily in a certain area?
I come from a background in single family residential new construction. We typically use a metric called Months of Inventory to forecast demand for product in a certain price segment in a certain area. History has t...
Eric Swenson
High Cash Flow / Low Appreciation in Suburbs
Hi All, my local market (Central Massachusetts) is pretty overheated right now. Junky triple deckers going for 350-400k, some sight unseen, a lot of cash offers. So I've started branching out further into the suburb...
Eric Brown
STR insurance - Smoky Mountains
I’m closing on a STR cabin in the smokies with a purchase price of $520k. I received a landlord dwelling quote from Travelers for Coverage A - dwelling for $223,600 plus 25% of additional replacement cost coverage whi...
Nolan O.
Market Phases: Is Vacancy Rate a Leading or Trailing Indicator
A recent forum post (Dollar-Cost Averaging Applied to Rental Property Acquisition) has me thinking about market phases: Recovery, Expansion, Hypersupply and Recession. (Boring and academic, I know. Bear with me.) Many...
Valerie K.
Finding your Buy and Hold Market of Choice
As a newbie, I am using multiple resources to gauge where the best markets for buy and hold are right now. Specifically looking at where turn Key investors are working, reading a ton of forums; Money and Kiplinger's m...
Marc Roberson
What indicators predict a "hot market" and it's longevity
My current market, Northern Colorado, would be described as "cool" by a lot of us, including Zillow (because that's so credible). Another market, Pierce County, WA (Oly, Tacoma, etc), for example, is considered "very ...
Ellie Perlman
Top 10 Most Resilient Employment Markets
The first step in buying real estate is evaluating the market. When evaluating a market for multifamily investments, one particularly important factor to analyze is employment trends. A strong market must have a track...
Nick Fitzpatrick
How to best analyze a market
I am curious how everyone here analyzes a market when deciding where to purchase? Do you first look at the state as a whole and look at population, job growth, median or average income, % renters, property taxes ex...
Nate Garrett
Tulsa Rental Market Update - Fall 2016
Tulsa rental market continues to significantly outpace inflationAs 2016 comes to a close, we took a look at the performance of the Tulsa rental market (and suburbs) over the last few years and discuss some factors inf...
Danna Gramme
Rent Control Oregon - Are you buying?
How do you all feel about the rent control situation in Oregon overall? We see great buys there but have been leary of stepping over the Oregon / Washinton board (We are in Vancouver, WA). We were even interested in b...