Andreas Mueller
Government has taken a permanent intellectual vacation. More Inflation is Coming.
Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, TN.
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Patrick Gilsenan
True wholesalers & inflated ARVs in the DC, Virginia & Maryland?
Hello all,It seems there is a lack of true wholesalers seeking to make reasonable profits on wholesale properties. Instead it seems there are an endless number of individuals who call themselves wholesalers, get a pro...
Andreas Mueller
Housing Market Update, Inflation, Interest Rates and Hot Markets in 2024
I BP Community! My weekly brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and/or financial markets is below!
Today we’re talkin:
- Jobs / Inflation Report- New Housing Market Outlook 2024- Housing Affordability- ...
Thomas Whittlesey
What is a fair annual rent increase based on inflation alone?
Just looking for some feedback on rules of thumb for annual rent increases. Is 2-3% fair?
Selina Gray
Inflation, the Fed, and Your Rentals: What You Need to Know
Wednesday’s November CPI report gave us a peek at inflation, and it’s not terrible. Headline inflation ticked up from 2.6% to 2.7%, while core inflation—the one that ignores things like your weekly gas price mood swin...
Klyde Waggsdale
Acceptable Appreciation Assumptions
Hello Everybody! Is it safe to assume price appreciation of 3% (rate of inflation) when analyzing a property. I understand that values can definitely go the other way, but is it safe to assume any amount of apprecia...
Vlad Denisov
Delta between future income and expenses
Let's say we underwrite a deal and we think 3% growth in Gross Operating Income and 2% growth in opEx are reasonable. Because of this delta, NOI increases every year and Cap Rate as a result. But NOI can't grow infin...
Logan M.
The FEDs next rate increase
With three remaining FED meetings this year, what are they looking for to decide to raise or lower rates?The Federal Open Market Committee FOMC) meeting schedule 2023:September 19-20*October 31-/November 1.December 12...
Daren H.
Why do most describe rising house prices as “Appreciation”?
Why aren’t rising house prices described as Inflation? Inflation is generally looked at as a bad thing. Appreciation of home prices is viewed as a good thing. If I am a homebuyer buying today as opposed to 8 years ago...
Scott Trench
Help Me Understand the Fed's Most Recent Rate Hike?
Up until now, I've been cheering the Fed on, grateful that Jerome Powell took his lumps for the way too easy money policies in late 2021, and cranked hard on interest rates to beat inflation. I think in 2022, this Fed...