PDAs weren't good enough for Mr. Jobs, he had to go create an iPhone (which many of us now can't live without). He was relentless about trying to give the user the best possible experience. I wonder how he would reinv...

Recently while looking for resources on past real estate cycles, I came across below 2 articles.1. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-economic-crash-...This article has a lot of data but is missing the explanation for...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

I just came across this article from Calculated Risk (the article is about a year old so here is the latest data.) which suggests that MF demand will start to shrink due to increased supply from new building and decre...

Hello, fellow landlords! I bought a duplex in October that needed work. I inherited a tenant on one side and the other was vacant, so I went to work fixing and updating the vacant unit. It's now complete, and I was ab...

My grandmother bought a brownstone building in Williamsburg Brooklyn for 25k cash way back in the day. The estimated value of the property is now 2.3million. Ugh! That's the dream I think for all of us here. My quest...

I want to get some feedback on an investment strategy I used in 2003-2005 that I call the "pre-construction flip".  It works like this:Identify high appreciating markets (greater than 12% annual)Identify home builders...

Say you did REI for a while, made big money, and were able to retire. What would you like to do with your time and money? I'd like to travel more.

Very soon I will be closing on a 12 unit multiplex in the chicago land area. my largest acquisition to date. I will have doubled my units to 25 units in a little over 18 months in the real estate game. Which has me no...