Retirement / financial planning are extremely important tasks. My biggest beef and frustration though is that the vast majority of planners fail to consider real estate and other investments when building a plan.

As ...

Know Thy Cap Rate: The illusive obvious.For some reason cap rates seem to be the most misunderstood term (ratio actually) in all of real estate. I often get asked by new investors what a cap rate is and what does it...

Hi everyone, I am curious to know how investors determine the market rents on their properties. I am using a site called rentometer and I like it. I do think that they are a little on the higher side so I wanted to kn...

One of the first things I learned when I started studying REI, was that the estimates on realty sites like Zillow, etc. were wildly inaccurate.  But are they, really?  And even so, does it really matter?  Let's go ove...

Hey folks!I had some trouble figuring out where this fits, as it's more of a strategic decision I'm hoping to get some other perspectives about. I'm going to just kind of bare all of the thoughts that have been slowly...

Hey all.
Writing about the john reed article that was posted on here a bit ago, talking about how most investor's deals they say are good are actually not at all, because according to him, every property over time av...

Hey guys,

I have a question regarding DCF analysis. I have previous experience in finance but I am not sure what to do with discount rates on real estate investments. In finance, you can calculate the cost of equity ...

We have a few investment properties for several years. One in personal name, others in disregarded LLCs. Thinking through different exit strategies which include 1031s (traditional,) outright sales, switches into over...