Hello BIggerPockets,
I started this discussion to get some thoughts and opinions on how the Coronavirus might affect the housing market. Mainstream media has been reporting about it nonstop for the last few days, sta...

Economic Update
(Monday, March 15, 2021)
Almost exactly one year ago, March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a “Pandemic” for the first time in a hundred years. Look at all that has happened in th...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me be the first to honestly say, I think we are all screwed🤷🏽‍♂️ . Yes, Most of us in California did recover Most of April rent. May is going to be questionable. And June well... Let’s just s...

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Economic Update(Monday, January 11, 2021)
We all have our New Year’s resolutions. Most likely your goal is to tackle that extra weight, run that extra m...

Economic Update(Monday, February 22, 2021)
The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s Jan. 26-27 meeting, released last week (after their customary three-week delay), show that members of the Committee ...

I've converted to being a pet friendly landlord.  It seems over the past few years that 75% of the applicants have pets so it makes sense to do so.  Conversion of flooring to accommodate this is expensive and I charge...

Economic Update
(Yom Kippur Edition)
The second quarter of 2020 (April, May & June) was the mother of all economic contractions. Real GDP shrank at a 31.7% annual rate, the largest drop for any quarter since ...

There is no doubt we are living in unprecedented times. COVID-19 has undoubtedly thrown a curveball in all of our plans, at least in one way or another. My question is, are we in the beginning of another major economi...