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Who is Steve Van Metre? Steve Van Metre is a notable financial planner and macro manager that specializes in retirement income strategies and the direct management of client assets. In addition to managing portfolios,...
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Hey everyone!My name is Sam Sjoberg and I am currently residing in the concrete jungle that is Manhattan, New York. Currently, I work for a large RE Developer in a portfolio management role. Grew up in Westchester, NY...
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Reading Ray Dalio's book makes me contemplate some more about where real estate is heading. Looking back at the last 15 years everything seems so predictable. New housing starts grew year over year and well exceeded l...
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I'm always curious about where people think the market, real estate market, etc., go and curious to which cities you guys are looking at for whatever real estate deal-- commercial, STRs, buy & holds, fix & fli...
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San Jose Investors. What do you folks think? I hear some say SJ is still growing with potential new IT space attractive to some companies. Like the new Google facility at Diridon. I see others say SJ may be headed ...
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So, I have noticed that real estate prices have really skyrocketed in Orlando, Phoenix, etc. just over the last year. I mean they have gone up 20-25% for SFH. Do you think this kind of rise is sustainable? Do you t...
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The entire country has just spent the past decade enjoying one of the longest bull markets of our time.
Financing has been readily available, there have been an abundance of Buyers available for just about any asset ...
Hey everyone!
I posted a while back about my hopes of house hacking soon in order to get started in real estate and I received a lot of great advice. Just a little recap: I am located in Kansas City and work full tim...
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My friend said he’s heard a lot about Columbus OH being very popular. I told him that I feel like we may have missed the boat on that area. Wondering who here is investing in Columbus, and will continue to do so. What...
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I found this interactive graph of real estate prices comparison of the G7 countries (with Spain substituted for Japan) since 2000 on Youtube, which the author, James Eagle, had ingeniously compiled. Watch what happen...