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According to Yardi Matrix most recent publication, “COVID-19: A Game Changer for Multifamily", nationally, rents have dropped by 0.4% since the arrival of COVID. This past week I decided to focus on some key areas of ...
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I am thinking about purchasing a home or condo in Galveston, TX to use as a str and need input on occupancy rates. There is a report you can buy for $80 from Air DNA which shows data from Airbnb, but wanted to see if...
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What do you do when you purchase a house, rent it out and then the market crashes and the house is no longer worth paying such a high rent rate to potential renters comaparing them to other houses but you are still s...
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I want to share something here. If there is still a question whether to raise or lower tax rates, please back it up with facts, or history, please.
This lesson will come in 3 parts.
Harding and Cololidge period
part...
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The 70% rule of thumb seems like a great way of determining how much to purchase a house for. How many people that use the 70% rule actually achieve the 70% rule once the rehab has been done and the house has sold? In...
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I have been interested in Puerto Rico for awhile, but I would like to get some people's insight to what is going on there with real estate prices.1. As there isn't a good MLS or records search to comp, how do you go a...
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Hi Everyone,
I'm in the LA / Hollywood / Beverly Hills area and along with an investor, we're looking at building a new multi-family development.
There are several listings with lots that already have approved plan...
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It's 7pm and I just leaned out the window of my Brooklyn apartment to cheer for front line heroes in my city's and the world's fight against the COVID-19 Crisis. This is a new routine I could not have imagined just o...
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I am new and just getting started in real estate. Can I get advice on how to take my first steps into real estate? How does one go about looking at the type of market it is in Texas?
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Welcome to my weekly take, A Skeptical Real Estate Dude, coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all you tubular dudes ...