Category: Apartments
How To Underwrite Multi-Family Real Estate Using the T-12
What is a T-12? When underwriting a multi-family real estate investment, one of the common…
What Is A Pro Forma In Multi-Family Real Estate?
When listing multi-family real estate investment opportunities, brokers will often provide the Offering Memorandum (OM)…
A Helpful Explanation of the T12 in Multi-Family Real Estate Investing
What is a T12? Effective underwriting is the foundation of multi-family investing. Without good underwriting,…
How To View Bad Debt in Real Estate Investing?
In the article Physical vs. Economical Vacancy, we explained that not having tenants in the…
What Is The Best Holding Period for A Multi-Family Asset?
Buying large commercial multi-families can be different from buying in the residential sector (2-4 units)….
The Benefits of Off-Market Multi-Family Real Estate Buying Opportunities
What is an Off-Market Deal? As real estate syndicators develop broker relationships in key markets,…
Who is the Customer in Real Estate Investments?
I was recently thinking to myself about operating my personal investments as a business: maintaining…
The Importance of Trustworthy Investment Firms for Your Passive Investment
For those who are new to private investing and passive investing in syndications, it can…
How To Use Gross Rent Multiplier In Real Estate Investing?
What is GRM? A common metric in multi-family investing is Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM), which…
Solve for X – An Investor’s Relentless Pursuit of Problem-Solving
On this investment journey, we encounter many obstacles, ranging from speed bumps to mountains. To…
2 Options for Achieving Targeted Rents on New Acquisitions
One key fundamental of multi-family syndications is rent growth. The appeal to investors of a…
What is the Equity Multiplier in Real Estate Investing?
What is the Equity Multiplier? As passive investors, it pays to have a complete understanding…
Ensuring Resident Safety In Multifamily Investments
We wrote about it in The Greater Responsibility of Multifamily Investing because we see this…
What is Asset Management In Real Estate Syndication?
You may already be familiar with the concept of apartment syndication. Investing in these multi-family…
What Every Passive Investor Needs To Know About Good Money Managers
As passive investors, it pays to know what to expect from a high performing private…
3 Ways to Protect Yourself as a Passive Investor in a Real Estate Syndication
The idea of becoming a passive investor in a real estate syndication is attractive for…
The Importance of the Exit Strategy in Real Estate Syndications
Real estate Syndications are the pooling of funds to buy real estate assets – in…
What is Yield Maintenance in Apartment Investing?
As passive investors, it is important to know and familiarize yourself with the structure of…
The Importance of Alignment Of Interests When Passively Investing in Apartments
Apartment investing is a great way for working professionals to diversify, beat inflation and grow…
What is Value-Add In Multi-Family Investing?
There are a 3 general business models to multi-family investing. One of which, Value-Add, is…
What is An Asset Management Fee In A Real Estate Syndication?
When passive investors are seeking to invest in syndications, it helps to know how the…
The Value Of Trust In Apartment Syndications
I am excited to share that I will am participating in my first multi-family real…
Dumb Money and The Importance of Real Assets
Dumb Money?Forgive me for calling money dumb, but not all dollars are created equally. What…
The Purpose of Property Managers In Multifamily Real Estate
Active and Passive Investors alike should understand the critical purpose and value proposition of property…
The Low-Risk Approach To Debt Financing An Apartment Syndication
When taking down an apartment investment, sponsors raise equity through their investor network and finance…