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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)…
Is My 401k The Best Way?
We have all heard it and most of us working professionals have followed this path…
What Is Loan To Value (LTV) in Real Estate Investing?
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Why Student Housing Could Be A Powerful Growth Investment
Especially after the pandemic, investors were very wary of student housing, a unique niche within…
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,…
The True Goal of The Learn To Invest Blog
People that know me closely know that I write articles on real estate investing topics…
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)….
How To Measure Your Personal Financial Wealth
Financial wealth is not everything. In fact, it should be a means to an end…
How To Seek Revenue-Driven Appreciation in Commercial Real Estate Investing
In an earlier post, two types of appreciation, we discussed market-driven appreciation, something that cannot…
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…
The Characteristics of A Great Multifamily Investment
The multifamily asset class is proven to beat inflation, provide cash flow and outsized returns…
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…
3 Red Flags with Potential Property Managers
You may have heard, but in case you haven’t, when it comes to your real…
4 Reasons Stocks Are No Longer My Primary Investment Strategy
Like many, my foray into investing began in college after a gaining an appreciation for…
How To Identify and Live With Risk
The word “Risk” has become such a scary thing; in fact, we do not even…
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…
Operational Value Add In Multifamily Investing
One of the most attractive aspects of the multifamily asset class is the ability to…
Managing Loss-To-Lease In A Value-Add Multifamily Investment
Loss-to-Lease Loss-to-lease is an economic vacancy line item that describes how much the operator is…
How Working Professionals Can Track Their Passive Income
If the goal of freedom through passive investing is to generate enough passive income to…
What is Loss-to-Lease in Multi-Family Investing?
There are endless terms in real estate investing with which to familiarize yourself. To help,…
The Attractiveness of Class C Multifamily Properties
In the multifamily investing world, there are various classes of assets that are subjectively categorized…