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Book Review: Ego Is the Enemy

While on summer vacation, I finally got my hands on Ryan Holiday’s Ego is the…

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How to Manage Your Rental Cash Flow

After you have rented out your property and can successfully cash flow, you need a…

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Passive Multifamily Investor Guideline – After You Vet The Sponsor 💡

I have written numerous posts about doing your due diligence and vetting the sponsor prior…

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How To Know if A Real Estate Investment Is Overpriced

Go to any app on your phone and you can find a house or apartment…

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A Conservative Approach To Any Real Estate Investment

Real estate investing, like any other form of investing, can be risky. But not all…

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Great Additional Income Sources For Multifamily Real Estate

It is widely known that the top income source of multifamily investments is rental income….

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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…

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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)…

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Is My 401k The Best Way?

We have all heard it and most of us working professionals have followed this path…

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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…

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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,…

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The True Goal of The Learn To Invest Blog

People that know me closely know that I write articles on real estate investing topics…

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How To View Bad Debt in Real Estate Investing?

In the article Physical vs. Economical Vacancy, we explained that not having tenants in the…

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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)….

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How To Measure Your Personal Financial Wealth

Financial wealth is not everything. In fact, it should be a means to an end…

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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…

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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,…

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Who is the Customer in Real Estate Investments?

I was recently thinking to myself about operating my personal investments as a business: maintaining…

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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…

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The Characteristics of A Great Multifamily Investment

The multifamily asset class is proven to beat inflation, provide cash flow and outsized returns…

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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…

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3 Red Flags with Potential Property Managers

You may have heard, but in case you haven’t, when it comes to your real…

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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…

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How To Identify and Live With Risk

The word “Risk” has become such a scary thing; in fact, we do not even…

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