Category: Financing

The simple fact is that the best real estate opportunities are not always found in your neighborhood or local market.  You may have heard the saying, “all real state is local”.  Well, with over 400 markets around the United States, …Read more  »

Over the past decade, almost all of the growth in America’s households has been driven by renters, especially renters of single-family residences (SFRs). Owning the stereotypical modest home with a white picket fence was long a hallmark of the suburban …Read more  »

If you’re looking for a reason to reject a potential tenant because of a gut feeling, here are 99 reasons to do so.  If something seems "off" and you don’t know why, trust your instincts.  Your neighbors and other tenants …Read more  »

Three powerhouse metropolitan areas -- New York, Los Angeles, and Houston -- together accounted for one of every seven new jobs created in the country over the last three years.  These top three markets added 300,000+ new jobs from 2012 …Read more  »

The percentage of U.S. households that own a home has dropped significantly since 2008, and experts say this downward trend may well continue for at least several more years. Over the last ten years the nation has lost 1 million …Read more  »

There are two basic types of real estate markets: Linear and Cyclical. Cyclical Markets Cyclical markets are real estate markets that tend to have larger price moves up and down over the years. Property values move up and down like …Read more  »

The transformation of the American Dream, most broadly manifested in popular folklore as the aspiration of the US middle-class to own a home (even if it means agreeing to a 30-year loan with one's friendly neighborhood too-big-to-fail bank), into the …Read more  »

The feedback I get from investors across the country is that we are in a seller’s market.  Prices are up.  Inventory is low.  Properties in the hottest markets are selling over asking price with multiple offers.  Investors are paying “more …Read more  »

For some residential investors, capital expenditure terminology — CapEx for short — is unfamiliar.  Capital expenditure reserves are common in the commercial real estate sector but lesser known in the residential real estate space. (more…)