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Bonus Depreciation Phase Out: Dates & Details

Bonus depreciation is a tax incentive that allows investors and businesses to immediately deduct a large percentage of the purchase price of qualified business property, rather than spreading out those deductions over many years. This...

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Top Benefits of Investing in Real Estate

If you’re new to the world of real estate investing or seeking to expand your knowledge, you might be wondering, “What are the benefits of investing in real estate?” If you find yourself in this position, welcome to...

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A Brief Guide to Real Estate Income

When you invest in multifamily real estate, there are multiple ways to profit. There is the cash flow or real estate income that is generated from the property. This monthly income is created as rents come due and are distributed...

Retirement real estate income is important.

Explaining Retirement Real Estate Income

If you plan on retiring one day, you should familiarize yourself with the concept of retirement real estate income. Income producing real estate is a proven inflation hedge and should be a part of everyone’s retirement income plan....

Understanding real estate taxes is important.

Real Estate Taxes: A Brief Guide

To understand real estate taxes, you need to understand ad valorem taxes. Ad valorem is Latin for “according to value.” And ad valorem taxes are a series of taxes levied based on the value of an item....

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Real Estate Tax Deductions Guide

It’s that time of year again… taxes.  But let’s make it more interesting and focus on tax reduction, and more specifically, real estate deductions. As a real estate professional, I have to know about this...

This article is about real estate correlation and diversification.

Quick Guide to Real Estate Correlation

Believe it or not, real estate correlation is an important topic. And you should pay attention to it if you want to understand diversification. We all know that diversification is good advice. It’s right up there with some of...

This article is about multifamily real estate and how it's a recession proof investment.

Recession Proof Investments

Everybody is looking for recession proof investments. Why is this? Depending on who you talk to, we’re either already in a recession or soon to be in one. Either way, it’s not our first recession and it certainly...

This article is about long distance real estate investing

Long Distance Real Estate Investing Guide

Mention long distance real estate investing in your local investor’s club and you’re likely to get some very strange looks. Keep it up and it won’t be long until you’re branded as someone who likes to buck...

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Fundamentals of Real Estate Markets

The fundamentals of real estate span across three broad categories, acquisitions, operations, and dispositions. When you own a property, manage that property, and ultimately sell it, you’ve gone full cycle....

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Income Investing Is Making A Comeback

Income investing is when one invests with the intention of generating recurring long-term income while preserving their capital. As a strategy, income investors tend to be on the lower-risk side of the investment spectrum. ...

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Growth vs. Income Investing 

If you took a survey and asked multiple people what kind of investor they are, you’re likely to get a bunch of different answers. You might hear things like “I buy mutual funds, stocks, bonds, real estate, private...

Real Estate Equity and Ownership Guide

Real Estate Equity and Ownership Guide

When it comes to equity and ownership in real estate it’s important to know how investors make money. And if you’ve followed our articles, then you know real estate investors can make money in four different ways....

America Should Become a Nation of Renters

America is Becoming a Nation of Renters

In 2021 Bloomberg published an opinion piece by economist Karl Smith entitled, “America Should Become a Nation of Renters.” It got my attention, as this discussion is more relevant today than it has ever been....

Real Estate Investment Funds

A Guide to Real Estate Investment Funds

Funds are common investment vehicles in the United States and around the world. There are mutual funds, money market funds, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and real estate investment funds, just to name a few....

How to invest in commercial real estate

How To Invest In Commercial Real Estate

The six key questions that most people ask when gathering information are who, why, when, where, what, and how. When it comes to people interested in investing in commercial real estate, most already know the answers to some of these...

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Accredited Investor Defined

“Learn the history, definition, and confusion behind what makes someone an accredited investor.” So you want to invest in private placements? Welcome to the club! With more than a trillion dollars worth of investment...

Multifamily financing

Multifamily Financing – A Primer

Unless you hit the lottery or you’re sitting on a massive hoard of cash, you’re going to need commercial multifamily financing to buy properties. As a private multifamily real estate acquisitions and asset management firm...

How to be successful in real estate

How To Be Successful In Real Estate

How to be successful in real estate is a question that millions of would-be investors ponder. The U.S. real estate industry is worth trillions of dollars. And many would love to tap into its wealth building potential. But being a real...

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Real Estate Syndication Best Practices

Winston Churchill once described Russia as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. For some investors, the subject of real estate syndication is equally perplexing. While Churchill’s description of Russia remains...

Why invest in real estate - top 5 reasons

Why Invest In Real Estate – Top 5 Reasons

Why invest in real estate? As a multitrillion-dollar industry and the third-largest asset class in the United States, commercial real estate has always been a viable option for investors. However, over the last several years we have...

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Optimizing Your Apartment Investment

Professional commercial real estate investors consider apartments their businesses, and that the best way to optimize their business performance is through NOI (Net Operating Income) optimization. There are three principal avenues to...

Those looking for tax free investments and a tax free retirement would likely benefit from understanding the depreciation benefit that comes with owning apartments

The Best Tax-Free Retirement Investments

“I want tax-free investments and a tax-free retirement.” That is the response I hear over and over again when I speak with investors about what they want from their investments. In fact, questions about taxes and the...

Perfect Apartment Project

Finding the Perfect Apartment Project

In recent weeks, we have walked through the ideal criteria for a multifamily market, as well as the attributes of the most desirable submarkets. But even after you have narrowed your search to the most ideal location, you need to...

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5 Features of Every Great Multifamily Market

The Market Always Wins. Always. You can invest in a great looking property run by an excellent management team, but if that asset is in a bad market, you will at best tread water. More often than not, you will lose money. While...

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Wall Street’s Lost Decade

A Decade of Negative Returns Last week, the S&P 500 Index made news by hitting a 4 year high. While Wall Street shamelessly hyped this grand achievement, here is the reality: At a time when tens of millions of Americans are nearing...

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Baby Boomer’s Boon on Apartment Investing

The most significant factor for apartment investors is the Baby Boomer’s move from homeownership to renting. 2011 is the 65th birthday for the Baby Boomers as they continue to impact every facet of America’s economics....

Apartment Investment Value

2 Pillars of Apartment Investment Value

Retaining and increasing the value of your apartment investment is fundamental to your long-term survival. It is Warren Buffet’s number 1 rule: “First rule of investing..Don’t lose money” To follow that rule...

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Investment Property and Permanent Wealth

Investment Property and developing Permanent Wealth are a key parts of the 37th Parallel Properties investment philosophy and approach. It is a slightly different concept than just net worth, and it is worth understanding the...

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Are You an Investor or a Gambler?

3 Ways to Tell if You are an Investor or a Gambler Real estate investing is a wonderfully lucrative, empowering, and life-changing venture.  But it needs to be approached with the right mindset if you want to realize success. We...

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