Comments on: Apartment Buildings Beat Inflation With Rising Rents

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:48:22 +0000

Inflation will be the key to the recovery, as it has been in the past. ListingSupply.com shows that MLS listings are starting their much anticipated decent. Let’s hope it continues so we can see some price stability.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:48:51 +0000

You can pick up some great real estate deals out there right now if you know what you’re doing and research the market If you can hang onto it for a while…. I believe its always good to spread your investments around …varied portfolio.

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By: Dike Drummond

Dike Drummond — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:22:08 +0000

Location, Location, Location has to be acknowledged too.

There are markets where the flood of foreclosed SFR properties has driven up apartment vacancies. Here’s an article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/06/09/apartment.renters.ap/index.html

Your P&L Statement doesn’t care what your rent is … if your vacancy rate bumps up. AND you will have to lower rents in these markets to keep your units full with SFR properties in competition for your renters.

So apartments are a good option in certain selected markets – and look at the areas where SFR has not suffered the severe collapse we have seen in Vegas and S. Florida, etc.

My 2 cents

By: Online games

Online games — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:40:39 +0000

He’s right. Plus with commercial properties, they lend against the property not against your own personal credit. As long as the deal makes sense, they will do it and your own credit is basically irrelevant.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:47:47 +0000

Melvin, you miss the point. There are good apartment deals out there. You just have to go out and find them. It is no different then finding good residential properties to invest in. With the high foreclosure rates, every investor is chasing after the same deals. All the gurus are teaching how to do short-sales. The real opportunity lies in commercial real estate and I like apartments. There are several gurus teaching commercial real estate investing. When you look at the bottom line, you will spend the same time chasing a foreclosure or short-sale deal as you will finding and negotiating an apartment deal. The numbers are a little larger, but the payoff can also be much higher. You are also dealing with economies of scale. You can have someone else manage the property, and you can have vacancies and you will still get a cash flow. I have done residential real estate investing in the past and now I wouldn’t go back. Commercial real estate is the way to go.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:40:17 +0000

ow great article huh… I have learned a lot with it… Thats why apartments nowadays are really expensive