buying apartments

Investing in Apartments — How Location Effects Market Rents

by Ted Karsch | January 13, 2009

There is no hard and fast scientific formula to determine what market rents should be for an apartment building investment. Instead the apartment building owner should rely on less scientific but equally important factors such as amenities and location. The owners frame of reference needs to switch from owner to renter to truly understand the [...]

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Commentary

Apartment Building Investors Versus Apartment Building Speculators

by Ted Karsch | September 23, 2008

Investing, in my opinion, should be treated like a business. It requires a product which produces an income or cash flow larger then the expenditures necessary to sell the product. Therefore, it should produce a profit for the manager or business owner. Unfortunately, many investors are actually not investors at all in the business sense [...]

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Economy

Apartment Buildings Beat Inflation With Rising Rents

by Ted Karsch | June 9, 2008

It is no secret that inflation has reared its ugly head in the US and around the world. And it is easy to see its effects whenever you go to the gas station to fill up your car or to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread. You can read the statistics: gas [...]

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