Multifamily Myths: Why You Don’t Control The Value Like Everyone Says You Do
When investing in single family homes, you have to sit around waiting for the market to appreciate to realize a higher value. When you own an apartment complex, you are…
Commercial Real Estate Investing
Commercial real estate investing differs in many ways from the more traditional residential real estate investing. Property income, expenses, and values are often calculated differently, and success in this business often requires speaking the language of commercial real estate fluently. In this section of the BiggerPockets Blog, you'll find articles that discuss every aspect of commercial real estate imaginable. From different types of lease agreements, financing solutions, and valuation methods, we've got it all. Authors in this section include commercial real estate investors with decades of experience.
Multifamily Myths: Why Investors Think Vacancy & Unpaid Rent Will Never Be an Issue
Many single family landlords have it easy. Their tenants tend to stay for a while. They are oftentimes more stable. Some of them even take good care of the home…
The Top 10 Questions You Need to Ask Your Commercial Mortgage Broker
Before you put an apartment building deal under contract, you should clearly understand your potential lenders’ loan terms and underwriting criteria. Imagine this: You put a deal under contract and…
5 Major Advantages Commercial Space Has Over Residential Property
Hey there, BP! I love being a residential landlord, don’t get me wrong. As they say, people always need somewhere to live, so you can always find a tenant for…
8 Awesomely Simple Ways to Maximize Your Apartment Building Profits
You’re probably already familiar with the power of commercial real estate. For example, if you’re able to increase rents by $50 and decrease expenses by $50 per unit per month…
New to Multi-Family Valuation? This Awesome Program Can Help!
If you’ve been around the proverbial BiggerPockets block a time or two, you’re aware of the fact that commercial multi-family properties are valued differently than single-family homes. Whereas a single-family…
How We Took Our First Commercial Property From Vacant to 18 Tenants
Picture this for a moment. It is January 1, 2009. The worldwide financial crisis is upon us. Companies are not moving or taking risks. And we own a vacant 10,000…
How to Use a Master Lease to Acquire Commercial Real Estate With No Money Down
The vast majority of commercial real estate deals are “conventional” with regard to financing, meaning they are financed with a commercial lender requiring 20% – 30% down. But it’s important…
Buy With Confidence: A Brief Guide to Due Diligence for Apartments
They say you make your money when you buy. Well, the flip side of that is you also lose your money when you buy if you do it wrong. This is…
How to Purchase Apartment Buildings Without ANY of Your Own Money
I’ve written extensively on BiggerPockets about raising money from others to get started with investing in apartment buildings. And others have written about creative financing to get into deals without…
How to Build Credibility to Make Your First Big Commercial Real Estate Deal
You want to do your first multi-million dollar commercial real estate deal, but you don’t have the track record. What can you do? In this article I’ll give you some…
DSCR: The Important Metric You Should Use to Gauge Investments
I don’t mean to always be contrarian, though most of the time I end up being exactly that — and my thoughts related to DSCR are no exception to that rule.…
Turbo Charging Your Real Estate Acquisitions With Discounted Notes
The following acquisition strategy can be put into play whether you’re a flipper, long term investor, even a spec builder. Heck, wanna buy the lot on which you’re gonna build…
