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…
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Single Family Home Investing: An In-Depth Look at the Pros & Cons
Greetings, fellow investors! Today we are going to talk about single family homes as buy and hold investments. We got started with SFHs and still own some today. We also…
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…
6 Reasons to LOVE Multifamily Investments Over Single Family Homes
I love multifamily investments. Ever since that notorious “Kurt Cobain” duplex that I accidentally bought, I’ve been hooked. Now, I know there is a lot of debate on BiggerPockets about Single Family…
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.…
What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know about Land And The Cost of Development
Lately I have been contacted by several different BP members, wanting advice on the development costs for a parcel of land they own, or are considering buying. They want to…
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…
Compelling Tax Benefits of Real Estate Syndication
Real estate syndication offers passive investors an opportunity to realize current income while increasing equity through forced principal pay down and asset appreciation. These structural advantages help make direct real…
