📊 What Long-Term Rental Performance Actually Looks Like

[Eric Fernwood]

Over the past decade+, our investors experienced:

✔️ High tenant retention (average tenant stays 5 years)

✔️ Rent growth that outpaced inflation (4.77% 2015-2025)

✔️ Appreciation that supported portfolio scaling (8% 2015-2025)

✔️ Zero rent declines or vacancies during major downturns (2008 and COVID)

That didn’t happen by accident—and it definitely didn’t come from chasing “hot deals.”

It came from applying engineering discipline to:

• Market selection
• Tenant segment selection
• Property selection
• standardized execution

I explain the logic (not the sales pitch) in this short guide:

👉 Engineer’s Guide to Safe Real Estate Investing

https://fernwood.team/engineers-guide/

If you prefer data over hype, this is written for you.