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Working in Apartment Syndication – What’s Possible in One Year!

Friday, April 28

                         This month is my one year anniversary working in commercial real estate. I started helping an apartment syndicate raise capital to close on a 320-unit apartment in Dallas last May. Prior to that, I spent about 3-4 months learning from an experienced multifamily coach wh...


Vetting an Apartment Deal Sponsor - 10 Tips from an Insider

Tuesday, April 18

I attended a multi-family meetup group here in Austin this past week and the topic raised by one of the attendees who was new to apartment investing was how to vet a deal sponsor as part of the investment valuation process. As part of a deal sponsor team that has done six large multifamily apart...


Diversification - 3 Tips on Investing in Real Estate Syndications

Friday, April 14

I focus a lot of my time, education and practical experience with multi-family syndication. I hired a coach to go deep into understanding proper underwriting, study of markets and learning the overall ins and out of syndication. Leveraging the experience and attractive deals of the sponsor I wa...


Investing in the U.S. from Abroad – what you need to know

Friday, March 31

I recently spoke at the Best Ever Real Estate Investing Conference hosted by Joe Fairless on this topic with my friend and peer Reed Goossens. Reed is from Australia, based now out of Los Angeles and has a podcast targeted to international investors from his home country who want to invest in th...


28 Ways to Reduce Apartment Expenses

Friday, March 17

As shared in my last blog, making money with an apartment building is all about creating value. Simply, the property can generate a lot more cash flow and the market value can be significantly enhanced by doing any number of moves mentioned below. You have control to increase the value with som...


28 Ideas to Increase Apartment Revenue

Friday, March 03

Making money with an apartment building is all about creating value. Simply, the property can generate a lot more cash flow and the market value can be significantly enhanced by doing any number of moves mentioned below. Increasing the Net Operating Income (NOI) by increasing revenues or reduci...