Last quarter the vacancy rate for apartments was below 3%.

Alternatively, you could offer them an annualized return of say 10% on their money that could be paid quarterly, semi-annually, at the end of the project or any other timeline you and they are comfortable with. 

Builders have sales targets they need to hit each quarter.

Deal activity fell 3.9% as investors shifted into full "wait-and-see" mode amid policy uncertainty and economic headwinds.The sector breakdown tells a stark story:Retail led declines at -40%Office fell 11.4% (though lending surged 205%)Apartments dropped 9.6% but still topped volume at $9.2BIndustrial bucked the trend, rising 25.7%Investor sentiment reflects this widespread caution: 70% now recommend "hold" strategies—up 14 points from last quarter—while only 23% favor buying and just 7% are selling.

Let's wait until the end of the year or the first quarter.

If do that quarterly, that's about $35k per month. 

In the first quarter of 2025, there were 61,660 foreclosures, a 49.6% increase from the previous quarter.Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi topped the list of states with the highest share of “seriously underwater” mortgages... face a high risk of foreclosure.In Q1 2025, 2.8 percent of mortgages nationwide were classified as being seriously underwater, up from 2.5 percent in Q4 2024.

No jazz in the quarter, the roads in the garden district are like a hill climb and in a very flat city, that says something and the smoothie joint by Tulane has gone away.

Avoid pulling the wool over their eyes or making them feel like they will get a quarter million dollar JV deal two weeks after online presence.

But for close quarters, it's hard to beat.