I hope to be involved in large buy and hold real estate investments/developments because I see great advantage in the economies of scale that can be achieved.

I am in the process of narrowing down markets which not only cash-flow positive (1% rule), but also markets which try to adhere to the 7 factors for successful investing; such as population and job growth, diversified economy, landlord and business friendly and in a rising market, therefore giving appreciation potential (and yes I know thats basically like winning the lotto but if I can even cover most of the those factors then I will be happy).

.” – PwC 2019 Emerging Trends“The sharing economy (…) has increased access to information, and growing sophistication of the customer has made it harder to provide one-size-fits-all hotel concepts.” – MIT Center for Real Estate: Real TrendsCo-Working is Expected to Lead the Office Market“The strength of the co-working market is not to be underestimated.” – PwC 2019 Emerging TrendsOffices are starting to reduce their footprint as, “A substantial amount of space in conventional office layouts is not used at any point in time: Meeting spaces are not always booked; workers take vacations and fall sick; 9-to-5 workspaces remain unoccupied after hours; and employees with assigned desks spend time off-site talking to clients or performing services.”- MIT Center for Real Estate: Real Trends“Compared to 6 months ago, the forecast for office vacancy rates is unchanged for both ‘18 and ‘19, but less optimistic for ’20.

The economy works on a 10 year cycle.

We always suggest borrowers exhaust their conventional options first and then get into the commercial loans. 

How concerned should we be about a decrease in the economy over the next 3 years and could Amazon prevent this from happening in our local market?

If you're in real estate for the long term, and want to grow, then the economy of scale dictates that multifamily in general helps you scale up faster. 

You only own one unit, so you lose all economies of scale.

It can be exhausting but keep doing this again and again and again.

We knew we wanted to do multifamily for the economies of scale and to grow as quickly as we could to escape the rat race.We also did a yellow letter campaign, sent about 60-80 letters and got around 30 calls, it was a great response rate. we used hand written letters and brightly colored envelops, they looked like an invitation.