The author is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to boot!

Just a heads up.

We currently have two homes under construction, are scaling rapidly, share profits from each sale with investors, and offer the unique opportunity for investors to also become the end buyers if they choose.I’m here to network, find investors, and share insights on acquisitions, construction, and smart real estate strategies.Looking forward to connecting with like-minded investors and collaborators.

Personally, I took over for a landlord who no longer wanted to work in a rapid growing area in Brooklyn (Greenpoint) and building value grew 300% after they left (over the following 9 years).

For context: I stepped in for a landlord who no longer wanted to manage their property in a rapidly growing area of Brooklyn (Greenpoint).

While many successful investors talk about "trusting their gut," true intuition is simply data processed rapidly.

The STR market in the UAE is performing very well and continues to grow rapidly.

The reassessment risk is real, but probably more predictable than in a rapidly developing area, like Woodlawn.  

Rental Property Investor from Jacksonville, FLPREVIOUS POSTWhy I sold Cleveland.If you're a real estate podcast junkie like me, you definitely have noticed the clear shift towards real estate syndication in the multi-family space over the last couple of years especially.As deals became harder to find in single family and smaller multis across much of the desirable markets,the allure of pooling investor funds to acquire larger assets became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.Books that were mostly hurriedly written flooded the market pimping the upsides of this strategy.The argument for was simple and convincing:it is better to own 1% of a large deal than 0% of no deal.Personally,I could not help but notice that the popularity of the idea coincided with the rise of real estate crowdfunding.The likes of Realty Shares and Realty Mogul raised a bajillion dollars practically overnight making it very easy for everyday real estate aficionados to own small bites of a mega deal in rural Tennessee at the click of a mouse.A few of my friends experimented with the crowd-funding route, tossing $5000 into this debt offer and $10,000 into that equity offering.These punts yielded mixed results anecdotally, as an equal number seemed to have great experiences to share as did absolute nightmares.To be fair, no real estate niche is 100% fail-safe or iron clad.Money has been lost in a large single family portfolio as well as a personally purchased medium sized apartment complex.It is also certainly true that in the end, every investor will run out of money to invest in more properties if they decide to go it alone trying to rapidly scale up their portfolio, and real estate is most assuredly a team sport at all levels.

Right now all we have is narrow/ weak AI: Siri, facial recognition, ChatGPT, autonomous driving, language translation, rapid data processing and machine learning.