Real Estate Investment Advice

Ever since the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. real estate market has been on a tear. In the twelve months between August 2020 and August 2021, American home prices rose by a national average of 19.8%—the highest annual increase ever recorded. But this national uptick in housing prices has hardly affected every place in the Union equally. Some metro areas, already infamous for their sky-high costs of living, have only grown more unaffordable. For example, in Bellevue, Washington—a bustling Seattle suburb home to nearly 150,000 people—home prices soared by an eye-watering 45.6% in the last two years alone. […]

When and How to Start Investing It’s never too early, or too late, to start investing. Ideally, you want to start investing (or have someone invest for you) on the day you’re born. But that’s not how the real world works, and many of us don’t start seriously investing until we hit our 20s, 30s, or even 40s. However, better is always late than never, and it’s never too late to start growing your wealth passively and taking advantage of the awesome power of compound interest.  One popular avenue for long-term wealth preservation and appreciation growth is real estate. It’s […]

If you’ve picked up a newspaper, financial magazine, or visited almost any market-watching website in the past few years you’ve likely read quite a bit about the inflation that may (or may not) be on the horizon. Of course, inflation is a way of life with a fiat money supply- and is not necessarily a bad thing. The right inflation rate can drive investors to deploy capital and create value with their money, which will decrease in value over time when inflation is present. However, unchecked inflation can have tremendous deleterious effects- all you have to do is look at […]

If you’ve spent even a small amount of time searching for turnkey investment properties you’ve likely come across more than a couple of sales pitches that stress the regular income and steady cash flow you can generate via tenant rents from an investment property. Bringing in cash every month from your investment is great, but there’s another less discussed potential profit engine driving returns – property appreciation.  Where Can You Find Appreciating Turnkey Properties? Finding an adequately cash-flowing, reasonably affordable rental property isn’t easy. You’ve got thousands of other investors out there looking for deals- in addition to the countless […]

Millennials have been priced out of many markets across the US; it is what it is. But every cloud has a silver lining and sky-high prices! In primary markets like SF, Boston, and Seattle, there has been tremendous interest in non-gateway cities like Huntsville, Akron, and Indianapolis. Current demographic trends show millennials are leaving Tier-1 cities in droves, even before the urban exodus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to data from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, close to 40 million Americans have moved over the past five years. Much of this relocation comes from younger […]