The purpose of renovating rental properties is to maximize rental income while minimizing costs and vacancy periods. But how do you decide what to install in a rental property?

If it doesn’t pay, it doesn’t stay,

Standardizing most renovation components reduces costs and time. Standard materials enable vendors to purchase common materials in bulk, reducing costs. Standardization also permits faster and more accurate renovation estimates. The end result? Higher-quality renovations at lower costs—a clear benefit for property owners.

This post begins a new series on optimizing rental property renovation. Renovation should be considered during property selection, not later, and should focus on tenant preferences, not investor tastes.

The city you invest in determines whether you can achieve and maintain financial freedom. By focusing on population growth, property appreciation, and partnering with an experienced investment team, you set yourself up for long-term success.

If I invested $100,000 today in both stocks (including mutual funds and other liquid investments) and real estate, then sold after 5 years, which would make me more money?

In our 2025 Investor Outlook released last week, we published the 10-year and 5-year pre-COVID appreciation and rent growth trends for our target property profile. This week, we will dive deeper and look at the 10-year and 5-year pre-COVID trends by zip codes. These data should shed some light on whether certain sub-areas in our target zones perform better than the others.

Only a local team of experts can provide what you need to find, vet, inspect, renovate, and manage a high-performance property.

The start of a year is a great time to plan your 2025 goals. Whether you are just starting out, or are planning to add properties to your portfolio, I believe there is value in reviewing this step-by-step process that we’ve followed to consistently deliver high-performance properties.

The choice of multi-family vs. single-family is similar to Charles Lindbergh’s decision. The belief is that with multi-family, even if a unit is vacant, you will still have income. However, the reality is quite different.

Accurate rent estimation is crucial for real estate investing, as it determines a property's viability. To ensure accuracy, we evaluate each property's rent three to four times, as detailed in this article.

In this post, I explain why you shouldn't assume that highly rated schools automatically equate to good rental properties.

In this post, I will explain how to estimate a specific zip code's probable price and rent growth rate using Zillow Research data.

Investors commonly rely on cash flow and ROI to evaluate investment properties. However, these metrics have significant limitations when investing for long-term success, to achieve financial independence.

As Election Day nears, many individuals halt their major financial activities because they feel the uncertainty of the election results may have adverse effects if they act now. In this post, I will explore the historical impact of the election results on the housing market, if any.

In my previous blog post, I shared the five major mistakes I made with my first long-term rental investment, hoping you can learn from my experience. This week, I'll outline the key traits I seek in every long-term rental property I invest in or recommend to my clients.

Reality was utterly different from paper analysis.

I opt for long-term rentals in rapidly appreciating markets that attract reliable tenants. This strategy allows me to build my retirement portfolio with minimal capital while ensuring steady income—even during economic downturns.

If your goal is financial independence, the property type is not relevant. What matters is the tenant who occupies the property. So, find a tenant segment with a high concentration of reliable people, determine what and where they rent today, and buy similar properties. Forget about guru dogma.

The era of browsing Redfin and Zillow to find good investment properties manually has passed. Today, you need specialized software and a team of experts to sift through the vast ocean of available properties and identify the few gems worth investing in.