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.

To ensure accuracy, we calculate the rent three or four times for each property in evaluation.

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.

To maintain your standard of living, your rental income must outpace inflation, providing the extra funds needed to cover rising costs due to inflation. If rents don’t outpace inflation, you’ll quickly be back in the soul-crushing monotony of the daily grind. In this post, you will find three tips for finding the right location.

A client recently asked me how many properties they’d need to achieve financial independence. The answer depends on the rent growth rate of your properties, as I will explain in this post.

There are two methods for acquiring multiple properties. The first requires millions in after-tax savings, while the second needs only a fraction of that amount. In this post, you’ll learn about both approaches.

Always have the property inspected by an experienced and knowledgeable inspector. If there are high-risk items, either resolve the risk with secondary inspections or cancel the purchase. You cannot afford to buy a property with high-risk repairs.

Our business relies on repeat clients, meaning our clients consistently make money. This requires properties that remain occupied by reliable tenants and have low operating costs. As a result, we’ve delivered more than 500 properties to clients worldwide, and our repeat business rate is over 90%.

Will it happen? What does it mean for the Las Vegas housing market?

I started my investment career by reading every investing article I could find. I talked to others and wrote software to determine the best property to buy. I decided a C (D?) Class multi-family property was the best option based on my research. It was a nightmare.

Success in real estate does not require securing “great deals.” It requires great fundamentals.

The key to financial freedom is the tenant segment, not the property. No property has ever paid the rent, so focusing on selecting properties first is looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

The location (city) determines all long-term income characteristics.

Buy or wait. A constant question in the current high interest rate environment. In this article, I talk abou the tradeoffs of waiting.

We’ve renovated over 500 rental properties and learned some expensive lessons before adopting our current renovation process and renovation partner.

The cost of preparing a property to re-rent largely depends on how “hardened” the property was when it was put into service and how the tenant takes care of it.

Over the past 16 years, I’ve worked with nearly 200 first-time investors. From my experience, until they go through our training, most are completely focused on ROI and cash flow. I will offer some essential tips for first-time investors in this article.