The Investor Insights

Do you have a master plan for your business? Can you articulate what you vision is for this year? The next five years? Tomorrow? If not, it’s time to block off a little time. You may want to block out a whole day, or if you can’t do that – at least an hour a [...]

I just downloaded my copy of the 2012 National Apartment Report that came out Tuesday.  In 61 pages, it covers the national outlook for multifamily as well as 44 metropolitan areas. Great stuff if you’re thinking of getting into apartment investing or already are! Some highlights… * All 44 markets tracked in the National Apartment [...]

Thanks so much to all of you who participated in this year’s Investor Insights Survey!  I do this once a year to help me plan and create the content that YOU want.  So, it’s important for all of us. Here are the results of the survey.  We had over 1,000 investors take the survey so [...]

If you’ve even scratched the surface of business plan writing, you’ll notice that there are a few of different structures and purposes for a business plan. You can typically categorize them in three buckets – the master plan and getting the money plan (these are typically required for loan apps) and the plan you present [...]

I found an article on Bloomberg this morning about charter school investments and became intrigued with the market prediction that these public schools with private board are an up and coming commercial real estate investment strategy. Here’s the synopsis. I definitely recommend you check out the article for all the details. The Strategy: Convert Commercial [...]