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Where else in the business world do you see someone paid $38,000 running an asset valued at $30,000,000?Are you losing potential profits due to an inadequately trained staff?  Multifamily Property Managers (PMs) and Leasing Agents (LAs) must be thoroughly trained in a number of areas before they ...
06/23/2009
Grace Hill does it again!  One of the challenges of multifamily management is creating knowledgeable and professional employees.  Each month Grace Hill offers free training as a partial solution to the problem.  They also offer additional training on a variety of multifamily topics at affordable ...
06/10/2009
I've fielded several inquiries lately about just what an Accredited Investor is.  In most cases this has been in conjunction with Tenancy In Common sponsorship.   Below I've summarized the criteria for determining whether or not someone qualifies as an Accredited Investor.  It's important to reme...
05/25/2009
Not every tool is appropriate for every investor, but my job is to make them aware of what is available to them so they can make  informed decisions.  One of the tools that has been around for years, (but is only now starting to see much application,) is Cost Segmentation.  Most investors use dep...
05/13/2009
The future of the residential market is not clear in my crystal ball...but it takes no wizardry to assess the currentsituation:  There's a lot of good people hurting right now.  A few of the folks that are upside down have taken foolish risks, but there are many more that may even have a legacy o...
05/07/2009
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Associated Estates is a self administered, self managed Real Estate Investment Trust that owns 13,192 multifamily units in 52 communities in 9 states.  Their CEO, Jefferey Friedman, was interviewed by Keat Foong, the Executive Editor of Multi Housing News.  New Renters Will Outstrip the Supply of...
05/07/2009
It's great to see the market trending upward again...well, at least for now.  Though I am not prescient, I am lucky...so I pulled all of my 401-k funds out days before the plunge.  A few months later and I would have seen over a third...and possibly half of my savings gone.  Many of my dear frien...
04/29/2009
Hats off to Marcus & Millichap...who are both my friends and competitors!    Linwood C Thompson, Hessam Nadji and William Hughes (all M&M segment Directors) laid out their long term vision of US economic, capital, and apartment markets yesterday.  It was highly informative...and the take-away for...
04/28/2009
Even though Apartment Managers have plenty on their plates, adding environmental awareness is good business. Kim Duty, Vice President of Communications for Multifamily Housing Report has a green tip for us: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a multifamily version of its ENERGY ...
04/25/2009
I need your help.  I've to talked to property owners, brokers, title companies...but nobody seems to know of any properties for sale that fully meet the needs of one of my clients.  He has no 1031 or 1033 Exchange deadlines to worry about...but he does have cash sufficient to purchase 60 to 80 qu...
04/23/2009
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