My newest article for BiggerPockets is up and goes into detail on how to scale a real estate investment company out of a plateau. Because as you grow your company larger, you will need to change the way you operate quite substantially.
"As you scale, there is another transition to make. This happens when there are at least three tiers in your company flow chart and you have to manage through managers because you aren’t working directly with frontline employees (such as maintenance technicians, leasing agents, etc.). This transition is, in many ways, even more difficult than the first. But it is necessary if you truly want to scale to 100-plus units."
Check the article out here.
The article also features a video from our YouTube channel on the same topic which you should check out as well:
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Once again, The Babylon Bee has summed up the current political stupidity as well as it could be (in this case, shilling for big tech):
On the other hand, it's nice to see much of the rest of world come out strongly against this even if US liberals (lol, as if they're "liberal") demand more and more censorship by the tech oligarchs. Here's Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (who's growing on me) blasting big Tech's decision:
Well boy do I find myself in a weird spot. It would seem to me that there was a reasonable likelihood of voter fraud in the 2020 election. (There always is some, but I mean enough to shift the result in the electoral college.) I also think Trump is a clownish grifter who needs to go. I also thing the LARP-de-ta (as I call it) was bad but anyone calling it a "coup" is a liar a moron or both. I should note, that sums up 100 percent of the people call it a "coup." Given this wasn't a coup and that Trump and company riled up the crowd that got out of hand and turned into a riot (and some may have planned to rush the capital before), I don't think Rudy Guilliani and company need to be pardoned. But who knows? With Patriot Act 2.0 looming (thanks "liberals") they may just throw out every convention there is and charge everyone Trump ever knew. But worry not, Trump is handing out pardons... for a fee that is. An associate of Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, told a former CIA officer seeking a presidential pardon that Giuliani could help arrange one for $2 million, The New York Times reported Sunday. If true, that's one of the most pathetic things I've ever heard (as well as corrupt, obviously).
But Trump's pardons make it plausible. While I think Flynn deserved a pardon, that's about the only one I am in favor of. Others who obviously deserve pardons, like Snowden and Assange, are instead persecuted. On the other hand, the Blackwater murderers and the corrupt father of his son-in-law get bullshit pardons. The only defense of Donald is how insane the Left is right now. And, of course, the only defense of the Left is how much of a grifting asshole Donald is. What a wonderful political environment we live in. Luckily, the capital right now just screams "we live in a free country!"
My latest article for BiggerPockets is up that asks whether the most important thing you should look for is built-in equity when buying (i.e. getting in at 75 to 80 percent of the ARV) or cash flow. My answer is equity.
Buying with built-in equity allows us to BRRRR a property, get all (or most) of our money out, and repeat the process more quickly than we would have otherwise. Even if the "otherwise" here involved a house with better cash flow. Furthermore, it's built-in equity that protects us from the dangers of leverage and allows us to take advantage of its upsides (which are very big)
Although I make an important cavet which many seem to have misunderstood. (Some in the comments falsely assert I am comparing cash flow to potential appreciation.)
This doesn’t mean that cash flow doesn’t matter. You still need to buy properties that cash flow. There are a few occasions when the trends in an area are so strong it makes sense to hold a property even if it bleeds each month. But these instances are few and far between and should only be done with a small percentage of your portfolio. Going big on properties with negative cash flow is, more or less, just speculating.
The article is also based on a video we did for our YouTube channel which you should check out as well:
My newest article for BiggerPockets digs into a study highlighted by The Visual Capitalist from a study done by doxoINSIGHTS. It shows that American savings are being depleted and many people are missing payments or putting them off due to the pressures of the pandemic/lockdowns/recession. As the report notes, “Unsurprisingly, worrying about personal finances also means that more Americans are deferring their bill payments during the pandemic. However, these vary depending on the type of bill, total amount, and immediate urgency.” Here's how it shakes out: Check out the rest of the article here. It's quite sobering.
Well I guess Republicans have gotten into "mostly peaceful protesting" too... absolutely nuts:
What a fucking mess. I think we're nearing the "farce" stage of a declining republic.
And of course I condemn this and Trump deserves a good share of the blame. (Although I should note I also condemn the police officer who shot that woman in the neck when there appeared to be absolutely no need to do so whatsoever.) The Democrats talking about how this is a "coup" by "terrorists" or comparing it to Pearl Harbor need to get a grip though. This was a mindless rage spasm of a riot with no possibility of taking power whatsoever. And it certainly seems like every single one of them forgot what D.C. looked like last May:
Was that a coup?
This obsession (on both the right and the left) of calling everyone a "terrorist" is not healthy. That being said, while this was completely unacceptable and criminal behavior, I did certainly enjoy this take:
...seems to be the one permanent mainstay of American politics (and probably politics everywhere). As usual, The Babylon Bee sums it up best,
And yes, you could accuse conservatives of exactly the same thing by just flipping it around. That's the point.
So BiggerPockets has started a new BiggerPockets Daily Podcast which reads specific articles so those who would prefer to do their reading by listening can check them out. I've had a few articles published on the Daily Podcast, including this most recent one, which is one of my favorites:
- Warning: Why You Shouldn't Buy What the Gurus Are Selling Yeah, I'm not a big fan of gurus. In this article, I take them on for their BS lifestyle and pushing a dream most don't live as if it were a drug to sell coaching programs that rarely if ever work:
You can also read the article the old-fashioned way here.
So I'm a few days late on this one, but Happy New Year everyone!
And I'll give 2021 this, it doesn't have a particularly hard act to follow. I suspect many will look back fondly at 2021 just because of the relative comparison with the dumpster fire that was 2020. |
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