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Doing Due Diligence – How To Manage Property Inspections

Over the past few weeks our team has put two new assets under contract--a 350-unit value-add property in Austin, and a 106-unit we’re buying with a 1031 exchange partner.  For both assets, just like all of our acquisitions, we completed a full due diligence on the...

Leveraging Austin Real Estate Investing: The 21st Century Gold Rush

Going to school in Northern California we learned about the California Gold Rush just about every year. The stories were all the same: John Sutter finds gold in the American River, the world rushes in hoping to dig up their fortune, most don’t and an emphasis is...

You Make Your Money On The Sell

Everyone says that in real estate, you make your money when you buy.  Conventional wisdom states that what really matters is to make sure you are getting a good deal--don’t over pay, make sure the location is good, etc.  If you do that, when you come to sell in x...

Choice is a Beautiful Thing

My favorite thing about our business is opportunities to be creative and finding new inventive solutions to problems we face.  We’re written in the past about how that manifests itself in the branding of our apartment communities or simply the things we see when we...

The Reality Behind a “Life by Design”

It’s no secret that Colorado is my happy place.  I grew up going to the mountains for a week or two each summer, and its become a tradition I’ve carried on with my wife and kids.  Luckily for me, my wife has fallen in love with my old CO stomping grounds, and we make...

The Right Tool for the Job

Call it leverage, call it a mortgage, or call it a liability; debt is a key tool used in the majority of any real estate investments. We call it a beautiful thing--and one of the things we like most about investing in real estate.  The ability to create and use...

Off Market Deals–The Holy Grail or a Whole Waste of Time?

“Off Market Deal”. The three most magical words in the real estate acquisition game.   If you can find an off market deal, it means you’ve won right? You got an asset without any competition, and you probably put it under contract well below true market pricing....

Talk the Talk AND Walk the Walk

One of my favorite things about real estate is that each investment is backed by a real, tangible asset.  There is something to see, touch and feel. I can go on site and see the property anytime. Being onsite and spending time touring assets, whether we’re on the hunt...

Comparing Stock to Real Estate, Apples to Apples

Today we continue our series focused on identifying and understanding investment opportunities, as well as the underlying decisions that go into making these investments. Our last article focused on defining what a good return is and discussed comparing various risk...

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