How to Project Investor Returns When Analyzing Apartment Building Deals

Because I syndicate most of my apartment building deals with investors, my primary investment criteria are the returns for the investors. Even if you don’t use investors, your desired returns should drive your analysis. In this video, I use the Syndicated Deal Analyzer to project the returns for both the investors as well as yourself.

What Should Your Apartment Building Investment Criteria Be?

Before you start investing in real estate, you have to be clear about your investment criteria. I call this your “trading rules”. Many years ago, I spent a year or so trading options. I took a bootcamp and signed up with a mentor. I did OK (I made an average of 7% during this time, […]

The 50% Rule to Quickly Analyze an Apartment Building Investing Deal

Imagine you get in a deal from one of your brokers. Now what ….?

If you’re anything like me when I first got started, I didn’t look forward to analyzing the deal because I knew it would take me hours. I found that if you don’t get back to the broker within a few days with some feedback, they’ll stop taking you seriously and may stop feeding you deals.

Instead, what we need to do is to quickly analyze the deal to answer the question “what is the most I would pay for this deal, and why?” and get back to the broker as quickly as possible.

In this post’s how-to video, I use the Syndicated Deal Analyzer with the “50% Rule” to quickly analyze an apartment building deal as it comes in.

The 10 Phases of a Successful Apartment Building Investor

I recognize for myself (and others) that everything you do starts in the mind and your success is determined by your thoughts and actions. So having the right mindset is just as important as taking action. When we do anything worth doing in life, whether it’s starting a real estate investing business, getting married, or […]

Top 3 Reasons to Raise Money for Apartment Building Investing

I was talking with Frank who was a newbie apartment building investor. He told me he would seriously start looking for deals (i.e. making offers) once he had enough money to invest. But he couldn’t really tell me when that was going to be. He said he couldn’t see himself putting a building under contract […]