Why Duplexes Are the Perfect Way To Get Started With Multifamily Investing (Video)
Interested in multifamily investing? Here are 5 reasons to start with a duplex.
How To Get Paid To Bird-Dog Multifamily Deals
Looking for a way to get started with multifamily investing without cash or experience? Then consider this strategy.
How to get Financing Even if you Don’t Qualify
Learn about commercial loan requirements and how you can satisfy them even if you don’t qualify yourself.
How To Purchase Apartment Buildings Without ANY of Your Own Money
I’ve written extensively on about raising money from others to get started with investing in apartment buildings. And others have written about creative financing to get into deals without any of your own money. But then there’s the sticky issue of what to do about the deposit money and due diligence costs. No one really […]
Top 10 Questions You Need to Ask Your Commercial Mortgage Broker
Before you put an apartment building deal under contract you should clearly understand your potential lenders’ loan terms and underwriting criteria. Imagine this: you put a deal under contract and you assume a down payment of 20% and you later find that you’ll need to put 30% down? Or that you don’t personally qualify for […]
How to Use a Master Lease to Acquire Commercial Real Estate With No Money Down
The vast majority of commercial real estate deals are “conventional” with regards to financing, meaning they are financed with a commercial lender requiring 20% – 30% down. But it’s important to have other, perhaps more creative financing techniques at your disposal because they can get you into a deal when traditional methods fail. One of […]
Crowdfunding to Raise Money for your Commercial Real Estate Deals
A few weeks back I attended the REI Expo at the National Harbor in Washington DC, an amazing venue. One thing that was unusual for me was the potential for using crowdfunding to fund larger, buy and hold commercial real estate deals. If you’re looking for an overview of crowdfunding, its history, and most popular […]
How to Find Investors to Buy Commercial Real Estate
One widespread myth of commercial real estate investing is that you should start small, maybe flip or wholesale a few houses, own a few rentals or duplexes, all while using your own money to build up your assets to do bigger deals later. Many newbie apartment building investors mistakenly think that they need to use their […]