Trade Show a Huge Success! WOW! What an event! Our “Million Dollar” Trade Show and Landlording Conference last month was a huge success! Very knowledgeable speakers delivered fantastic content that provided our members with loads of ideas that will empower them to make and or keep more money than ever before. What was your big…
It is called the Amazon Effect — and you’ve probably heard a lot about it. The ecommerce giant has reshaped nearly everything, from the way that consumers think about shopping and accessing goods to the global supply chain. For institutional investors, the Amazon Effect has squarely placed industrial properties as the darling of the commercial…
A tenant shot and killed the new property manager of an apartment complex, a constable and another tenant before turning the gun on himself during an eviction in Tucson, Ariz., according to reports. The tenant had been threatening others with a gun in the apartment complex for months, according to KGUN9.com, and the apartment complex was…
Monetary Judgments When you obtain a monetary judgment against your tenant, you may be surprised to hear that the judgment itself is only as good as the piece of paper it is written on. You must collect on the judgment in order to obtain any funds. Ways to Collect There are many ways to accomplish…
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and times are, arguably, increasingly desperate. The persistence of high inflation might force the Federal Reserve to resort to the biggest increase in a key U.S. interest rate in more than 40 years. After another dismal inflation report (see below), economists predict a full-percentage-point increase in the Fed’s benchmark…
While the housing market has been cooling off mostly due to higher interest rates, the rental market is white hot! Bidding wars on rentals are driving up the market for newly listed properties. When the pandemic hit, we had historically low inventory throughout California, historically low interest rates and huge buyer demand. This resulted in…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by eviction attorney Dennis Block. Question One: My property is subject to Statewide Rent Control. I have a tenant who will only pay the rent when he is served with a 3-day notice to pay rent or…
Yes, you read that title right and here’s how it happened. A New York college student seeking housing had found an apartment that had everything he wanted. But, before he signed the lease, he happened to run into a tenant who had just vacated with plenty of information. The previous tenant warned him that the…
Over the summer, we’ve been told that inflation rose to a 40-year high. It’s even higher than that if measured by conventional methods of the past. We’ve also been told the labor market is the tightest in decades, a good thing, but that’s not entirely true either. The fact is, consumer finances have deteriorated at…
One of the most important questions all real estate investors should ask themselves is, “What is my long-term strategy?” In the case of Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) investors, exit strategies come into play once the investment period has concluded, or gone “Full Cycle”. Full Cycle is a term used to describe a DST property that…