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Building Your Due Diligence Team

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Building Your Due Diligence Team by Omar RuizBuilding your due diligence team is essential when purchasing an apartment investment. The due diligence process involves several aspects: financial; local market; building; etc.). This article…
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Adding Value to Apartment Investments

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Adding Value to Apartment Investments by Omar RuizThis article is about adding value to apartment investments by focusing on stabilized operations. Rehabbing a distressed property can provide numerous ways to affect a distressed properties…
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Maintenance and Turnover in Apartment Investments

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Maintenance and Turnover in Apartment Investments by Omar RuizMaintenance and turnover in apartment investments are constant activities. Because maintenance and turnover are common expenses, it’s important to understand each one separately.…
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How Inflation Affects Real Estate

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How Inflation Affects Real Estate Inflation has been a hot topic lately and knowing how inflation affects real estate helps to forecast things into the future. This article is about how inflation affects real estate and how to deal with it…

Debt Coverage Ratio – Your Lender’s Most Important Number

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Debt Coverage Ratio - A Lender's Most Important Number The debt coverage ratio (DCR) is the most important number to your commercial real estate lender for several reasons. Lenders are the most important partner in your real estate deals because…
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Apartment Expenses to Analyze for Investing

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Analyzing Apartment Expenses for Investing Analyzing apartment expenses for investing is a continuous activity that goes beyond the close of sale. This article focuses on common expense items to apartment investments. It’s important to know…

Know Your Occupancy – Physical vs. Economic Occupancy in Apartment Investing

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Know Your Occupancy Physical Occupancy vs. Economic Occupancy in Apartment InvestingVacancy is the dreaded word in apartment investing. As an apartment investor, I focus on minimizing vacancy and getting occupancy as high as possible so our…
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Real Estate Investing is Better Than The Stock Market

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Real Estate Investing is Better Than The Stock Market Why I Like Real Estate Over The Stock MarketYears back I would get repeated sales calls from New York stock brokers, soliciting my business and recommending stocks, hoping to make…
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Closing Costs on Multifamily Properties

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Closing Costs on Multifamily Properties Closing costs on multifamily purchases can be numerous. The Closing costs on multifamily will also differ depending on the specific property and circumstances surrounding the deal. I emphasize circumstances…
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Apartment Investor Interview with Omar Ruiz

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Omar Ruiz, apartment investor interview to talk about his experience. This is a previous apartment investor interview done for educational purposes.The following subjects are covered in this educational interview that will help other apartment…