
Omar Ruiz – Apartment Investing Interview
Apartment Investing, Blog, Real Estate InvestingOmar Ruiz - Apartment Investing Interview
Omar Ruiz of LeRu Investments talks about his experience in apartment investing. The following subjects are covered:Purchasing an apartment
Due-diligence
Researching the market and competition
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The Big Expense in Apartment Investing
Apartment Investing, Blog, Real Estate InvestingThe Big Expense in Apartment Investing
Apartment investing involves managing and reducing costs. Effective apartment operations seek to minimize costs by reducing expenses that management controls and create solutions to those that are uncontrollable…

Real Estate Investing Technology Changes Rental Listings
Blog, Real Estate InvestingReal Estate Investing Technology Changes Rental Listings
In Real estate investing it's important to lease up rental units as soon as possible to generate revenue and create cashflow. A few years back we had an interesting experience during…

Multifamily Workshop – How to Invest in Apartments
Blog, Real Estate InvestingMultifamily Workshop - How to Invest in Multifamily and ApartmentsOn June 24th the LeRu Investments team hosted a multifamily workshop in Santa Ana CA. We showed attendees the trends for multifamily housing and how they can get started…

Prospect Tenant Complains About Their Slumlord Property Manager
Apartment Investing, Blog, Real Estate InvestingProspect Tenant Complains About Their Slumlord Property ManagerWikipedia defines a slumlord (or slum landlord) as a derogatory term for a landlord, generally an absentee landlord, who attempts to maximize profit by minimizing spending…

Podcast for Upland Advice Givers about Real Estate Investing
Blog, Real Estate InvestingPodcast for Upland Advice Givers about Real Estate Investing
Joe Hamilton from Upland Advice Givers interviewed Jeffrey and I about real estate investing. We talk about how we transitioned from employees to investors. We actually did not start…

Apartment Classes – What Class of Apartment Investor Are You?
Blog, Real Estate InvestingApartment Classes - What Class of Apartment Investor Are You?
It's important to know the different apartment classes. The classification method for apartments (commercial real estate in general) is based on the letters A, B, C, D. It's meant…

What Venezuela Teaches about Real Estate Markets
Blog, Real Estate Investing, UncategorizedWhat the Crisis in Venezuela Teaches us about U.S. Real Estate Markets
A recent USA Today article dated May 26, 2016 reports on the difficult situation in the country of Venezuela. While reading this article it made me think about some of…

Real Estate Market Cycles Presentation June 18th
Blog, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investors MeetingReal Estate Market Cycles Presentation June 18thDo you wish you bought real estate in California when it was able to cashflow, between 2009-2013? Do you know why real estate values in California spiked soon afterwards? ITS THE REAL ESTATE…

Millennials are a Renter Generation
Blog, Real Estate Investing, UncategorizedMillennials are likely to be a generation that prefer renting for most or all of their lives.
I had an experience a few months back at the movie theater that involved an interesting conversation between a mom and her daughter, that was in the…