I remember the first time I got a rental property. I was in college with a group of friends and we rented a small house off campus. This was back in the days of paper applications and paper checks. …

One of the reasons I love real estate is that it (mostly) isn’t dramatic. Buildings go up, get sold or leased out, and aside from leasing changes, they pretty much just sit. …

One of the biggest areas of growth in real estate in recent years has been data centers. As more businesses move to the cloud, the need for data centers has increased. …

Whenever there is a changing market, there’s opportunity. We tend to think of this in negative terms. We use the term vulture with its vivid imagery of black, bald-faced birds dining on carrion. But vultures are important in any ecosystem and while what’s happening in real estate may seem predatory…

In the pre-pandemic era I went to a startup pitch demo and heard Ryan Frazier, CEO of Arrived Homes speak about his goal to create an investment product around single-family rental homes. …

When I was at FoolFest this week, I was asked about investing in Boxabl. The person who talked to me about it had heard about it from his contractor who had toured the factory. Boxabl, if you haven’t seen it, is a product that makes a tiny home product, the…

I’m halfway through a great book, “Concrete Planet” and just finished a chapter about Thomas Edison’s adventures with concrete. We tend to think of Edison as a brilliant infallible genius. This is what we are taught as young children and we don’t much question it as we age. In my…

In the midst of the Great Financial Crisis something curious happened, many of the homes that could not sell got snapped up by a large institutional buyer. Blackstone’s big moves were the start of the single family rental (SFR) revolution. Now the company Blackstone built is an emerging giant, Invitation…

First, a word on fear, if a recession is imminent or already occurring, there is an opportunity because it is a clear motivator. Good times are profligate; money is abundant and goes everywhere. Fear and lack are divining rods. You lear nwhat matters when you are fearful. …