Home Vs. Apartment Investment: Which One is Better?
Single-family home or apartment building? After years of investing in both, here’s why we lean toward apartments — and where homes still make solid sense.
Bend Apartment Market Update
Bend has 482 new apartment units hitting the market — 8.2% of total supply. Here’s what that surge means for vacancy, rents, and your rental property.
How to Pick Contractors and Vendors
A bad contractor can torch your renovation budget and your timeline. Here’s how we vet contractors and vendors for our Central Oregon rental properties.
Are you Ready for the Downturn?
Real estate is cyclical. The next slowdown is a question of when, not if. Here’s how we prepare our portfolios — and how you can prepare yours.
Discover the Magic of Bonus Depreciation
Bonus depreciation lets you write off 20-40% of a building’s depreciable value in year one. Here’s how we use it on every property we buy.
Using Due Diligence to Avoid Losing Money
Most bad real estate deals get caught in due diligence — if you know what to look for. Here’s how we run the process to catch issues before you lose money.
4 Key Steps to Determine Future Rent
Knowing where rents are headed makes or breaks a deal. Here are the four steps we use to predict rent growth on every property we underwrite.
Smart & Effective Rent Increase Strategies
Set rents too low and you leave money on the table. Set them too high and you push tenants out. Here’s how we strike the balance on every property we manage.
Offsetting Income with Passive Paper Losses
Real estate paper losses can offset other income — but only if you know the rules. Here are four ways we use accelerated depreciation legally and effectively.