What Do I Do With My Money?

Will this Bull Market last forever?  Sadly it will not.  After the painful crashes of 2008, 2000, 1994, and 1987, you would think that investors would not get caught up in these frothy markets ever again, yet here we are doing the exact same thing. This time will be worse as the stampede starts. Money […]

Multi-Family: It’s a stampede!

Reminiscent of 2007, the big brokerages (CBRE, Cushman and Wakefield, etc.) are selling multi-family at 4 or 5 CAP rates!  The stupid money is back and they are buying at any price.  Cash is pouring into the commercial market from overseas from investors that are desperate to get their money out of their failing economies […]

Commercial Real Estate – Long Term Investment?

Commercial Real Estate has traditionally been a long-term investment until the mid 1990’s.  Creative financing including high loan to value (LTV) borrowing, three to five year balloons, and the quick hits of CMBS (Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities), CDO’s (Collateralized Debt Obligations), and many other financial instruments (“smoke and mirrors”) have trashed the value of commercial […]