Success is about building excellent habits and preparing yourself first.

You should develop a HABIT – a daily or weekly routine – to spend a little bit of time reading about the market.

It's true that you can save more money doing the management yourself if you devote a majority of your time to that aspect, picking over every detail and squeezing every dime out of the property.

A bigger problem: the nearly $1 trillion in short-term commercial mortgages slated to mature by the end of 2010. With property owners unable to refinance, even solid loans could go into default.

Carlos Vaz video response on failing multifamily deals give you the advantage in this apartment market.

Why Carlos Vaz has been able to close 10 deals in his first 18 months as an apartment investor is because he’s “serious.”

Peter L. Mosca is someone who has an amazing website and who can provide lots of information to all of us

Demographic shifts will boost rental market in a couple of years, experts predicted.

Carlos explain what is the average cap rate you buy your properties at.

Be cautious because the market today has changed a lot from what it was 3 to 5 years ago.

Syndication really is the art of making a deal happen even if you don’t have the money to do so.

Conti is the latest in a string of companies starting or adding to funds that target distressed multifamily properties.

You may have seen this story before about how George Ross, Donald Trump’s senior advisor and a costar of NBC’s The Apprentice had such a profound influence on Carlos Vaz.

Every business or trade has it’s own lingo, it’s own terminology. The world of commercial real estate is no different. If you’re looking to make a switch from investing in single family homes into com

This past Wednesday, (August 26th) I had the opportunity to speak at the Norris Conference Center in Houston at a luncheon called: Commercial Real Estate Finance & Economic Perspective – Is the Past R

Today Carlos recorded a video talking about the current state of his activity. He made an offer today and reveals that he has 23 offers on the table now. Some will be accepted, some won’t.

Carlos reveals what has been going on in his own business this week and month so far. He talks about how a lender asked him to show a case study of his last project for repositioning which started on

There is some great golden nuggets in here and it’s really interesting to get to hear how Carlos did it in his own words.

If I were to make $1 every time someone has asked me this question during seminars and speaking engagements, I would stop buying apartment buildings and retire.

Many real estate investors fail to take this into account and buy properties in war zones never to recover. But it’s not just the war zones that will hurt you. It’s good to make sure there’s a reason

It all starts in your head. The easiest, quickest, most free way to get a leg-up on the competition, and really set yourself up for success in multifamily real estate is to educate yourself with zero-

People want instant rewards. But the truth is, success is about building excellent habits and preparing yourself first. To start off, create an action plan on exactly how you’re going to become succes

People want instant rewards. But the truth is, success is about building excellent habits and preparing yourself first. To start off, create an action plan on exactly how you’re going to become succes

The commercial real estate downturn is deepening, threatening to slow the economic recovery. To try to contain the damage, the Federal Reserve said Monday that it will extend into 2010 a program to h

Learn the basics of apartment investing strategies.

Apartment building investing is often intimidating to many residential real estate investors, which is what keeps them from realizing the outstanding cash-flow and long term equity returns that invest

Success is in your mind, if you think it will happen then most likely it is going to happen. While investing in apartments might seem to be a little bit difficult, and possibly a little frightening, i

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