Every well-run company that is considering making an investment in new equipment, a new facility, upgraded technology, or a new product or development project, considers at some level what return it will earn on that investment. Accountants and analysts will often...
I have been buying commercial real estate for nearly 20 years, and each investment has involved the use of leverage, taking out a bank loan for as much of the purchase price as possible to increase the investors’ cash-on-cash returns. These days it’s harder than it’s...
A friend and I were discussing our respective investment approaches this week. He is happy with having a lot of cash in safe investments such as CDs and money market funds earning around 5%, a position with which I agree. He also holds marketable securities for which...
As my focus shifts more and more to my real estate investing business, I noticed with interest the recent disaster relief rules implemented by the IRS for all taxpayers who live and work in designated counties in the state of California that have been deemed to have...
We’ve all heard about the relationship between risk and reward in business – the higher the reward, the greater the risk that inevitably follows it. Nowhere is this more true than in real estate investing. Well, maybe crypto stocks are still ahead, but in real estate...