11 Must-Read Books on Investing in Multifamily Apartments: The Best Guides to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings

One of the biggest obstacles to investing in real estate is having the money to invest. In today's post, I want to share the power of crowdfunding your retirement. Sounds crazy right?

Over the years, it has become common knowledge that real estate has the potential to create millionaires out of ordinary people like you and I. The question for may is how can we do it when we're living paycheck to paycheck.

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Investing in multifamily real estate is no easy task. Contained here in this blog is a comprehensive list of the individuals and entities you will need to gather around in order to successfully acquire a multifamily real estate asset.

That's when I discovered The Flow (TM). Kiyosaki, Trump, Buffet, James, Allen, Hill and so many others of the sharpest investors in history laid this out beautifully in multiple different ways. After several years of reading and seeing it, the dam broke. I was hooked.

When defining your investment criteria, the main thing that we're looking for is “clarity.” Like anything in life, if you don't have clarity around what you're trying to do or accomplish, you will likely have difficulty achieving your goals.

“An investment in education always pays the highest returns.”

– BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

For those who are just entering the commercial real estate arena, many will begin by investing in multifamily real estate. Multifamily, as a subset of the broader industry, is relatively easy for the average investor to understand – particularly for those who have owned their own home.

As investors, we rely on multiple different mathematical formulas comparing and contrasting the different metrics of the deals in order to answer these questions. You may look at cash flow, net operating income, price, and capitalization rates but you can also use the IRR or Internal Rate of Return.

In multifamily, brokers will sometimes send you a listing that is out of your key market(s) and you have to be able to analyze the area and know whether the property is in a zone worth your investment. On the other hand, you may be trying to find a new market to invest in, or one to make your “key market” to give all your focus. We all know the age-old phrase...LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION...but there’s a bit more to it than that.

The investing term “syndication” or in this case referring to “real estate syndication” makes the concept seem more complicated than it is. Think about an airline flight. Every person buys a ticket and the proceeds from those tickets collectively go towards moving that airplane from point A to point B. You can think about a real estate syndication similarly. Investors pool their capital to, collectively, invest with a sponsor in a real estate syndication.

If you are wondering whether or not you qualify as an accredited investor, you are not alone. The term can be confusing and it is not always clear who qualifies. In short, an accredited investor is someone who…