One Reason I Love Living in Seattle

Living in Northeast Seattle

Living in Northeast Seattle brings the notion of "community" to a whole new level. This particular neighborhood boasts a community...

Weird Housing Market Index

The housing market is up in most major metropolitan areas and it is certainly up in Seattle. The median home price in Seattle has been bumpi...

NAREIA Winter Cruise

The Real Estate Association of Puget Sound (REAPS) is a chapter member of the National Real Estate Investors Association (NAREIA). As such, ...

Treating Real Estate Investing as a Business

One of my favorite educational presentations on the 2013 NAREIA cruise was by Robyn Thompson , known as the "Queen of Rehab" for h...

Private Money and Private Funds

Next up on the NAREIA winter cruise was a panel of experts in raising private funds for real estate investment. The panel included Carl Fisc...

What does a World Heritage City look like?

World Heritage Site - City of Willemstad, Curacao

How many cities in the world can claim to be world heritage sites, because of their stunning architecture? We visited one on our Royal Cari...

Finding the Hidden Market for Real Estate Investment

Tony Youngs was aboard Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas to discuss "Analyzing Your Deal w Confidence." First deal Tony ...

Finding Private Money

Legalities of Private Money was covered by Jillian Sidoti during our NAREIA cruise. Most investors are interested in raising money. Yet und...

Multifamily Investment Trends

Next up on the NAREIA cruise was a panel of multifamily investors. Re/Max wanted NAREIA to write curriculum for working with investors, as i...

What is Cap Rate?

Happy Valentine's Day! Sam Sant from Pasadena, California introduced himself to me on the NAREIA cruise after the presentation on multif...

Multifamily Investing

Next up as a speaker on the National REIA cruise was multifamily investor Anthony Chara . Anthony Chara has been investing since 2000 as a s...

Business Fundamentals to Flip This House

Just back from my Caribbean cruise with the National Real Estate Investors Association. We had several nationally-known real estate investme...

Adventures at Sea Real Estate Seminar

Tentative Schedule Here is the tentative schedule of nationally-known real estate investment speakers and their topics during my Royal Cari...