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How Having a Corporate Background Helps in Building a Real Estate Company
How Having a Corporate Background Helps in Building a Real Estate Company With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder This was a technology-focused business. It was more doing some of the backend trading platform, so to speak, and it was a proprietary messaging system that we had built that were suited for financial services. So, a lot of…
Read MoreHow Active Management in Apartment Investing Can Grow Your Wealth
How Active Management in Apartment Investing Can Grow Your Wealth With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder Real estate is one of those rare asset classes where you can- it generates operating income, especially if you buy things like multifamily, or hotels, or office. So, it’s generating income; at the same time – if you are doing the…
Read MoreBringing Tech to Apartment Investing
Bringing Tech to Apartment Investing With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder We’re actually going through a process, right now, where we’re taking a lot of the operational things that we do in running the properties, and construction, and distilling it down into dashboards that can be created. We are working with our team to make sure that…
Read MoreBringing Tech to Apartment Investing – Best Tools for Real Estate Investors
Bringing Tech to Apartment Investing – Best Tools for Real Estate Investors With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder Transcript We’re actually going through a process, right now, where we’re taking a lot of the operational things that we do in running the properties, and construction, and distilling it down into dashboards that can be created. We…
Read MoreHow to Know a Good Deal When You See It
How to Know a Good Deal When You See It With Ed Rogan, Co-Founder Transcript One, Nolan Ryan it was the town Ryan was from. Are you familiar with the Hall of Fame pitcher from the Texas Rangers? So that right there, had me interested. There was like a Nolan Ryan statue in…
Read MoreReal Estate Partnership Structure Guidelines
Real Estate Partnership Structure Guidelines By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder There are many ways for someone to invest in real estate. Some will start off investing personally, buying one or two single family rental properties before scaling up into small multifamily properties with three or four a piece. This approach is time intensive and requires…
Read MoreHow to Underwrite an Apartment Deal
How to Underwrite an Apartment Deal By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder Underwriting is an essential part of the decision making process when you’re looking to invest in multi-family – apartment – real estate. This is the process you go through to observe the market conditions, characteristics of the apartment building itself, and any extenuating circumstances. …
Read MoreDifferences Between Passive Vs. Active Investing
Differences Between Passive Vs. Active Investing By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder If you’re looking at getting into either passive or active multi-family real estate investing, it’s important to understand the differences between the two. Although in both cases you’re investing in the same asset, an active investor has a vastly different role than a passive investor.…
Read MoreHow to Prepare for a Downturn
How to Prepare for a Downturn By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder No one knows when the next downturn will come. There are always signs, but you can’t tell when exactly it’s going to happen. Looking in depth at certain metrics helps. However, it’s not a perfect science. The truth is that it doesn’t matter if…
Read MoreHow to Grow a Commercial Real Estate Company
How to Grow a Commercial Real Estate Company By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder In the CRE (commercial real estate) business, growth is essential to survival in the market. When you’re working with investors, you want to be continually adding to your portfolio and doing as much as you can to increase your revenues for them. For…
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