February 5, 2012


From High Returns To Bad Leases: Recent Investment Articles.

Leasing is an important part of any real estate investment.  It that an understatement!  It is your business in the rental property sector.  The property is but a vehicle with it’s own benefits, but it is the tenants that provide the income, the cash flow so managing that part of the business, well, is crucial.  The article below covers a very common occurrence.

How To & How Not To Lease Out Your Phoenix Home?

There are many ways to invest in real estate.  One is to simply be a money lender.  While this is not truly real estate investing, it is a way to get a decent return on a secured asset.

Invest in Phoenix Real Estate Indirectly: Be a Money Lender With 8-12% Annual Return

While the reports below cover the single family home market.  It is just as important to follow because these numbers influence every facet of the multifamily sector: rental rates, vacancy, etc.

Read Current Phoenix Housing Reports

In the coming week we’ll update the sales numbers for both December 2009 and January 2010 for the small multifamily sector in Greater Phoenix.

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Investment Articles From PMT

While this weblog is particulary focused on multifamily and our partner weblog is mostly residential we publish general investment articles that are not specific to multifamily there.

Some of the latest articles include.

1. Investment Strategies:  Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait!.

Time is on the side of real estate investors, but only if they have real estate in the portfolio.

2. The location and investment return expectations.

You can’t change the location so pick it carefully. Your investment performance and source of the return will depend on it.

3. Making a move into real estate investing.

It’s not a plunge but a step by step walk.


Phoenix Income Property Investment Overview

If you do not visit Phoenix Market Trends you may not have seen that we have published a few articles that may be of interest to our readers here at Arizona Apartment Investor.

With a lot of lender owned and short sale multifamily properties selling we put together some steps to help lease them since most will be vacant or you’ll make them vacant before repositioning.

1.  Filling A Vacant Income Property After The Purchase: How To Get The Income Flowing.

Property prices have dropped a lot for all property types.  Although rents have dropped as well they are still at levels which allow both multi-family and single family income properties to cash flow.  The article below reviews a good rental area where prices are very good as are the prospects.

2.  Phoenix Area Real Estate Investments That Cash Flow

This is an interesting read for the longer term and in real estate, investing is longer term so it would behoove you to know where the populations are moving, how and why.

3.  The Shifting Suburban Landscape And The Current Economic Crash

Bank owned properties are very attractive but not always.  We reviewed the market to see at what discount they are selling in proportion to list price and normals sales. 

4.  What To Offer On A Phoenix Bank Owned Home?

Homes are affordable now an many are very inexpensive at around $40.00 and sometimes less per square foot.  Often these are big homes with don’t make the best investments as rental income properties.

5.  $40.00 Per Square Foot Newer Phoenix Valley Homes: The Affordable Big.

This is just starting.  For about half a year now there were restrictions on how many loans an inventor could have and still buy properties.  If you had 4 or more you were out of luck, having to resort to expensive financing with made the investment not work, but now that number has grown to 10.  So investors can dive into this tremendous market filled with cash flow properties, good financing options and lots of potential for wealth building.

6.  Financing Up To 10 Properties Is Available Again.

Artur Ciesielski, (Certified Commercial Investment Member) 602.628.4349