Real Estate Takeaways

I love my clinical work but I have a second job I love too, and that is real estate investing. I’ve done it during my career in health care for the last ten years and in the last two years I’ve been a partner at Blue Ring Investors where we help other people learn about tax-advantaged apartment investing.?

I just spent a great weekend at the Multi-Family Investor Nation conference in Charlotte NC, and I would like to share two takeaways that are timely especially since the Fed interest rate hike. ?

First, I truly believe that no group of people collectively respects and cares for your money as much as real estate syndicators.?There’s a combination of personal touch/education and offering terms that puts investors first. I doubt anyone at Vanguard will lose sleep over your investments should their value go down. At Blue Ring we understand our investors and their goals, and we never lose sight of it.

And second, days after a Fed rate hike of 75 basis points the topic of “to invest or not to invest?” couldn’t help but come up. Most investors want stability and predictability when they are deciding where to put their hard-earned cash. So here we are after years of low interest rates and mostly steady inflation and the Fed raises interest rates, the first of up to six increases this year, which makes things feel a lot less predictable.

I am an avid listener and learner and I talked with many people at the conference where there was a high collective real estate IQ.? It all distilled down to “proceed with real estate investing but with caution.” ? But definitely proceed! If you want to see your money working for you, the demographics and demand for multifamily housing are creating a situation where returns are outpacing inflation. In 2021, both monthly rent and returns on multifamily investments grew more quickly than the rate of inflation, according to data from the Consumer Price Index and the NCREIF NPI-Apartments Index.?

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