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The Latest Edition of reiaSENSE

Sloppy Inflation: The discussion around inflation has become quite sloppy. Rather than focus on all the misstatements, please know that references to inflation “coming down” is in no way an actual reduction in costs. It is a reduction in the rate of increase. This is critical when thinking about budgets and longer term planning....

States Losing & Gaining Population

By Brad Beckett We've seen a lot of data about people migrating around country to better economic climes.  Today's graphic from Statista illustrates the states that losing & gaining population. Interestingly, they say as pandemic patterns of population growth are normalizing, three economically successful states have remained among the...

The Importance of Cash Reserves

By Jeffrey S. Watson Recently, I spoke to a group of real estate investors about buying properties using a creative financing method. Some of the questions asked reminded me how crucial it is that real estate investors have cash reserves to deal with the unexpected. I consider cash reserves to be “Murphy’s Law repellant” (anything that can go wrong will go...