Wright Thurston Sr.’s Real Estate Rules: Small Apartments, Patient Money, and Keeping Your Day Job
Nine rules from a landlord's own blog posts and interviews, from keeping your paycheck to financing a 24-unit building, and what has changed since.
Real estate investing beyond “buy a rental and hope.” This section covers REITs versus direct rental ownership, house hacking, farmland, fractional real estate platforms, whether flipping still pencils out, and what actually happens to mortgage rates when the Fed moves — the honest version of what owning real estate takes.
Nine rules from a landlord's own blog posts and interviews, from keeping your paycheck to financing a 24-unit building, and what has changed since.
The headline number says sales fell for the second straight month. The rest of the report says inventory hit its highest level in over a decade and affordability improved in every region.
The September FOMC meeting raised rates to 3.75%-4.00%, reversing the expected cutting cycle. 30-year mortgage rates jumped to a one-year high near 6.97%. Here's what actually changed, and what didn't.
Platforms like Arrived and Ark7 let you buy a slice of a rental property for $100. Here's what that share actually gets you — and the fees, illiquidity, and platform risk the marketing doesn't lead with.
Farmland has a decades-long track record of low correlation with stocks and bonds — but the cash yields are modest and the minimums are steep.
FHA loans allow 3.5% down on owner-occupied 2-4 unit properties — and rental income from the other units can cover most or all of the mortgage.
Both put your money into buildings. Almost nothing else about them is the same — liquidity, leverage, tenant calls at 11pm, and what happens to your return when rates move. Here's the honest comparison.
Flipping margins just posted their first quarterly gain in almost two years — and they're still below where they were twelve months ago. Here's what the actual math says before you sign a purchase contract.