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U.S. Needs 4.3M More Apartments by 2035 to Address Demand, Deficit and Affordability

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Nation Faces 600,000 apartment deficit, 4.7 million fewer affordable apartments Amidst demographic shifts and lingering pandemic-impacts on the population and broader economy, the U.S. faces a pressing need to build 4.3 million new apartments by 2035, according to a new study commissioned by the National Apartment Association (NAA) and the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). Based on research conducted by Hoyt Advisory Services and Eigen10 Advisors, LLC, commissioned by NAA and NMHC, the data

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Opportunity is Everywhere

From “Dirt Poor” to Successful Real Estate Investor By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Dana Nutt moved to Afton, Michigan, at the age of 6, he got his first experience in rehabbing real estate. “We lived in a one-room schoolhouse with an outhouse,” he explained. “But we just kept cleaning and sanding and improving whenever we could.” The family made the best of the situation, and Nutt spent hours with his

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WORD OF THE DAY: Emblematize

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[em-BLEM-ə-tiyz] Part of speech: verb Origin: Greek, 17th century Definition: Serve as a symbolic representation of (a quality or concept) Examples of Emblematize in a sentence “The spectacle of the Super Bowl emblematizes the intensity of America’s love of football.” “Singer Lizzo emblematizes a new generation of women who love their bodies in all sizes.” About Emblematize “Emblematize” was coined as a verb after the word “emblematist,” a 17th-century term for a person who drew

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Keeping an Open Mind

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How a Serial Entrepreneur Became a Real Estate Success A successful entrepreneur with deep experience in start-ups, as well as in executive and financial management, Derek Cook has always been open to new business opportunities. His various ventures have included mortgage lending, restaurants, automobiles, and even the ATM industry. But his most recent successes involve those in the real estate investment industry. A native Floridian, Cook got his first taste

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Rental Property Marketing

Expanding Your Rental Pool and Decreasing Turn Time By Kori Covrigaru In any industry and in any economic climate, strategic marketing is key. This is especially true in the real estate industry, specifically with regards to marketing rental properties. With tens of thousands of rental properties on the market at any one time, and small investors competing with larger-scale investors, making a property stand out above the rest requires a

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New Needs For a New Era

Why Providers with Local Expertise and Industrial Scale are Thriving in 2022 By Brian Edwards America’s household formation has been experiencing a seismic shift accelerated by the pandemic as the nation’s population began to “de-urbanize” by looking to migrate away from densely populated cities into less populated suburban areas throughout the Southern and Western states. The effects from the pandemic fueled this migration by mobilizing a large segment of the population

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