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Everyone I talk to has their own Brooklyn. You’ve got the Dumbo/ Williamsburg crowd, which is what most people think of now when they of Brooklyn (well, that and Park Slope). But this is a huge [...]

A friend of mine was visiting recently, and over dinner at the 317 he asked why he kept seeing signs that said Syracuse was “the heart of New York.” I knew what he was going to say next, of [...]

A friend of mine came to visit me here in Orlando, and on his first night we went out to dinner at Soco, a kind of fancy southern comfort food near the soccer stadium. He expressed a bit of [...]

Last spring, I took a visiting niece to a ballgame at Miller Park. It was one of those typically cold spring days here in Milwaukee and she commented on how lucky we were to have a stadium that [...]

Real estate investors are an assorted lot. I’ve met some who came from construction backgrounds and others who left their corporate jobs to be their own bosses. But, one thing we all have in [...]

On a recent vacation, I received a somewhat frantic call from my brother-in-law, Mike. He’d just begun investing in residential real estate and often bounces ideas off of me before making a move. [...]

For a few years, it seemed like every day was my first day. I moved to Jacksonville about 10 years ago, leaving behind my corporate job and the cold winters of the northern Midwest. I’d been [...]

Real estate investing isn’t for the faint-hearted. There are lots of twists and turns along the way—and, sometimes, what looks like a quick rehab can run into costly delays. That recently [...]

Not too long ago, a friend of mine met me for lunch at a park in Ann Arbor. I brought a sandwich from Zingermans, and he picked up his from a gas station. He spent the first minute crowing about [...]