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I believe investing in the New York City property market is a bit like raising a child. It always seems to be growing quicker than you realize, you need to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]

Find me one person under the age of 10 who doesn’t utilize some type of computing device. I’m even hard-pressed to think of one of my 89-year-old mom’s friends who doesn’t own a smartphone or a [...]

Stereotypes are like old habits, they die hard. It didn’t come as a surprise, then, that my old man was up in arms during a recent family gathering when my niece mentioned that she was moving to [...]

Believe it or not, I almost became a lawyer. And, it was while studying law at Indiana University’s McKinney Law School that I met one of my now closest friends, Jacob. Of course, that was many [...]

A good friend of mine asked for some advice on selling his Brooklyn home the other day. After offering my two cents and giving him the business card of the ace broker I use, I asked him where he [...]

I spend a lot of my time speaking to new investors. It’s part of my job. Finding out what makes investors successful or, more importantly, what they are having problems doing helps me to improve [...]

“Homes are going for only a thousand dollars in Detroit!” “I read you could buy them for one hundred!” This was the gist of the conversation I overheard at the Los Angeles International Airport [...]

For many, the New Year is a time of reflection. But it is also a time of planning. While most of us won’t stick to our resolution to go to the gym twice a week or to cut down on those sugary [...]

As home prices continue to soar, both here in New York and across the U.S., it can sometimes look like all the good deals are gone. After all, successfully investing in real estate—no matter [...]