Michael Zaransky’s Blog
Tech’s Continuing Impact on Multifamily Properties
Real estate is a Goliath, the largest asset class in the world. Yet for a very long time it failed to measure up to other industries in one very significant way -- an embrace of technology. That has begun to change, with one of the [...]
Landscaping: Fertile Ground for Adding Value to Your Property
There are many ways to add value to an existing property, and one of the best is to invest in professional landscaping. A coveted multi-family property has curb appeal, meaning residents should feel a sense of pride as they approach the entrance. It also [...]
Rehabbing is all the Rage
Never before has there been a greater demand for housing -- especially affordable housing. Michael Hobbes, writing for Huffpost.com in June 2018, cited the grim numbers in a report from the Joint Center For Housing Studies at Harvard University and concluded that the housing crisis [...]
Flipping is Often a Flop
It looks so easy on TV: Someone buys a distressed real estate property, invests in repairs and upgrades, then re-sells it -- and quickly! -- for a handsome profit. If only life imitated art. While the multitude of television shows about house-flipping led to a [...]
Attracting Tenant-Buyers With Augmented Reality
When home ownership is a dream but not a reality for your potential clients, there is a way to keep their business. The happy medium between renting and owning is to be a tenant buyer. These types of occupants rent properties that eventually they’d like [...]
Delay Game: How a Labor Shortage Is Affecting Construction
There are, increasingly, construction projects to be done, and not enough workers to do them. According to US News & World Report, some 225,000 projects were undertaken across the U.S. each month in early 2018, but a whopping 91 percent of the contractors who undertook [...]