The health crisis has fundamentally changed how people live, work, rest, and play. Spurred on by the blurring of our professional and personal lives, there is a new set of rules at play in urban...
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Design
Understanding the Power of Color
Any time you take on a renovation, remodel, or flip project, the one inevitable question everyone will ask is “What color do we use?” Certainly, you will need to make color decisions related to your...
How Design Can Maximize A Multifamily Investment
Many cities throughout the country are experiencing tremendous rent growth, and the Tampa, Florida, market is no exception. Local statistics puts market rent growth for this area at more than 20%...
Redesigning Distressed Properties to Appeal to Modern Buyers
When he quit his day job March 1, 2020, to start investing in real estate full time, Will Wenzel counted on two things to support his strategy of buying and renovating distressed properties in the...
Good Design Can Make or Break Your Business
The brilliant designer Paul Rand, who created logos for IBM, UPS, ABC, and many other companies, wrote in his book “A Designer’s Art” that “design is the silent ambassador of your brand.” Design is...
The 4 Essential Elements of a Successful Real Estate Project
When most people think about rehabbing a property, they think in terms of two main concepts: How much money they will make on the sale or generate in rent. How amazing the “after” pictures will look...
Labor and Materials Shortages Prompt New Approaches to Building and Design
Fix-and-flippers, new home builders, and build-to-rent contractors must feel like they’re caught in an endless loop of Groundhog Day. Although many builders and rehabbers had hoped 2022 would bring...
13 Design Trends for 2022
It’s 2022 and the world has been through quite a lot these past two years. We’ve seen supply chain issues; labor shortages; and changes in the way we live, work, and play. Home has become the...
Design is Crucial to Attracting Discerning Baby Boomers
It’s been well-documented that the single-family rental (SFR) business has been on a hot streak lately. Today, SFRs make up about 6% of all new homes being built in the United States. That number is...
Investing in Mobile/Manufactured Homes
I’ve had a front row seat to nearly four decades in the manufactured home industry. I started in the industry in 1982 by answering a newspaper ad to sell mobile homes at a dealership. In July of...
