S.E.C. Real Estate Observer

Most people like top ten lists because you know when they end, right? But if you manage, invest in, finance, or own apartments, you never want to see an end to good ideas for better performance.

There are many things an apartment owner can do to improve the bottom line in apartment operations. They fall into two broad categories: (1) increasing income and (2) reducing expenses. Some of the suggestions listed below fall into one category or the other, and some actually apply to both.

The traditional sources of profits in apartments, as in most other types of real estate investment, include cash flow, loan amortization, tax shelter through depreciation, and appreciation.
But in apartments there are some potential additional sources of profit we should not forget.
Miscellaneous income -
Laundry - The most common miscellaneous item included in apartments is income from [...]

If you are thinking about getting involved in a multifamily affordable housing transaction, there are a number of due diligence items you will need to include in your investigation that are not typically checked out in a conventional transaction.
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (also known as the Section 42 housing program), is a [...]

The 2000 Community Renewal Tax Relief Act authorized the creation of the Renewal Community (RC) Initiative, designed to stimulate economic development in the nation’s most distressed communities. Through this initiative HUD designated 40 of the most distressed communities as RC communities, and Congress provided them with more than $5 billion in tax incentives that will [...]