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Real Estate Syndication Primer

What is real estate syndication? Have you heard of it? If not, let’s take a look. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines a syndicate as a group of persons who combine to carry out a particular transaction or project. And when it comes to real estate syndication, people come together to acquire, operate, and eventually dispose of investment properties for profit.…
Dennis Bethel
January 21, 2021
Real Estate Investing

Goldilocks And The Three Real Estate Investments

Goldilocks And The Three Bears is not a story about real estate investments. Instead, some people think it's a sweet innocent story about a young girl who stumbles into a cabin in the woods. There she finds refuge, a warm meal, and a nice place to get some rest. Well those people are wrong. Blinded by her pigtails, dimples, and…
Dennis Bethel
July 6, 2020
Real Estate Investing

5 Crazy Laws Apartment Investors Should Know About

When it comes to landlord-tenant laws, these five crazy laws put the "ass" in asinine. All right, I know what you’re thinking…there isn’t a second “s” in asinine. But that’s beside the point. You can worry about my spelling, diction, phonetics, sense of fashion and all that other jazz later on. Stick with me, I’m trying to make a point…
Dennis Bethel
June 8, 2020
Real Estate Investing

Bonus Depreciation And Other Tax Advantages Of Apartment Investing

Let’s talk about depreciation, including bonus depreciation. If you’ve invested in apartments then you likely know just how tax advantaged real estate is. Depreciation is the cornerstone of those tax benefits. But depreciation isn’t always well understood. So let’s change that. In accounting terms, depreciation is the reduction in value of an item over time. Take, for example, computers purchased…
Dennis Bethel
May 11, 2020
Real Estate Investing

The Millennial Rental Tidal Wave

Relative to earlier generations, Millennials are struggling by making less money, incurring more debt, experiencing underemployment, facing lower income growth trajectories, and having a harder time saving money. Homeownership is largely outside of their reach.
Dennis Bethel
February 21, 2017
Real Estate Investing

Apartment Investment Opportunity

Many NestEggRx readers want to see behind the curtain of how investments through private real estate investment companies work. They want to see the business plan, the expected returns, how we look at markets and submarkets, and most of all they want access to these deals.
Dennis Bethel
February 8, 2017
Real Estate Investing

Hanging Up The White Coat

There are a lot of doctors who build their entire financial plan around earned income and their own labor. They don't think to build stable streams of passive income outside of medicine and therefore they get stuck in this bloated system without any options.
Dennis Bethel
October 26, 2016
Real Estate Investing

Residency For Apartment Investors

And you are ALWAYS taught by someone who knows how to do it well - sometimes the best in the country. In reality, it took far more supervised repetitions to master these procedures, but the concept was the same. Doctors learned to be doctors using the apprentice model (residency). And if you go back in time, this is how mankind…
Dennis Bethel
July 20, 2016
Real Estate Investing

This Doctor’s Grizzly Confession

I much prefer investing in multifamily real estate in which everyone can be a winner. The tenants win because they have a clean, safe place to live. The employees win because they have a stable income that puts food on their table. The sellers win when they sell for a reasonable profit. The buyers win when they take over and…
Dennis Bethel
November 14, 2015
Real Estate Investing

Doctors – Not For Sale

I started NestEggRx to do just that. I educate others about this asset class because I have directly experienced the benefits and I strongly believe that all physicians should learn how this asset class works and determine whether it's a fit for them.
Dennis Bethel
September 10, 2015
Real Estate Investing

#1 Worst Thing Ever To Say

Have you ever put your foot in your mouth? I mean really wedged it in there good?Not some simple little faux pas that nobody but you remembers. No, I'm talking about something epic ; a real boneheaded misstep so infamous that it will get passed down from generation to generation.
Dennis Bethel
August 2, 2015
Real Estate Investing

Multifamily Investing Using an IRA

When discussing IRAs, most people think of traditional IRAs versus Roth IRAs. The difference between these two comes down to taxes and when you pay them. With a traditional IRA, you contribute pre-tax money and grow it tax-free. The tax hit comes at the back-end when you withdraw it.
Dennis Bethel
February 15, 2015
Real Estate Investing

Why My Dad Helped Me Ditch School

When I think about time, I think about a concept called opportunity cost. Opportunity cost relates choices with scarcity. In this case, the resource that is scarce is time. Choosing to spend your time working for money has a non-monetary cost associated with it.
Dennis Bethel
November 22, 2014
Real Estate Investing

Better Investments – Why Life Insurance Companies Invest in Commercial Multifamily Real Estate

The AAA rated life insurance companies do carry a small percentage of stock holdings in their portfolios but it is insignificant in comparison to their real estate exposure. For them, commercial multifamily real estate represents the Goldilocks scenario in which they can obtain better results than their bond holdings without having to take on the significantly greater risk of the…
Dennis Bethel
September 11, 2014
Real Estate Investing

Why I Became A Polygamist

Even the process of acquiring apartments can be likened to relationships. First you develop your criteria for what you are looking for and then you start evaluating properties for possible acquisition (dating). It is not uncommon to have to look at several pretenders before finding that one contender that is worth marrying.
Dennis Bethel
August 30, 2014
Real Estate Investing

Apartment Investing For Doctors

My last blog post discussed two ways that you can profit from your skills without having to actually purchase any property. Both bird dogging and wholesaling properties can be lucrative ways to make money on real estate that you don't want to own for yourself.
Dennis Bethel
August 20, 2014
Real Estate Investing

NestEggRx Coming To Houston!

My next event is May 31st in Houston, Texas. I'm excited to be back in Texas which happens to be my favorite state to invest in. In addition to the learning event, I'll be checking on several properties I have fractional ownership interest in as well as a couple of new potential acquisitions that we'll be taking a run at…
Dennis Bethel
May 18, 2014
Real Estate Investing

Texas Multifamily Excellence – Austin Luncheon

The Texas Triangle which is loosely defined as Dallas to the north, Houston to the southeast, and San Antonio to the southwest is the largest area of population and economic growth in this country. Year after year this area grows bigger and creates more economic opportunities. Where there are jobs and people, there is demand for multifamily real estate.
Dennis Bethel
January 10, 2014
Real Estate Investing

Multifamily Real Estate Investing Is Evergreen

In the face of rapidly changing industries, businesses must be ever vigilant to grow and evolve or they too will face extinction. We have all heard that 9 out of every 10 new businesses fail. However, unlike a tree that falls in the forest, when one of these bigger companies fall, the impact can be heard and felt worldwide. Investors…
Dennis Bethel
July 3, 2013
Real Estate Investing

How Do Investors Make Money In Real Estate

With residential real estate, it can be difficult to count on any real estate appreciation.Investors are beholden to the residential market cycle and comparison appraisal model. As such, many investors have been trapped in a down market unable to refinance due to a poor appraisal environment.
Dennis Bethel
November 19, 2012