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Hipster Real Estate Developers Building for Millennials

Posted: October 4th, 2015

Young real estate developers are using young investors’ money to put young people in young neighborhoods.



John Chaffetz is showing off an apartment building that his development firm, Timberlane Partners, just bought for $7.2 million. He admits it doesn’t look so hot. “This has been treated like a prison camp,” he says of the 32-unit building in Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood. Steel bars stick out of a cinder-block fence, threatening to impale someone. The front door is an ugly metal gate.
But an organic supermarket opened around the corner in November, and a Blue Bottle Coffee just arrived down the block. There’s a farmers market nearby each Friday, and five minutes up Sunset Boulevard is the Silver Lake neighborhood, a nest of hipster cafes and places to buy rare cheese and handmade clothes. Timberlane plans to tear down the building’s security fencing, put terracotta back on the roof, and repair windows that date to its pre-1930 construction. “The goal,” Chaffetz says, “is for this to look like a Moroccan boutique hotel.”

If you’re the sort of twentysomething who needs rhubarb bitters in her cocktail, you’re not going to live just anywhere—and Timberlane co-founders Chaffetz, 32, and Dave Enslow, 37, are counting on that. Much of their Seattle- and Los Angeles-based firm’s strategy is straight out of the developer playbook: buy neglected apartment buildings in promising neighborhoods, renovate, raise rents, and fill them with young professionals. But when fixing up a property, Timberlane takes extra care to provide touches it can market specifically to the perceived whims of millennial tenants. Historically accurate details are a priority. Midcentury Palm Springs architecture inspired the revamp of one dated building, replacing “a lobby that looked like a 1982 funeral home,” Chaffetz says. The company will typically expose brick walls and refinish hardwood floors rather than slap down carpet. It adds amenities for healthier lifestyles. At one site, Timberlane sacrificed five apartments to create a 3,000-square-foot gym with a yoga studio and climbing wall. A building on a popular Seattle bike path got a large bicycle storage and repair room. Where older renters might value ease of parking, millennials want walkable neighborhoods. “They want to drop off their car on a Friday and not see it again until Monday,” Enslow says.

Buyout Firms Join U.S. Apartment Hunt as Rentals Surge: Real M&A

Posted: September 29th, 2015

Buyout firms are apartment hunting again.

An affiliate of private equity firm Lone Star Funds agreed this week to acquire apartment real estate investment trust Home Properties Inc. for about $7.6 billion including debt. It marks the largest takeover of a U.S. apartment REIT since the buyout boom of 2007, and more may be on the way.

Luxury House ‘Flippers’ Get a Lift

Posted: October 10th, 2013

Sequoia Real Estate Partners is quoted in this article

By
NICK TIMIRAOS

Nick Sinatra, the owner of a small real-estate investment firm, believes he has found the next big opportunity in the housing market: renovating and flipping million-dollar properties.

Well-heeled investors think Mr. Sinatra is on to something. On Wednesday his company, American Coastal Properties LLC, is set to announce that it has received $50 million from private-equity firm Colony Capital LLC and the Pritzker/Vlock Family Office. While the investment is relatively small for Colony, it could allow ACP to double the number of homes is renovates annually.

The investment by Colony in a boutique firm like ACP is the latest example of how big money is chasing returns in a corner of the housing market typically dominated by mom-and-pop shops.

Pacific Value Opportunities Funds, Q3 Update and Outlook

Posted: October 4th, 2013



To Partners and Friends of the Pacific Value Opportunities Funds:

By far and away the most significant news of the third quarter was the Fed’s surprise mid-September decision not to taper its monthly purchase of some $85 billion of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, the so-called quantitative easing. Separately, the Fed also announced it has no intention of increasing short-term rates until late 2014 or 2015. Most market watchers were caught off guard, having assumed that the Fed would begin some modest tapering ($10 to $20 billion) given the improving economy, and the obvious need to end bond repurchases at some point. The announcement provided significant relief to bond rates, which had increased significantly during the quarter. The 10-year Treasury yield, which stood at 2.50% at the start of the third quarter and had risen to nearly 3.0% by the first week of September, subsequently declined to 2.64% in the weeks following the Fed’s announcement.

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Pacific Value Opportunities Funds, Q2 Update and Outlook

Posted: July 29th, 2013


To Partners and Friends of Pacific Value Opportunities Funds:

For the most part, the second quarter saw the continuation of decidedly mixed, if not conflicting, macroeconomic trends: modest improvements in domestic employment levels and economic growth, remarkably strong U.S. equity and housing markets, weakening emerging markets, slowing growth in China, middling recovery in the E.U., and significant geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East (and elsewhere). The U.S. economy remains one of the global bright spots, which seems somewhat hard to imagine, as our recovery and current level of growth can only be described as uninspiring.

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SREP on Fox Business Network

Posted: July 10th, 2013

Our Managing Partner, Bruce Bartlett, was interviewed this morning on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. by Stuart Varney.

Luxury Real-Estate Flippers

Posted: June 28th, 2013

Sequoia Real Estate Partners was interviewed for this article and it contains photos of SREP properties.

By Sanette Tanaka

There is a new breed of quick-change artist on the real-estate front: luxury flippers who focus on high-end properties.
Million-Dollar Flips

Popular before the housing bust, house flipping-where a property is bought, renovated and sold quickly to make a profit-is seeing a comeback nationwide. Rising prices and tight inventory are driving more investors to the upper end of the market. Flips of homes priced at $1 million or more shot up 35% in 2012 compared with 2011, according to market researcher RealtyTrac.

Motivated home buyers skip the bidding wars

Posted: June 27th, 2013

Southern California real estate agents are using reconnaissance and back-channel networks to find houses that haven’t yet hit the market. Some even offer bizarre gifts.

Ryan Mathys spent weeks prospecting.

He drove up and down the little avenue in Solana Beach, taking notes and knocking on doors. He scoured public records. He blanketed the seaside neighborhood in northern San Diego County with inquiries.

All the detective work had a dollars-and-cents purpose: to find homes the owners would be willing to sell.

Southern California housing prices are rising sharply, and there’s a shortage of houses available for sale.

Pacific Value Opportunities Fund I, Q1 Update and Outlook

Posted: April 16th, 2013


We are set to close the sale of the Commonwealth asset on April 15th, just days away, and anticipate making a sizeable distribution early next week. We are still evaluating offers on the Fund’s largest asset, the multi-family asset at 245 N. Alvarado, and hope to enter escrow within the next few weeks at a sales price in excess of $10 million (our investment, all-in, approximates $8.2 million. That would be ideal, but we have created significant equity in the property in any case. The Fund’s sole remaining asset, a single-family residence in Wilmington, remains leased ($2,600/month). Our cost basis in this particular asset approximates $233,000, and according to Zillow, the house is worth in excess of $380,000. We will likely list the asset for sale sometime this summer or fall.
Obviously, the news surrounding the Fund and the remaining portfolio is good, and we hope to monetize all Fund assets before year end, a period we anticipate will remain strong for residential assets.

Pacific Value Opportunities Fund II, Q1 Update and Outlook

Posted: April 10th, 2013



Since operations for the Pacific Value Opportunities Fund II began in January, the Fund has acquired four properties, is seeking to acquire two others from Chase Bank (the Fund was the winning bidder for the properties, but the owners have filed bankruptcy), is negotiating to complete two short sales from other banks, and is actively making offers on other properties from Van Nuys to Newport Beach to Norwalk.
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Home Prices Hit a Milestone

Posted: December 27th, 2012


Record-low mortgage rates mean that homeowners have a smaller financial burden for their residences than at any time since the early 1980s.

But here’s the bad news: Rising rents are squeezing many families and leaving them with less to spend.

Several factors have pushed rents up. Rental and apartment housing is in short supply but demand has grown after several years of foreclosures and population growth.

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The Best Housing Markets for Buyers and Sellers

Posted: December 15th, 2012

The real estate market has been slowly improving since it reached record lows in 2008 and 2009. Existing-home sales rose 2.1% in October and the national median price for an existing home is 11.1% higher than it was one year ago. According to the Federal Reserve’s beige book, the housing industry has experienced substantial improvement and has been a bright spot for the economy this year.

Home ‘flippers’ grab an increasing share of Sacramento housing market

Posted: October 31st, 2012


Homebuyers in today’s market are likely to encounter a lot of fresh paint and spruced-up bathrooms.
That’s because flipped houses, renovated and quickly resold for profit, make up a larger share of the Sacramento region’s housing market than at any time in the past decade, including the height of the housing boom.
About one in 12 homes sold in Sacramento County last month was flipped, meaning it was bought and resold within a six-month period, according to real estate information service DataQuick.

“Flipping was up significantly from a year ago,” said DataQuick analyst Andrew LePage.

Investor Q3 Update & Outlook

Posted: October 25th, 2012



The third quarter saw continued improvement in the residential markets, similar to those we have noted in earlier quarterly updates. Nationally, apartment rents increased approximately 0.8% in the third quarter, representing the seventh consecutive quarter of rental growth, while overall vacancy rates dropped to 4.6%. However, the increase in rents represented the slowest rate of growth since the recovery began in 2010. These results are not surprising as improvement in single-family home prices (up 4.6% in August 2012 versus the prior year, the largest year-over-year increase in six years) – buoyed by continued low interest rates, expanding confidence in the economic recovery, and low levels of inventory for sale – absorbed some of the apartment momentum. The surprising strength in the single-family residential market, highlighted by unusually low supply (click to read more) has perhaps been the most interesting story during the quarter…..
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The Pacific Value Opportunities Fund I is showing remarkable gains

Posted: October 23rd, 2012



Sequoia Real Estate Partners’ Pacific Value Opportunities Fund I has begun to liquidate its mix of value-added (improved) investments in both apartments and single family homes. Based on properties already sold, or in escrow, and valuations from independent sources the PVOF I, which was started in 2010, is on track to generate an annual fund return north of 25%, the vast majority of which goes to its investors. Fund Managers currently anticipate 100% of all invested capital and profits to be distributed to investors by the end of 2013. For more specifics click on the title of this article above.

The Pacific Value Opportunities Fund II Opens October 29th.

Posted: October 23rd, 2012


Sequoia Real Estate Partners latest fund, PVOF II opens to investors October 29th. PVOF II comes on the heels of the highly successful PVOF I, which is on track for a very strong annual Return on Equity, and will capitalize on the current supply and demand imbalance in the single-family market for “turn-key” move-in ready homes. Bruce Bartlett, one of Sequoia’s Managing Partners noted “We’re simply taking our years of successful experience and economies of scale improving apartment communities and applying that to single-family homes. We did this in PVOF I and had great results.” The Fund is relatively small, only $10 million, so based on PVOF I’s success, SREP’s strong track record and investor demand, it is expected to fill quickly.
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Median home price in Southland climbs as supply is squeezed

Posted: October 17th, 2012



Southern California’s median home price climbed to a high not seen in more than four years even as sales plummeted — the latest sign that the housing market is becoming increasingly competitive, with fewer homes available.

Sales declined for the first time in nine months as California experienced a shortage of affordable properties, according to real estate research firm DataQuick. In particular, foreclosed homes hit a nearly five-year low.

The region’s median price was $315,000 last month, up 1.9% from August and 12.5% from September, DataQuick reported.

Eric Sussman Cover Interview in GlobeSt.com

Posted: August 23rd, 2012


EXCLUSIVE
How to Capitalize on Multifamily Investment


LOS ANGELES-The high tide of single-family home foreclosures has turned five million homeowners to renters, and likely longer-term, if not permanent, renters. So says Eric Sussman, managing partner at Sequoia Real Estate Partners. Sussman recently chatted with GlobeSt.com on the subject of multifamily investment and how investors can capitalize.

Before and After 3118 Palo Verde Ave. Long Beach

Posted: August 7th, 2012

Before and after photos of our most recent REO flip. Construction was 1 month.

Investor Q2 Update and Outlook

Posted: July 27th, 2012



The second quarter witnessed continued and significant progress in the Pacific Opportunities Value Fund I, as we have completed the sale of one asset and near the sale of a second, both single-family homes we acquired and renovated. Moreover, residential rental market fundamentals continue to improve, just as we predicted. In fact, according to REIS, a well regarded real estate data collection firm, second quarter average rents increased in all 82 markets they track, while the nation’s apartment vacancy rate fell to 4.7% (the lowest level seen since 2001).

Demographics, New Assumptions Drive Commercial Real Estate

Posted: June 12th, 2012


A turning point has been reached in the economy and both demographics and the assumptions that traditionally drove the commercial real estate industry are shifting.

But while economists speaking on a panel at the Strategic Real Estate Conference held in New York this week agreed that this is a time of incredible change, they also see opportunity.

Homeownership likely to be delayed for ‘Generation Now’ members

Posted: May 27th, 2012


Most consumers in their 20s are stuck in a holding pattern, a retail industry consultant says. ‘Everything is delayed for them,’ she says.
CHICAGO — Maxine Lauer calls the group of consumers 15 to 34 “Generation Now” because they want what they want and they want it now.

Trouble is, “now” isn’t happening for them, especially for those in the middle of that range, their 20s, who might reasonably be expected to be thinking about buying their first homes.

Generally, though, that’s not something they’re doing, because most of them just can’t, said Lauer, whose Sphere Trending retail industry consulting firm in Waterford, Mich., has studied their attitudes in depth. Basically, she said, they’re stuck in a holding pattern.

“Everything is delayed for them,” Lauer said. “Homeownership is delayed, and they will rent longer. They’re delaying marriage, delaying kids. It’s because their peak earning years are being delayed.”

The Economics and Opportunities in Multifamily Real Estate

Posted: May 17th, 2012


VIDEO
Eric Sussman, Managing Partner Sequoia Real Estate Partners and Senior Lecturer in Real Estate and Advanced Accounting at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management discusses the economics and trends that have created tremendous opportunity in the Multifamily (apartment) market and how to best capitalize on it.

Warren Buffett on CNBC: I’d Buy Up ‘A Couple Hundred Thousand’ Single-Family Homes If I Could

Posted: April 26th, 2012


Warren Buffett says along with equities, single-family homes are a very attractive investment right now.

Appearing live on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Buffett tells Becky Quick he’d buy up “a couple hundred thousand” single family homes if it were practical to do so.

If held for a long period of time and purchased at low rates, Buffett says houses are even better than stocks. He advises buyers to take out a 30-year mortgage and refinance if rates go down.

Investor Q1 Update and Outlook

Posted: April 23rd, 2012



UPDATE & OPINION
Market fundamentals for residential rental properties remain fairly robust, reflected by increasing rents and declining vacancies. A recent report issued by USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate (the 2012 Casden Multifamily Forecast) predicts that average rents will increase 7.9% in 2012 and total growth of 9.6% by the end of 2013. This forecast is consistent with our own overall views of the Southern California market, as we discussed in previous reports. In short, we view apartments and residential rentals as the best place to allocate real estate directed investment funds.

The one number to watch for a housing recovery

Posted: April 13th, 2012


If you’re waiting for home prices to go up, then you’re missing signs the troubled housing market has finally turned around.

FORTUNE – Over the past few months, many economists have concluded that that the U.S. housing market has reached a turning point and is healing. This may sound hard to believe, since home prices have continued their downward trend. In 2011, prices fell by 4% following nearly a 30% decline since the property bubble peaked in June 2006. They ended the year at a 10-year low.

Uncle Sam wants you to rent out its foreclosed homes

Posted: March 4th, 2012



NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Want to become a landlord in one of the nation’s hardest-hit foreclosure neighborhoods? Well, Uncle Sam has a deal for you.

Fannie Mae (FNMA, Fortune 500) will offer up nearly 2,500 distressed properties in eight locations to investors who are willing to buy them in bulk and rent them out for a set number of years.

The properties, which are located in Atlanta, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles/Riverside, and three Florida regions, include all types of housing units, from single-family homes to co-op apartment buildings.

A Market Builds for Single-Family Rentals

Posted: January 14th, 2012



Waypoint purchased this Antioch, Calif., home for $140,000 and is marketing the rental at $2,049 a month.
SREP: The big money is starting to figure it out. This rental generates over 10% a year in net cash flow.
Private-Equity Fund GI Partners Is Investing in Waypoint, Which Buys Foreclosed Homes and Then Rents Them Out

A private-equity fund that generated big profits by scooping up empty data centers after the technology-stock bust in 2000 is now making a big bet on foreclosed homes.

The fund, GI Partners in Menlo Park, Calif., plans to announce on Wednesday a $250 million investment in Waypoint Real Estate Group, an Oakland-based company that buys foreclosed homes at discounts and rents them out to tenants. The investment is among the largest to date by an institutional investor in the nascent single-family rental space.

2011 Q4 Update and 2012 Forecast

Posted: December 31st, 2011



UPDATE & OPINION
The fourth quarter was a busy one for Pacific Value Opportunities Fund I, as we acquired two additional assets: a 24-unit apartment building located in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles, and another single-family home in South Los Angeles. The Fund now owns two apartment buildings (85 units total, including one non-conforming unit) and four homes. Of the original Fund equity, we have invested approximately 95% to fund the acquisitions and various capital improvements made to the acquired assets. As discussed in more detail below, we anticipate monetizing one or more Fund assets in the next 12 to 18 months. Details of the Fund assets are as follows:

Meeting the Demand in Multifamily: The Investment Mentality

Posted: December 24th, 2011

SREP Note: An important market signal.

Jones Lang LaSalle/RealShare APARTMENTS Outlook 2012 Survey—the experts weigh in

Rising rental rates combined with declining home ownership rates are sounding a clarion call for continued investment in the multifamily sector, according to respondents of Jones Lang LaSalle/RealShare APARTMENTS Outlook 2012 Survey. The survey, completed by more than 150 private investors, real estate brokers, developers, REIT and institutional investors, was conducted in conjunction with RealShare APARTMENTS 2011 Conference, held recently in Los Angeles.

PVOF: Before & After, 245 N. Alvarado, Los Angeles CA

Posted: October 3rd, 2011



The Repositioning of a 60 unit building near downtown Los Angeles.

Q4 2011 Investor Update and Outlook

Posted: October 3rd, 2011



OPINION, INVESTOR UPDATE, SREP
Given the extraordinary focus on the economy and financial markets in just about every nook and cranny of the media, I figured that I would start this quarterly missive a little differently – and more optimistically – by reviewing the assets in the Pacific Value Opportunities Fund I portfolio and our future plans. As you will recall, the premise of the Fund was that rental housing – both apartments and single-family residences converted to rental property – had a very bright future given short-term and secular market trends. Previous quarterly reports have laid out our thoughts on this matter, and recent economic data only reinforces these beliefs.

Bloomberg names Eric Sussman one of the Nation’s Top 10 Business School Professors

Posted: October 1st, 2011


The most popular business school professors are good teachers, plain and simple. They’re not rock stars, CEOs or celebrity researchers. Their names may not look familiar. But they’ve earned a place in the hearts and minds of their students by bringing to life accounting, finance and management, learning their names and helping them find jobs. Their students come first and it shows.

Sequoia Real Estate Partners, Q3 2011 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: July 13th, 2011



OPINION, SREP
It is not surprising, therefore, that the fundamentals surrounding multi-family residential properties continue to improve, with continued increases in occupancy rates in nearly all markets. While rental growth has been modest, reflecting the high levels of unemployment and stagnant levels of household income, we believe that rents will eventually need to increase along with the drop in vacancy rates and, perhaps more critically, the significant lack of new supply coming on line.

Sequoia Real Estate Partners, Q1 2011 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: April 5th, 2011



OPINION, SREP
In the same week the sobering Case-Shiller housing data is released, Fortune Magazine’s cover reads, “The Return of Real Estate”, with the accompanying story captioned “Real Estate: It’s Time to Buy Again”. And, if that were not enough to cause confusion, my beloved Costco Connection (yes, I am an Executive Member) runs a story, “What’s Up with Real Estate”, the article’s central premise being that now might be a good time to buy a home.
Indeed, 2011 has thus far been a “head scratcher,” with nobody, especially economists and the so-called market analysts able to agree on what all this contradictory information means. Frankly, I am not sure I am in any better position to do so. However, what I can say, without equivocation, is that my views on the residential rental market, including the buy/hold/rent strategy of single-family residences, remain unchanged. With the continued fear and uncertainty in the real estate market I am just as bullish as I was back in 2010, when we started the Sequoia Fund.

Fortune: It’s time to buy again

Posted: March 29th, 2011


ARTICLE, FORTUNE
…Eventually reality set in, and prices plummeted. Our current view focuses on those same fundamentals — only now they’re pointing in the opposite direction.
So let’s state it simply and forcibly: Housing is back.

Sequoia Investment Partners, December 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: December 1st, 2010



OPINION, SREP, 12.01.2010
First and foremost, I would like to extend best holiday wishes to Sequoia’s friends, investors, and partners. We would like to wish all of you a healthy and fortuitous holiday season.
While we anticipate that 2011 will witness a continuation and expansion of the economic recovery, we continue to believe that lethargy is likely to define the domestic and global economic scene.

Sequoia Investment Partners, October 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: October 28th, 2010



OPINION, SREP, 10.28.2010
Not surprisingly, the economic data continues to be mixed, with all eyes on the Federal Reserve, to see what, if any, additional stimulus endeavors they undertake. Most anticipate that they will purchase several hundred billion dollars of U.S. Treasuries in an effort to combat weak economic growth and deflation…..

Sequoia Investment Partners, September 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: September 29th, 2010



OPINION, SREP, 10.07.2010
Record-low interest rates persist, with 10-year treasury yield falling below 2.50% and fixed-rate mortgage rates – for both single- and multi-family residences – available in the 4′s.
As a result, we continue to be very bullish on the multi-family residential market, and despite the likely forthcoming wave of additional single-family residential foreclosures, significant opportunities will present themselves in that market as well. Sequoia Real Estate Partners is poised to take advantage of these favorable markets for medium- to longer-term investment.

Sequoia Investment Partners, August 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: August 18th, 2010


OPINION, SREP, 08.18.2010
So what does this mean for residential real estate? Modestly lower prices, as slackening demand and continued foreclosures are offset by historically low rates and available financing. Meanwhile, rents have stabilized, reflecting an improving economy (even a modest recovery translates into a stronger rental market). In short, we are finally seeing some promising investment opportunities in both the multi- and single-family markets…….

Sequoia Investment Partners, July 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: July 6th, 2010


OPINION, SREP, 07.07.2010
However, in times like these I am always reminded of Warren Buffett’s sage advice to be “greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.” That is, with so much uncertainty comes substantial opportunity, and it is my view that longer-term trends are very favorable for those willing to commit capital to value-add residential real estate, despite the likelihood for continued volatility and anemic economic growth at best during the next couple of years. These trends are as follows: …..

Sequoia Investment Partners, June 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: July 6th, 2010


PRESS RELEASE, SREP, 06.30.2010
Sequoia Investment Partners is very pleased to announce its new partnership with Fountain Management to create Sequoia Real Estate Partners, LLC.

Sequoia Investment Partners, May 2010 Investor Market Summary and Forecast

Posted: May 26th, 2010


OPINION, SEQUOIA INVESTMENT PARTNERS, 05.26.2010
Long story short, professional and some do-it-yourselfers are getting deals and just wait, there’s more to come.

TRICKS OF THE TRADE #14: How to quickly decide if a property is worth investigating

Posted: May 17th, 2010


TRICKS OF THE TRADE, SEQUOIA INVESTMENT PARTNERS, 05.17.2010
The 1% rule of thumb: How to quickly decide if a property is worth checking out.

TRICKS OF THE TRADE #7: Increasing Appreciation on 2-4 Unit Properties

Posted: May 13th, 2010


TRICKS OF THE TRADE, SEQUOIA INVESTMENT PARTNERS, 05.13.2010
Increasing rates of appreciation in 2-4 unit properties.

OUR NEW VIDEO SERIES “Tricks of the Trade”

Posted: May 11th, 2010


VIDEO, SEQUOIA INVESTMENT PARTNERS, 05.11.2010
An introduction to our new video series

TRICKS OF THE TRADE #23: Lowering Management Fees

Posted: May 11th, 2010


VIDEO, SEQUOIA INVESTMENT PARTNERS, 05.10.2010
How to save $10,000 in management fees

Would You Have Bought It? Case Study of a Flip: 4832 2nd Ave, Los Angeles CA

Posted: May 9th, 2010


SEQUOIA STRATEGY, 05.09.2010
It’s not often an REO investment makes the front page of the Sunday edition of a national paper, but that’s exactly what happened on April 25th 2010 in the Los Angeles Times. So we thought it would be a great opportunity to do a quick case study on this particular purchase

Dumb Money Getting Smarter

Posted: May 5th, 2010


SEQUOIA STRATEGY, 05.05.2010
“Why was it OK to throw money down a hole when prices were rising, but it’s not now? Shouldn’t we be careful about how we spend money at all times?”

The Coming Wave of Option-ARM and Alt-A Mortgage Resets

Posted: April 26th, 2010


STRATEGY, SEQUOIA RESEARCH, 4.22.2010
“We presently find ourselves in the relative calm between two waves.”