Brian Davis is a real estate investor and personal finance writer with over two decades in the real estate and finance industries. After graduating from University of Delaware in 2003 with two useless B.A. degrees and an even more useless minor in anthropology, he fell headfirst into real estate finance by accident.
Then he promptly went on a property buying spree from 2005-2008. It was what you might call a “learning experience,” all of the lessons expensive.
Eventually, Brian tired of landlording and unloaded his own portfolio of rental properties. But he still loved real estate as an investment, and today he owns fractional shares in over 2,000 units.
The difference? Nowadays he only invests passively in real estate.
Along with his wife and daughter, Brian spends most of the year abroad living by his own rules. He loves hiking, cooking, pairing wine with said cooking, scuba diving, and occasionally surfing (badly). And writing: he writes as a real estate and personal finance expert for Inman, BiggerPockets, R.E.tipster and dozens of other publishers.
Most of all, Brian loves showing others how they too can create their ideal lives through real estate investing and lifestyle design.
Diversification is a huge challenge for traditional real estate investors. Why? Because when each asset costs $250,000, and even down payments cost $50,000, you end up with an enormous amount of money tied up in each individual asset. Compounding the problem: most...
Image Credit: Plantlady223 under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Do landlords have to worry about weed? Yes. But not necessarily for the reasons you think. Smoking inside your unit yellows the walls, leaves a gnarly odor, and can ruin...
Credit can make or break your ability to invest in real estate. With bad credit, you'll have a much harder time borrowing an investment property loan — if anyone will lend to you at all. Recessions make it that much harder to keep your credit in tip-top shape however....
Yes, it takes money to invest in real estate. Your own money, not just lenders' money. But that doesn't mean you can't occasionally bend the rules. As you explore ways to get started investing in real estate without an enormous trust fund, consider some of the...
Sure, every recession is unique. A snowflake. And there are plenty of differences between 2020's COVID-induced recession and the Great Recession of 2008-2009. But that doesn't mean we can't learn from past recessions, particularly one as recent as the Great Recession....
Credit markets tightened up as COVID-19 seized the country (and the world). For real estate investors who rely on investment property loans to finance their property portfolio, that's a huge problem. So where can real estate investors turn for funds, in the grip of...
With evictions largely banned in the US, how can landlords protect their rental income? The short answer: prevention and protection. Deni and Brian walk through how to avoid the kinds of tenants that will stop paying, and how to protect your rental income streams even...
As a city dweller myself, I’m all too familiar with the challenges of urban living during the coronavirus pandemic. My family shares a small apartment with no outdoor space – and it certainly got harder to stay cooped up in it as the weeks and months of social...
When renters lose their jobs, landlords tend to lose their rental income. Sure, most got several stimulus checks, and can go on unemployment to receive temporary assistance. But with over 10 million Americans unemployed, many renters in decimated industries like...
As the coronavirus continues rattling investors and shuttering businesses around the world, people keep asking me the same question over and over: What will the impact on real estate be? Because no one knows how long the global pandemic will last, no one can know how...
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