September 4, 2019 Get (the hell) out of Dodge is a reference to Dodge City, Kansas, which was a favorite location for westerns in the early to mid-20th century. It was immortalized in pop culture by the iconic TV show “Gunsmoke.” More specifically it means to leave or depart from a place with marked urgency.Read more
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October 9, 2019 Urbanization has gone terribly wrong up and down the West Coast. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles all suffer from the blight of homelessness and the detritus of human waste, drug paraphernalia, rodent infestations and communicable diseases (think rats and typhus) this brings in its wake. All these cities have madeRead more
September 19, 2019 We have been beating the drum longer and harder than anyone else regarding the need for Portland landlords to sell their rental properties and “get the hell out of Dodge” with DSTs. This is because tougher rent control laws passed at the state and local levels would inevitably have a negative impactRead more
September 12, 2019 With President Trump banging the podium, calling the Fed “boneheads” and demanding “zero or less” interest rates and Alan Greenspan (yes, he’s still alive) opining that negative interest rates wouldn’t be a bad thing for the U.S. economy, investors must wonder whether or not the ‘fix’ is in. The Fed’s benchmark overnightRead more
As our trade war with China deepens, U.S. stock markets haven’t made any real progress in 18 months and everywhere you look economic data is worse than it was last year at this time, real estate investors have to be asking themselves, what to do, what to do? The fear out there is palpable andRead more
The steady drumbeat of affordable housing goes on. As with healthcare and education, it is now considered a basic human right by the governing class in both Portland and Salem. With recent passage of the controversial tenant screening ordinance by the Portland City Council, one more step has been taken down the slippery slope ofRead more
According to a front-page editorial in the nationally syndicated Washington Examiner, entitled “Antifa anarchy, Portland’s apathy,” Portland’s streets, “once a haven for creativity and expression, are roamed and controlled by masked thugs who violently and furiously attack people who disagree with them.”1 Furthermore, “what we have in Portland is a deliberate and cowardly failure ofRead more
Robert S. Smith – July 9, 2019 There is an old saying, “you can run but you can’t hide.” This means you can try to escape what you fear most but ultimately you must face it. This saying originated in the United States in the 1940s and is attributed to boxing great Joe Louis describingRead more
What, you ask does Arthur Laffer have to do with Delaware statutory trusts? Plenty, if you want to make money. This is because in a world where most people are wrong most of the time (professional, academic and government economists) he has the disconcerting habit of being right. In a world dominated by liberal economistsRead more
Below is a slide show presentation regarding DSTs & Opportunity Zones created by our Chief Compliance Officer Tim Witt. Tim has been in the alternative asset space as long as we have (20+ yrs.) albeit on the compliance side rather than sales. Download The Slide Show Here: 1031-OZ Workshop Slides Disclaimer This material and viewsRead more