According to Meriam-Webster, the meaning of smoke and mirrors is “something intended to disguise or draw attention away from an often embarrassing or unpleasant issue.”

With inflation raging (41 year high of 7.5%) income property investors first concern must now be how to protect themselves. As previously mentioned, operating assets

2021 set a record for U.S. Commercial property sales.  Overall, commercial property sales totaled $809 billion in 2021, according to the data firm Real Capital

Since time immemorial, we have been bullish on self-storage as a commercial property type.  Our good judgement is borne out with storage beating every other

With wholesale inflation jumping a record 9.6% in the past 12 months, its fastest pace in nearly 40 years, we can all agree the Fed

We were among the first in the DST space to warn of impending inflation and what it may mean to income property investors.  When we

We have been talking for some time now about too much money chasing too few assets and the corresponding bubblelicious nature of the stock, bond

Peregrine Private Capital, a Newberg, Oregon -based provider of Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) properties for 1031 exchange purposes is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. 

Covid-19, never ending government mandated eviction bans, local governments hostile to landlord rights, rent strikes, now income property owners can add increased risk of war

Who says the eviction ban has to end sometime?  Certainly not Democrats as they pull out all the stops to renew the nationwide ban on

Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”  Sadly, this dictum has been lost on:  Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen and much

Just so there is no doubt about where we stand on the inflation issue, I wish to reiterate that I believe the Fed is wrong

We have been talking ad nauseum about the current asset bubble.  Jeremy Grantham, noted market historian and co-founder of the Boston investment firm, GMO describes

Now that inflation is here and the Federal Reserve has pledged to keep the pedal to the metal and let it rise, income property owners

A “gotcha moment” clearly has something in common with a “Eureka moment” in terms of the flash of insight or understanding.  We have been telling