Real Estate Money School

Distressed properties may be hard to come by now, but they will be plentiful in the near future. When the market turns, there’ll be hundreds of properties ripe for acquisition. If you get caught up in buying assets in this speculative market, you’ll have no capital to take advantage of this opportunity. How do you move in a market with hedge funds gobbling up entire neighborhoods? What is the criteria for buying distressed property?    In this episode, I’m joined by Jake Harris, a longtime investor and author of “Catching Knives: A Guide to Investing in Distressed Commercial Real Estate”. He talks about all the challenges investors are experiencing in the current market, and the moves you can make to avoid losing money.  Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode  Why we have to prepare for the distressed market well in advanceHow do we identify the properties that will be ripe for acquisition when the market turns?    The biggest challenge the average investor faces todayHedge funds and institutions are p