Do you ever ponder how you could replace your salary from your day job, or become less reliant on it, so you could focus more on the things that matter to you? One of the biggest mistakes people make is being dependent on only one source of income – their job. Similar to how insurance […]
Most of the time spent on a passive investment decision occurs before you make the investment; however, there are many important actions to take after you have decided to invest in a deal as a limited partner. It is easy to get excited about doing the next deal, but before you do the next deal, […]
Why do we invest? It’s not a trick question. To make money of course! Hopefully enough money that someday we have what we need to live a comfortable retirement. What I find interesting, though, is the lack of control most investors accept when they make an investment. Maybe due diligence was performed, fundamentals were understood, […]
Because of my role at Left Field Investors, I speak to a lot of people who are new to syndications, and one of the most common questions I get is “Why isn’t everyone doing this?” It’s an appropriate question to ask as they hear for the first time that the typical syndication might pay you […]
Storage is a local business. Oftentimes, you hear people talk about the 3-mile radius of a storage facility. What they are talking about is the local demand area for that storage business. Now the radius for the property could be 4-miles, 5-miles, or even 10-miles depending on where the property is located. Heck, in Manhattan […]
Before I invest, I’m always thinking about how a particular investment will hold up during the next crisis, whatever it may be. We all know the crisis is coming; we just don’t know when or what form it will take. It’s not often that I make an investment that, in short order, gets tested by […]
My investing journey started a little later than most. As a medical resident in my late twenties, I had spent the first two decades plus of my life accumulating debt. I was thrilled to be at the time of my life where I was actually earning a paycheck and had a small amount of money […]
I recently had an investor call with Bob Dreher, SVP of Investor Relations of Praxis Capital. For those of you who have been following/listening to Left Field Investors (LFI) for some time know, we think highly of Brian Burke and his team at Praxis. Many of us have read Brian’s book, The Hands-Off Investor, and […]
PLEASE NOTE: This is Part 2 of a portion of the Year-End Summary that Jeremy Roll writes each year for his Investor Group. He granted Left Field Investors permission to publish excerpts of the report. If you would like to contact Jeremy, please see his contact information at the end of this article.  Thinking […]
PLEASE NOTE: This is Part 1 of a portion of the Year-End Summary that Jeremy Roll writes each year for his Investor Group. He granted Left Field Investors permission to publish excerpts of the report. If you would like to contact Jeremy, please see his contact information at the end of this article. While you might […]