Author: Darin Garman

Darin Garman is the author of seven investment books on real estate investing, a former bank owner and board of director member, an owner and asset manager of over $60M+ in Heartland Investment Real Estate and known as one of America’s top “Go To Guys” for all things related to multi-family investing and ownership and a guest on many investment shows and podcasts. Darin also has been married 34 years and has three children.

Over the last five years many landlords were in a purchasing frenzy trying to quickly build their apartment property empires fueled by easy to obtain debt, high rents, and low interest rates. You may recall that recently in the residential real estate market we were faced with small amounts of home inventory and low interest rates. This created a huge sellers’ market where sellers were not only receiving multiple offers on their homes, but they were able to sell their homes within hours of putting them up for sale with many sale prices ending up much more than asking price.…

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So, why do I say your rate of return on your investment may be overrated? You may be wondering how something so important to our income and wealth could even be overrated. My guess is you are the kind of person that asks this question before you invest in anything. If so please pay close attention because this is really NOT the first question you should be asking when it comes to an investment in anything from real estate, apartment communities, gold, stocks, bonds, silver, crypto, you name it. Of course, in general conversations about the topic of investing that…

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