Andrew Weiss

There have been sooo many townhome apartments built in Mid City + West Adams over the last 10-15 years. And yet: I'm not sure I've seen a single one provide enclosed yards. It's so easy. Just requires a few strategically placed fences / entry doors. But nobody does it. We have…

Compounding

*receive a deal that looks interesting with a good going-in GRM + cap rate* *scroll thru OM to the rent roll* *see multiple vacant units at aggressive rents* *open Zillow, find property, owner’s asking rent is 100s of dollars below OM rents* *sigh* *repeat*

Just a reminder: Your house is worth whatever a buyer will pay for it.

Convincing young socialists to change their ideology is a good first step. But convincing Boomers to upzone THEIR neighborhood is much harder. They don’t actually care about working people. They care about [insert the traffic/noise/crime/change/etc stuff here].

I’m well aware of all the reasons I shouldn’t buy every cheap hotel that pops up in my inbox. But I really want to.

Teens these days are very concerned with Measure LC compliance.

Housing doomerism gets serious clicks on this website. The recipe is simple: mix one part bad data with one part made-up anecdotal storytelling, and finish with some version of “this won’t end well” to taste.

Well, there goes that. I’m just not gonna build apartment buildings with affordability requirements. Here’s why: I don’t want to.

Insurance co: we're not renewing due to an open Public Health violation Me: oh that passed inspection years ago, LAPH just needs to close it out in their system *I call LAPH, they close it out* Insurance co: sorry our decision was final Me: cool, I like my job, no complaints

Ant hadn’t taken more than 15 3s all season until this game on April 13th 🧐

She added “I’m very punctual, and team oriented. My biggest weakness? Hmm, probably that I care too much about bringing down interest rates.”

Drove the Palisades at sunset. Hadn’t seen it yet. Oof. Heartbreaking. Two thoughts: Why haven’t the commercial buildings been demo’d yet? It’s been 5 months! Huntington Park is a shockingly beautiful place to sit & reflect & get bored & scroll thru your phone.

Every week we get a new “in Los Angeles, this is what you get for X dollars” video. I shrug, and then go back to renting superior apartments for less than X.

Pretty wild to show THAT picture while stating that LA is in danger of becoming the next St Louis.