It’s easy to be a “good investor” when everyone is making money. When the market is up 30% in a year, the odds are pretty good that you’ll enjoy logging into your TDAmeritrade account and watching the value of your positions increase. “Look at me,” you’ll chuckle to yourself, spreading your arms aloft in front of your laptop like Leonardo DiCaprio at the bow of the Titanic, “I’m the king of the world!” But good investing times can also breed bad investing habits. So it pays to take advantage of a crisis like this to go back and look at the companies you liked a year ago and ask yourself whethe ..read more

We are living through history. And, as I suspect has been the case for most folks throughout history with a conscious feeling of “living through history,” it doesn’t feel great. The REIT Dude has been “sheltered in place” with Mrs. REIT Dude and Baby REIT Dude for a bit more than a month now. I am getting used to working from home. I actually love having more time to spend with the little guy. I’m getting plenty of reading done, and I’ve even lost a little weight since I can’t eat at my favorite (mostly Mexican and unhealthy albeit delicious) restaurants. So there are plusses to the whole exp ..read more

Quick post about what I’ve bought in the past week: O, WFC, SBUX, STAG. Have my eye on: ESS, EQR ..read more

The world continues to be frightening and feel insane. I, like many of you, am working from home for the next couple of weeks. It’s difficult to focus on work because I keep refreshing news sites and Google Finance, only to discover that San Francisco has a “shelter in place” order in effect, the market had one of the worst days in its history, and Idris Elba has joined Tom Hanks on the (one presumes growing) list of coronaviral celebrities. Things are, uh, not great. This reminds me a lot of 2008, both in terms of the overall decline in the market and the sense of panic, bewilderment ..read more

There’s a lot going in in the REIT Dude’s life right now. I have an incredible 2-month-old baby at home. I spend my days (and the occasional night and weekend) working in the corporate world. And, it lately seems, I spend the remainder of my time looking at market news and wondering if the world (or, at a minimum, the Dow Jones Industrial Average) is going to implode. When I last posted about the Coronavirus, it was February 28, 2020. That now feels like 2 years ago, not 2 weeks ago. But the virus is still so new (so “novel,” if you will) that Chrome’s spellcheck doesn’t yet recogniz ..read more

First off, I apologize for the lapse in posting. Blogging about REITs and dividend investing may be a hobby, but I’ve also got a day job that can keep me preposterously busy from time to time. But, on the off-chance there are actually “fans” of this humble REIT blog who have been refreshing the page waiting for another post, well, great news–this is that post. I’ll certainly try to keep this more frequently updated in between work and being a new dad. If you’re the sort of person who reads down to the second paragraph in a post on a blog about REITs, then you’re probably the sort of ..read more

The State Of REITs: February 2020 Edition ..read more

Yesterday on this here REIT Blog I wrote about how you can use REITs to invest in farmland and looked at one specific agricultural property REIT–Farmland Partners, Inc. (FPI). Today, I am going to look at another agricultural REIT – Gladstone Land Corporation (ticker: LAND). Before we start looking at LAND, let’s review some of the reasons why you might want to invest in farmland: Increased diversification. Farmland has been a stable investment for thousands of years. You can finally make an account on FarmersOnly.com. (Note: This may or may not be true.) You are looking for an excus ..read more

Throughout human history, farmland has been one of the most popular investments. In many pre-industrial societies, it was essentially the only source of generational wealth. While today’s investor has infinitely more choices, farmland remains a compelling investment for many reasons: Land has a fundamental value, and there will always be demand for crops as long as humans get hungry every few hours. Commodity prices oscillate according to market whim and geopolitical happenings, but whether the economy is red hot or ice cold people need to eat, and as long as people are eating farmers ..read more

Creative Science Properties Forms New REIT and Rebrands as IQHQ; Announces Closing of Initial $770 Million Raise (Yahoo! Finance ..read more