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Jeff Bezos and Amazon joining Blackrock and other Hedge Funds Buying Up Single Family Homes Making us a Rental Nation
Yahoo Finance ^ | August 19, 2022 | Kevin Vandenboss

Posted on 08/20/2022 5:34:55 AM PDT by PK1991

The real estate investment platform backed by Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has continued ramping up its acquisitions of single-family rental homes in several U.S. markets.

Arrived Homes acquires single-family homes to use as rental properties, then sells shares of these properties to investors through its online platform. The demand for rental property shares has grown exponentially so far in 2022, with more homes funded in July than the entire first quarter.

The company has investment properties in 19 of the top 100 cities for population growth in the U.S. and estimates that it will expand to 40 of the top 100 cities by the end of the year. Most recently, Arrived Homes expanded into Nashville, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

The investment platform is now able to take advantage of the cooling-down period in the housing market to ramp up its purchases at a time when a growing number of investors are looking for alternative investment options outside of the stock market.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; blackrock; housing
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To: entropy12

I don’t believe the FED, banks and crony capitalism as it currently operates in the US is capitalism. I seem to recall banks weren’t allowed to fail in the housing crisis. Many bailouts during COVID but most Mom and Pop businesses were allowed to fail. COSTCO and Walmart etc. were allowed to stay open but not small businesses. That isn’t capitalism.


21 posted on 08/20/2022 5:49:03 AM PDT by PK1991 ( )
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To: Made In The USA

psstt... you know.. you can buy empty land and BUILD on it right?

LMAO


22 posted on 08/20/2022 5:49:33 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Yep, but the “free market” FReepers think this is just dandy.
Although this is absolutely not a free market.
There’s the book world, and then there’s the real world...


23 posted on 08/20/2022 5:50:05 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: entropy12

It is capitalism. You don’t like??

It’s not capitalism when these hedge funds and banks are declared too big to fail and then bailed out by the government (e.g. GFC); it’s fascism.


24 posted on 08/20/2022 5:50:38 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: EEGator

Already happening with subsidies from your govt with your tax dollars. Yes, but keep voting Democrat!


25 posted on 08/20/2022 5:50:43 AM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: PK1991

Don’t waste your time. He’s an egotistical, selfish old man, devoid of any care for others.


26 posted on 08/20/2022 5:51:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: JudyinCanada
I have done some real estate investing on the side, and I’ve found that detached single-family homes are rarely ever rented by people who are stuck in an endless renting cycle because they can’t afford a down payment on the home. The typical renter in that market fits one of the following categories:

1. They are wealthy professionals who are on temporary, but long-term (six months to two years), work assignments. In many cases their employer is paying the rent.

2. They are families that don’t expect to stay in the same location for a long time. My neighborhood has a number of rentals where the tenants are military families, for example.

3. They are patient, astute home buyers who rent for a period of time to make sure they like the neighborhood before making the commitment to buy a home.

27 posted on 08/20/2022 5:52:08 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: devane617

What does BR stand for?


28 posted on 08/20/2022 5:52:25 AM PDT by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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To: EEGator

I have made millions as a land lord and know exactly what I am talking about.

I bought my first property while still in college for myself. I used the savings from buying to save up more to buy a 2nd one to rent out. Then used the savings from those 2 to buy another. Repeat.

Until I had nearly 30 units before I even graduated.

When good deals dried up.. I later started buying lots and would build duplexes on them.


29 posted on 08/20/2022 5:53:35 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

How old are you?


30 posted on 08/20/2022 5:56:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PK1991

‘You will own NOTHING and be happy.’


31 posted on 08/20/2022 5:56:34 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: bertmerc1

Blackrock


32 posted on 08/20/2022 5:57:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

About 50, I started buying property in the late 90’s while still in college. I didn’t have the money to buy homes, so I started with condo’s near the university.


33 posted on 08/20/2022 5:58:53 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: bertmerc1

blackrock


34 posted on 08/20/2022 5:59:19 AM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Did you get NINJA loans? Sell before 2008?


35 posted on 08/20/2022 6:00:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Sirius Lee

I have been noticing that lately the bottom line does not seem to matter to a lot of companies. Disney comes immediately to mind. Airline and medical industry with the shots..


36 posted on 08/20/2022 6:00:25 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: PK1991
"I don’t believe the FED, banks and crony capitalism as it currently operates in the US is capitalism. I seem to recall banks weren’t allowed to fail in the housing crisis."

I remember during the last, pre-COVID, "too big to fail," round of bail outs, one economist saying something to the effect of, "capitalism without the risk of failure is like Christianity without the risk of hell." You take away one of the basic tenets of something and that thing no longer is the thing that it was. Free markets entail risk, and if you insulate free markets practitioners from that risk, the markets really are no longer free.

37 posted on 08/20/2022 6:01:03 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Sarcazmo

ESG, in reality, means corporate fiduciary negligence.


38 posted on 08/20/2022 6:01:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: bertmerc1

What does BR stand for?

Black rock Hedge fund


39 posted on 08/20/2022 6:02:33 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: JudyinCanada

Yep the world we live in today is ever changing and has been
since the beginning of time. What this part of earth called
N. America will look like 50 years into the future would be
interesting to see. Just think back to 1482 when Columbus
sailed the ocean blue and what this land looked like at that
time and what happened to the original inhabitants and who
was responsible. Enjoy your allotted time as best you can.


40 posted on 08/20/2022 6:06:01 AM PDT by deport
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