As an individual property owner who has been managing your properties yourself, you’ve spent hours dedicated to keeping the property attractive and operating smoothly. According to the US Census Bureau, about 50% of all property managers are self-employed. Dealing with the terrible three – tenants, trash and toilets – twenty-four hours a day to keep your property values high can be demanding.

Years later the housing market is still feeling the effects of the crash that almost destroyed America’s real estate industry. Many markets have still not fully recovered and many families are still suffering from the consequences. While much of the discussion about the housing crash has been focused through the lens of the single-family homeowner, multifamily housing investors were affected by the crash in unique ways as well. As the government struggles to build reforms that will prevent another crash from ever occurring again, some are worried multifamily investors may be forgotten.