Last week there came this snippet from a radio commentary: “No matter how business is doing, the landlord business is doing just fine.”
Especially in the context of last week’s nerve-rattling tumult on Wall Street, that remark seemed particularly relevant—especially for investors newly motivated to investigate the upside of Costa Mesa residential investments.
There is one national statistic that unambiguously points in a positive direction—one that current landlords from coast to coast should find comforting. The indicator in question is the Moving Rate—and it’s signaling stability.
In the common vocabulary of commercial business, the Moving Rate describes the “customer base” for the “product” that residential investors produce. It is the
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