by Joe Stampone | Jul 14, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Market News, Multifamily, Start a Company, Value-Add
This is my first post since February – I haven’t gone that long without posting since I started this blog in January 2009. This is telling and highlights my general lack of excitement for the real estate business over the past few years. Correction, the last 3+ years...
by Joe Stampone | Feb 7, 2026 | Multifamily
The story of multifamily housing in America isn’t just a story about units built. It’s a story about who rents, why they rent, and what “apartment living” actually means — and how all three have fundamentally changed. Between 1970 and 2024,...
by Joe Stampone | Dec 6, 2025 | Career, Innovation, Technology
More than any other post, this one is for me. Writing has always been how I solve problems—taking something complex and distilling it into its simplest form. “Writing is thinking. You cannot write clearly if you aren’t thinking clearly.” For me, AI...
by Joe Stampone | Oct 7, 2025 | Multifamily, Start a Company
Charlie Munger often said the easiest way to succeed is to avoid stupidity rather than chase brilliance. In investing, that means sticking to a few core principles and avoiding big mistakes. Nowhere is this truer than in real estate. Real estate is a relationship...
by Joe Stampone | Aug 31, 2025 | Market News, Multifamily, Value-Add
For the past two years, I’ve heard the same pitch repeated across the multifamily investing world as it relates to the opportunity today: values are down 20–30% from peak, 2021–22 buyers will become forced sellers, the wave of maturities can’t be refinanced, supply is...