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 | 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 4, 2024 | Multifamily, Start a Company, Value-Add
In early 2023 I wrote about the evolution of Atlas, highlighting our transition from JV structures to owning deals without partners, from buying 70’s/80’s vintage assets to focusing on 2000 and newer, and from syndicating deals to raising capital from a mix of HNW,...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 17, 2022 | Career, Multifamily, Start a Company
I used to be a religious reader of the Howard Marks memos, but at some point they started to get a bit repetitive…“move forward, but with caution…” However, his most recent, Selling Out, really resonated with me. I’ve always believed real estate is best held...
by Joe Stampone | Jan 18, 2021 | Multifamily, Start a Company
One of the great things about sharing my thoughts in a public is that I have a record of how I was thinking about things at specific points in time. I can easily revisit old posts to see how wrong (often) or right (10 predictions for multifamily in 2020) I was. Today,...
by Joe Stampone | Dec 11, 2014 | Passive Investing, Start a Company
For the retail investor, private real estate is an emotional investment. Individuals like owning a piece of a physical asset because it’s tangible and easy to understand. They tell their friends about the investment, drive by the building, and engage directly with the...
