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I see in your code that you have the box inside the same dive you have that big yellow text.If you flex that container, you’ll have to do a direction of column which will put the box under the yellow text. That’s one way. Remember, you’re flex box will flex all elements inside of it, but your nested flex items making that box should not be affected by the main container of content1 if you flex it.It looks like you also have text to the right of the box, so that will also tuck under your box.If you want the box to be in the bottom left of the page always, you can position a div absolutely and still use flex with justify-content: flex-end as well as align-content: flex-endbut to get it to stay at the bottom without positioning will probably be harder than it’s worth.here’s what I did that seems to work like I’m interpreting your question:CSS:html {  font-size: 15px; }  * {  margin: 0;  padding: 0; }  h1 {  font-size: 3.5em;  color: #DDBF68; }  /*Background image sizing for <main>*/ main {  min-height: 100vh;  background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)), url('labyrinth.png') no-repeat;  -webkit-background-size: cover;  -moz-background-size: cover;  -o-background-size: cover;  background-size: cover;  padding: 20px; }  .content1 {  width:  97%;  margin:  auto;  display: flex;  justify-content: space-between;  align-content: flex-start; }  .h1_spacing {   }  .logo, .logotext {  height: 6.6vh; }  .bloc_bottomright {  background-color: white;  border-radius: 3px;  height: 14em;  width: 25em;  display: flex;  flex-direction: column;  justify-content: center;  position: relative; }  .box_wrap {  margin: 20px;  display: block;  display: flex;  justify-content: flex-start; }  .bloc_title {  font-size: 1.5rem;  width: 80%;  transform: translate(0%, -25%);  margin-left: 2em;  letter-spacing: 1px; }  .bloc_button {  border: 2px solid #DDBF68;  font-size: 0.9rem;  letter-spacing: 1px;  font-weight: 500;  border-radius: 2.2px;  height: 40px;  width: 110px;  display: flex;  justify-content: center;  align-items: center;  transform: translate(0%, 49%);  margin-left: 3.5em; } HTML:<main>    <header>  <ul class="nav_bar">  <li class="logo"><img alt="golden bull head" class="logo" src="Minotaur_Finance_Logo.png">  <img alt="text that says minotaur in gold" class="logotext xs-hide" src="Minotaur_Finance_GTAV_Logo_text.png"></li>    <li class="about">  <a href="about.html">Who we are</a>  </li>    <li class="services">  <a href="services.html">Services</a>  </li>   <div class="rcontact_button">  <a class="rcontact_button2" href="#">Contact Us</a>  </div>   </ul>  </header>    <div class="content1">   <h1 class="h1_spacing">Leading you through the financial labyrinth.</h1>       <!--social media group-->  <div class="social_media" id="social_media"><img alt="check out our instagram" class="insta" src="instagram.png">  <img alt="check out our facebook" class="fb" src="facebook.png"></div>   </div>  <!-- BOTTOM RIGHT BLOC -->  <div class="box_wrap">   <div class="bloc_bottomright">  <p class="bloc_title">Full-service real estate management firm</p>  <a class="bloc_button" href="#">Let's talk</a>   </div>  </div>    <div class="container_socialproof">   <div class="featured">As featured by</div>  <div class="social_proof">  <img class="img1" src="LibertyTree-Logo.png" alt="LibertyTree logo">  <img class="img2" src="los-santos-logo.png" alt="los santos logo"></div>  </div>  <div class="about_container">  <!-- <div class="about_position"> -->    <h2 class="about_title left">Who we are and what we do</h2>   <p class="about1 right">Minotaur Finance is a full-service real estate management firm. We are recognized as a leader in the Los  Santos residential management industry for almost 20 years. That is, when we see other people at trade shows  and cocktail parties, they recognize us. Sometimes we sleep with their wives. Just because.    We can customize our services to manage any portfolio of property - from the beat down crack house to a  12,000 square foot beach house. We are about "excellence in management" and "putting things in quotes for  emphasis."We are world leaders in "buzz terms."    Our clients have come to expect our standard of excellence, including: Commerical Leasing, Residential  Brokerage and Sales,Back Office Accounting Services, Back Door Deals, Under The Table Deals, Risk Management,  Making Things Go Away and Rental Services. 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Of course, I don’t know exactly what your going for, so I took out the margin-top from h1_spacing so it aligned with the other items in the div.for the box, i made the wrap a flex element with a margin of 20px and justified it flex-start. if you want it in the bottom right as the class of the box might indicate, change the justify-content to flex-end for the wrap and it will put the entire box on the bottom right. you can set the min-height of the box_wrap class to the amount of space you want at the bottom and align-content to flex-start and then you’ll has space under the box. for space to the right, simple margin-right will do. or you can change the width of the box_wrap to be as wide as you want, leaving space to the right.I hope this was helpful in any way.

Martin Wolf, the Financial Times columnist says, “Across-the-board rivalry with China is becoming an organising principle of US economic, foreign and security policies.”It is too late. America Cannot Challenge or Compete with China.China is ten times older, has ten times more smart people and its economy is one-third bigger and growing three times faster than America’s.People: Americans no longer feel the need for extra effort, while Chinese students have clear plans for their professional future and, as employees, willingly make the extra effort for their firms. American unions are adversarial and distrustful while China has the highest union participation on earth yet employees fully understand that businesses must make money to pay their salaries.Social harmony: Confucius, the great political scientist observed, “Rulers who led their people to the Realm of Lesser Prosperity, a xiaokang[1] lifestyle, were themselves pillars of courtesy, sincerity, justice and virtue while those who did not lost power and everyone regarded them as pests”. Low crime, no religious nonsense or Islamic violence. Companies can invest safely without fear of religious unrest, violence or robbery.Education: Chinese high school students graduate three years ahead of America’s. One-fourth of the world’s STEM workers are Chinese, an intellectual workforce eight times larger and growing six times faster than America’s. By 2025, China will have more technologically skilled workers than the entire OECD (USA, EU, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Turkey) combined. Two percent of Chinese–twenty-eight million people–have an IQ of 140 (‘gifted’), sufficient for membership in Mensa. The Chinese overall five point IQ advantage over Americans means that they have 300,000 people with 160 IQ, compared to 10,000 in the US. [Thanks to Frans Vandenbossche, Zakelijk China, scherp in beeld gebracht]. No country has so many smart, fast thinking people as China. Not just students or professionals, but ordinary people. To quote a friend who hires workers for factories in the US and China,“Manufacturing in the US is a nightmare. At our facility our only requirement for a assembler was a high school degree, US citizenship, passing a drug and criminal background check and then passing a simple assembly test: looking at an assembly engineering drawing and then putting the components together. While the vast majority of Americans were unable to complete the assembly test, in China they completed it in half the time and 100% of applicants passed. An assembler position in the US would average 30 interviews a day and get 29 rejections, not to mention all the HR hassles of assemblers walking off shift, excessive lateness, stealing from work, slow work speed and poor attitudes. The position starts at $12 an hour in flyover country which is pretty reasonable compared to other jobs that only require a GED and no prior work experience and offers medical, dental and annual raises with plenty of opportunity to move up in the company and earn the average salary for a Production Assembler, $33,029 in US, if they stayed for 5+ years.“Identical positions in China pays the same wages as other positions there with only a high school degree and no work experience. Yet the applicant quality is much higher, and this also applies to the white collar support professionals: schedulers, quality inspectors, equipment testers and calibrators, engineers, supply chain managers, account managers, sales. Their labor quality is simply higher. At the end of the day, high-end and middling manufacturing is not moving to either the US or Mexico because average people in flyover country are dumb as rocks.”Social Indicators: By 2021 every Chinese will have a home, a job, plenty of food, education, safe streets, health- and old age care. 500,000,000 urban Chinese will have more net worth and disposable income than the average American, their mothers and infants will be less likely to die in childbirth, their children will graduate from high school three years ahead of American kids and live longer, healthier lives and there will be more drug addicts, suicides and executions, more homeless, poor, hungry and imprisoned people in America than in China.Leadership: China has professional, non-factional government. President Trump observed, “Their leaders are much smarter than ours. It’s like taking the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and having them play your high school football team.” China’s government is forward-looking, decentralized, efficient and thrifty. The Government Entrance Examination selects the top 2% of graduates each year and success is the only avenue to power, responsibility (and even deification, since China’s Gods are democratically chosen and millions of pilgrims visit deified officials’ shrines each year). The 200 members of the State Council–all promoted on their ability to work cooperatively–have governed billions of people for a combined 5,000 years and their publicly available stats are jaw-dropping. Most have a PhD and an IQ over 140. Americans have little trust in their government and Gallup says 20 percent of them rank government as their most pressing problem and only 54 percent ‘consistently express a pro-democratic position’. The Chinese government, by contrast, is the most trusted on earth:Innovation: In 1999, Samuel Huntington warned,Civilizations grow because they have an instrument of expansion, a military, religious, political, or economic organization that accumulates surplus and invests it in productive innovations and they decline when they stop the application of surplus to new ways of doing things. In modern terms we say that the rate of investment decreases. This happens because the social groups controlling the surplus have a vested interest in using it for non-productive but ego-satisfying purposes which distribute the surpluses to consumption but do not provide more effective methods of production. Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.The social groups controlling America’s surplus used it for non-productive, ego-satisfying purposes like wars, which distributed the surpluses to consumption but did not provide more effective methods of production. The the social group controlling China, the CCP, did the opposite:America failed to invest its surplus in productive innovations and China did. That’s why China is the world leader in 5G and most new technologies.China leads the world in basic research and in most technologies, especially hot areas. China has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest producer of scientific research papers, making up almost a fifth of the total global output, according to a major new report.China dominates a global ranking of the most-cited research papers published in the 30 hottest technology fields. Though the U.S. accounted for 3.9 million research papers overall compared with 2.9 million from China, the Asian country produced the largest share in 23 of the 30 fields that drew the most interest.According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, China now ranks as the most influential country in four of eight core scientific fields and is overtaking America in the other four.The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) examined not just the number of AI research papers coming from China but the quality of those papers—as judged by the number of citations they receive in other work. China will overtake the US in the most-cited 50% of research papers this year, the top 10% of research papers in 2020, and the top 1% by 2025. China is already ahead in the number of AI patents filed, AI venture capital invested, and research papers cited worldwide. The number of Chinese students studying AI and graduating from universities worldwide exceed the total number of other countries’ AI students combinedTAn Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Publishing says China has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest producer of scientific research papers, making up a fifth of the total global output,The World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, ranked 167 universities and public research universities for the top 500 patent applications. 110 of the patents were from China, 20 from the United States and 19 from South Korea. China also dominates a global ranking of the most-cited research papers published in the 30 hottest technology fields.Finances: Since its economy is growing three times faster and all its debt is domestic, China’s debt burden is one-third of America’s, while the Financial Times says, “America will need to sell $12 Trillion of bonds in the coming decade..Who on earth–or in global finance–will buy this looming mountain of Treasuries, the US borrowing requirement even before Trump’s major upgrade of America’s weapons systems? ..These borrowing needs will all have to be financed in the context of already high global dollar debt exposure. One of America’s biggest hedge funds privately concluded that in five years’ time the Treasury will need to sell bonds equivalent to 25 per cent of gross domestic product, up from 15 per cent now. This level of debt has occurred just twice in the past 120 years, first during the second world war and then again during the 2008 financial crisis.”Infrastructure: New, automated highways, railways, airports, subways and ports and, next year, the world’s fastest, most advanced Internet and an entire city built around 5G.Inequality: Much of China’s GINI (inequality) gap is structural: their inland, rural populations have always been poorer than their urban, coastal cousins and, because the country couldn’t afford to build homes or cities fast enough, inlanders were held in place by residential hukous. But this aspect of inequality has been exaggerated because the cost of living in wealthy areas like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen is much greater because urban land prices–though not housing quality–are vastly higher. If we include the full range of goods and services whose price differ across areas (in rural areas basic foods cost half of Beijing’s), incomes from most rural areas should be increased by fifty percent to make them comparable.If we adjust for where people actually live, the difference shrinks even further. Until recently, demographers counted people’s hukous–where they were registered to live rather than where they actually lived–but migrant workers’ numbers rose to three hundred million in 2018, distorting the comparisons. In real life, the coastal provinces have millions more residents than their registered populations and the reverse holds for migrant-sending inland provinces so, as each person moved from China’s interior to the coast, measures of inequality rose because the migrant contributed to income in the coastal destination but was still counted as living in the origin, interior, area. Once this counting error was corrected, regional inequality in China was found to have declined at an average trend rate of 1.1 percent per year from 1978 to 2016. [Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in the People's Republic of China: Housing Market Evidence,” Asian Development Review, MIT Press].In 2018 President Xi announced that the country will spend 2021-2035 bringing both income and wealth levels closer to Finland’s, the world’s most equitable country.Hunger: There are more hungry people in America than in China:Influence: Gallup says that, despite America’s domination of world media, 34% of the world approves of China’s leadership compared to America’s 31% adding, “As the global balance of soft power continues to shift, it may prove even more difficult for the US to counter this influence”. China generates 20% of global GDP vs. America’s 15%, its imports and exports are in balance, its trading relationships are excellent, its currency fairly valued, its economy one third larger and growing three times faster, its manufacturing wages have reached parity with the US.Trade: China’s most significant trade relationships are Asia and Europe, with the US third. As Parag Khanna says, “Asia’s decoupling reflects the fact that America does not need the rest of the world for its survival. In geopolitics, that is a blessed condition but in geoeconomics it means the US is actually much more dispensible than it thinks. Indeed, China’s most significant trade relationships are first and foremost other Asians, followed by Europe, with the US third most important. From China’s standpoint, number three just launched a trade war against number one. It has taken one short generation for Asia to launch its decoupling from the US—and the coming generation will witness even more couplings among Asians themselves. “America first” sounds like a great idea, except when it actually means, “America alone.”Science and Technology. According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, China is the most influential country in four of eight core scientific fields, tying with the U.S. The agency took the top 10% of the most referenced studies in each field, and determined the number of authors who were affiliated with the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, China or Japan. China ranked first in computer science, mathematics, materials science and engineering and is rapidly catching up in physics. The U.S. led in physics, environmental and earth sciences, basic life science and clinical medicine.China leads the world in most of the top 10 fields (and in each of the five areas in the top 10 tied to battery research). It accounted for more than 70% of all papers on photocatalysts and nucleic-acid-targeted cancer treatment, which ranked 12th and 14th. The U.S. led in three biotechnology fields, including No. 7 genome editing and No. 10 immunotherapy.China leads in all fields of civil engineering and of sustainable and renewable energy, in manufacturing, supercomputing, speech recognition, graphenics, thorium power, pebble bed reactors, genomics, thermal power, ASW missiles, drones, in-orbit satellite refueling, passive array radar, metamaterials, hyperspectral imaging, nanotechnology, UHV electricity transmission, HSR, speech recognition, radiotelescopy, hypersonic weapons, satellite quantum communications, quantum secure direct communications and quantum controls. “Approximately 72% of the academic patent families published in QIT since 2012 have been from Chinese universities. US universities are a distant second with 12%.” Patintformatics.: No country has so many intelligent, well trained, devoted engineers. China leads the world inquantum encrypted communications,5G telecommunications,CCTV and face recognition–which the NYPD usesSpace: China launched more space missions in 2018 than Russia.China is the world’s leading provider of UAVs and the largest manufacturer and exporter of light combat aircraft. Once it gets is WS-15 engine right it will be America’s equal in fighter technology.Ocean engineering equipment and hi-tech ships. China is the go-to builder for ships like LNG transporters and naval vessels that require technical expertise (the USN even approached it about building a floating dock) It designs, builds and operates the most powerful surface combatants afloat, the Type 55 cruiser.China leads in all aspects of railway engineering and wins the bulk of global rail contracts. The first of five low speed maglev lines has completed testing and two more will open this year.Energy-saving and new energy vehicles: China leads the world in batteries and electric cars and has more than 20 manufacturers innovating to survive.Power equipment: China leads the world in basic research and manufacturing of all renewable energy sources and nuclear energy and it installed more renewable and nuclear power last year than the rest of the world combined. It dominates the market for long distance UHV transmission.New materials like graphene and nanomaterials. China's share of the most cited nanoscience papers grows 22% annually and overtook the US in 2014. Its contribution–in quantity and quality–is now greater than the rest of the world’s combined. Most of the world’s graphene is manufactured, and most graphene startups are in China and the country is even with the US in nanomaterial development.Market Size: There are twice as many people in China than in the US and Europe combined and domestic consumption of China is growing 7% annually as 200 million rural people move into new cities. China will have abundant low salary workers in its western provinces for the next 15 years.Business flexibility: Chinese companies are flexible beyond imagination. They can change products, management, focus, or whatever, literally overnight. The Chinese are incredibly flexible and their culture has already outlived the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. Western companies are hierarchically organised whereas in Chinese companies decisions are made fast, often on the phone.Thrift: Chinese companies and families have three trillion dollars in their savings accounts and 80% of homes have no mortgages. The country has no external debt and investment money is easy to find.Democracy. China is the world’s leading democracy. Electively, popularly, procedurally, operationally, substantively, financially, technologically, China is a democracy and America is not.Geography. China and its partner, Russia, dominate Eurasia morally, economically, geographically, technologically and militarily. Between them China and Russia have the world’s largest reserves of natural resources. China remains self-sufficient in food and Russia literally has more arable land than it knows what to do with. As Zbigniew Brzezinski warned, “A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions… control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania (Australia) geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia and most of the world’s physical wealth is there too, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.” [The Grand Chessboard].Economic Development and Industrial Capacity. China has twice America’s industrial capacity and its factories are half the age of American factories.Home Ownership: One of the most important social stabilizers is home ownership and China is the world leader in this area:Military Preparedness. Chinese missiles outrange American missiles–usually by 100%–in every category, from A2A to ICBMs. Tough its military spending consumes half America’s discretionary budget, it is losing five wars, has lost the Black Sea and the Middle East and is close to losing the entire Eurasian continent. The bills for those wars are coming due. And, as Winston Churchill put it, “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” The PLA on the verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world. In some areas, it already leads the world–at half the cost of America’s defense budget. By 2025, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will have 4 aircraft carriers, 3 Type 075 landing helicopter docks, each carrying 30 attack helicopters, and 10 Type 071 amphibious transport docks, 16 Type 055 guided missile cruisers, 18 Type 052D guided missile destroyers, 6 Type 052C air defence destroyers, 4 Type 052B multirole missile destroyers, 32 Type 054A multi-role frigates, 6 Type 054B multi-role frigates and 80 Type 056/56A corvettes as well as 6 Type 901 fast combat support ships and 12 Type 903 replenishment ships. The underwater fleet will include 11 Type 039 diesel-electric attack submarines, 12 Type 039 AIP diesel-electric attack submarines, 21 Type 093 nuclear-powered attack submarines, 8 Type 094 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, 10 Type 095 nuclear-powered attack submarines and 6 Type 096 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.Ideology. The US has no coherent ideology while China’s Confucian ideology is 2,500 years old. China’s elite, the ninety-million members of the Communist Party, have sworn to ‘bear the people’s hardships first and enjoy its fruits last’.Diplomacy. Without threats or coercion, China has created the SCO, the largest security alliance on earth; the AIIB, the largest international finance agency; the BRI, an ambitious trading program with 130 member nations; and the upcoming RCEP will dwarf all trading alliances. The majority of Germans want to distance themselves from the United States and nearly half of then consider China to be a more reliable partner for Germany than the US. Our media’s efforts to diminish China’s soft power are failing, as Europe’s decision to retain Huawei indicates.The Future. The Chinese have a strong belief in the future and willingly sacrifice time and effort for the next generation. The Chinese are feeling as America did in the 60s, and their wages and wealth have doubled every decade for seventy years. By 2025, nine Chinese provinces will enjoy higher average incomes than average Americans.By 2035 China’s manufacturing will reach ‘an intermediate level among world manufacturing powers,’ with greatly improved ability to make key breakthroughs and ‘significantly increase overall competitiveness.’ By 2049 China expects to ‘lead the world’s manufacturing powers, with the capability to lead innovation and possess competitive advantages in major manufacturing areas, and will develop advanced technology and industrial systems.”Kishore Mahbubani, former President of the UN Security Council, says, “The key question the West must ask is: how was the relative over-performance of Western societies in the second half of the 20th century replaced by underperformance in the 21st century? The answer will not come from looking at China. It will come from looking in the mirror."The size of China’s displacement of the world balance is such that the world must find a new balance. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world. –Lee Kwan Yew.[1] Lesser Prosperity.

Investing in Corporate Housing: The 30 Day StayIt is a fact that the middle class in the United States is shrinking according to the Pew Research Center and in today’s fast paced business world job security and longevity are also on the down turn. In order to take control of our financial future it is now even more imperative that each of us take the time to learn more about the financial opportunities available to us through the diverse world of real estate investing. In 2016 the Corporate Housing Providers Association (CHPA) reported revenues of $3.2 billion in the US alone. That is $3.2 billion in rental dollars that corporations are spending to lease furnished residential properties on a month to month basis. This is an untapped rental income stream that the individual investor needs to do understand. Corporate Housing investing can substantially increase the ROI on your residential investments while also reducing your PPD (Pain Per Dollar) compared to vacation rentals.Historical perspective tells us that all real estate values and trends go in cycles. It seams simple to say “buy low” and “sell high” but real estate financial success is so much more than that. To take control of your American Dream you need to understand the income potential of your residential property and be able to tap into the right professional clientele. How you use the investment, how you manage it, how you finance it and when you choose to exit will all determine to what extent your real estate investment is profitable. To be successful it is essential for you to understand the fundamentals of property investing and recognize how to diversify your investment portfolio to maximize income and minimize risk. Corporate Housing as a real estate investment opportunity allows you the investor to significantly increase your rental income compared to unfurnished rentals and minimize your PPD compared to vacation rentals.Corporate Housing may seem simple on the service but to be financially successful you need to understand that corporate housing is more than just a nicely furnished rental. Corporate housings is lodging choice for consumers that encompasses specific standards, minimum furnishing requirements, consolidated billing (Rent, Utilities and Internet are all included in one simple rental rate) and professional service. CHBO, or Corporate Housing by Owner, is a great place to learn more about how individual owners can get the most out of their investment and offers a marketing platform specifically designed to connect with those in need of monthly accommodations. In addition CHBO has a rental calculator and Property Specialist to help you determine what a good rental rate would be for your specific property. In addition CHPA offers both individual and company accreditation certifications for those wanting to take corporate housing rentals to a professional level.TrendingAcross the country we are seeing 2 trends emerging starting with the 401K roll over investment and investing in retirement properties before you retire. With the stock market again hitting high levels analysts are showing concern about how long can this bull market last which is causing individuals to get smarter with their retirement dollars. By taking your 401K investment out of stocks and rolling it into traditional real estate rentals investors are able to gain more control over their money compared to the volatility of stocks. In addition we are seeing investors deciding to buy their retirement home 10 and ever 20 years before they need it. For example if you are looking to retire in Phoenix, AZ investors are purchasing that property now, locking in low interest rates and giving the investors the peace of mind of knowing exactly what their retirement property will cost. For those out of town investors AvenueWest Phoenix is able to fully manage and lease these properties at rental rates 3 and 4 times higher than traditional unfurnished rental rates.Corporate HousingCorporate Housing is a lodging solution that is traditionally transacted between corporate employees that need a monthly lodging solution and is found through businesses that provide fully furnished private residences. According to the CHPA 2017 Report, the industry hit its revenue peak, with revenue for the US corporate housing industry estimated at $3.2 billion, a 10.2% increase over the previous year. For the fourth successive year, the supply of US corporate housing units increased. Average daily rate (ADR) rose 6.3% in 2016, approximately double the growth in overall hotel ADR, according to STR / Smith Travel Research.What does that mean to you the individual real estate investor and what do you need to know? It means that corporate housing tenants were renting furnished 1 bedroom apartments for a national average of $150 per night or $4,500 per month. In addition these tenants stayed on average 86 days.PPD TIP: Typical vacation rentals turn over weekly which means the properties need to be cleaned and inspected 52 times a year. With a typical corporate housing rental the property only needs to be cleaned and inspected 4 times per year. As any landlord will tell you, the time and energy needed to turn over a property between tenants is a lot and anything you can do to increase your revenue and decrease your work makes an impact on your rental success.Who Uses Corporate Housing?Corporate housing has emerged as more than just an essential business service for relocated or traveling business executives. Today, corporate housing is a full-fledged lodging solution for everyday individuals who need short-term furnished and even unfurnished housing that has the space and convenience of a home on the road. Some examples of today’s corporate housing tenants include:BusinessesTraveling business executives, relocating professionals, attorneys, auditors, consultantsEducationVisiting professors, graduate students, students abroad, internsGovernmentLegislators, lobbyists, consultantsHome RemodelHomeowners doing extensive remodels on their primary residences and staying in corporate housing during those months of dust and noiseIndividualsExtended vacations, family visits, divorceesInsuranceFamilies displaced due to flood, fire, mold or natural disastersMedicalTraveling nurses, visiting doctors, extended medical visits, families traveling for specialized treatmentMilitaryIndividuals and families on military assignmentRelocationMore than 40% of typical corporate housing tenants are in the process of a corporate relocationSports & EntertainmentProfessional athletes, traveling musicians, theater performers, movie crews, special event coordinators, reporters, photographersCorporate Housing Versus a Traditional Long-Term RentalWhile corporate housing can be quite lucrative, it’s not the right strategy for everyone. If you are an investor looking to purchase a rental property, review the following to determine whether you and the property are the right fit for corporate housing or whether the property might be a better fit as a traditional long-term rental.LocationCorporate housing thrives in urban and business areas where executives are likely to travel. It also does well near hospitals and universities, which tend to bring on temporary staff or relocate professors or doctors to the area. (These may not be traditional rental areas.) If your property is in one of these locations, you may want to make it a corporate housing rental and tap into these lucrative opportunities.Cash FlowWhile you will typically get a higher annual return with corporate housing, you don’t necessarily get the smooth cash flow that you would from a tenant with a long-term lease. If you need money by the second of each month in order to pay your mortgage, then corporate housing is not for you. With corporate housing, your place will be rented more sporadically and less consistently than a tenant who signs a 12-month lease. In some cases, especially when you work with corporations versus private tenants, you may not receive payment for 45 days.NervesAre you a worrier? Your rental property might sit vacant for part of the year (versus having a long-term, lease-committed tenant). Some people worry about these kinds of details and may not have the stomach for investing in a short-term rental property. That said, if you’re more easygoing and enjoy earning higher returns overall, you may have the right personality to manage a corporate housing rental.TimeDo you have the time? Corporate housing can take more time than traditional rentals because you will have to deal with turnover more often. There may be anywhere from 1 to 12 transactions on your property per year. If you don’t want to be as active in your property’s management (i.e., you’re not cut out for “by owner” management), then hire a good property manager to handle the nitty-gritty details like prepping the home for the next tenant. AvenueWest Corporate Housing is a full service property management program for CHBO Complete™ properties that is available in various markets nationwide. Visit AvenueWest.comfor more details.Home or Condo?What makes a better corporate rental: a single-family home or a condo? This is the million-dollar question in corporate housing, and it’s just one of the considerations when deciding which type of corporate housing investment property is right for you. Obviously, there are many other factors, too, so do your homework and take a "gut" check to find out what kind of investor you are and what type of property works best for you. Consider these factors when making your decision:UpkeepSingle-family homes typically require extra upkeep and maintenance, especially if they're older, including regular yard maintenance, exterior painting, roof repairs, etc. On the other hand, condos only require maintenance within the unit. Generally, the upkeep of the exterior and common areas is maintained by the Homeowners Association (HOA) and is part of the monthly assessment. Condos create reserves from HOA fees to manage major exterior updates or repairs (e.g., a new roof).CostsSingle-family homes come with monthly costs like trash, heating, water, lawn mowing, etc., and each needs to be paid separately. Some of these costs, such as heat and water, will fluctuate depending on the season and the occupancy. Your costs will vary depending on whether your home is vacant, has one tenant or has multiple tenants. Condos require you to pay a monthly assessment, regardless of whether someone is living in the unit. However, most condos include heat, exterior maintenance, trash, building insurance and water in their monthly fees.CommitmentGenerally, single-family homes take more time to manage and require a more active, hands-on investor. There are a lot more things that require upkeep and maintenance in a home than in a condo. For investors with little time, a condo can be a relatively worry-free way to go.ValueWhile resale value depends largely on location, single-family homes are typically easier to resell and hold their value over the long term. A condo building with 500 units may have 10 or more units for sale at any given time, making it difficult to sell your unit at a competitive price.Investment GoalsIs your goal to build equity in the property? Create a positive monthly cash flow? Create the biggest tax deduction? Have a property you can use from time to time? Simply rent until the real estate market gets better? Make sure you are clear on your goals, particularly what you expect to get out of the property and why. These answers will allow you to better assess your success.What to Know BeforeInvesting in a Corporate Rental PropertyIf you’ve decided that corporate housing is right for you, here are some important considerations to make beforeyou purchase a property specifically for use as a corporate housing rental.Evaluate Price Per Bed, Not Square FootEvaluate the price per bed, not price per square foot.While some people think more space or a bonus room is a great perk for their own home, keep in mind that those features are just added liability in a home you plan to rent.Purchase the least square footage with the most number of bedrooms. Just like a hotel, when you rent out a corporate rental, it’s priced per bed, not by square footage.Avoid First-Floor UnitsIf you’re purchasing a condo as a rental property, avoid first-floor units. People who don’t know the city may not feel as safe in a first-floor unit (which can negatively affect your rental success), and often people will use a first-floor rental to advertise a business that they may conduct in the unit.Location MattersLocation. Location. Location.Location can single-handedly ensure your property is rented continuously. Look for homes in urban areas, near train stations and airports, and close to universities and hospitals. Typically, these locations rent well and have the best resale value.Functionally Obsolete Homes Can Make Good RentalsDon’t rule out functionally obsolete properties.Sometimes a property that appears to be a poor long-term home is a perfect short-term, furnished rental home. For example, homes with tiny closets or outdated kitchens make ideal furnished rental properties because a corporate renter may not need all the space or features. Moreover, these properties are usually less expensive to buy and provide good cash flow.Views and Amenities MatterWhen people are visiting a new city for business or pleasure, they want to enjoy all that city has to offer. Corporate tenants like city views, covered parking and free gym access.Keep these things in mind when choosing a desirable corporate rental property.What kind of return on investment can an investor in this space expect?That is the puzzle question of the century. And there are a lot of moving parts and each market is completely different.In a market like Fort Collins, Colo., which you normally would consider a quieter market, you might be able to buy a two-bedroom condo for $175,000 and then you may be able to turn around and rent that property as corporate housing for $3,500 a month, where if you were renting it unfurnished, you might be able to get only $700 or $800 a month for it. AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing works with a lot of investors across the country and believes corporate housing rentals are an essential element to an investor’s portfolio diversification. For example, if you are a full-time investor and this is all you do and you watch your properties 100 percent of the time, then sure, make your whole portfolio corporate housing, if that’s something that’s interesting to you. But normally, you see it as: if you have 10 units, take seven of them, rent them unfurnished, get consistent rent on them, understand what that is, and then use three properties for corporate housing as your high growth assets, just as you would buy internet stocks or technology stocks.AvenueWest Global Franchise has emerged as the industry’s leader in the managed corporate housing business. Founded in 1999, AvenueWest, had the mission to provide high quality condominiums, townhomes, lofts, single family homes and apartments to meet the extended-stay executive housing demand by professionally servicing a unique niche of business travelers with investment owners’ properties. AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing and now AvenueWest Global Franchise, LLC were built to provide monthly lodging options and increased opportunities for individual real estate investors.AvenueWest Corporate Housing, Inc., started as a small real estate management company but quickly grew to the largest provider of corporate housing rentals in Colorado and is now the foundation for the national expansion of AvenueWest Global Franchise. This year AvenueWest Corporate Housing is celebrating its 18thanniversary of doing business and providing solutions for property owners, corporate travelers and business owners alike. As the industry continues to grow and provide quality lodging solutions investors can be hands on with their investments, hand off with their investment by utilizing a full service managed corporate housing company and can even develop a business through the AvenueWest Franchise model.RESOURCESAssociation for Serviced Apartment Providerswww.theasap.org.ukAvenueWest Managed Corporate Housingwww.avenuewest.com800-928-1592AvenueWest Global Franchise Inc.AvenueWest - Join the Team303.825.7625Corporate Housing By OwnerCorporate Housing By Owner877-333-2426Corporate Housing Providers Associationwww.CHPAonline.org317.328.4631