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Torey Azure

Balancing Risk During Underwriting: How Tamarack Approaches Risk and Return

By Torey Azure / July 7, 2025

We live in a world that often celebrates speed, flash, and outsized ambition. In investing, that translates into IRRs that climb into the 20s, leverage ratios that feel risky even on paper, and deals built more on hype than fundamentals. At Tamarack, we take a different approach. One that might sound conservative—but is anything but…

Fixed-Rate vs. Floating Debt: What Real Estate Investors Need to Know Right now

By Torey Azure / July 7, 2025

Debt is one of the most powerful tools in real estate investing. It can magnify returns, improve cash flow, and accelerate wealth creation. But it can also increase risk—especially when the wrong debt structure is paired with the wrong market conditions. For passive investors evaluating real estate syndications or private deals, understanding how debt works…

Three Paths to Real Estate Investing—And Which Might Fit You Best

By Torey Azure / July 7, 2025

Let’s start with the truth: Real estate investing can feel overwhelming. Everyone seems to have a different approach. Some are flipping houses. Others are buying rentals. Some are into short-term rentals, while others are going all-in on multifamily or syndications. The options are as varied as the goals. So how do you choose? At Tamarack,…

Building Financial Independence Through Real Estate: A Smarter Way Forward:

By Torey Azure / July 7, 2025

The path to financial freedom isn’t paved with one-size-fits-all advice. For many, the traditional approach—working 40 years, saving 10% of your income, and retiring in your 60s—no longer aligns with reality or aspiration. Rising inflation, market volatility, and the desire for time freedom are pushing more investors to rethink how they build wealth. Real estate…

From CFO to LP: Why Financial Professionals Are Turning to Passive Real Estate Investing

By Torey Azure / July 7, 2025

For years, finance professionals and corporate leaders have relied on traditional investments to grow their wealth. Stocks, bonds, and retirement accounts have long been the default vehicles. But recently, there’s been a shift. More CFOs, analysts, and executives are entering the world of passive real estate investing—and they’re not looking back. This trend isn’t just…

How I Bought My First Duplex and Turned Rookie Mistakes Into Expert Strategy

By Torey Azure / July 3, 2025

Buying my first rental property was one of the most exhilarating—and terrifying—financial decisions I’ve ever made. I wasn’t a real estate agent. I didn’t come from a family of investors. And I didn’t know the first thing about managing tenants. But I had conviction. I had done my homework. And I knew this was the…

Beyond the 4% Rule: Designing a Smarter FIRE Strategy with Real Assets

By Torey Azure / July 2, 2025

When people think about making money in real estate, they often think of one thing: appreciation. Buy low, sell high. But that’s only part of the story. What sets real estate apart—what makes it such a powerful engine for financial independence—is that it pays you in fourdifferent ways. These four levers of wealth creation, when used…

From Layoff to Legacy: My Journey to Financial Independence Through Real Estate

By Torey Azure / June 17, 2025

In the spring of 2009, I drove to work in a BMW convertible, seat warmers on, thinking I had “made it.” I was on track. I held an MBA, a respectable corporate title at a multinational telecom, and what I believed was job security. That illusion shattered when I walked into a quiet conference room…