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The Fed's decision to cut interest rates last year were met withenthusiasm, but will they have an impact on investment activity in2020? The answer really depends on the investment company andbusiness strategy. For powerhouse workforce housing investorTruAmerica Multifamily, the decrease in interestrates will have little impact on the firm's investment activity orbusiness strategy this year.

"It certainly gives more confidence because if you can refinanceat a lower rate, you get more cash flow, but it hasn't really oneway or the other changed our strategy," Bob Hart,president and CEO of TruAmerica Multifamily, tells GlobeSt.com. "Ithas definitely helped the deals that are on the market or in somecases where we have underwritten at a certain level, it has been anet pick-up."

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.