Realtor.com came out with an article recently discussing Where Costs Per Foot Is Most Expensive. Your San Francisco’s were on there, along with Boston, Seattle and New York. What do you think it is? When my wife and I were looking for our first house in Fort Collins in 2013 we had a budget of
What qualifies as an after hours maintenance emergency? Well, if you ask a property manager, it is “Fire, Flood, Blood”… Really???
What should be (unless you are ultra-wealthy) the goals of real estate investing? Cash flow! How do you know if a property is going to have positive cash flow? It is a mixture of an art and a science.
In my last article, we looked at the Internal Rate of Return. As we saw, an investment’s inflows and outflows (including the purchase and subsequent sale) of cash, discounted to today’s dollars over different periods of time. It does not, however take into consideration the tax savings caused by depreciation expense. Cash Flow. Appreciation. Depreciation.
The king of all Return on Investment (ROI) calculations. Forecasting your real estate investment is both an art and a science. Investing in single family homes and calculating IRR may be a little overkill. However, when investing in duplexes/triplexes and fourplexes, this may be a little more relevant. Lets dive in. Internal Rate of Return is
Remember, you also got the benefit of renters paying the mortgage and principal down for an entire year. Your house MAY have appreciated and you also got to take advantage of depreciation expenses on your tax return! Wow! Real estate is pretty cool!
One of the simplest ways of calculating an investments return. It may be one of the most important to your pocketbook. The cash on cash return is the calculation that compares the actual dollars invested with the actual dollars returned within the first 12-month period. If you have $1000 and invest it all and receive
Cap Rate Also known as the capitalization rate. This is the rate of return you can expect based on the Net Operating Income (NOI) versus the purchase price. Cap rates are exclusively for income producing investment properties. There is nothing that annoys me more then when someone markets a cap rate on a single-family home.
How would you like to sell your cow AND drink its milk? There are many people out there who love the idea of being able to live where they choose while owning a rental property in a desired location that’s profitable. Oh, I forgot to mention said property would be fixed up, have a property
I recently finished a transaction where I made VERY small fraction of what I potentially should have. Yes, you read that right! And trust me, when I look at the numbers, yeah, it churns s the gut just a tad. I had been working with my clients for multiple years trying to find a particular
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