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Updated almost 2 years ago on . Most recent reply

Ranking by Rent-to-Price?
Hi everyone,
Newbie here. Looking for my very first rental property purchase (buy and hold). So first, I'd need to find the right US market. Would like to base this search on the RTP ratio. Can someone pls point me to the latest RTP ratio ranking or stats for (all or at least all major / significant) US markets?
Thanks a bunch,
Dzung.
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Rent to price wouldn’t give you a ratio that means anything…
Imagine if you will….
2 different $400k properties that rent for $4k< exactly 1%.
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maybe one is a new build and 1 is a 100 year old boomtown build.
1 has a $500/mo Hoa, one doesnt.
1 is in a Florida flood plain, one is in AZ
1 has property taxes of $6,000/yr, one is $2,000/yr
1 is a condo and one is oceanfront SFR
1 is in a state with a 10% income tax and one is in a state with no income tax
1 has $600/yr insurance and 1 has $3,600/yr insurance
One is in a state that won’t let you evict without cause and makes you pay relocation fees, and has rent control and/or rent caps.
If you truly only cared about rent to price ratios you would only buy in small Midwestern towns. By small, I mean sub 10,000 people. There you can get 3% rule properties. And lose money year after year.
Ps. Anyone wondering about the weird space and the random dots. That’s my continued fight with this horrible forum formatting software that throws my cursor up to the 2nd line everytime I hit return with a period and then a couple spaces and then another period. And I didn’t clean it all up after the 5th or 6th time.
pps. That’s funny. MOST of the weird formatting went away when I posted.