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Updated almost 9 years ago on . Most recent reply

Running the numbers before I put in an offer
What up BP,
So I could potentially put in my 1st offer on tomorrow. So I wanted to run the numbers on BP with the professionals to make sure i'm not missing anything.
Purchase Price = 50k
ARV = 110 - 120k ( comps show 2 homes sold in the neighborhood. One was listed at 130,900 but sold for 123,500 with 96 DOM. The second was listed at 142,500 but sold at 125,00 with 77 DOM.
House 1 was $77.19 per sqft
House 2 was $78.13 per sqft
If i was to list my house for $78.13 per sqft after the rehab it would be 104k (note- the other 2 houses were completely out of date. Average-Good condition)
Rehab = About 20k will meet with GC to get better estimates
In to the house = 70k (not sure if this comes after total expenses or not.. sorry)
Holding Cost (estimated 4 mo ) = about $4300 plus utilities
Closing Cost = $2900
Now in to the house (After 4 mo) = 77,200 plus utilities
Selling Cost
commission = $6600 (6% of 110k)
(Maybe) buyers closing cost = 6,600 (6% of 110k)
If I'm not missing anything and my estimates are correct I'm left with 26k minus utilities
I hope this is considered conservative. There were houses that were fully updated with the same sqft sold for 190k. That's the tricky part I guess.
Please let me know I'm over looking anything. Thanks again
-Brandon
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Hey @Brandon Clark
Definitely. I think it would be wise not to omit taxes and insurance from your analysis.
As for the ARV, I'd probably ask your agent what their reason was for not including the updated unit in their CMA. If the units are truly comparable, then you will absolutely want to base your ARV off the sale price of the updated units.