Ideal cash flow amount

[Brandon Thomas]

What's an ideal cash flow people look for in a property? I've read a few different things. I've seen on BP that the common denominator says the bottom dollar would be $100 for multi family and $200 for SFH. Is there any medium to these numbers? For example, would $150 for SFH be too low to even risk the investment?

[Jacob Sampson]

So many variables at play here. If I purchased a million dollar SFH and it only cash flowed $150 I would be afraid. If I purchased a SFH for $30k I would be very happy.

Along with that you would need to make sure that your cash flow calculation is accurate.  Many people alot too little for vac, main, and capex so they think their cash flow is good when really they may be negative, when averaged over the long term.