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Updated almost 10 years ago on . Most recent reply

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Steven N.
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Hey BP, looking for some direction

Steven N.
  • Contractor
  • Bend, OR
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Plans:

Immediate - nothing but learn and ask questions, receive advice.

Summer 2015: Begin purchasing real estate.

Alright so I have been lurking on the forums trying to find direction for my wife and I for next summer. Right now we live in Norway. She is Norwegian, I am American. We will more than likely be moving to Bend, Oregon. I have a small business background, she has retail management background.

I would like us to get into real estate with the goal of creating cash flow every month. Setup a real estate business team and as long term goal reach critical mass. We have discussed it for a few months and are in agreement. Prior to finding BP I was certain in the fact that we have such a high amount of capital, that we could setup a good team and portfolio of rentals to provide us with cash flow.

My grand plan prior to discovering BP was to buy 4 or possibly 5 new construction homes 3/2 or 3/3 in Bend for around 200,000 all cash and rent them for the average rate. I have a friend there who has just bought his 3/2.5 brand new house for 205k. Looking at some comps the rent would be around 1300 or more.... And that concludes my plans. Not too well thought out right? No thoughts of exit strategy or growth.

But now after reading these forums,  hopefully I am using this phrase correctly, I think I might be "leaving money on the table"? Potentially bottlenecking profitability ?

Anyway, the wife and I are in our late twenties. To setup our real estate business we will have around 700-900k USD capital, with around 1.2m in the bank.

So, with near 10 months to prepare ourselves, I was hoping to get some advice on how you all would approach this situation. Such as, would you seek financing even though the capital is sitting there in the bank? Why/why not?

Musts: Wife is pretty set on buying locally in central Oregon at least in the beginning, meaning within 2 hours drive.

its about 4am here, I am just going to post and pick up on this later.

Looking forward to your replies!

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Sean Pincus
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Sean Pincus
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  • Philadelphia, PA
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I wish you the best of luck. I do want to point out a couple of things...

If you bought a 205k house without debt and made 1,300 per month... You are looking at a cash on cash of 3.8% roughly using the 50% rule.

If you bought with debt at 30 years, 4.5 interest rate, and 25% down you would be losing money and have a negative cash flow of -129.00 per month.

I'm not sure I understand the benefits of your plan. You either need to find cheaper houses or higher rents.

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