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Updated over 3 years ago,
Is my model too conservative?
I currently budget 20% of the rent to capex and maintenance, 10% to vacancy, and target a 10% cocroi calculated as
Total rent less mortgage payment, vacancy, utilities, maintenance and capex devided by down payment and capital improvements required.
Example
Price $250,000
Down payment $62625
Capital improvements $42000
Utilities per Mo $417
Payment per mo $1337
Rents $3400
Lending Fees/costs $5000
Cocroi 6.84%
Am I being way to conservative in this market?
Seems like allot of people are taking really low rates of return like 4-7% or buying things at the pro-forma value ignoring capital investment needed to achieve that.
Which makes me wonder if I'm being too conservative in trying to find my third property and missing part of the picture. Or everyone else is willing to take on much higher amounts of risk than me right now and I should look for a different asset class to invest in right now.
Is a 10% cocroi too agressive in the market at the moment?