Right time to invest in rental properties?

[Sam Hemingway]

Hey all, newish to the forums. I went to Brandon's webinar today. The topic was about working toward owning your first few rental properties and how to find good deals. Earlier this evening I've been playing around with the rental calculator. I dump in figures based on the tooltip suggestions, fill in the purchase price, etc. But I always end up with negative CoC percentages. Even when i enter lowball purchase prices.

If anyone lives in central oregon near eugene, I'm looking for suggestions on what I may be doing wrong. Brandon doesnt generally go for properties below 12% CoC on single family homes, I'm not even coming close to that (not even getting positive values).

[Joseph Firmin]

@Sam Hemingway, not all markets are good cash flow markets. Check out some others (maybe less metropolitan) and you'll probably find the numbers work. There are ways to make the cash flow though without doing a traditional SFH rental. What if you rented it by the room instead or house hacked it? Try different models and see what other successful investors are doing in your area - then copy them.