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Matt Nelson
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New member from Houston, TX with a question

Matt Nelson
  • Real Estate Investor
  • houston, tx
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Hello, everyone. I am a pretty new to the site although i have read tons of information on here. I was wondering how most people analyze a deal...

I have gathered from reading thru BP that for SFH expenses used for cash flow calculations are as follows:

Principal
Interest
taxes
insurance
vacancy
maintenance

Now Local investment clubs rant and rave about only using the following:
Principal
Interest
taxes
insurance

If one analyzes a deal using the latter criteria the cash flow is much MUCH better usually about 25% CoC on most deals even into the 40% CoC or more depending on your financing situation.

What is everyone's opinion on this? I am competing with investors making offers on the same house but using a much different model which allows them to have a high offering price and beat me out of a deal.

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Rob Gillespie
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Rob Gillespie
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Relax Matt! Don't get bogged down with formulas. If you need a calculator to figure the deal, it is too lean! Just buy stuff so freakin great you can't go wrong.

I just grabbed a house for 5k. It appraised at 30k as is and needs 20k to make it worth 75-80k. I will have it sold for 15k within a week or so. No formula there, just huge margins.

Good luck, just my 2 cents. :mrgreen:

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