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Aaron Christensen
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  • Puyallup, WA
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Finding A Great Deal In An Inflated Market

Aaron Christensen
  • Investor
  • Puyallup, WA
Posted

Hello BP

I wanted to share a success story in finding a great deal in an inflated market.  I live in a state where there are tons of investors from around the country, and around the world frankly.  A lot of money comes into this area to buy up real estate.  It is very competitive and difficult in my opinion to find a property that will cash flow month after month since the prices have been driven up so much in the last year.  Many people I meet are happy to get a 6% return on a rental property and are banking on the house prices continuing to rise for their investment model.

Instead of trying to rent out the house as a whole, my plan was that I would rent out the rooms in the house.  To break it down for you, I found a large house, of 2000 square feet, 3 bed 2 bath home in a decent (but not stellar neighborhood).  The neighborhood is safe and fine, and I would consider it very safe, but it is definitely not high end.

The house actually had 4 bedrooms, even though it was listed as a 3 bedroom house.  There was a lot of extra room in this house, so with the basement, I was able to add 2 additional good sized bedrooms for the cost of $15000 approximately.  The $15,000 invested also paid for some needed touch ups to the house with flooring and paint.  Each room rents out for $600/month with one room renting out for $650 because it is larger than the rest.

Here are the numbers

Purchase Price - $195,000

Down payment (20%) - $39,000

Rehab costs - $15,000

Now the break down on the monthly cash flow

Gross Rents monthly- $3650

Monthly payment (principle, interest, taxes) - $904

Monthly expenses I incur (garbage, utilities, etc etc) - $650

Profit per month - $2096

Projected Profit per year - $25,152

Annual Rate of Return on invested money - 47% approximately

I have been very happy with it obviously.  I checked with the municipality because it classifies as a legal non conforming use of the property.  I purchased the property in February, and it took about 1 week to fill all the rooms.  I set up a clear set of house rules and guidelines and have screened all the tenants sufficiently, so there have been no issues with tenants so far.  I have found that there is a decent population of people that are looking for clean, safe, affordable housing on a month to month agreement.

Anyways, if any of you are like me, it is difficult to grind out a deal in a great market.  I found that if I am looking at these properties with a different lens, then the opportunities seem to come available.  If I were to rent this house out to an individual family, I would have been hard pressed to get a 9% return.   I love to buy, and don't find myself selling properties very often, so I am looking for properties for the long term investment.  The monthly cash flow is my goal in this real estate game.

Thanks for taking the time to read

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