Rental Sweet Spot
Friday, February 05
In any location you are considering, you need to understand the income range of the probable tenant pool and how it defines the price range of viable investment properties. Explaining the previous statement will take a bit so please bear with us.The maximum rent a tenant can typically pay is ...
Is Las Vegas Still A Good Place to Invest?
Wednesday, February 03
Before I talk specifically about Las Vegas, I want to establish a common understanding. I believe that every investment property and investment location must meet three criteria: Sustained profitability - The property must generate a positive cashflow today and into the foreseeable future.Likel...
Insulating Your Investments from Economic Turmoils
Friday, January 22
A lot of investors are wondering what's going to happen to their investment properties given the current economic turbulence. Below is our perspective from going through the 2008 crash in the Las Vegas market, one of the hardest hit markets in the last downturn. Buy the Right Properties to Start ...
Work Backwards to Make Money
Friday, January 15
Many new investors buy a property based on various popular "rules" and then discover that they cannot rent the property at a sufficient rate to break even let alone have a positive cash flow. In this post we will talk briefly about why such "rules" fail and the approach we use to determine the of...
Las Vegas Investment Properties 2016 Outlook
Friday, January 08
We wrote the following article for our clients in mid December 2015. We would welcome comments from fellow BP members.National EconomyWe think that a quote from Business Wire summarizes the national economy fairly well.Economic Growth Stuck In Neutral – The U.S. economy seems unable to break out ...
A Process for Out of State Investing
Sunday, September 06
I believe all investment properties must meet three criteria:• Sustained profitability - The property must generate a positive cash flow today and into the foreseeable future (10+ years).• Likely to appreciate over time - You would never buy a property just for appreciation but appreciation is ve...